Biodiversity Events
The State of the World's Population: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth
June 27, 2007 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Global Health Initiative
Is urbanization really bad?, asks George Martine, lead author of the UN Population Fund's recent report.
Creating the Enabling Environment for Effective Fisheries Enforcement
April 10, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Marking the fifth in ECSP's series on fisheries management, this event explores the ways in which poor enforcement and governance enable overfishing, the importance of good policy for fisheries management, and different approaches to effective and sustained enforcement.
Reception: Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation Exhibition
April 03, 2007 // 5:30pm — 7:30pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Environmental issues have played a part in some of world's worst conflicts, but they can also help build peace. These issues are the focus of a multimedia exhibit created by Berlin's Adelphi Research.
Globalized Trade and the Macroeconomics of Capture Fisheries
February 22, 2007 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The fourth event in ECSP's seven-part series on fisheries, the meeting examines the forces behind increasing demand for and trade of fisheries products, and identifies the key trends in trade law, subsidies, tariffs, and other marketplace measures that are negatively impacting global fish stocks, developing world economies, and the environment.
Growing Demand and Local Communities: The Socio-Economics of Capture Fisheries
January 25, 2007 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The third meeting in ECSP's fisheries series addresses the economic and ecological impacts of declining stocks in capture fisheries, and the ways in which to reduce small-scale fishers' vulnerability.
HIV/AIDS, Agriculture, and Conservation: Impacts and Solutions
January 17, 2007 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Richard Skolnik of Population Reference Bureau, Lori Hunter of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and World Wildlife Fund's Judy Oglethorpe discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS, and call for multi-sectoral approaches to tackling the disease.
Managing Freshwater Inflows to Estuaries
December 07, 2006 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
In the second in a series of meetings on fisheries, ECSP and USAID host a discussion of estuaries, the threats they face, and the actions that can be taken to restore them.
Film Screening and Discussion: The Cardamoms: Have Forest, Have Life
October 11, 2006 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
A new community outreach film attempts to reverse years of ecological damage in southwest Cambodia by instilling in local communities a sense of stewardship in the land upon which they rely.
The Double Edge of Legal Advocacy in Environmental Public Participation in China: Raising the Stakes and Strengthening Stakeholders
September 25, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
China Environment Forum
Drawing on the feature article they wrote for the China Environment Series 8, Allison Moore, American Bar Association and Adria Warren, Foley and Lardner, LLP, discussed the political and legal dynamics of the development of public participation in the environmental sphere in China
Fishing for a Secure Future: Opportunities for Reforming Fisheries Governance
September 13, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Environmental Change and Security Program
ECSP and USAID launch a series of seminars on the key trends, threats, challenges, and opportunities that shape the management of fisheries. The inaugural seminar focuses on potential opportunities for interventions.