Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C11 - 2015-03-19
Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C11, 001 - Spring 2015 Americans and the Global Forest - Lynn Huntsinger Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
"Understanding the Global Environmental Crisis"
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor John Harte of UC Berkeley for a discussion of what environmental science teaches us about the potentially catastrophic consequences of a failure to address the current environmental crisis. His intellectual odyssey from physics to environmental studies offers important insight into how scientists have come to understand the relationship between humanity and nature and the necessary conditions for providing a balance that insures the well being of future generations. The conversation concludes with a discussion of how the present moment can be seized to meet the challenge of global warming.
http://cooltheearth.us/
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
"Law, Strategy and the Transformation of the State"
Philip Bobbitt, Wechsler Professor of Law, Columbia University
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Philip Bobbitt for a discussion of his book, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History. Bobbitt explores the dynamic relationship between constitution and strategy and its consequences for the transformation of the state. In modern history, epochal wars are fought and then settlements reached that legitimate changes in the structure and form of the state, changes that emerged in the course of the conflict. Focusing on the case of twentieth century conflicts, Bobbitt explains how in this epoch--which lasted from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union-- fascism, communism and liberal democracy competed, with liberal democracy emerging triumphant at the end of the century. After comparing the essential features of the nation state with the market state, Bobbitt focuses on the intervention in Libya and the response to Iran's nuclear programs highlighting the dilemmas they pose for the Obama administration caught in the transition from nation state to market state.
http://conversations.berkeley.edu