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Environment on the Edge 2009-10
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Environment on the Edge 2009-10

Some of the world's leading environmental scientists are coming to Murray Edwards College to continue the series of lectures on how our relationship with the natural world is shaping our present and future priorities.

Lectures are held at 5.15 p.m. in Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.

Admission is free; to reserve a place please email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

Dates and speakers for the current series:

  • 29 October 2009 - Prosperity without Growth, Professor Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
  • 21 January 2010 - Islam and the Environment, Professor Ziauddin Sardar, Visiting Professor at City University, London and contributing editor of the New Statesman
  • 18 February 2010 - Geoengineering the Climate, Professor John Shepherd, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
  • 29 April 2010 - Can We Feed the World?, Sir Gordon Conway, Imperial College London

Environment on the Edge is sponsored by The Judge Business School's Centre for Energy Studies and the Hauser-Raspe Foundation, and presented by UNEP-WCMC, Murray Edwards College, St Edmund's College and the British Antarctic Survey.

Texts of previous series of lectures have been published as booklets and are available from the College Administrator, Murray Edwards College. These are also online at the UNEP-WCMC website