Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series

Convenors: William Clark and Nancy Dickson

Description: Sustainable development has emerged, in the words of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as one of the three great challenges facing the international community in the opening decades of the new millennium. Long an arena of activism and practical experimentation, sustainable development has more recently begun to build a tradition of critical scholarship. This occasional speaker series hosts presentations and discussions of such scholarship and experimentation by researchers and practitioners from Harvard and visitors from around the world. Students, fellows, research staff, and faculty are invited to attend. To receive periodic announcements about the series and other upcoming local events either sponsored by or relevant to the activities of the Sustainability Science Program, click here to send an email to subscribe to the sustsci_events list. [Note: You will receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription request; you must reply in order to complete the subscription process.]

Audience: Students, fellows, research staff, and faculty are invited to attend.

Sponsor: Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Center for International Development

Event archive: 2009-2010 series, 2008-2009 series

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Fall 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Why Developing Countries Urgently Need a Global Climate Deal...and why they shouldn't wait for one
Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank
John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, Harvard University Schools of: Engineering and Applied Sciences, Public Health and Kennedy School of Government
Daniel Schrag, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
4:00pm, Northwest Labs B-101, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

European perspectives on sustainability science: Framing the debate and comparing practices
François Mancebo, Professor, University of Grenoble Joseph Fourier, France
12:00-1:30pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Water and Urban Futures in India: Learning from Small Towns
Rohini Nilekani, Founder-Chairperson, ARGHYAM
12:00-1:30pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

How to spend $100 billion sensibly: Principles and pathways for the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund
Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Lecturer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
12:00-1:30pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA

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