Climate change is one of the most important long-term threats for the future of our societies. Solutions are complex, depending not only on engineering and policy, but also on imagination and public will towards alternative forms of inhabiting the planet. Latin America, home to the largest rainforest areas in the world, is both at risk of environmental catastrophe and a key region in which models for thriving bioeconomies based on rainforests can evolve. This symposium will bring together experts and leaders from the US and Latin America to discuss the past, present and future of Amazonia. We will discuss deforestation trends and their interactions with climate and health; how to move beyond our lack of imagination for viable futures, including the importance and role of indigenous peoples of the Amazon; and ongoing and emerging initiatives towards river-flowing, rainforest-based economies across Amazonia.
This event will be livestreamed on Facebook. For the conference program, click here.
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ORGANIZED BY:
Bruno de Medeiros, Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate Change Solutions Fund
Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the GSD; Faculty Associate, Harvard University Center for the Environment and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Brian D. Farrell, Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Presented with support from the Brazil Studies Program, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Harvard University Herbaria, the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
LOCATION:CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190507T133000Z DTEND:20190508T163000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR