The George Perkins Marsh Institute presents a lecture by Gilbert E. Metcalf, the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, who researches policy evaluation and design in the area of energy and climate change.
Timmons Roberts, Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University and the Executive Director of the Climate Social Science Network, will discuss his research into the failure to address climate change in the United States.
Gustavo Oliveira, assistant professor of geography, will discuss “Sustainable and Transparent Soy Supply Chains? A Political Ecology Critique of Neo-Malthusianism and Eco-Modernization Theory.”
Economics professor Jon Denton Schneider will discuss his research on whether Zimbabwe’s school-based deworming interventions also reduce girls’ chances of contracting HIV as young women and if that, in turn, could have an effect on marriage market matching.
As global mining expands, conflict increases. In this Extractives@Clark discussion, a panel of experts will examine faith-based pathways to integral ecology and human rights.
Stefanie Covino, Marsh Institute research scientist and director of the Blackstone Watershed Collaborative, will discuss creating partnerships between academia and the community to build climate resilience.
Professor Beatriz Bustos Gallardo of the Universidad de Chile will analyze citizenship practices in rural Chilean territories to propose a topography of rural citizenship practices.
Professor Paul Posner will moderate a Q&A session with Beatriz Bustos Gallardo, professor at the Universidad de Chile, about the 2019 social revolt in Chile that led to the writing and referendum of a new constitution. The constitutional assembly included leaders from ecological movements, and an ecological lens was central to the whole document.
Speaker: Felipe Milanez, Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society, of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil This presentation investigates the relationships between the physical destruction of humans and of nature in the Brazilian Amazon. It pays particular attention to the […]
