Speakers 1998 - 1999
“Management of Natural Environments”
Monday 16th November 1998, Lecture Theatre, 1.20 p.m.
Mr Brian Plummer BA (Wales) MA (Wales)
London Guildhall University
Teaching Interests: Conservation, National Parks, Soils Survey and Evaluation,
Agricultural Change. Research Interests: Management of the rural environment,
urban green spaces, woodland management, soil erosion, agricultural change
in Basse Normandie.
“Urban Sustainability”
Friday 27th November 1998, Guild Gallery, 1.20 p.m.
Dr. Yvonne Rydin BA (Cambridge), PhD (LSE, London)
London School Of Economics (LSE)
Dr Rydin is Reader in Environmental Planning. She writes and researches
widely on the British planning system and, more recently, on its relation
to environmental issues and sustainable development. Research projects
have investigated the economic and cultural conditions of decision-making
for the sustainable city (EU funded) and a new Leverhume project Her books
include (with T. Brindly & G. Stoker) Remaking Planning, (Routledge
1996) and The British Planning System, (Macmillan 1993) and (with G. Myerson)
The Language of Environment: a new rhetoric, (UCL Press 1996). She is currently
Director of the MSc programme in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation.
"Technology, Social and Political Change"
Wednesday January 13th 1999, Lecture Theatre, 1.20 p.m.
Dave Waller
Deputy Africa Director, Oxfam
Dave has spent about 9 years working in Mali, Rwanda and Uganda
on development issues. He studied Geography at Kings College/LSE.
He does not think the solutions to the problems of poverty
are technical so much as social and political. Oxfam is a development,
advocacy, and relief agency working to put an end to poverty world-wide.
Oxfam believes that poverty is not inevitable: it can be tackled. In partnership
with local groups, Oxfam works with poor people to help them help themselves.
“Is Africa Developing?”
Friday January 15th 1999, Lecture Theatre, 1.20 p.m.
Tony Binns BA (Sheffield 1970), Dip Ed (Sheffield 1971),
MA (Birmingham 1973), PhD (Birmingham 1981)
University of Sussex
Senior Lecturer in Geography at Sussex. He has travelled and researched extensively in West, East and Southern Africa. In recent years he has held Visiting Lectureships at Bayero University, Nigeria (1984), Witwatersrand University, South Africa (1993) and Rhodes University, South Africa (1996 and 1998). His research is mainly concerned with resource development, agriculture and rural change, with particular reference to the dynamics of indigenous farming and pastoral systems in Africa. More recently he has opened up research interests in China. He has published over fifty papers in academic journals and chapters in books. He is the author of 'Tropical Africa' (Routledge, 1994), co-editor with Patrick Bailey of 'A Case for Geography' (The Geographical Association, 1987) and editor of 'People and Environment in Africa' (Wiley, 1995).
“Globalization”
Wednesday 10th February 1999, Lecture Theatre, 1.20 p.m.
In Association with the UCS Economics & Politics Society
Susan George
TNI's Associate Director, Author
She holds degrees from Smith College (Northampton, Mass. USA), the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (University of Paris), where she earned her doctorate in political studies. George is currently President of l'Observatoire de le Mondialisation and serves on the boards of Cercle Condorcet, Les Amis du Monde Diplomatique and the Centre International Pierre Medes France. She is a Patron of Tools for Self Reliance and of Jubilee 2000. George has acted as consultant to a variety of United Nations specialised agencies and international labour federations. She is frequently interviewed for international press, radio and television and her writings are translated into a dozen languages, she is one of the most famous figures in Radical Georgraphy.
“Volcanoes: Past, Present and Future”
Monday 22nd February 1999, Lecture Theatre, 1.20 p.m.
Prof. Bill McGuire
Director and Benfield Greig Professor of Geohazards, UCL
The Centre draws upon an enviable range of hazards expertise from seven departments within UCL - including Geological Sciences, Space & Climate Physics, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, and Geomatic Engineering - and, through an extensive research network, provides access to academics, research organisations and government institutions both in the UK and Europe, and across the world.
