Global Change & Sustainability Center

“Tipping Point for Planet Earth—How Close Are We To The Edge?” Anthony Barnosky, STANFORD University, JASPER RIDGE BIOLOGICAL PRESERVE. 4pm, 210 ASB Extinctions. Zika virus. The migrant crisis. Climate change. ISIS. The economy.  What we read in the news almost every day now seems like a string of unrelated problems, but they’re not.  In fact […]

 “Adaptation and Transformation in Managed Riparian and Wetland Systems across the US.” Lance Gunderson, Emory University, Environmental Sciences. 4pm, 210 ASB Recent assessments by legal, social and ecological scholars of six regional scale water systems (Columbia River, Klamath River, Middle Rio Grande River, Central Platte River, Anacostia River and the Everglades wetlands) all suggest a […]