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Explaining Human Actions:
The Vayda Tradition
Discussion and reception
December 11th, 2009
3:00 to 5:00 pm
Douglass Campus Center
Douglass Lounge
Rutgers University
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Social Choices and Climate Change:
Lectures and Discussions
11 Nov | 12:35PM | Blake Hall, room 131, Cook Campus
Urban Climate Change Adaptation Planning:
Lessons from the Global South
JoAnn Carmin Associate Professor | Environmental Policy and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Human Ecology | humanecology.rutgers.edu
10 FEB | 12:35PM | Blake Hall, room 131, Cook Campus
International Institutions and Climate Change
Ted Parson Professor | Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law, Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan
Dept. of Human Ecology | humanecology.rutgers.edu
3 MAR | 12:30PM | Blake 131, Cook Campus
Social Science and America's Climate Choices
Paul C. Stern Director | Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, National Academies of Science
Dept. of Human Ecology | humanecology.rutgers.edu
Ecologies in the Balance series 2009-2010
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The Human Ecology Department Brown Bag Seminar Series Presents
Global Environmental Governance& Pathways for the Achievement of Environmental Justice
Dr. Elizabeth S. Caniglia, Oklahoma State University
Date: Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 1:55 p.m.
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus (http://maps.rutgers.edu/directions.aspx?id=36)
All are welcome!
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Varieties of Ecological Modernization & The Promise of New Technologies
Dr. David A. Sonnenfeld
Department of Environmental Studies
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Date: Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 1:55 p.m.
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus (http://maps.rutgers.edu/directions.aspx?id=36)
David Sonnenfeld, Ph.D. will discuss core concepts and studies drawn from his soon to be published book, "Ecological Modernization Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice." Over the past 3 decades, a growing group of international scholars working under the broad rubric of 'ecological modernization' have addressed a host of topics including consumption practices and everyday life choices, how communities participate in environmental and natural resource management, the role of the commercial sector in leading environmental policy and governance, and the regulation of the flow of environmental goods between nations. David Sonnenfeld, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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For questions and further information, please contact Kristen Drusjack at drusjack@aesop.rutgers.edu or 732-932-9153 ext 301.
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From Middle to Upper Class Sprawl: Land Use Controls, Changing Patterns of Suburbanization, and Smart Growth of NJ
Dr. Thomas Rudel, Professor
Departments of Human Ecology and Sociology
Date: Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Time: 12:35 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus
Tom Rudel conducts research on land use change. He has researched the driving forces behind tropical deforestation both through case studies in the Ecuadorian Amazon and through quantitative analyses at the global scale. The latter set of studies has included work on 'the forest transition'. He has also done research on the forces that have driven suburban sprawl, primarily through field studies in the northeastern United States. Currently, he is working through the implications of these processes for global warming and writing a book about how environmentally friendly behaviors in localities can in some instances have global scale effects.
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The Human Ecology Department Presents
The Effects of Oil Industry Dynamics on International Climate Change Advocacy ENGOs: Elite Support as Political Opportunity or Liability?
Dr. Simone Pulver
Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University
Date: Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Time: 12:35 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus
Pulver has a joint appointment as an assistant professor of environ-mental studies in Brown’s Center for Environmental Studies. She also holds an appointment as an adjunct assistant professor of sociology at Brown. Her current research investigates the participation of developing-country firms in India and Brazil in the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Devel-opment Mechanism and the use of scenarios in global environmental governance. In the past, her work has focused on the roles played by transnational oil corporations and transnational environmental advocacy NGOs in the UN climate negotiations. She is finalizing a book manuscript on this topic, tentatively titled "Private Interest versus Public Debate: Two Logics of Influence in the Global Climate Change Negotiations, 1991-2005.”