About the Iscol Lecture 2014 The Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture brings eminent scholars, scientists, newsmakers, and opinion leaders to Cornell to address environmental issues of paramount importance to our planet. JILL AND KEN ISCOL DISTINGUISHED Hosted by the Atkinson Center, the Iscol Lecture recognizes interdisciplinary scholarship on the frontier of scientific inquiry; provides opportunities for Cornell students, faculty, staff, and the public to gain new ENVIRONMENTAL LECTURE events knowledge about pressing environmental issues; and enriches the university and community. A faculty committee, representing a cross-section of academic disciplines, selects the Iscol lecturer. 2014 Iscol Committee Sara Pritchard (chair), Lauren Chambliss, Todd Cowen, Francis DiSalvo, Drew Harvell, Peter Hess, Mark Milstein, Karen Pinkus
For more information: www.acsf.cornell.edu/iscol
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Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future UN Convention to 200 Rice Hall Combat Desertification Ithaca, New York 14853
www.acsf.cornell.edu (607) 255-7535 @AtkinsonCenter
Tuesday, April 22 – Wednesday, April 23 Cornell University Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future 2014 ADDITIONAL PUBLIC EVENTS served as Executive Secretary of the JILL AND KEN ISCOL DISTINGUISHED For more information about the Iscol Lecture and these special sessions with Luc Gnacadja, please call (607) 255-7535 United Nations Convention to Combat ENVIRONMENTAL LECTURE or visit www.acsf.cornell.edu/iscol. Desertification (UNCCD) and UN Assistant Secretary-General from 2007 to 2013. He Tuesday, April 22 | 5:00 P.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 22 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 was a guiding voice for sustainable land Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall Classroom Visit Panel Discussion: Waterless Lands and Languishing Livelihoods development in the negotiations leading up 9:05 – 9:55 A.M. | 125 Riley-Robb Hall 8:30 – 10:00 A.M. | Yale-Princeton Room, Statler Hotel to Rio+20, the June 2012 UN Conference Mr. Gnacadja joins the Society and Natural Resources The recent United Nations Environment Programme report on Sustainable Development. Gnacadja class for a Q&A session exploring international sustainable Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with argued, “A land degradation–neutral world development goals to build human security while protecting Sustainable Supply is the starting point for this panel discus- is the final piece of the puzzle that unites the challenge of land degradation Land & Soil natural resources and environmental health. sion exploring the potential and consequences of expanding with the tools at our disposal and the level of ambition needed to achieve in the Global Facilitator: Richard Stedman, Professor, Natural Resources global cropland to meet ever-growing demand. Hosted by the future we want.” The international community affirmed this goal in Sustainability the Institute for the Social Sciences Land Theme Project. The Future We Want, the outcome document adopted in Rio. Agenda Graduate Student Luncheon Panelists: Robert Howarth, UN Report Author and Professor, 11:45 A.M. – 1:15 P.M. | 300 Rice Hall Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Gail Holst-Warhaft, Born in Benin, Gnacadja earned an architecture degree at the African An opportunity for graduate students to talk with Mr. Crafts School of Architecture and Urbanism in Lomé, Togo, and later Adjunct Professor, Institute for European Studies; Prabhu Gnacadja about his career and his views on how the global studied at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the Pingali, Professor, Applied Economics and Management; World Bank Institute. Gnacadja was Benin’s minister of environment, community can work together to ensure future generations Rebecca Schneider, Associate Professor, Natural Resources the benefits of healthy and productive land. Facilitators: Wendy Wolford and Charles Geisler, Professors, housing, and urban development and represented Benin as the head of Land is the crucial natural capital resource at the nexus For advance registration, call Paula Euvrard (255-7535). delegation to UNCCD and the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate of our food and water security. We need fertile soil—the Development Sociology Change and Convention on Biological Diversity. skin of the land—as much as the air we breathe, yet we For advance registration, call Paula Euvrard (255-7535). Classroom Visit routinely take soil for granted. Land degradation is ac- 1:25 – 2:40 P.M. | 100 Caldwell Hall Classroom Visit A passionate advocate for landscapes and their ecological restoration, celerating, especially in the developing world, threaten- Gnacadja continues to work for international policies to ensure land ing both environmental health and human security. Soil Mr. Gnacadja joins Environment and Society students for 12:20 – 1:10 P.M. | 116 Kennedy Hall stewardship and restoration, so that future generations will enjoy the security is a prerequisite for human security and must be a discussion of how international measures to guarantee a Mr. Gnacadja joins Environmental Conservation students benefits of healthy and productive land. Gnacadja received a 2002 Green a vital part of the sustainable development goals we set. land degradation–neutral world can further both soil security for a Q&A session about how land degradation threatens Award from the World Bank for promoting environment-friendly public The global community can work together to balance land and human security. environmental health and strategies for restoring arid land. expenditure reform in Benin. degradation and restoration for a more resilient future. Facilitator: Whitney Mauer, Lecturer, Development Sociology Facilitator: Joseph Yavitt, Professor, Natural Resources 2014 ADDITIONAL PUBLIC EVENTS served as Executive Secretary of the JILL AND KEN ISCOL DISTINGUISHED For more information about the Iscol Lecture and these special sessions with Luc Gnacadja, please call (607) 255-7535 United Nations Convention to Combat ENVIRONMENTAL LECTURE or visit www.acsf.cornell.edu/iscol. Desertification (UNCCD) and UN Assistant Secretary-General from 2007 to 2013. He Tuesday, April 22 | 5:00 P.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 22 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 was a guiding voice for sustainable land Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall Classroom Visit Panel Discussion: Waterless Lands and Languishing Livelihoods development in the negotiations leading up 9:05 – 9:55 A.M. | 125 Riley-Robb Hall 8:30 – 10:00 A.M. | Yale-Princeton Room, Statler Hotel to Rio+20, the June 2012 UN Conference Mr. Gnacadja joins the Society and Natural Resources The recent United Nations Environment Programme report on Sustainable Development. Gnacadja class for a Q&A session exploring international sustainable Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with argued, “A land degradation–neutral world development goals to build human security while protecting Sustainable Supply is the starting point for this panel discus- is the final piece of the puzzle that unites the challenge of land degradation Land & Soil natural resources and environmental health. sion exploring the potential and consequences of expanding with the tools at our disposal and the level of ambition needed to achieve in the Global Facilitator: Richard Stedman, Professor, Natural Resources global cropland to meet ever-growing demand. Hosted by the future we want.” The international community affirmed this goal in Sustainability the Institute for the Social Sciences Land Theme Project. The Future We Want, the outcome document adopted in Rio. Agenda Graduate Student Luncheon Panelists: Robert Howarth, UN Report Author and Professor, 11:45 A.M. – 1:15 P.M. | 300 Rice Hall Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Gail Holst-Warhaft, Born in Benin, Gnacadja earned an architecture degree at the African An opportunity for graduate students to talk with Mr. Crafts School of Architecture and Urbanism in Lomé, Togo, and later Adjunct Professor, Institute for European Studies; Prabhu Gnacadja about his career and his views on how the global studied at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the Pingali, Professor, Applied Economics and Management; World Bank Institute. Gnacadja was Benin’s minister of environment, community can work together to ensure future generations Rebecca Schneider, Associate Professor, Natural Resources the benefits of healthy and productive land. Facilitators: Wendy Wolford and Charles Geisler, Professors, housing, and urban development and represented Benin as the head of Land is the crucial natural capital resource at the nexus For advance registration, call Paula Euvrard (255-7535). delegation to UNCCD and the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate of our food and water security. We need fertile soil—the Development Sociology Change and Convention on Biological Diversity. skin of the land—as much as the air we breathe, yet we For advance registration, call Paula Euvrard (255-7535). Classroom Visit routinely take soil for granted. Land degradation is ac- 1:25 – 2:40 P.M. | 100 Caldwell Hall Classroom Visit A passionate advocate for landscapes and their ecological restoration, celerating, especially in the developing world, threaten- Gnacadja continues to work for international policies to ensure land ing both environmental health and human security. Soil Mr. Gnacadja joins Environment and Society students for 12:20 – 1:10 P.M. | 116 Kennedy Hall stewardship and restoration, so that future generations will enjoy the security is a prerequisite for human security and must be a discussion of how international measures to guarantee a Mr. Gnacadja joins Environmental Conservation students benefits of healthy and productive land. Gnacadja received a 2002 Green a vital part of the sustainable development goals we set. land degradation–neutral world can further both soil security for a Q&A session about how land degradation threatens Award from the World Bank for promoting environment-friendly public The global community can work together to balance land and human security. environmental health and strategies for restoring arid land. expenditure reform in Benin. degradation and restoration for a more resilient future. Facilitator: Whitney Mauer, Lecturer, Development Sociology Facilitator: Joseph Yavitt, Professor, Natural Resources About the Iscol Lecture 2014 The Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture brings eminent scholars, scientists, newsmakers, and opinion leaders to Cornell to address environmental issues of paramount importance to our planet. JILL AND KEN ISCOL DISTINGUISHED Hosted by the Atkinson Center, the Iscol Lecture recognizes interdisciplinary scholarship on the frontier of scientific inquiry; provides opportunities for Cornell students, faculty, staff, and the public to gain new ENVIRONMENTAL LECTURE events knowledge about pressing environmental issues; and enriches the university and community. A faculty committee, representing a cross-section of academic disciplines, selects the Iscol lecturer. 2014 Iscol Committee Sara Pritchard (chair), Lauren Chambliss, Todd Cowen, Francis DiSalvo, Drew Harvell, Peter Hess, Mark Milstein, Karen Pinkus
For more information: www.acsf.cornell.edu/iscol
Printed using FSC certified paper, made with renewable power. Luc Gnacadja Past Executive Secretary
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future UN Convention to 200 Rice Hall Combat Desertification Ithaca, New York 14853
www.acsf.cornell.edu (607) 255-7535 @AtkinsonCenter
Tuesday, April 22 – Wednesday, April 23 Cornell University Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future