Environmental Change and Human Impact: March 4, 2008

Please join the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, in collaboration with the Embassy of Liechtenstein and the Environmental Change and Security Program, for a discussion of

Future Shock: How Environmental Change and Human Impact Are Changing the Global Map

featuring

P.H. Liotta
Executive Director, The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University “How Demographics and Migration Are Changing the Global Map”

Geoffrey D. Dabelko Director, Environmental Change and Security Program; Coordinator, Global Health Initiative, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars “Water ‘Wars’ or Water “Woes’?: Water Management As Conflict Management”

David Smith
Team Leader, UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative, Division of Regional Co-operation, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya "The Poverty and Environment Link: Examples from Africa”

Kent Butts
Director, National Security Issues Group, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College “Environmental Security and Military Implications”

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
6th Floor Moynihan Board Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Please RSVP to pellcenter@salve.edu or 401-341-2927 with your name and affiliation.

This symposium on environmental change and human impact highlights substantive concerns and programs of great importance to The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University. With a focus on real-world strategic issues with global consequence, this session will consider how complex environmental issues affect human lives. Offering both strategic and policy implication perspectives, the speakers will analyze increasing vulnerabilities of populations in specific regions to environmental change as well as offer new approaches to solving these emerging dilemmas.

Dr. Geoffrey Dabelko, Dr. Kent Butts, and David Smith are all Pell Center international advisory board members and have worked with The Pell Center Executive Director in various capacities and on various projects involving the> environment and security.

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room.

A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.