EH Seminar on Justice Issues in Climate Change, Feb 1.

Please join the Department of Environmental Health for the latest presentation in the Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar Series. Addressing the series theme of “Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy,” the Feb. 1 seminar will discuss inequities in the effects of climate change with an online discussion:

“Climate Justice: Looking Forward”

February 1, 2013
Time: 12pm-1pm
Location: Room L-214
(*note room change)
BU Medical School Instructional Building

Speaker:

J. TIMMONS ROBERTS, PH.D.
Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology
Brown University
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, 2012-13

Climate change raises issues of injustice because the countries and individuals who are least responsible are suffering worst and first. Joining us online, Professor Roberts will document three elements of climate injustice, describe the mission and work of his Climate and Development Lab at Brown University, and describe avenues forward for international negotiations and the need for national and local action in the U.S.

Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, where he was Director of the Center for Environmental Studies from 2009 to 2012. During 2012-13 he is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Professor Roberts is a leading expert on climate change and development assistance. Co-author and editor of eight books/edited volumes, and over sixty articles and book chapters, Timmons’ current research focuses on climate change and international development.

For more information on this seminar and upcoming seminar topics and guest speakers, please visit http://sph.bu.edu/ehseminars