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Managing Dryland Environments Seminar Series - Hilary Term 2007
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held in the MSc Teaching Room 2 at 2pm on Thursdays unless indicated otherwise below. For further information contact Prof. Dave Thomas.
Week 1: Thursday 18 January 2007
The role of science in combating desertification: should desertification and climate change agendas be linked?
Dr Alan Grainger, University of Leeds.
Week 2: Wednesday 24 January 2007 1pm
Can the UNCCD protect the world from land degradation and desertification?
Dr Lindsay Stringer, University of Manchester.
Week 3: Thursday 1 February 2007
Valuing water: environmental valuation in central Australia.
Dr Leah Gibbs, University of Sheffield.
Week 4: Thursday 8 February 2007
Humanitarian perspectives on recent African dryland food crises: long and short term dilemmas.
Jane Cocking, Deputy Humanitarian Director, Oxfam UK.
Week 5: Thursday 15 February 2007
No Seminar.
Week 6: Thursday 22 February 2007
Local knowledge for managing drylands: the African experience.
Dr Andrew Dougill, University of Leeds.
Week 7: Thursday 1 March 2007
Community adaptation to drought: cases from Niger and South Africa.
Florence Crick, OUCE, Oxford.
Week 8: Thursday 8 March 2007
Successfully adapting to climate change in southern Africa: key lessons from the ADAPTIVE project.
Dr Henny Osbahr, OUCE & Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.