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Description:: Environmental Policy Formation: Political Economy and Behavioral Economics. Society often relies on government policy to correct environmental problems that stem from human behavior. However, the policy-formation process may fail when environmental change is slow or when human behavior in one location affects environmental quality in other place...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Ando, Amy
Created:: 2009-04-23
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Andrew Light talks to Peter Shea about his work bridging concrete environmental science and abstract environmental ethics, his belief in restoration ecology, and practical ways to deal with climate change.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Light, Andrew
Created:: 2009-04-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Ethics and Climate Change: An Earth Day Presentation. With the effective end of the debate in the U.S. over the basic science of climate change, and the dramatic shift in our political response to this issue, we are now witnessing an impressively aggressive push to establish a national price structure on carbon and move toward negotiation of a s...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Light, Andrew
Created:: 2009-04-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Ethics and Climate Change: An Earth Day Presentation. With the effective end of the debate in the U.S. over the basic science of climate change, and the dramatic shift in our political response to this issue, we are now witnessing an impressively aggressive push to establish a national price structure on carbon and move toward negotiation of a s...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Light, Andrew
Created:: 2009-04-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Enzi Tanner talks about his experiences participating in Soul Force, The Naked Eye, and his experiences being a bisexual of color in different areas of the country. Soul Force is an activist organization that takes a bus load of GLBT activists college to college across the country to bring awareness of GLBT issues and attempts to dialog with sch...
Contributor:: Tanner, Enzie (Guest)
Created:: 2009-04-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-02-18

Description:: Discussion on the Minneapolis Housing Crisis. Ryan Allen, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs speaks on The Unraveling of the American Dream. Jeff Crump, an associate professor in the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel at the University of Minnesota, speaks about Geography, Public ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Allen, Ryan; Crump, Jeff
Created:: 2009-04-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Trouble with Toxics. Toxics trouble health and the environment, established ways of doing science and setting policy, and the way people make everyday decisions about what to eat, drink, wear and drive. This presentation will map an array of reasons why toxics are difficult to recognize and deal with ‚Äî biologically, scientifically, politically...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Kim
Created:: 2009-04-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Trouble with Toxics. Toxics trouble health and the environment, established ways of doing science and setting policy, and the way people make everyday decisions about what to eat, drink, wear and drive. This presentation will map an array of reasons why toxics are difficult to recognize and deal with ‚Äî biologically, scientifically, politically...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Kim
Created:: 2009-04-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy. This presentation uses deCODE Genetics and its operations in Iceland as an index of the science and political economy of genomics, and the international political economy more broadly, from the late 1990s to the present. It tracks deCODE's evolution from incorporation ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Michael
Created:: 2009-04-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy. This presentation uses deCODE Genetics and its operations in Iceland as an index of the science and political economy of genomics, and the international political economy more broadly, from the late 1990s to the present. It tracks deCODE's evolution from incorporation ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Michael
Created:: 2009-04-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05