Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Speaker: Dan Coker, The Nature Conservancy in Maine While there are many approaches to achieving conservation success, influencing public policy is a critical piece of the puzzle. Providing policy makers with tools that clearly illustrate scientific information is an effective way to help them make informed decisions about conservation issues that impact their constituents and […]

Governing the vulnerabilities of urban infrastructure to water scarcity and flooding – The example of Mexico City Marco Janssen, Professor, School of Sustainability and Director, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University Many megacities such as Mexico City will experience in the coming decades an amplification of the existing challenges of water […]

This event has been cancelled due to illness. We will try to reschedule for fall semester. Speaker: Dr. Andrew Miller Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland - Baltimore County Co-sponsor: School of Earth and Climate Sciences Dr. Miller is interested in the interaction between watershed form, hydrologic response, and fluvial morphology with […]

Speaker: Anne Henshaw, PhD, Oak Foundation In the mainstream media, images of polar bears perched on pans of melting ice continue to be emblematic of climate change and its immediate threats. While visually effective, do polar bears serve as an appropriate symbol for highlighting vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change, especially for the 400,000 […]