GCI: The role of urban universities in promoting urban sustainability
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 14 July 2015 - Tuesday, 14 July 2015
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Location:
- Seminar Room 275, Global Change Institute (20), Staff House Rd ST LUCIA
- URL:
- http://gci.uq.edu.au/events/role-of-urban-universities-promoting-urban-sustainability#sthash.8XYdCMha.dpuf
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Krystle Henry
- Phone:
- 33118
- Email:
- k.henry1@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Global Change Institute
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Over the past decade, cities in the U.S., Australia, and other developed countries have emerged as the scale of governance best able to address climate change and other threats to environmental sustainability.
In this seminar, Professor Jonathan Fink will discuss such efforts in two U.S. cities whose reputations lie at opposite ends of the sustainability spectrum—Phoenix Arizona in the desert Southwest, and Portland Oregon in the temperate Pacific Northwest. In both cities, large public universities partner with various levels of government to promote sustainability. Professor Fink will look at some of the networks of universities and cities that are now helping to accelerate how cities learn from each other and look at whether the cumulative effects of carbon reduction by hundreds of cities might compare with various better-known but riskier geo-engineering approaches to reduce global warming.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Jonathan Fink has been Vice President for Research and Strategic Partnerships at Portland State University since 2010. Prior to that he spent 30 years as a geology professor and research administrator at Arizona State University (including two sabbatical leaves in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab at Australian National University).
After getting his Ph.D. from Stanford University, he spent much of his career studying volcanic flows on Earth and other planets. He currently serves on the City of Portland’s Climate Action Plan Steering Committee, and Boards of Advisors or Trustees for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon Chapter, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
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