Human population growth is one very important factor affecting resource utilization and environmental conditions everywhere. Yet it is a topic that has been largely absent at the programmatic level in the curricula of schools of natural resources and the environment in the United States. A recent grant to CSRD from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation seeks to build that research and intellectual capacity in the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, thereby providing model for other schools nationwide. One component of the Hewlett Program is to invite leading experts and young scholars to discuss key topics that address the multiple links among population, natural resources and the environment. Our distinguished speakers series provides a forum for leading thinkers and researchers to engage the wider campus community on these links . An edited volume of papers based on the talks is planned.

Academic Year 1997-98 Semester Lecture Schedule:

September 17 

Background on Regional Demographics of Rapid Population Growth
 

September 24 

Biotechnology in the Context of Increased Population Growth and Resource Utilization

David Zilberman, CSRD and Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

 

September 25 

The Effects of Demographic Change in Hilly Mountainous Areas of Development Countries

Scott Templeton, University of California, Berkeley 

 

October 7 

God's Utility Function: The Bioeconomics of Population Growth and Resource Utilization

Andrew Gutierrez, University of California, Berkeley

 

October 29 

High Reliability Pastoralism

Emery Roe, CSRD

 

November 5 

Population Growth, Income Growth and Deforestation: Management of Village Common Land in India

Andrew Foster, Economics Department, Brown University

 

February 11 

Population Growth and Land Intensification in India

Vinod Mishra, University of Hawaii

 

April 1 

Population-Based Environmental Measures of Pollution

Kirk Smith, University of California, Berkeley

 

April 8 

Global 2000 Revisited: Was It Wrong?

Anne Ehrlich, Stanford University

 

April 22 

Role of Economic Instruments in Environmental and Resource Policymaking During China's Transition Period

Xuejun Wang, Bejing University

 

April 29 

Urban Planning for Post-World War II Growth in the Paris Region

Julia Trilling, Harvard Graduate School of Design and UCB Center for Western European Studies 

 

April 30 

Shop 'til You Drop: Sustainable Consumption Laws in Europe and America

James Salzman, Washington College of Law, American University, 

 

May 6 

Reforms of Sharecropping System--Operation BARGA for Sustainable Agricultural Development in West Bengal

Uday Saha, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mumbai, India 

 

May 8 

The Politics of Global Warming: The Kyoto Protocol and its Implementation

Ujjanyant Chakravorty, University of Hawaii 

 

June 8 

The Future of Trees Is On Farms

Tony Simons, Program Leader for ICRAF's Tree Domestication Initiative.

Future Hewlett speakers are to include Amartya Sen, Melissa Leach & James Fairhead, and Maarten Hajer.