The Earth Institute presents the EI Fellows Fall Symposium "Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability in a Changing World," with the Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellows.  Open to the public.

                        INTRODUCTION

John C. Mutter, Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and School of International & Public Affairs; Director, Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program

SESSION I:  Ecosystems and Agriculture: Effects of Land-use and Climate

Ilana Brito, Disease Dynamics in Fragmented Landscapes,

Liza Comita, The Fate of Forests: Interactive Effects of Human and Natural Disturbance on Tropical Tree Communities

Leigh Winowiecki: Landscape-scale dynamics of forest-derived carbon in cultivated systems: Implications for smallholder farmers in western Tanzania

Sean Smukler, Managing for food security and climate change mitigation in the Millennium Villages 

Jonathan Hickman, Modeling the impacts of climate change on agricultural production in the Millennium Villages

Chao Chen, The response of crop yield and water balance to climate variability/change in China, North America and Southeast South America

SESSION II: Human Responses to Conflict and Climate Change

Elisabeth King, Can Development Build Social Cohesion in Post-War Liberia?

Stergios Athanassoglou, The effect of uncertainty on pollution control policy

Sandra Baptista, Adapting to urban climate risk in coastal Brazil

Shahzeen Attari, Human behavior and climate change: A look at why people defect in social dilemmas

Chie Sakakibara, Tales of the whale: Climate change and cultural responses in Arctic Alaska and the Azores      

 CLOSING REMARKS

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management; Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University