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Twenty First Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2006

SURVIVAL

Lecture 8   :   10 March

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

Diana Liverman

Oxford University

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Biography

Diana Liverman is Professor of Environmental Science and the Director of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford University. A geographer, born in West Africa and educated in London, Toronto and Los Angeles, she spent much of her career in North America where her professional service included chairing the US National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, and sitting on advisory committees for NOAA, NASA and the Inter American Institute for Global Change. Her research has focused on the human dimensions of global change, with a focus on climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and on the causes and consequences of climate change in Latin America. At Oxford she has become involved in various climate research projects including the Tyndall Centre, QUEST, and is the incoming chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the international Global Environmental Change and Food Security (GECAFS) programme. The ECI hosts a node of the UK Energy Research Centre and the UK Climate Impacts Programme (www.eci.ox.ac.uk)

The lectures are given at 5.30 p.m. in The Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, with an adjacent overflow theatre with live TV coverage. Each lecture is typically attended by 600 people so you must arrive early to ensure a place.