Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University

Center for Environmental Studies
Box 1943
135 Angell Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3449
Fax: (401) 863-3503

J. Timmons Roberts
Director
timmons(at)brown.edu

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 SEMINAR

Assessing the risks of climate change and climate variability on Indonesian rice agriculture

Rosamond Naylor
Director, Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford University

Rosamond Naylor is an associate professor of environmental earth system science and economics at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s program on food security and the environment. Her research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production. Working at the intersection of environment and economics, Naylor has been involved in a number of field-level research projects throughout the world concerning issues of aquaculture and livestock production, high-input agricultural development, biotechnology, climate-induced yield variability, and food security. Her research appears regularly in Science and Nature and recent articles have focused on how changing and increasingly variable climate may affect food production in developing countries.

THURSDAY, November 19, 2009 at Noon
PSTC Conference Room
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

CES Alums: Want to keep in touch?

Join our social networking sites for environmentally-minded alumni! Brown Alumni Staying Green, a facebook fan page, and the Green/Sustainability subgroup of the Brown Alumni Association LinkedIn page were recently created by the Center for Environmental Studies and the Brown Alumni Association. Join these pages for discussions, job postings, pictures, events, and more!

Brown Alumni Staying Green: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brown-Alumni-Staying-Green/144123438927

Green/Sustainability LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2345867

News and Events

Fall 2009
Seminar Schedule

Library Resource Guide for ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

2010 Graduate Student Research Opportunities

MEET THE 2009 WATSON SCHOLARS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
We hope that you will welcome them to Brown and that you will have an opportunity to work with them while they are here at Brown and into the future.

(September 1, 2009)

New Faculty

Kathryn DeMaster Visiting Assistant Professor, CES

J. Timmons Roberts Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Director of Center for Environmental Studies

Leila Sievanen Postdoctoral Research Associate, CES

Kathryn Tanner Visiting Assistant Professor, CES

Susan Wason Adjunct Instructor in Environmental Studies

(September 1, 2009)

New York Times:

Labor-environmentalists join ranks on climate bill

What would be an odd union between labor unions and environmental groups has found harmony as the two have joined to push for climate legislation. J. Timmons Roberts, the incoming director of the Center for Environmental Studies, says the movements need each other if they want to succeed.

Full report online www.nytimes.com/cwire/ 2009/08/28/28climatewire -can-push-for-climate-bill-forge-a-lasting-la-70854.html

(August 28,2009)

Today at Brown:

Speaking to a presidential task force on ocean policy, CES faculty Heather Leslie urges an “ecosystem-based” approach.

read full article

(August 4, 2009)

The UEL community garden is blooming! Stop by and take a break in this beautiful and natural spot in the middle of the city.

(Summer 2009)

Congratulations to
class of 2009
see class list and commencement photos

(May 24, 2009)

Newly Released

Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
edited by Karen McLeod and Heather Leslie