UConn’s Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature & the Environment kicks off this Thursday with Steward Pickett, speaking about The Global Urban Crisis and an Ecological Way Forward.

Thursday, September 25, 4 pm

Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Konover Auditorium

University of Connecticut, Storrs



Here’s the abstract:  Urban areas today are expanding at an unprecedented rate across the globe.  There are more and more new cities by the year, and the largest of existing cities are growing still larger.  On the one hand, cities can be the epitome of sustainability, reaping the benefits of proximity, efficiency, and innovation.  On the other hand, they can be graveyards of dreams and sources of contamination.  As cities grow, change, and become ever more connected to global networks, societies are presented with choices.  Cities are in crisis: do they move toward sustainability, or do they slip backwards into unsanitary and vulnerable states?

The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series brings leading scholars and scientists to the University of Connecticut to present public lectures on nature and the environment.

 

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