Previous Seminars: 2012

Thursday, December 6
Dr. Jae Edmonds
Battelle Fellow & Chief Scientist
Pacific NW National Laboratory & JGCRI/UMD
Topic: Implications of technology availability and international policy regimes for limiting human forcing of climate
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Thursday, November 29
Dr. Klaus Hubacek
Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD
Topic: Tele-connecting local consumption to global land use and water consumption
Thursday, November 15
Dr. Sabine O'Hara
College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability & Environmental Sciences
University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C.
Topic: Sustaining Economics for a Sustaining Planet
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Thursday, October 18
Dr. Juliet Schor
Department of Sociology, Boston College
Topic: Does working less reduce pressures on the envrionment? A cross-cultural panel analysis of OECD countries
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Thursday, September 27
Dr. John Urry
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
Topic: Complex Systems and Global Crises
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Thursday, September 20
Dr. Emilio Moran
Department of Anthropolgy, Indiana University
Topic: Human-Environment Interactions, Land-Use and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Thursday, May 10
Dr. Bhavik Bakshi
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio State University
Topic: Learning from Nature for Sustainability of Technological Systems
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Thursday, April 12
Dr. Maureen Cropper
Department of Economics, UMD
Topic: How will the Nations of the World deal with Climate Change?
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Thursday, March 29
Dr. Herman Daly
School of Public Policy, UMD
Topic: Growth, Debt and the World Bank
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Thursday, March 15
Dr. Faye Duchin
Dept of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Topic: Toward a social science research agenda about sustainable development
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Thursday, March 1
Dr. Jeffrey Werling
Dept of Economics/INFORUM, UMD
Topic: Modeling the economy, energy and the environment with LIFT
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Thursday, February 16
Dr. Corene Matyas
Dept of Geography, University of Florida
Topic: Tropical cyclone research from a geographer's perspective
Thursday, February 9
Dr. Richard Moss
JGCRI at UMD
Topic: Can science inform climate policy? A social science perspective on research needs for the science-policy interface
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