Roy F Weston Distinguished Global Sustainability Lectures

Monday, February 2, 2009
4:30 pm
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium (Room 121)
702 Langdon St.

Professor Diana Liverman
Director of the Environmental Change Institute
Oxford University Centre for the Environment

"Communities, climate change, and development: can the international climate regime deliver mitigation and adaptation that benefit the poor?"

Professor Diana Liverman is well known for her work on the impacts of climate change in developing countries. She has recently accepted a position as co-director with the University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment and Society. Previous to this, she served as the director of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute. While her background is in geography, much of her professional career has focused on the societal impacts of climate change. She is especially interested in climate change impacts in Mexico and other parts of Latin America and has participated in many research projects in these regions.

Dr. Liverman has served on climate change committees for the US Social Science Research Council, the US National Academy, the NOAA, and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter American Institute for Global Change Research. She is also an editorial board member for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Global Environmental Change, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Climatic Change.

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