date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:09:33 -0000
from: "Andrew Watson" <a.watson@uea.ac.uk>
subject: UEA global environmental change lectures
to: <env.all@uea.ac.uk>

   UEA GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE LECTURES 2005

   Twelve distinguished and sometimes controversial speakers, five from UEA and seven from
   outside, will deliver "keynote addresses" on various aspects of Global change during
   January and February, starting next week (January 18th). The lecture series is a new
   addition to the final year undergraduate syllabus in environmental sciences, but the
   lectures are open to all. A full list with notes on the speakers, titles, places and times
   can be found at

   [1]http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/teaching/gec_lectures/

   The speakers and titles are:
   Tue 18 Jan,  2pm:   Kerry Turner, director of CSERGE, "Valuing nature: price tags versus
   deliberation."
   Wed 19 Jan, 11am:  Mike Hulme, executive director of theTyndall Centre, "Can society adapt
   to climate change?"
   Tue 25 Jan,  2pm:   Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, "Global change
   and Antarctica".
   Wed 26 Jan, 11am:  Phil Dale, from the John Innes Centre, "The environmental impact of GM
   crops".
   Tue 1 Feb,    2pm:  Tim Lenton, ENV: "From the past to the future".
   Wed 2 Feb,  11am:  Andrew Watkinson, Tyndall centre, "Biodiversity and global change".
   Tue 8 Feb,   2pm:     Peter Cox, of the Hadley Centre, "The natural carbon cycle in the
   21st century"
   Wed 9 Feb,  10am:   Lord Oxburgh, current chairman of Shell and a distinguished geologist,
   "People, resources and climate"
   Tue 15 Feb,  2pm:    John Schellnhuber, Research director, Tyndall Centre, "The climate
   problem: diagnosis, prognosis, therapy".
   Wed 16 Feb, 10am:  Bjorn Lomborg, University of Aarhus in Denmark, "The Skeptical
   Environmentalist"
   Tue 22 Feb,  2pm:    Sir Crispin Tickell, former UK ambassador to the United Nations,
   "Sustainability: from the natural to the human world"
   Wed 23 Feb, 10am: Mike Childs, Campaign Co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth,
   "Environmental campaigns: science-based, or scaremongering?"

   Cheers

   Andy Watson
   School of Environmental Sciences
   University of East Anglia

