A Cultural Ecology of the Anthropocene – Reflecting on the Joint Trajectories of Anthropology and Geography
Speaker: Dr. Eduardo S. Brondizio
Professor, Department of Antropology, Indiana University
Director, Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL)
Board member, Ostrom Workshop
Tuesday, 14 March, 2017
3:00-3:50 PM
Reitz Union 2365
University of Florida
An overview of global environmental change since the 1950s and discussion of the evolution of research and thinking about human-environment interaction, from the early days of Cultural Ecology to today’s Social-Ecological Systems frameworks.
Brondizio has served on numerous international scientific bodies including the Science Committee of the Future Earth program and the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP). Brondizio has 3 decades of research on human-environment interaction in the Amazon, and contributions to regional and global assessments. He is currently co-chair of the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Brondizio is co-Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability.
All are welcome to attend.