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| <p align="center"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000080"><big>This week's Oxford Environment | |
| Seminars and <a href="#OXFORD ENVIRONMENT NEWS">News</a></big></font><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
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| <font SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000"><b><p ALIGN="CENTER">The Oxford Environmental Liaison Group | |
| brings you:</b></font></font><font SIZE="2" COLOR="#000080"></p> | |
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| <p ALIGN="CENTER">************************************************************************<b></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">OXFORD ENVIRONMENT SEMINARS</p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Week beginning 6th March</b></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">************************************************************************<b></p> | |
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| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>Monday 6 March</p> | |
| <p>Environmental Change Institute / </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000080">Oxford | |
| Environmental Liaison Group </font><font SIZE="2" COLOR="#000080">- 'double bill'</font><font | |
| FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000080"></p> | |
| <p>3.30pm</b></p> | |
| <p>E. David Hoard, Associate General Counsel (Installations & Environment), USAF, | |
| Pentagon</p> | |
| <p>"America's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA): An Interdisciplinary Approach | |
| to Making Better Decisions"</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>5.00pm</b> </p> | |
| <p>Jim Baker, Administrator (<i>Head</i>), NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric | |
| Administration), and Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, USA</p> | |
| <p>"Sustainable Development: a 2000 Year Overview"</font><font SIZE="2" | |
| COLOR="#000080"></p> | |
| <p>Both seminars will be held in the Lecture Theatre, School of Geography</p> | |
| <p> <i></p> | |
| <p>Tea will be served in the foyer of the School of Geography between the two seminars, | |
| and a wine reception will follow the second seminar</i></p> | |
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| <p>Tuesday 7 March</p> | |
| <p>12.45-2.15pm Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society (OCEES)</p> | |
| <p>Emissions Trading Group</b></p> | |
| <p>OCEES Seminar Room, Mansfield College.</p> | |
| <p>OCEES has arranged a meeting for a group of people in Oxford working on issues | |
| surrounding emissions trading. The group will be a forum for discussing the theoretical | |
| basis, empirical applications, issues and dilemmas involved in emissions trading.</p> | |
| <p> <i></p> | |
| <p>If anyone who is already working in this area would like to join the group, please | |
| contact Anne Maclachlan on 270886 or anne.maclachlan@mansf.ox.ac.uk</i><b></p> | |
| <p>4.30pm School of Geography</b></p> | |
| <p>Dr Michele Clarke, Department of Geography, University of Nottingham</p> | |
| <p>"Aeolian Sedimentary Records of Quaternary Environmental Change"</p> | |
| <p>Senior Common Room, School of Geography</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>5.00pm Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society (OCEES)</b></p> | |
| <p>Nina Witoszek, Robert Schuman Centre for Advances Studies, European University | |
| Institute, Florence</p> | |
| <p>"Moral Communities and the Environment: The Nordic Enigma"</p> | |
| <p>Council Room, Mansfield College</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>5.00pm Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre</b><i></p> | |
| <p>Theme: "Intellectual Property in the new Millennium"</i></p> | |
| <p>Professor Maureen O'Rourke, Boston University</p> | |
| <p>"Towards a Doctrine of Fair Use in Patent Law"</p> | |
| <p>St Peter's College, Latner Room</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>8.00pm Dept for Continuing Education</b><i></p> | |
| <p>Series: The Evolution of Life on Earth</i></p> | |
| <p>Profess Keith Thomson, Oxford University</p> | |
| <p>"Living Fossils in the Sea"</p> | |
| <p>University Museum, Parks Road</p> | |
| <p>Series and individual tickets are available in advance from the Weekly Class | |
| Administrator, Rewley House; email: carrie.mcintyre@conted.ox.ac.uk; tel: 270391/270308</p> | |
| <p>Series tickets cost £29.50; individual tickets cost £5.25 and are available on the | |
| night of the lecture (subject to availability)</p> | |
| <p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<b></p> | |
| <p>Wednesday 8 March</p> | |
| <p>11.00 American Environmental History</b><i></p> | |
| <p>Series: American Environmental History: The Long Road to a Conservation Ethic</i></p> | |
| <p>Robin W. Winks, Harmsworth Professor</p> | |
| <p>"Land and the Federal Government"</p> | |
| <p>Examination Schools</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>11.20 Oxford Forestry Institute</b></p> | |
| <p>Professor Andy Millington, University of Leicester</p> | |
| <p>"Deforestation in the Tropics"</p> | |
| <p>Large Lecture Theatre, Dept of Plant Sciences</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>12.30 OXTEHK (Oxford Group for Traditional Ecological and Health Knowledge)</b></p> | |
| <p>Josep-Antoni Gari, School of Geography</p> | |
| <p>"Cultivating Amazonia: Biodiversity and Indigenous Acroecology"</p> | |
| <p>Mansfield College</p> | |
| <p>Please bring your own lunch and join us.</font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" | |
| COLOR="#000080"><i></p> | |
| <p>OXTEHK was founded in 1998 in order to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions related | |
| to traditional knowledge and environmental, health and well-being concerns of indigenous, | |
| traditional and local communities. There are 5 interest "clusters": (1) | |
| ethnoecology; (2) ethnomedicine/ethnopharmacology; (3) cultural landscapes; (4) cognitive | |
| and linguistic studies; (5) philosophy and ethics. </p> | |
| <p>To join OXTEHK or to find more details, please consult the Linacre College Web Page | |
| (www.linacre.ox.ac.uk) or contact </p> | |
| <p>Darrell Addison Posey (darrell.posey@linacre.ox.ac.uk).</i></font><font SIZE="2" | |
| COLOR="#000080"><b></p> | |
| <p>5.00pm St Antony's College</b><i></p> | |
| <p>Post-Communist Regions in Transition Seminars</i></p> | |
| <p>Dr Sofia Davydova, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Wye | |
| College</p> | |
| <p>"Transformation of Central and East European Countries: Agriculture and | |
| Integration with the European Union"</p> | |
| <p>Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College</p> | |
| <p> </p> | |
| <p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<b></p> | |
| <p>Thursday 9 March</p> | |
| <p>4.15pm Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics</b></p> | |
| <p>Dr P. Taylor, Engineering Science</p> | |
| <p>"Extreme Storm Statistics - Offshore Engineers Estimating the 10,000 Year Wave in | |
| a Changing World"</p> | |
| <p>Dobson Lecture Room, Atmospheric Physics Laboratory</p> | |
| <p>***seminar will be preceded by tea in the same room at 3.45pm ****</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>4.45pm School of Geography</b><i></p> | |
| <p>Climatology Lectures</i></p> | |
| <p>Dr Doug Smith, Hadley Centre</p> | |
| <p>"Medium Range (Decadal) Climate Prediction"</p> | |
| <p>SCR, School of Geography<b></p> | |
| <p>5.30pm Linacre Lectures</b><i></p> | |
| <p>Theme: "Consciousness of Connections: Global Environments in the New | |
| Millennium"</i></p> | |
| <p>Peter Melchett, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK</p> | |
| <p>"Global Citizens - Campaigning for Environmental Solutions"</p> | |
| <p>Lecture Theatre A, Zoology/Psychology Building, South Parks Road</p> | |
| <p> <b></p> | |
| <p>8.00pm Oxford University Exploration Club</b></p> | |
| <p>Tony Howard and Di Taylor, authors of "Jordan - Walks, Treks, Caves, Climbs & | |
| Canyons"</p> | |
| <p>"Jordan"</p> | |
| <p>Tony and Di will talk about the exploration and development of Wadi Rum with the local | |
| Bedouin as one of the world's leading climbing areas, and their explorations around Petra, | |
| the "rose-red city half as old as time", as well as their descent of the Mujib | |
| and Hidan Gorges, Jordan's answer to the Grand Canyon.</p> | |
| <p>Lecture Theatre 2, Christ Church, St Aldate's</p> | |
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| <p ALIGN="CENTER">************************************************************************<b></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"><a name="OXFORD ENVIRONMENT NEWS">OXFORD ENVIRONMENT NEWS</a></b></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">************************************************************************</p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"><b> </p> | |
| </b><p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font SIZE="2"><font COLOR="#000080"><b> </p> | |
| </b></font><p><b> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Advance Notice of events</b>:</p> | |
| <p><font SIZE="3"><b> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Environmental Change Institute</b></font><i></p> | |
| <p>Environmental Change Institute seminar advertised on 6 March:</i></p> | |
| <p>The advertised speaker, David Hoard, will now speak at 3.30pm NOT 5.00pm. The ECI will | |
| be presenting a double bill of seminars on this day, with details as follows:</p> | |
| <p><b> </p> | |
| <p>Monday 6 March</p> | |
| <p>3.30pm</b> E. David Hoard, Associate General Counsel (Installations & Environment), | |
| USAF, Pentagon</p> | |
| <p>"America's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA): An Interdisciplinary Approach | |
| to Making Better Decisions"</p> | |
| <p><b> </p> | |
| <p>5.00pm</b> Jim Baker, Administrator (<i>Head</i>), NOAA (National Oceanic & | |
| Atmospheric Administration), and Under Secretary of Commerce for Ocean and Atmosphere, USA</p> | |
| <p>"Sustainable Development: a 2000 Year Overview"</p> | |
| <p>Both seminars will be held in the main Lecture Theatre, School of Geography. </p> | |
| <p>Tea will be served between the seminars.</p> | |
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| SIZE="3"><b></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">The OXTEHK GROUP (Oxford Group for Traditional Ecological and Health | |
| Knowledge)</b></font></p> | |
| <p>Lunchtime seminar on </p> | |
| <p>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8</p> | |
| <p>12:30 (until approximately 1:45)</p> | |
| <p>The Seminar Room</p> | |
| <p>OCEES (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics & Society) </p> | |
| <p>at Mansfield College</p> | |
| <p>Josep-Antoni Gari, School of Geography</p> | |
| <p>"Cultivating Amazonia: Biodiversity and indigenous agroecology"</p> | |
| <p>Please bring your own lunch and join us.</p> | |
| <p>OXTEHK was founded in 1998 in order to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions related | |
| to traditional knowledge and environmental, health and well-being concerns of indigenous, | |
| traditional and local communities. There are 5 interest "clusters": (1) | |
| ethnoecology; (2) ethnomedicine/ethnopharmacology; (3) cultural landscapes; (4) cognitive | |
| and linguistic studies; (5) philosophy and ethics. </p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>To join OXTEHK or to find more details, please consult the Linacre College Web Page | |
| (www.linacre.ox.ac.uk) or contact </p> | |
| <p>Darrell Addison Posey (darrell.posey@linacre.ox.ac.uk).</i><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" | |
| COLOR="#000080"></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font FACE="Arial"> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><font | |
| FACE="Arial"><b></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Wildlife Photography Exhibition at the Oxford Museum of Natural History</b></font><font | |
| FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <p>The renowned annual British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, | |
| organised by the Natural HIstory Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine, has culminated in a | |
| display of over 80 winning photographs chosen from over 21,000 entries. First prize in the | |
| British Wildlife section has been awarded to Oxfordshire photographer Ron Perkins for his | |
| photograph of a roe deer in a glade.</p> | |
| <p>The exhibition is currently on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural | |
| History. It runs until Sunday 5 March and is open daily from 12 noon to 5pm. Admission is | |
| free.</p> | |
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| <p> </p> | |
| <p><i><b> </p> | |
| <p>If you have information for posting on this email list, or would like information about | |
| 'Oxford Environment' or the Environmental Change Institute please contact:</b></i></p> | |
| <p>Fiona Donaldson</p> | |
| <p>Environmental Change Institute</p> | |
| <p>tel: 281182</p> | |
| <p>email: fiona.donaldson@eci.ox.ac.uk</p> | |
| <p><b> </p> | |
| <p>Oxford Environment: <i>www.eci.ox.ac.uk/Oxenv.htm</i></p> | |
| <p>ECI:<i> www.eci.ox.ac.uk</i></b></font></p> | |
| <p> </p> | |
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