date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:09:33 -0000 from: "Andrew Watson" subject: UEA global environmental change lectures to: UEA GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE LECTURES 2005 Twelve distinguished and sometimes controversial speakers, five from UEA and seven from outside, will deliver "keynote addresses" on various aspects of Global change during January and February, starting next week (January 18th). The lecture series is a new addition to the final year undergraduate syllabus in environmental sciences, but the lectures are open to all. A full list with notes on the speakers, titles, places and times can be found at [1]http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/teaching/gec_lectures/ The speakers and titles are: Tue 18 Jan, 2pm: Kerry Turner, director of CSERGE, "Valuing nature: price tags versus deliberation." Wed 19 Jan, 11am: Mike Hulme, executive director of theTyndall Centre, "Can society adapt to climate change?" Tue 25 Jan, 2pm: Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, "Global change and Antarctica". Wed 26 Jan, 11am: Phil Dale, from the John Innes Centre, "The environmental impact of GM crops". Tue 1 Feb, 2pm: Tim Lenton, ENV: "From the past to the future". Wed 2 Feb, 11am: Andrew Watkinson, Tyndall centre, "Biodiversity and global change". Tue 8 Feb, 2pm: Peter Cox, of the Hadley Centre, "The natural carbon cycle in the 21st century" Wed 9 Feb, 10am: Lord Oxburgh, current chairman of Shell and a distinguished geologist, "People, resources and climate" Tue 15 Feb, 2pm: John Schellnhuber, Research director, Tyndall Centre, "The climate problem: diagnosis, prognosis, therapy". Wed 16 Feb, 10am: Bjorn Lomborg, University of Aarhus in Denmark, "The Skeptical Environmentalist" Tue 22 Feb, 2pm: Sir Crispin Tickell, former UK ambassador to the United Nations, "Sustainability: from the natural to the human world" Wed 23 Feb, 10am: Mike Childs, Campaign Co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth, "Environmental campaigns: science-based, or scaremongering?" Cheers Andy Watson School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia