Sustainability Science Seminar
(2006-2007)
Conveners:
Prof. William Clark and
Nancy
Dickson, Science, Environment and Development Group
Sponsor: Sustainability
Science Program at Harvard's
Center for International Development
Description: The weekly Sustainability Science Seminar serves as a
forum for fellows in the Sustainability Science Program to present research
plans and work in progress, providing opportunities for shaping proposals,
critiquing ongoing research, and giving and receiving constructive peer review.
The seminar, as the Program itself, considers work that explores basic
understanding of the dynamics of human-environment systems; facilitates the
design, implementation, and evaluation of practical interventions that promote
sustainability in particular places and contexts; and improves linkages between
relevant research and innovation communities on the one hand, and relevant
policy and management communities on the other. Graduate students, fellows,
research staff, and faculty are invited to join the seminar.
Audience: Graduate students, fellows, research staff, and faculty are
invited to join SED Group members in the seminar.
Time and place: Starting 30 January 2007 and unless otherwise noted,
the spring 2007 Sustainability Science Seminar will meet weekly on Tuesdays from
8:30 - 10:00 AM in the Perkins Room at CID, located on the fourth floor of the
Rubenstein
Building at the Kennedy School of Government.
Event archive: 2006-2007
series, 2005-2006 series
Schedule for the
current academic year
Spring 2007
- 6 February 2007:
Self-introductions and an overview of Spring plans for the Sustainability Science Program
- 13 February 2007: "Sustainability Science: Core Questions and
Grand Challenges"
-
William
C. Clark,
Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human
Development, KSG
- 20 February 2007:
"Striding the Valley of Death - Can Monetary Prizes Speed Up the Translation of
Basic Research Into Practice? A Case Study from the Field of Orphan
Diseases (Lou Gehrig's Disease)" -
Nicole Szlezák,
Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Doctoral Fellow, CID;
"Democracy on the Commons: Party Competition and Local
Cooperation in India" -
Ashwini Chhatre, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Duke
University, Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 27 February 2007: "Moving Into the Floodplain: Chesterfield,
Missouri and the 1993 Flood"
-
Carolyn Kousky,
Doctoral Fellow, CID, Doctoral Fellow, Environmental Economics Program, KSG
- 6 March 2007: "Protecting Biodiversity in Norwegian and Swedish
Forestry: New Policy Instruments and Competing Knowledge Producers" -
Lars Gulbrandsen, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, University of
Oslo, and Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 13 March 2007: "Drought-Induced Impacts on Livelihoods and the
Role of Policy and Protected Areas on the Maasai of East Africa" -
David Nkedianye, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Environmental Change and
Sustainability, University of Edinburgh, and Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 20 March 2007: "Challenge and Change: Exploring the Barriers to
the Implementation of Green Chemistry in the United States" -
Kira Matus, Doctoral Candidate
in Public Policy, KSG, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID; "Incentives for
Research in Malaria: Assessing Open and Closed Intellectual Property Rights
Regimes" -
Suerie Moon, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Doctoral
Fellow, CID
- 27 March 2007: Spring break - no seminar scheduled
- 3 April 2007: "Biofuels as a Global Energy Commodity? An Issue in
the Middle of Policy, Sustainability and Trade Agendas" -
Gloria Visconti, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Project, Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs, and Research Fellow, CID;
"Labor Supply and Productivity of Agricultural Workers in Kenya" -
Jessica Leino, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, UC Berkeley, and Doctoral
Fellow, CID
- 10 April 2007: "The Role of Boundary Organizations in Linking
Knowledge and Action: The Case of Payments for Ecosystem Services in
Indonesia" -
Elizabeth McNie, Doctoral Candidate in Environmental Studies, University
of Colorado at Boulder, and Doctoral Fellow, CID; Title TBA -
Kelsey Jack, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Pre-doctoral
Fellow, CID
- 17 April 2007: "Health and Disease, Local and Global - Science
and Politics in the Emerging Global Health Domain: A Case Study of the
Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria" -
Nicole Szlezák,
Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 24 April 2007: "Protect Forest Areas and Development in Northern
Thailand" -
Kate Sims, Doctoral Candidate in Political Economy and
Government, Harvard University, and Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 1 May 2007: No seminar scheduled
- 8 May 2007: "Networked Governance: China's Changing Approach to
Transboundary Environmental Management" -
Erik Nielsen, Doctoral Candidate in Urban Studies and
Planning, MIT, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID
- 15 May 2007: "The Consequences of Governance Interventions for
Social Equity for Sustainable Development - Land Reform in India and Kenya"
-
Ashwini Chhatre,
Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Duke University, and Research
Fellow, CID
Fall 2006
- 18 September 2006: "Core
Questions and Collaborations of the Science, Environment and Development Group"
- Nancy Dickson,
Senior Researcher, CID;
William Clark,
Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human
Development, KSG
- 25 September 2006: "Reconstruction
of New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina: A Research Perspective" -
Robert Kates, Eaton
Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University [ *NOTE:
This is part of the Frontiers in
Sustainable Development Speaker Series.* ]
- 2 October 2006: "Accountability in Decentralization and the
Democratic Context: Theory and Evidence from India" -
Ashwini Chhatre,
Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Duke University, and Research Fellow, CID; "Beyond Borders: Networked Governance and China’s
Engagement in Transboundary Environmental Management in the Greater Mekong
Sub-Region" -
Erik Nielsen, Doctoral Candidate in Urban Studies and
Planning, MIT, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID
- 3 October 2006: "Springs: Water Quality and
Child Health in Kenya" -
Alix Zwane, Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley
- 4 October 2006: "Lessons Relearned: Can experience with
incentive-based instruments in environmental policy point the way for payments
for ecosystem services?" -
Kelsey Jack, Doctoral Candidate in Public
Policy, KSG, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID; Bailey Klinger, Doctoral Candidate in Public
Policy, KSG, and Doctoral Fellow, CID;
Kate (Emans) Sims, Doctoral Fellow,
CID
- 4 October 2006: "Is Clean Water Overrated?" -
Michael Kremer,
Department of Economics, Harvard University
- 16 October 2006: "Nine Lives of a Variable: Perspectives on
Fieldwork and Data Collection" -
Ashwini Chhatre, Doctoral Candidate in
Political Science, Duke University, and Research Fellow, CID
- 25 October 2006: "Beyond the Bretton Woods Institutions: Global
Health in the 21st Century" -
Nicole Szlezák, Doctoral Candidate in Public
Policy, KSG, and Doctoral Fellow, CID; "Radical Innovation for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers
to Green Chemistry in the United States" -
Kira Matus, Doctoral Candidate
in Public Policy, KSG, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID
- 6 November 2006: "Community Management of Water Infrastructure:
Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya" -
Jessica Leino, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics,
Harvard University, and Doctoral Fellow, CID;
"Modeling Dynamics of Environmental Benefits in Response to Land
Management as an Outcome of a Dominant Vegetation State" -
Gili Koniak, Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 22 November 2006: "Exchanging Local and Non-Local Knowledge in Land Use Change through
Interactive Geographic Information Systems: The Case of the Osa
Peninsula of Costa Rica" -
Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard
Graduate School of Design, and Doctoral Fellow, CID;
"Protecting Open Space: Local Zoning, Politics and Land Use
Change in Massachusetts 1971-1999" -
Kate
(Emans) Sims, Doctoral Candidate in Political Economy and
Government, Harvard University, and Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 27 November 2006: "Bridging the Science-Practice Interface in Disaster Mitigation:
Analytical Propositions Based on a Questionnaire Survey" -
Juergen Weichselgartner, Doctoral Fellow, CID
- 4 December 2006: Trip Reports and Discussions on Spring Semester
Speakers and Events
- 6 December 2006: "Incentive Based Conservation: Paying for
Erosion Control in Indonesia" -
Kelsey Jack, Doctoral Candidate in Public
Policy, KSG, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID
- 11 December 2006: No seminar
- 13 December 2006:
"Outcome Mapping: A Tool for Measuring the Results of Development Interventions and Innovations"
- Fred Carden, Director, Evaluation Unit, International Development Research Centre, Canada
[ *NOTE:
This is part of the Frontiers in
Sustainable Development Speaker Series.* ]
- 14 December 2006: "Property Rights for a Small Planet: Role of Common Property in a Sustainable Future"
- Margaret McKean, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University [ *NOTE:
This is part of the Frontiers in
Sustainable Development Speaker Series.* ] **CANCELLED - To be
rescheduled for March 2007**
Schedule for the
current academic year
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