Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for
Demography, Environment, and Conflict in Indonesia and India
featuring
Henrik Urdal, Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War,
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
Steve Rhee, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow (2007-9)
(Please note corrected affiliation.)
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, USA 20004
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Several recent country-level studies have found only moderate support
for the idea that population pressure and resource scarcity can lead to
political violence. This finding challenges much of the case-study
literature in the field, as well as widely held popular perceptions. But
the level of analysis may partly explain the discrepancy.
Sub-national empirical studies in India and Indonesia conducted by
Henrik Urdal of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
(PRIO), provide more support for the resource scarcity and conflict
scenario than most cross-national studies. Urdal will present these case
studies and discuss the relationship between population, resource
scarcity, conflict, and governance. AAAS Science and Technology Policy
Fellow Steve Rhee will discuss his extensive work on forest and
land-tenure conflicts involving villagers, timber companies, and the
government in Kalimantan, Indonesia. His presentation will be based on
fieldwork he conducted in Indonesia from 1999-2004 as part of his Ph.D.
at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune in
to the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast
will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You
will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the
free player, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300
Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th
Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at
www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Photo identification is required
to enter the building. Please allow additional time to pass through
security.
Showing posts with label Population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Population. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Population, Health, and Environment in Nepal: March 19, 2009
Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of Population, Health, and Environment in Nepal
featuring
Rishi Bastakoti, Director, Resource Identification and Management Society Nepal (RIMS Nepal)
Jon Miceler, Managing Director, Eastern Himalayas, World Wildlife Fund
Thursday, March 19, 2009
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Like many developing countries, Nepal faces serious challenges, including poverty, a growing population, natural resource constraints, and poor access to basic health services. Some areas of Nepal have successfully organized community groups of forest users to address these and other challenges. In this event, we will hear how efforts to integrate population, health, and environment (PHE) programs and coordinate different organizations have improved the management of natural resources and people’s health.
Rishi Bastakoti, director of RIMS Nepal, will present the successes and challenges that his integrated PHE program has experienced in Dhading and Bardia, Nepal. Jon Miceler, managing director of Eastern Himalayas programs at WWF-US, will discuss community conservation in Nepal, including the role of health in ensuring the long-term viability of environmental programs. He will also discuss WWF’s PHE programs in the Terai Arc Landscape.
Rishi Bastakoti is the director and co-founder of Resource Identification and Management Society Nepal (RIMS Nepal). He started his professional career at a USAID-funded community development and forestry project, Dhading Resource Management Project, where he worked for three years as Community Forestry Officer. He is the editor of the book, Chepang: Food Culture and Agro-Biodiversity, and received a master’s degree from Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
Jon Miceler is managing director for the World Wildlife Fund's Eastern Himalaya Program and advisor to the WWF China's Upper Yangtze River Watershed program. He has studied and worked throughout the Himalaya since first landing in Nepal as a university student in 1988. In the early 1990s, he founded the first foreign ecotourism company ever based in Lhasa, Tibet. He has produced four documentary films on topics ranging from Himalayan exploration to the reopening of the old Burma Road. His latest book is Tribal Worlds of the Eastern Himalaya and Indo-Burma Borderlands. He holds a master’s degree from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree from University of Colorado, Boulder.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC, USA ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Photo identification is required to enter the building. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
featuring
Rishi Bastakoti, Director, Resource Identification and Management Society Nepal (RIMS Nepal)
Jon Miceler, Managing Director, Eastern Himalayas, World Wildlife Fund
Thursday, March 19, 2009
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Like many developing countries, Nepal faces serious challenges, including poverty, a growing population, natural resource constraints, and poor access to basic health services. Some areas of Nepal have successfully organized community groups of forest users to address these and other challenges. In this event, we will hear how efforts to integrate population, health, and environment (PHE) programs and coordinate different organizations have improved the management of natural resources and people’s health.
Rishi Bastakoti, director of RIMS Nepal, will present the successes and challenges that his integrated PHE program has experienced in Dhading and Bardia, Nepal. Jon Miceler, managing director of Eastern Himalayas programs at WWF-US, will discuss community conservation in Nepal, including the role of health in ensuring the long-term viability of environmental programs. He will also discuss WWF’s PHE programs in the Terai Arc Landscape.
Rishi Bastakoti is the director and co-founder of Resource Identification and Management Society Nepal (RIMS Nepal). He started his professional career at a USAID-funded community development and forestry project, Dhading Resource Management Project, where he worked for three years as Community Forestry Officer. He is the editor of the book, Chepang: Food Culture and Agro-Biodiversity, and received a master’s degree from Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
Jon Miceler is managing director for the World Wildlife Fund's Eastern Himalaya Program and advisor to the WWF China's Upper Yangtze River Watershed program. He has studied and worked throughout the Himalaya since first landing in Nepal as a university student in 1988. In the early 1990s, he founded the first foreign ecotourism company ever based in Lhasa, Tibet. He has produced four documentary films on topics ranging from Himalayan exploration to the reopening of the old Burma Road. His latest book is Tribal Worlds of the Eastern Himalaya and Indo-Burma Borderlands. He holds a master’s degree from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree from University of Colorado, Boulder.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC, USA ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Photo identification is required to enter the building. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Compton Foundation Fellowship for students from Africa/Lat Am: Deadline Feb. 16, 2009
This fellowship is an opportunity for developing country students interested in linkages between social and environmental issues to obtain field work support
Since 2001 the Compton Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) have collaborated to increase the capacity of outstanding graduate students from sub- Saharan Africa and Latin America to affect policy and/or improve the effectiveness of population, family planning, and reproductive health programs in the developing world.
In the spirit of this collaboration and to fulfill its objectives, the Compton Foundation is making available Fellowships through PRB for capstone/internship work and dissertation research on topics that examine the interactions linking family planning/reproductive health/population dynamics with environmental and/or human security issues.
This Fellowship provides highly motivated individuals with a unique opportunity to explore these very important interactions. Fellowship recipients must also be committed to returning to their country or region of origin to apply the skills and education they acquired and make substantial contributions to the field.
The Compton Fellowship program also aims to maintain a community of Fellows over time that encourages research- based linkages among these fields.
Eligibility
Students from sub- Saharan Africa and Latin America who are currently enrolled full- time in Ph.D. or Master programs in academic institutions in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply. Applications are especially sought from students in the fields of family planning, reproductive health, and population dynamics interested in exploring the interconnections that exist with environmental/sustainability and/or human security issues.
Those in Master- degree programs need to be in second- year or advanced programs which require their graduates to engage in a capstone/internship experience.
For Ph.D. students, the Fellowships are for advanced students who have an approved research proposal and who are seeking support for field research to be carried out in a developing country (it does not need to be the same country as the applicant's country of origin, but it is strongly encouraged that the country that is the focus of research be in sub- Saharan Africa or Latin America). This field work should contribute directly to completing their dissertation.
Students need to demonstrate the capability to express themselves without problem in English.
Fellowship Award
For 2009, the Compton Foundation/PRB International Fellowship will award up to 2 Master and up to 4 Ph.D. level fellowships.
The Master's level Fellowship recipients will be awarded up to $10,000 each, normally limited to a period of one year.
The Ph.D. Fellowships will be awarded in the amounts of up to $20,000 each, normally limited to a period of one year.
Selected Fellows will become part of the community of Compton/PRB supported professionals, including the Fellows' participation at a three- day meeting in September, and becoming involved in an electronic network of past and current Fellows.
Application Requirements
The deadline has been extended to Feb. 16,2009. Please submit the following:
Cover letter explaining your interest in the Fellowship.
Application form (click here to download).
Curriculum vitae with full list of educational and other professional activities.
Abstract of master's capstone/internship or dissertation topic (250- 300 words maximum) that clearly shows how the work/research explores the interactions linking family planning/reproductive health/population dynamics and environmental and/or human security issues. Please provide a brief rationale demonstrating how your capstone/internship or research will contribute to the Fellowship program's objectives and summarize expected outcomes.
A copy of your transcripts.
Budget for use of the Fellowship award with necessary supporting documentation (e.g., if there is travel involved please submit a sample itinerary that shows cost).
For Master's capstone/internship please provide a letter of acceptance from the organization where the capstone/internship will take place.
For Ph.D.s, please provide proof of an approved research proposal.
Two letters of recommendation: one from your academic adviser and one from another faculty member.
It is preferable that all application materials be submitted electronically to Sara Adkins- Blanch at sadkinsblanch@verizon.net. The letters of recommendation should be e- mailed directly from the person making the recommendation to Ms. Adkins- Blanch.
If you need to submit materials in hard copy, please send them to:
Jennay Ghowrwal
Population Reference Bureau
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 520
Washington, DC 20009
Telephone: 202- 483- 1100
Fax: 202- 328- 3937
For further information about the Compton Foundation, Inc., or PRB, please visit their respective websites at www.comptonfoundation.org and www.prb.org.
Since 2001 the Compton Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) have collaborated to increase the capacity of outstanding graduate students from sub- Saharan Africa and Latin America to affect policy and/or improve the effectiveness of population, family planning, and reproductive health programs in the developing world.
In the spirit of this collaboration and to fulfill its objectives, the Compton Foundation is making available Fellowships through PRB for capstone/internship work and dissertation research on topics that examine the interactions linking family planning/reproductive health/population dynamics with environmental and/or human security issues.
This Fellowship provides highly motivated individuals with a unique opportunity to explore these very important interactions. Fellowship recipients must also be committed to returning to their country or region of origin to apply the skills and education they acquired and make substantial contributions to the field.
The Compton Fellowship program also aims to maintain a community of Fellows over time that encourages research- based linkages among these fields.
Eligibility
Students from sub- Saharan Africa and Latin America who are currently enrolled full- time in Ph.D. or Master programs in academic institutions in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply. Applications are especially sought from students in the fields of family planning, reproductive health, and population dynamics interested in exploring the interconnections that exist with environmental/sustainability and/or human security issues.
Those in Master- degree programs need to be in second- year or advanced programs which require their graduates to engage in a capstone/internship experience.
For Ph.D. students, the Fellowships are for advanced students who have an approved research proposal and who are seeking support for field research to be carried out in a developing country (it does not need to be the same country as the applicant's country of origin, but it is strongly encouraged that the country that is the focus of research be in sub- Saharan Africa or Latin America). This field work should contribute directly to completing their dissertation.
Students need to demonstrate the capability to express themselves without problem in English.
Fellowship Award
For 2009, the Compton Foundation/PRB International Fellowship will award up to 2 Master and up to 4 Ph.D. level fellowships.
The Master's level Fellowship recipients will be awarded up to $10,000 each, normally limited to a period of one year.
The Ph.D. Fellowships will be awarded in the amounts of up to $20,000 each, normally limited to a period of one year.
Selected Fellows will become part of the community of Compton/PRB supported professionals, including the Fellows' participation at a three- day meeting in September, and becoming involved in an electronic network of past and current Fellows.
Application Requirements
The deadline has been extended to Feb. 16,2009. Please submit the following:
Cover letter explaining your interest in the Fellowship.
Application form (click here to download).
Curriculum vitae with full list of educational and other professional activities.
Abstract of master's capstone/internship or dissertation topic (250- 300 words maximum) that clearly shows how the work/research explores the interactions linking family planning/reproductive health/population dynamics and environmental and/or human security issues. Please provide a brief rationale demonstrating how your capstone/internship or research will contribute to the Fellowship program's objectives and summarize expected outcomes.
A copy of your transcripts.
Budget for use of the Fellowship award with necessary supporting documentation (e.g., if there is travel involved please submit a sample itinerary that shows cost).
For Master's capstone/internship please provide a letter of acceptance from the organization where the capstone/internship will take place.
For Ph.D.s, please provide proof of an approved research proposal.
Two letters of recommendation: one from your academic adviser and one from another faculty member.
It is preferable that all application materials be submitted electronically to Sara Adkins- Blanch at sadkinsblanch@verizon.net. The letters of recommendation should be e- mailed directly from the person making the recommendation to Ms. Adkins- Blanch.
If you need to submit materials in hard copy, please send them to:
Jennay Ghowrwal
Population Reference Bureau
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 520
Washington, DC 20009
Telephone: 202- 483- 1100
Fax: 202- 328- 3937
For further information about the Compton Foundation, Inc., or PRB, please visit their respective websites at www.comptonfoundation.org and www.prb.org.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Population Growth Discussion: Oct. 22, 2008
Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of Fertile Fringes: Population Growth at Protected-Area Edges
featuring
Justin Brashares, Assistant Professor, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley
Jason Bremner, Director, Population-Health-Environment Programs, Population Reference Bureau
George Wittemyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Justin Brashares and George Wittemyer’s recent article in Science presents data showing marked population increases at the edges of protected areas. They argue that this increase is due to immigration, as people from surrounding areas are drawn to the health-care and livelihoods programs made available to people expelled from the parks. Brashares, an assistant professor at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, and Wittemyer, an assistant professor at the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, will present the findings of their research, which covers more than 300 protected areas in 45 countries in Africa and Latin America. Jason Bremner, director of the Population Reference Bureau's population-health-environment programs, will discuss broader demographic variables that may be at work in the data collected by the study.
This is the fifth event in ECSP’s “New Horizons at the Nexus of Conflict, Natural Resources, and Health” series, which examines new thinking and research at the intersection of these areas. This series is funded jointly by USAID’s Office of Natural Resources Management, its Office of Population and Reproductive Health, and its Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, with technical support from USAID’s Asia, Middle East, and Africa bureaus. For more information on this series, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/newhorizons.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference 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.
featuring
Justin Brashares, Assistant Professor, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley
Jason Bremner, Director, Population-Health-Environment Programs, Population Reference Bureau
George Wittemyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Justin Brashares and George Wittemyer’s recent article in Science presents data showing marked population increases at the edges of protected areas. They argue that this increase is due to immigration, as people from surrounding areas are drawn to the health-care and livelihoods programs made available to people expelled from the parks. Brashares, an assistant professor at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, and Wittemyer, an assistant professor at the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, will present the findings of their research, which covers more than 300 protected areas in 45 countries in Africa and Latin America. Jason Bremner, director of the Population Reference Bureau's population-health-environment programs, will discuss broader demographic variables that may be at work in the data collected by the study.
This is the fifth event in ECSP’s “New Horizons at the Nexus of Conflict, Natural Resources, and Health” series, which examines new thinking and research at the intersection of these areas. This series is funded jointly by USAID’s Office of Natural Resources Management, its Office of Population and Reproductive Health, and its Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, with technical support from USAID’s Asia, Middle East, and Africa bureaus. For more information on this series, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/newhorizons.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference 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.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Environmental Book Launch at Wilson Center: Sept. 29, 2008
Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Division of International Security Studies and the Environmental Change and Security Program for a book launch of
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-and How It Can Renew America
featuring
Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, New York Times, and Author
Monday, September 29, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Reception to follow
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-and How It Can Renew America, brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change, rising competition for energy, and rapid population growth. Plagued by inaction, the United States and the rest of the world have watched as “global warming, the stunning rise of middle classes all over the world, and rapid population growth have converged in a way that could make our planet dangerously unstable,” writes Friedman.
Yet undergirding Friedman’s book is his sense of optimism that renewed American leadership on energy conservation, population, and multilateral cooperation-what he calls “Geo-Greenism”-could not only stave off the worst climate change scenarios but also bolster America’s economy and flagging global reputation. Friedman sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs the world will need; shows that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive; and explains why America must lead this revolution-with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation. Whether you defend or challenge Friedman’s perspective, Hot, Flat, and Crowded is certain to become a lightning rod in the debates over climate change, energy, and environmental security.
Thomas Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has reported on the Middle East conflict, the end of the Cold War, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to 700 other newspapers worldwide. He is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitude and Attitudes, and The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University and received a master's degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford University. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th Floor Flom Auditorium. 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.
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-and How It Can Renew America
featuring
Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, New York Times, and Author
Monday, September 29, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Reception to follow
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-and How It Can Renew America, brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change, rising competition for energy, and rapid population growth. Plagued by inaction, the United States and the rest of the world have watched as “global warming, the stunning rise of middle classes all over the world, and rapid population growth have converged in a way that could make our planet dangerously unstable,” writes Friedman.
Yet undergirding Friedman’s book is his sense of optimism that renewed American leadership on energy conservation, population, and multilateral cooperation-what he calls “Geo-Greenism”-could not only stave off the worst climate change scenarios but also bolster America’s economy and flagging global reputation. Friedman sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs the world will need; shows that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive; and explains why America must lead this revolution-with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation. Whether you defend or challenge Friedman’s perspective, Hot, Flat, and Crowded is certain to become a lightning rod in the debates over climate change, energy, and environmental security.
Thomas Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has reported on the Middle East conflict, the end of the Cold War, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to 700 other newspapers worldwide. He is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitude and Attitudes, and The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University and received a master's degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford University. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th Floor Flom Auditorium. 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.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Evolution and the Environment Discussion: Sept. 18, 2008
The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
featuring
Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Thursday, September 18, 2008
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Reception to follow
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
For the past four decades, Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, has stirred debate over the connections between population, environment, and development. In his new book, The Dominant Animal, co-authored by Anne Ehrlich, he traces the interplay between environmental change and genetic and cultural evolution, describing how human beings have developed vibrant cultures and vast scientific knowledge, but at the same time have cleared forests, changed Earth's climate, and perhaps undermined their own supremacy. The Dominant Animal argues that the key to adapting to our new reality may be learning from our evolutionary past.
Paul Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University and a Beijer Fellow. An expert in the fields of evolution, ecology, and human biology, Ehrlich has devoted his career to the study of such topics as the dynamics of insect populations, the coevolution of plants and herbivores, and human cultural evolution. Ehrlich has written more than 900 scientific papers and popular articles and more than 40 books, including The Population Bomb, The Process of Evolution, The Science of Ecology, and Human Natures.
Copies of The Dominant Animal, an Island Press book, will be available for purchase at the event.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th Floor Flom Auditorium. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Photo identification is required to enter the building. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
featuring
Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Thursday, September 18, 2008
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Reception to follow
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
For the past four decades, Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, has stirred debate over the connections between population, environment, and development. In his new book, The Dominant Animal, co-authored by Anne Ehrlich, he traces the interplay between environmental change and genetic and cultural evolution, describing how human beings have developed vibrant cultures and vast scientific knowledge, but at the same time have cleared forests, changed Earth's climate, and perhaps undermined their own supremacy. The Dominant Animal argues that the key to adapting to our new reality may be learning from our evolutionary past.
Paul Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University and a Beijer Fellow. An expert in the fields of evolution, ecology, and human biology, Ehrlich has devoted his career to the study of such topics as the dynamics of insect populations, the coevolution of plants and herbivores, and human cultural evolution. Ehrlich has written more than 900 scientific papers and popular articles and more than 40 books, including The Population Bomb, The Process of Evolution, The Science of Ecology, and Human Natures.
Copies of The Dominant Animal, an Island Press book, will be available for purchase at the event.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th Floor Flom Auditorium. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Photo identification is required to enter the building. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Citizenship in Britain and the United States: Conference Feb. 4, 2008
The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide.
Dear Colleague,
Citizenship remains at the forefront of immigration debates in Britain and in the United States. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in one of his first decisions, ordered a major review of citizenship in advance of new legislation this summer. In the United States, the importance of citizenship has been ever present in the ongoing immigration debate, and, in the fall of this year, applicants for US naturalization will begin taking a revised citizenship test.
As the scrutiny of citizenship policies increases on both sides of the Atlantic, MPI is pleased to invite you to a discussion by leading thinkers on the latest developments. Lord Peter Goldsmith QC, the former Attorney General of Britain (2001-2007), and the person charged with leading the citizenship review, will be giving a lunchtime keynote.
The event, Citizenship in Britain and the United States, also brings together a prestigious panel to respond to Lord Goldsmith from the American perspective. Panelists include T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs and Dean of the Law Center at Georgetown University; Alfonso Aguilar, Chief of the Office of Citizenship at US Citizenship and Immigration Services; and Matthew Spalding, Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
We hope that you will be able to join us for this discussion on Monday, February 4, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm. A light lunch will be provided starting at 11:30 am. The event will be held in the MPI Conference Room, 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 300 (Third Floor), Washington, DC.
Please do not reply to this e-mail; the link below will allow you to quickly RSVP online.
http://contact.migrationpolicy.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=3501&JServSessionIdr004=4biuezb7y2.app13b
If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Dixon via email at events@migrationpolicy.org or by phone at (202) 266-1929.
Sincerely,
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, PhD
President
Migration Policy Institute
Dear Colleague,
Citizenship remains at the forefront of immigration debates in Britain and in the United States. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in one of his first decisions, ordered a major review of citizenship in advance of new legislation this summer. In the United States, the importance of citizenship has been ever present in the ongoing immigration debate, and, in the fall of this year, applicants for US naturalization will begin taking a revised citizenship test.
As the scrutiny of citizenship policies increases on both sides of the Atlantic, MPI is pleased to invite you to a discussion by leading thinkers on the latest developments. Lord Peter Goldsmith QC, the former Attorney General of Britain (2001-2007), and the person charged with leading the citizenship review, will be giving a lunchtime keynote.
The event, Citizenship in Britain and the United States, also brings together a prestigious panel to respond to Lord Goldsmith from the American perspective. Panelists include T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs and Dean of the Law Center at Georgetown University; Alfonso Aguilar, Chief of the Office of Citizenship at US Citizenship and Immigration Services; and Matthew Spalding, Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
We hope that you will be able to join us for this discussion on Monday, February 4, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm. A light lunch will be provided starting at 11:30 am. The event will be held in the MPI Conference Room, 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 300 (Third Floor), Washington, DC.
Please do not reply to this e-mail; the link below will allow you to quickly RSVP online.
http://contact.migrationpolicy.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=3501&JServSessionIdr004=4biuezb7y2.app13b
If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Dixon via email at events@migrationpolicy.org or by phone at (202) 266-1929.
Sincerely,
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, PhD
President
Migration Policy Institute
Monday, January 14, 2008
Talk on Slumdwelling: Tuesday January 22
What 1 billion slum dwellers mean for the environment:What are the environmental consequences of a slumdwelling population that grows by 25 million peopleeach year?
Tuesday, January 22, 20086:30 - 8:00 PM
Location: The National Building Museum401 F Street NWWashington, DC 20001202.272.2448 / www.nbm.orgRed Line Metro, Judiciary Square
A discussion with:
Michael Cohen, Director, The New School InternationalAffairs Program
Pietro Garau, Professor of Architecture, University ofRome; Past Director, United Nations Center for HumanSettlements
Rose Seisie Molokoane, National Chairperson, The SouthAfrican Homeless People's Federation; Board Member,Slum Dwellers International
Sergio Palleroni, Co-founder and Director, BaSICInitiative; Professor of Architecture and SustainableDesign and Development, University of Texas at Austin
Maria Sonia Vicenta Fadrigo, Regional Coordinator,Homeless People's Federation Philippines (HPFP)
Tuesday, January 22, 20086:30 - 8:00 PM
Location: The National Building Museum401 F Street NWWashington, DC 20001202.272.2448 / www.nbm.orgRed Line Metro, Judiciary Square
A discussion with:
Michael Cohen, Director, The New School InternationalAffairs Program
Pietro Garau, Professor of Architecture, University ofRome; Past Director, United Nations Center for HumanSettlements
Rose Seisie Molokoane, National Chairperson, The SouthAfrican Homeless People's Federation; Board Member,Slum Dwellers International
Sergio Palleroni, Co-founder and Director, BaSICInitiative; Professor of Architecture and SustainableDesign and Development, University of Texas at Austin
Maria Sonia Vicenta Fadrigo, Regional Coordinator,Homeless People's Federation Philippines (HPFP)
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