Science, Environment and Development Group

Occasional Speaker Series:
Research Topics in Sustainable Development
(2004-2005)

Description: Sustainable development has emerged, in the words of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as one of the three great challenges facing the international community in the opening decade 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 will host presentations and discussions of such scholarship by researchers from Harvard and visitors from the wider world.

Audience: Graduate students, fellows, research staff, and faculty

Sponsor: Center for International Development

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Event archive: 2003-2004 series

2004-2005 Series:

Thursday, 4 November 2004
The Value-Behavior Gap in Sustainable Development: A Review of the Evidence
Robert Kates, Independent Scholar, Trenton, Maine and University Professor (Emeritus), Brown University
12:00-1:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served
RSVP required - please contact cid_events@harvard.edu if you plan to attend

Thursday, 18 November 2004
Rescuing Human Development from the Human Development Index
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Research Fellow, Science, Technology and Globalization Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
12:00-1:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served
RSVP required - please contact cid_events@harvard.edu if you plan to attend

Tuesday, 7 December 2004
Scale and Technological Change for Energy Sustainability
Tom Wilbanks, Corporate Research Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
12:00-1:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served
RSVP required - please contact cid_events@harvard.edu if you plan to attend

Tuesday, 14 December 2004
Environmental and Social Sustainability: Framing the Risks of Genetically Modified Maize in the United States, the European Union and Kenya
Adrian Ely, Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
12:00-1:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Brown bag lunch - cookies will be provided

Thursday, 17 March 2005
Coupled Human/Ecological Models: Where Do We Begin?
Steve Lansing, Professor, University of Arizona, and Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute
4:00-5:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, 6 April 2005
Inequality and Human Development in Mexico
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Professor, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
4:00-5:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, 14 April 2005
Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems
Louis Lebel, Director, Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER), Chiang Mai University
4:00-5:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, 21 April 2005
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's Interventions in Sao Tome and Principe: The Gap Between Research and Practice
Tony Kiszewski, Instructor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
4:00-5:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, 10 May 2005
The Environmental Dimension of Human Vulnerability - Results from Europe, Thoughts on Haiti
Dagmar Schroeter, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Science, Environment and Development Group, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
10:00-11:30 am, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, 12 May 2005
'Raise It, Spend It, Prove It': Learning to Do Development Differently at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Bernard Rivers, Executive Director, Aidspan
4:00-5:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, 7 June 2005
Consumption and Lifestyle Changes: Why They Are Essential for the Sustainability Transition
Fritz Reusswig, Senior Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Visiting Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University
4:00-5:30 pm, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Schedule for the current academic year

Science, Environment and Development Group

Occasional Speaker Series: Research Topics in Sustainable Development (2004-2005)

2004-2005 Series:

Occasional Speaker Series:
Research Topics in Sustainable Development
(2004-2005)