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CES Seminar Series, Fall 2009

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date

speaker

title

time/location

Friday
Sept. 11

Timmons Roberts, Director, Center for Environmental Studies, Brown; Diana Liverman, Director, Oxford University Environmental Change Institute and University of Arizona;  Nathan Hultman, University of Maryland; and John Cole, Oxford University Environmental Change Institute

Brownbag lunch panel discussion:

"Climate Policy: What are the Prospects on the Countdown to Copenhagen."

UEL
Noon

Tuesday
Sept. 15

Anne Guerry, Lead Scientist, Natural Capital Project, Stanford University

Ecosystem Services: From Theory to Implementation

UEL
Noon

Friday
Sept. 25

President Lagos, Former Chilean
President, Brown Professor-at-large

Challenges and Problems for a Post-
Kyoto Agreement

 UEL
Noon

Thursday Oct. 1

Armond Cohen, Executive Director, Clean
Air Task Force		 Climate change and energy: what are
the real options?		 UEL Noon

Friday
Oct. 2

JoAnn Carmin, Associate Professor,
Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, MIT

Brownbag lunch speaker/discussion:

"What are Cities Doing to Adapt to Climate Change?" 

UEL
Noon

Thursday
Oct. 8

Sasha Kramer, Co-founder Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) in Haiti

Ecological Sanitation and Empowerment in Haiti: from Humus to Human Rights

UEL
Noon

Thursday
Oct. 15

Judy Bonds, Co-director of Coal River Mountain Watch of West Virginia

Burning the Future: Dirty coal from cradle to grave

 

 UEL
Noon
Thursday
Oct. 22

Jorge Sarmiento, Professor, Geosciences and Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Princeton University

An update on the global carbon cycle

Macmillan 115

4:00 PM

Thursday Oct. 29

Marina Rikhvanova, Goldman
Environmental Prize Recipient, Director,
Baikal Ecological Wave, Russia

Lake Baikal: Threats and Challenges to
the World’s Oldest and Deepest Lake

 UEL
Noon
Tuesday
Nov. 3		 Jihan Gearon, Native Energy Organizer; Indigenous Envtl Network & Global Justice Ecology Project
Indigenous Community Organizing for Energy and
Climate Justice 		UEL
Noon

Thursday
Nov. 12

Kathryn Tanner, Visiting Assistant Professor in CES and Research Fellow, Dept. of Sociology, Darwin College, Cambridge, England

 Umngazi River Bungalows: a role model for Ecotourism? UEL
Noon
Thursday Nov. 19

Rosamond Naylor , Director, Program on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University

Assessing the risks of climate change
and climate variability on Indonesian
rice agriculture

Mencoff Seminar Room


Noon
Thursday
Dec. 3		 Peter Gingold, Co-Director, Tipping Point; energising the creative response to climate change Climate Change and Culture: the Missing Link UEL
Noon