Environment on the Edge


 

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.


NEW:
2005-2006 series


Nature’s Capital – the key to poverty eradication
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



2004-2005 series


The day after tomorrow
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 2005-2006 series and the Environment on the Edge 2004-2005 series in .pdf format.


Coming soon
The 2006-2007 series, starting with:
Europe’s future: Environment at the heart or on the edge?
by Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency





The lecture series is a joint collaboration between New Hall and St Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The series was made possible by the generosity of BP.