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Marsh Institute E-News 2009
In these pages you will find updates about faculty awards and grants, graduate student work, the Distinguished Lecture Series, recent publications and upcoming events.

Marsh Distinguished Lecture Series Archive


Lecturer Title
Jesse Ausubel
The Rockefeller University, New York
"The Next 1000 Years"
Armando Carbonell
Department of Planning and Development at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Planning Cape Cod: Science, Participation and Policy"
Lisa M. Curran
Associate Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute,
Yale University
"Linkages in the Landscape: Effects of Land Use Change on Socio-Economic and Ecological Dynamics in Borneo"
Gretchen C. Daily
Department of Biological Sciences, Senior Fellow,
Institute for International Studies at Stanford University
"New Frontiers in Conservation"
Thomas E. Downing
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford, and Fellow of Linacre College
"Global Change Vulnerability: Measuring the Metaphysical?"
David M. Driesen
Associate Professor, Syracuse University College of Law
"The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law: An Alternative to an Efficiency-Based Approach"
David R. Foster
Harvard Forest, Harvard University
“Using Ecological History to Address Emerging Conservation Issues in New England”
Howard Geller
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy - Washington, DC
“Meeting and Going Beyond our Kyoto Climate Treaty Targets Without Harming Economic Growth”
Jason S. Grumet
National Commission on Energy Policy, Washington, DC
“The National Commission on Energy Policy: Crafting Bipartisan Solutions to our Energy Challenges”
John Harte
UC Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group
"Climate-Ecosystem Feedbacks"
Branden Johnson
Bureau of Risk Analysis, Division of Science, Research and Technology,
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
"Industry Neighbors' Views about Accidents, Uncertainty, Standards, and Risk Comparisons"
Robert W. Kates
Independent Scholar and Marsh Institute Distinguished Scientist
“Navigating the Sustainability Transition”
Roger Kennedy
Director Emeritus of the National Museum of American History and former Director of the National Park Service
“Sprawling into Danger: The Cold War, Induced Migration, and Nature's Wrath”
Eric F. Lambin
University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
“Land-Use Changes in the Tropics: Case Studies on the Role of Fires and on the Impact of Wildlife”
Kai N. Lee
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
“Thinking About a Sustainability Transition”
David Lowenthal
University College London
"Marsh and the Environmental Millennium"
Elinor Ostrom
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
“The Interaction of Organized Human Systems and Ecosystems”
Paul Price
Director of the LifeLine Group
“Assessing Cumulative and Aggregate Risks under the Food Quality Protection Act”
Ortwin Renn
Managing Director and Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Institute of Social Sciences
“Risk Governance: The Integration of Analysis, Perception and Participation”
Ronald Rindfuss
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Land Use, Competition and Migration”
Richard C. Rockwell
University of Connecticut
"Cities as Ecological Devices, Not Ecological Hazards"
Joel Schwartz
Harvard School of Public Health
“Particulate Pollution and Health Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reductions”
Barry Solomon
Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University
“Will There be a Hydrogen Revolution in Your Lifetime?”
James Gustave Speth
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
“Running Out of Time? The Cascading of Environmental Consequences”
Eugene Z. Stakhiv
Institute for Water Resources/US Army Corps of Engineers
“Analytical Collaborative Planning: International Joint Commission (US-Canada) Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River (LOSLR) Study”
Gordon Thompson
Institute for Resource and Security Studies
“Potential Attacks on Civilian Nuclear Facilities: Technical and Policy Issues”


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