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interdisciplinary environmental scholarship for students and
faculty at CUNY."
The City University
of New York
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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...
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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
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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
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