Science, Environment and Development Group

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

For more information: To receive periodic announcements about 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.] For questions or further information, please contact Mary Anne Baumgartner.

Event archive: 2005-2006 series, 2004-2005 series, 2003-2004 series

Spring 2007

Wednesday, 7 February, 2007
Bioenergy in a Globalizing World: Issues of Sustainable Development, Trade and Policy
Corrado Clini, Director General of Italy’s Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea, Chairman of the Global Bioenergy Partnership
4:00-5:30 pm, Maxwell Dworkin Lecture Hall, Harvard University, North Yard, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, 22 March, 2007
Property Rights for a Small Planet: Role of Common Property in a Sustainable Future
Margaret McKean, Department of Political Science and Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
12:00-1:30 pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Lunch provided if you RSVP to maryanne_baumgartner "at" harvard.edu by Monday, 19 March, 2007.
Biography, Abstract, Slides

Thursday, 12 April, 2007
Measuring Avoided Deforestation from Land Use Policies
Paul J. Ferraro, Assistant Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
12:00-1:30 pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Lunch provided if you RSVP to maryanne_baumgartner "at" harvard.edu by Monday, 19 March, 2007.
Biography, Abstract

Thursday, 19 April, 2007
Social, Economic and Political Drivers of Bornean Deforestation and Fires: Implications for Carbon Emissions, Biodiversity and Rural Livelihoods
Lisa Curran, Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
12:00-1:30 pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Lunch provided if you RSVP to maryanne_baumgartner "at" harvard.edu by Thursday, 12 April, 2007.

Monday, 7 May, 2007
A Holistic Strategy For the Control of Malaria
Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, Director of Research and Partnerships of the African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE)
12:00-1:30 pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Lunch provided if you RSVP to maryanne_baumgartner "at" harvard.edu by Thursday, 3 May, 2007.

Thursday, 17 May, 2007
Hybrid knowledge, linking action to knowledge, and trust: experiences balancing human development and conservation in East Africa
Robin Reid, Systems Ecologist, International Livestock Research Institute
12:00-1:30 pm

Thursday, 28 June, 2007
Food, agriculture and sustainability: A new integrative science initiative at UC Davis
Thomas Tomich, WK Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems
Director, UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute and Director, UC ANR Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Professor of Community Development, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California
12:00-1:30 pm

Fall 2006

Monday, 25 September, 2006
Reconstruction of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina: A Research
Perspective
Robert Kates, Senior Research Fellow, Sustainabilty Science Program, Center for International Development
Biography, Abstract, Slides, Paper

Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 (12:00 - 1:30)
The Rural Water Project: Disentangling Quantity, Quality, and Point-of-Use in Kenya
Alix Zwane, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley

Wednesday, 13 December, 2006
Outcome Mapping: A Tool for Measuring the Results of Development Interventions and Innovations
Fred Carden, Evaluation Unit, International Development Research Centre, Canada
10:00-11:30 pm, Center for International Development, Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly Eliot Building), KSG (Map)
Biography, Abstract