Globalization and Scarcity
- When?
- Thursday 9 December 2010
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Alex Evans, New York University
Alex Evans is based at New York University's Center on International Cooperation, where he runs a program on what issues of resource scarcity - especially food, land, water and energy - mean for globalisation and international development, and what kinds of international collective action are needed to manage them.
He is currently working on these issues with organisations including the UN Secretary-General's office (where he has been helping to launch the UN's new High Level Panel on Global Sustainability), the World Bank and the US National Intelligence Council, as well as with a range of international NGOs.
Alex is also a founding editor of www.GlobalDashboard.org, the foreign policy and global risks blog, and was Special Adviser to Hilary Benn at DFID from 2003 to 2006.
In his talk, Alex will give an overview of his research on resource scarcity and climate change, and discuss prospects for international action on issues of global sustainability.
