"Building a network
to celebrate and
enhance
interdisciplinary
environmental
scholarship for students and
faculty at CUNY."

The City University
of New York


Welcome to The Nature, Ecology & Society Network at the City University of New York.

NES promotes interdisciplinary collaborative research across City University of New York campuses on themes of nature, ecology and society. NES is concerned with the multiple intersections between nature and society, and bringing together those working on related research. Research ranges from environmental ethics, ecology, environmental justice, conservation, and natural resource use - to questions of how society can achieve sustainable development. How the urban environment reflects these linkages is a strong research focus of CUNY faculty and students -- this network has been created to celebrate and foster these linkages... more...

Colloquium

Join us for the seventh annual Nature, Ecology & Society Colloquium - a special one-day event, featuring panels, speakers and a poster session. This unique event brings together environmental scholars from across CUNY.

This year's colloquium, "Scales of Environmental Justice," will provide a space for discussing issues of justice on levels of varying scale. Considering the local and global, from New York and beyond, provides a lens for seeing the issues from the ground up considering the relationship to equity and justice. Keynote address by Tom Angotti, Center for Community Planning and Development, Hunter College.

more information here

download the colloquium poster here

Nature, Ecology and Society: Scales of Environmental Justice

Friday, March 7th, 2008
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
Segal Theatre
Free