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[POSTPONED] Marsh/Kasperson Lecture: Sustainable and Transparent Soy Supply Chains

Lurie Conference Room

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.”

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

Marsh Institute Seminar: HIV Prevention for Young Women in Zimbabwe

Lurie Conference Room

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.

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

From Research to Practice: The Need for Science-Driven REDD Policy

Lurie Conference Room

Rebecca Dickson, Ph.D. ’09, a geospatial analysis and modeling expert, will discuss the importance of creating science-driven REDD policy.

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

Marsh Institute Seminar Series: Roundtable Discussion on Blackstone Collaborative

Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center

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.

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

Extractives@Clark Brown Bag Lunch: The Chilean Referendum

Jefferson 200

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.

Sponsored by: Extractives@Clark

Regenerative Urban Ecology: A Next Phase for Science and Society – J. Morgan Grove

Jefferson 218

The Marsh/Kasperson Seminar Series and the Geography Colloquium Speaker Series welcomes J. Morgan Grove, Team Leader, Baltimore Urban Field Station, USDA Forest Service. Seminars are open to all. Attendees are […]

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Greening Theory and Practice

Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center, 122

The Marsh/Kasperson Seminar Series welcomes Theo Eisenman, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at UMass Amherst's College of Social & Behavioral Sciences. Seminars are open to all. Attendees are expected to be vaccinated and […]

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library