Selin Gives Talk on Environmental Impact of Mercury
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a January 15, 2019 discussion at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) on the environmental impact of mercury.
Selin gave the talk with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor Noelle Selin, and focused on humans’ use of mercury over a 5000-year period, and its environmental impact.
Thank you @CarsonCenter for hosting an engaging discussion today of mercury and sustainability – very much in the spirit of Rachel Carson. @BUPardeeSchool @GDPC_BU @NoelleSelin https://t.co/XxwxI13Cle
— Henrik Selin (@SelinHenrik) January 15, 2019
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences.
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. He is a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press.