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SEMINAR: Dr. Emilio Moran ~ Friday, 9/3, 3:30 p.m. ~ School of Communication, Rm. 2055

From: Laura Bracken <lbracken@rsmas.miami.edu>
Subject: SEMINAR: Dr. Emilio Moran ~ Friday, 9/3, 3:30 p.m. ~ School of Communication, Rm. 2055
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:25:15 -0400
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From: "Holzman, Andee Leigh" <andee@miami.edu>
Date: August 31, 2010 9:21:23 AM EDT
Subject: Dr. Emilio Moran ~ Friday, 9/3, 3:30 p.m. ~ School of Communication, Rm. 2055

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Text Box: Friday, September 3rd 3:30 p.m. School of Communication Room 2055 University of Miami 5100 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables ~ Free and open to the public ~ Dr. Moran is an internationally recognized ecological and environmental anthropologist whose research has focused on aspects of the human dimensions of environmental change. He recently was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Appointed to the Indiana University faculty in 1975, Moran is also a professor of environmental science and an adjunct professor of geography. Moran serves as director of the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT) and is a founding co-director with 2009 Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC). Both centers are based at IU. In 1985, Moran was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. In 1989, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1999, he was elected as a Linnean Society of London fellow; and in 2002, he received the prestigious Robert McC. Netting Award from the American Association of Geographers in recognition of his work to bridge geography and anthropology. He is also a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. He holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology and an M.A. in Latin American history from the University of Florida and a B.A. in Spanish American literature from Spring Hill College. Please join us as
Dr. Emilio F. Moran
 presents
 
Human-Environment Interactions Research
Under Conditions of Climate Change
 
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Human-Environment Research represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of how people interact with the physical environment. It has a legacy derived from earlier approaches such as cultural ecology, human ecology, ecosystem ecology, and more recently, human dimensions of global environmental change. Until the latter, earlier approaches had rarely addressed human adaptations and responses under conditions of change in the underlying environmental conditions.

Beginning with human dimensions approaches, which were concurrent with the emergence of global circulation models and studies of climate change and earth system science, scientists have been trying to develop methods and theories appropriate to the emergence of this new reality. Approaches such as complexity theory and agent-based modeling are some of the ways proposed to deal with this challenge. These and other approaches are discussed in the context of how the speaker has seen these developments occur over the course of his career, and the directions he sees as likely to yield the best results in the years ahead.

Sponsored by:

University of MiamiDepartment of     Anthropology

 
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