The Global Institute's Yale Forest Forum Leadership Seminar Lunch Series provides opportunities to hear from leaders in forest management, conservation, or policy in an informal setting.
Speakers come from a wide range of organizations and perspectives, including government, NGOs and business, working at scales from local to international.
Lunches take place Thursdays
at noon, in Marsh Hall, 360 Prospect St.
Food and beverages provided.
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YALE FOREST FORUM LEADERSHIP SEMINAR
Lunch Series -- Fall 2009 |
Thursdays at 12:00 noon
Marsh Hall Rotunda, 360 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Lunch Provided -- Free and open to the public
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Dec. 3, 2009
Lhakpa Sherpa
Senior Technical Expert, The Mountain Institute
"National Parks and Protected Areas in Federal Nepal"
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Sept. 10 , 2009
Kinari Webb
Health in Harmony, Project ASRI
"Breaking New Ground in Indonesia: Healthcare Incentives and Reforestation to Revitalize the Forests of Gunung Palung National Park "
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Sept. 24, 2009
Ted Esselstyn
Artist and Woodworker
"A Second Life: Making Furniture from Trees Felled in the Urban Forest"
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Oct. 1, 2009
Jeremy Rayner
Head, Department of Political Science, University of Regina
"From International Forest Regime to Global Forest Governance: Will Anything Change for the Better?"
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Oct. 8, 2009
Talbot Trotter
USDA Forest Service
"Small Aliens, Large Impacts: Following the Ripple Effects of an Invasive Forest Insect"
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Nov. 5, 2009
Luca Tacconi
Associate Professor of Environmental Governance, and Director of the Environmental Management and Development Program at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University
"Environmental Governance: What is It and What Could It Become? - The Case of Deforestation"
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Nov. 12, 2009
Blake Hudson
Assistant Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law
"Seeing the Global Forest for the Trees: How US Federalism Can Coexist with Global Governance of Forests"
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Nov. 19, 2009
Ann Armbrecht
Anthropologist and Writer
"Searching for Home in the Himalayas: Reflections on Culture and Conservation"
Also, Ann's film "Numen: The Nature of Plants" will be shown at 4:00 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium.
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