Paper/Proposal Title

Plenary Dialogue: Sustainable Environment

Location

Auditorium, 1700 South Patterson Building

Start Date

10-3-2015 3:30 PM

End Date

10-3-2015 5:00 PM

Abstract

  • Tariq Banuri is a lecturer in economics and city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. He was a member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
  • Richard Hiskes is a professor of political science at Grand Valley State University. His research addresses political theory, especially environmental theory and the theory of human rights. His book The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice (Cambridge, 2009) received the Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship award from the American Political Science Association.
  • Jacqui Patterson is director of the NAACP's Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Her expertise is in women’s rights and human rights, addressing HIV and AIDS; violence against women; maternal and child health; public health; the intersection of race, class, gender, and climate; and the impact of climate change on communities of color and women of color.

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Oct 3rd, 3:30 PM Oct 3rd, 5:00 PM

Plenary Dialogue: Sustainable Environment

Auditorium, 1700 South Patterson Building

  • Tariq Banuri is a lecturer in economics and city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. He was a member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
  • Richard Hiskes is a professor of political science at Grand Valley State University. His research addresses political theory, especially environmental theory and the theory of human rights. His book The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice (Cambridge, 2009) received the Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship award from the American Political Science Association.
  • Jacqui Patterson is director of the NAACP's Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Her expertise is in women’s rights and human rights, addressing HIV and AIDS; violence against women; maternal and child health; public health; the intersection of race, class, gender, and climate; and the impact of climate change on communities of color and women of color.