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Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series (2008-2009)
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
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Spring 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Building institutions for conservation and sustainable development: Examples from India
Kamal Bawa, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston
9:00-10:30am, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Linking Context and Mechanism to Action: Forests, Trees, Water, Conflict and Climate Change in Asian Uplands
Meine van Noordwijk, Principal Scientist, World Agroforestry Centre – ICRAF Southeast Asia
9:00-10:30am, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sustainability Science: A new generation of challenges and opportunities in pro-poor agriculture and natural resource management research
Dennis Garrity, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF
9:00-10:30am, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Food Security for All: A Sustainability Challenge
Emmy Simmons, Co-chair, National Academies of Science Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and former Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, U.S. Agency for International Development
Friday, April 17, 2009
Soil Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Climate Change
Diana Wall, Director, School for Global Environmental Sustainability and Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University
10:00-11:30am, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Women in Agriculture and Marketing: Evidence and Lessons from the Philippines and Vietnam
Dr. Ma Elena Chiong-Javier, Professor of Behavioral Science and Director, Social Development Research Center, De La Salle University, Philippines
10:00-11:00am, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Institutional Dimensions of Climate Change: The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
12:00-1:30pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
'Viability' and sustainability in Southern Africa’s Land Reform: Contested Paradigms and Policies
Ben Cousins, Professor and Director, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
10:00-11:00am, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Vertical Collective Action: Field Experiments on Watershed Management in Kenya, Thailand and Colombia
Juan Camilo Cardenas, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Associate Professor, Economics Department, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
10:00-11:00am, Center for International Development, Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building Room 415, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
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