[WestMALocals] Fwd: [Needtoknow] Environmental Lecture Series at UMass/Amherst

[Owen Broadhurst]

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From: Owen Broadhurst <thersites2467 at hotmail.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2006 6:25 PM
Subject: [Needtoknow] Environmental Lecture Series at UMass/Amherst
To: needtoknow at green-rainbow.org

The Environmental Institute is currently hosting a lecture series this
Spring
entitled: Disasters, Environment, and Public Policy.  The lecture series
will
consist of four lectures held throughout the spring semester.  These
lectures
are free and open to the public.  They will be held at 4PM in the Bernie
Dallas
Room, with a reception to follow each lecture.

The lecture series schedule is:

Monday, February 27
Responding to Hurricane Katrina: Disasters and Politics at Ground Level
Ronald P. Speakes, Executive Director, Hampshire County Chapter, American
Red
Cross and Operations Director for the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina

Monday, March 13
Natural Disasters and the Environment: The Outlook for the 21st Century
William H. Hooke, Director, Policy Program, American Meteorology Society and
Chair, Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies

Monday, April 10
Human Dimensions of Disasters: The Role of Social Science Research
Kathleen J. Tierney, Director, Natural Hazards Center and Professor of
Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder

Tuesday, May 2
Learning from Disasters: The Synergy of Geography and Public Policy
Rutherford H. Platt, Professor of Geography, Department of Geosciences and
Director, Ecological Cities Project, University of Massachusetts Amherst

If you would like to download flyers or abstracts for any of these lectures
please visit www.umass.edu/tei.

Sincerely,
The Environmental Institute


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Owen R. Broadhurst
Candidate for State Representative
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