Date:
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:
Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Alfred Lerner Hall,
Room 555
Contact:
Events, events@ei.columbia.edu or call 212-854-8158
RSVP:
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Event Description:
Speakers: Earth Institute Fellows
1:30 p.m. INTRODUCTION
John C. Mutter
Professor,
Earth and Environmental Sciences
1:35
– 2:20 p.m. SESSION I
Urban
Aspects of Sustainable Development
Right to the City, Right to the House:
Roma in Istanbul, Turkey
Cassidy Johnson
Environmental Governance and Metropolitan
Land-Use Dynamics in Southern Brazil
Sandra Baptista
Go Green Harlem!
Melissa
Keeley
2:20 – 2:30 p.m. BREAK
2:30
– 3:25 p.m. SESSION II
Social
and Anthropological Perspectives
Change
from Within: Women Altering Cultural Practices to Meet the MDGs in Sauri
Village, Kenya
Mary Nyasimi
Case Studies of How Religious Doctrine and Other
Worldviews Motivate Religious Environmentalists
Erin Lothes
The Development-Conflict-Peacebuilding
Nexus in Africa
Elisabeth King
Global Warming and the People of the Whales
in Arctic Alaska
Chie Sakakibara
3:25 – 3:35 p.m. BREAK
3:35
– 4:30 p.m. SESSION III
Index Insurance Contract Design
Kenneth
Shirley
Direct
Aerosol Radiative Forcing from Specific Emissions Sectors
Daven Henze
A
Game-Theoretic Model of Groundwater Extraction Under Spatial and Economic
Asymmetry
Stergios Athanassoglou
Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate
Leontine Alkema
4:30 – 4:40 p.m. BREAK
4:40
– 5:25 p.m. SESSION IV
Tropical
Ecology and Natural Resources
Effects of Human and Natural Disturbance on Seedling
Regeneration in a Hurricane-Impacted Tropical Forest
Liza Comita
Digital Soil Map of Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for
Restoration, Climate Change and Sustainability
Leigh Winowiecki
Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services in the Millennium Villages
Sean Smukler
5:25
p.m. CLOSING REMARKS
Steven A. Cohen
Executive
Director and Chief Operating Officer,
The
Earth Institute at Columbia University
Sponsors:
Earth Institute