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Programme - Spring Conference Environment 2010
Randi Setrom BrunborgEnvironment and Society – circuit or short-circuit?
Thursday 27 May 2010, Arabidopsis, Biotechnology building, Campus Ås
| Moderator: Andreas Hompland | |
| 09.00 | Coffee and registration |
| 09.30 | Welcome – the UMB candidate: green and action orientated Professor and rector Knut Hove, UMB |
| 09.40 | Research Prize 2010 |
| 09.50 | The sceptical Danish environmentalist: How do we tackle climate change after COP15? Adjunct professor Bjørn Lomborg, Copenhagen Business School Five minutes comments: • Research fellow Anne Chapius, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, UMB • Professor Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Noragric |
| 10.50 | Environment and Society: Where are we going and how do we get there? Adviser Ingeborg Gjærum, Friends of the Earth Norway (former chairman of Nature and Youth) |
| 11.10 | Norwegian nature – farewell? Professor Sigmund Hågvar, Dept. of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, UMB |
| 11.30 | Living cities and hundred acre woods Professor Kine Halvorsen Thoren, Dept. of Landscape architecture and Spatial Planning, UMB |
| 11.50 | Lunch |
| 12.50 | Can Norway save the world’s rainforests? Professor Arild Angelsen, Dept. of Economics and Resource Management, UMB |
| 13.10 | Integrated water resources management and climate. Effects on agriculture with examples from Europe and Asia Research Director Per Stålnacke, Bioforsk |
| 13.30 | Biofuel – a part of our renewable future? Researcher Erik Trømborg, Dept. of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, UMB |
| 13.50 | From short-circuit to circuit: New waste water technology for global challenges Professor Petter Jenssen, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, UMB |
| 14.10 | Coffee break |
| 14.30 | Politics for an environmentally friendly future society! Member of parliament and environmental spokesperson Snorre Valen, Socialist Left Party |
| 14.50 | Debate: Environment and Society – circuit or short-circuit? |
| 16.00 | End |
| The programme may be subject to changes. | |
Updated: 25.05.10
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