Cross Cutting Initiative Seminar Series - Spring 2007
An initial core activity of the cross-cutting initiatives program is a seminar series—Is Sustainable Development Feasible?. The goals of the seminar series include bringing together a group of faculty, research scientists, and students who are interested in working across disciplines to address the major challenges of sustainable development and to communicate the issues of sustainable development to a larger community, primarily from Columbia University. An output of the seminar series will be a book for a general audience interested in learning more about the most pressing challenges of the 21st Century.
A schedule of the Earth Institute Seminars on Sustainable Development are below. Once posted, click on the links below to watch a video of the seminars. All content related to these lectures, including video footage and PowerPoint presentations, is for educational use only.
Millennium Villages
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 10am-12pm, Room 555, Lerner Hall
One Season
Flash Video
Quicktime Video
Speakers:
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Cheryl Palm, Director for Research, Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Senior Research Scientist, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Pedro Sanchez, Director, Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Senior Research Scholar and Director, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Co-Chair, Hunger Task Force, Millennium Project, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Contact cciseminar@ei.columbia.edu for more information
Water: A 21st Century Challenge for Sustainable Development
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 4-6pm, Room 555, Lerner Hall
Flash Video
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"How Water Won the West"
Panelists:
Casey Brown, Associate Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Assis de Souza Filho, Visiting Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Tanya Heikkila, Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Hyun-han Kwon, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
Upmanu Lall, Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Tobias Siegfried, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Ecosystem Services
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4-6pm, Satow Room, Lerner Hall
Speakers:
Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garrett Professor on Public Policy and Business, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Director, Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Shahid Naeem, Professor and Department Chairman, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (E3B), Columbia University
Wolfram Schlenker, Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs and Department of Economics, Columbia University
Update on "Is Sustainable Development Feasible?"
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 4-6pm, Room 555, Lerner Hall
Speakers:
Steve Cohen, Executive Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Director, Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy, and Concentration in Environmental Policy Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Klaus Lackner, Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Upmanu Lall, Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
John C. Mutter, Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Peter Schlosser, Associate Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Columbia Business School
Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Co-Director, Center for the Decision Sciences, Columbia University
Responses to Disasters
Thursday, February 8, 2007 4-6pm, Satow Room, Lerner Hall
Speakers:
Irwin Redlener, M.D., Associate Dean and Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center
David Abramson, Director of Research, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center
Andrew Garrett, M.D., Director of Preparedness and Response Programs, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center