Speaker: Tim Killeen, Author, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
The Amazon Forest is in jeopardy. Macroeconomic approaches designed to transform commodity supply chains have failed to change human behavior, while governance reforms are being undermined by inequality, illegality and corruption. Indigenous people fight to save their territories, but they are outnumbered by fellow citizens pursuing extractive production systems. Deforestation and climate change threaten to push the biome past an ecological tipping point.
Killeen will provide a lucid narrative of the social and economic forces driving conventional development, as well as a critical review of policies designed to change that trajectory towards a more sustainable future.
Presented in partnership with the Department of Anthropology.
The Weston Roundtable is made possible by a generous donation from Roy F. Weston, a highly accomplished UW-Madison alumnus. Designed to promote a robust understanding of sustainability science, engineering, and policy, these interactive lectures are co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability.