February 15, 2001: IAES Presented:
Professor Regina Axelrod, Adelphi University.
"Building Democracy in the Czech Republic: The Case of the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant "
Thursday, 8 pm, Davis Auditorium.
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Events and Speakers Spring Semester 2001 |
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February 26: Dr. Eban Goodstein: "Global Warming, Jobs and the Politics of Kyoto" |
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February 15, 2001: IAES Presented: Professor Regina Axelrod, Adelphi University. "Building Democracy in the Czech Republic: The Case of the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant "
Thursday, 8 pm, Davis Auditorium. |
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Dr. Axelrod, Director of the International Affairs Program at Adelphi and coeditor of The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1999), is writing on the impact on the Czech nuclear power industry of Prague's impending membership in the European Union. |
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February 26, 2001: IAES Presented: Professor Eban Goodstein, Lewis and Clark College. "Global Warming, Jobs, and the Politics of Kyoto" Thursday, 5pm, Davis Auditorium. |
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Goodstein, formerly of Skidmore College Department of Economics, is Associate Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark (Portland, Oregon) and Research Associate at the Economic Policy Institute (Washington, DC.) He is the author of Economics and the Environment (John Wiley, 1998) and The Trade off Myth: Fact and Fiction About Jobs and the Environment (Island Press, 1999). Dr. Goodstein is also a co-founder of the KyotoNow project. |
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April 5, 2001 : IAES Presented: The Honorable John B. Ritch III, United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Ageny. "Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Washington, Vienna and London" Thursday, 8 pm, Gannet Auditorium
John B. Ritch III is currently the Director General of the World Nuclear Association. He assumed this position after serving for 7 years as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna and representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Click here to See Ritch's latest article on Nuclear Energy. |
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April 18, 2001: IAES Presents: Professor Christopher Uhl, Department of Biology, Penn State University. "From the Amazon Forest to the College Campus: The Ecology of Disturbance, Restoration, and Sustainability" Wednesday, 8pm, Davis Auditorium. |
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Dr. Uhl is a leading authority on international environmental education on college campuses. Professor Uhl is a human ecologist, and is a part of Penn State's newly founded Center for Sustainability. |