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Environment on the Edge is a series of lectures by leading international figures that examine our current relationship with the natural world and discuss what tomorrow might bring. |
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2007-2008 series Professor Sharon Turner Chair of Environmental Law, Queen’s University, Belfast Travelling first class on the Titanic Barbara Young Chief Executive of the UK Environment Agency The economics of climate change Lord Adair Turner former Director-General, Confederation of British Industry Chair of the Committee on Climate Change Creating a healthy environment in China Professor Sian Griffiths Professor of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ocean acidification: the other CO2 problem Professor Nick Owens Director, British Antarctic Survey International environmental governance Professor Robert T. Watson Director of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development Co-Chair of the International Scientific Ozone Assessment Board Co-Chair of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Former Chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chair of the 1995 Global Biodiversity Assessment Download the entire Environment on the Edge 2007-2008 series in .pdf format. Professor Jacqueline McGlade Executive Director of the European Environment Agency Are we running out of oil? Dr Jeremy Leggett author of Half Gone and CEO of Solar Century and Dr Ian Vann Group Vice-President, Exploration & Production, BP Moderator: Professor Bernie Bulkin The impacts of the Three Gorges Dam Professor Zhang Jing Key State Laboratory of Coastal and Estuarine Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai Humans and carbon: a Faustian bargain? Professor Berrien Moore III Director, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), University of New Hampshire Valuing sustainability Richard Saxon CBE Vice-President, Royal Institute of British Architects Principal of Consultancy for the Built Environment Former Chairman of Building Design Partnership and of 'Be' Professor David Fisk BP/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Engineering for Sustainable Development, Imperial College Co-director, BP Urban Energy Systems Project Download the entire Environment on the Edge 2006-2007 series in .pdf format. Klaus Toepfer 1998-2006, United Nations Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme 1994-1998, Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development 1987-1994, Federal Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Human development in China Dr Zhao Baige President of the Millennium Institute Agriculture and food production: Quo vadis Dr Hans Rudolf Herren Vice Minister for Population of the People’s Republic of China The changing face of cities Professor Anne Power Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics Women and conservation Kathryn Fuller Chairman of the Board of the Ford Foundation Download the entire Environment on the Edge 2005-2006 series in .pdf format. Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG, KCVO, DCL, Chancellor of the University of Kent Oceans on the edge Dr Jane Lubchenco Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University Antarctica on the edge? Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Director, British Antarctic Survey Biodiversity on the edge Dr Cristián Samper Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Transport on the edge Dr Bernard Bulkin Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge, Chairman of AEA Technology, a partner of Vantage Point Venture Partners, and Chair of Energy and Transport at the UK Sustainable Development Commission Download the entire Environment on the Edge 2004-2005 series in .pdf format.
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