Nicholas Talks -- Fall 2008
         an online collection of lectures about environmental issues and solutions
         brought to you by Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment
         and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

         

Nov. 12 - "The Citizen is Willing but Society Won't Deliver: The Problem of Institutional Roadblocks"

Adjunct professor of environmental science, Dr. Norman Myers, talks about "perverse subsidies," and their adverse effects to the economy as well as the environment.

Myers was the first scientist to alert the global community to tropical deforestation, impending mass extinction, and environmental security and originated the "biodiversity hot-spot" approach to conservation. In 1994, he became the second British scientist to receive a Pew Scholarship in Conservation and the Environment. In 2001, he won the Blue Planet Prize. He's a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science, and the Royal Society of Arts. In November 2007 he was a Time magazine Hero of the Environment.

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