Environment and Society Program

February 11, 2012

Spring 2005

The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder presents:

Tsunami Symposium (http://www.colorado.edu/CAS/tsunami.html)

Wednesday, Jan 26, 2005, 4:00 - 6:00 PM

CIRES Auditorium, Boulder Campus
For directions see: http://cires.colorado.edu/about/contact/directions.html
Free and open to the public

Come hear a panel of CU experts discuss the recent tsunami disaster and its impact upon the societies of the Indian Ocean region. Panelists will include area specialists on Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and South India, as well as experts on earthquakes, maritime fisheries, and the sociology of disasters.

Carl Kisslinger, Geology
Basic Geology & Physics of the Tsunami

Jeannette Sutton, Sociology & Natural Hazards Center
Important Factors in the Sociology of Tsunami Disasters

Russ McGoodwin, Anthropology
Tsunami Impacts on Fisheries and Fishing Communities

Kimberly Niles, Political Science
State-level Politics of the Disaster: Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka

Frederick Denny, Religious Studies
Islam and Acehnese Identity

Dennis McGilvray, Anthropology
The Tsunami and Ethnic Politics in South India & Sri Lanka

Patricia Lawrence, Anthropology
Eyewitness Report from a Sri Lankan Children's Refuge

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Monday Feb 14, 2005

12:30-1:30

Lori Hunter
IBS Professional Staff and Professor, Department of Sociology
and
Tracy Kirkland
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology

"The bush is no more: Insights on natural resource availability from the Agincourt Health and Population Unit in rural South Africa "

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Monday Feb 28, 2005

Aric Shafran
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder

"Risk Externalities and the Problem of Wildfire Risk"

Flyer for printing

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Monday March 14, 2005

Asim Zia
Post Doctoral Researcher, NCAR Institute for the Study of Society and Environment

"Meta-Decision Models: A Multi-Scalar Adaptive Approach to Model Environmental Policy Designs and Decision Behaviors"

Flyer for printing

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April 11, 2005

James R. McGoodwin
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder

"Climatic Variability and Yup'ik Eskimo Subsistence-Fishing Strategies"

Flyer for printing

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Wed, Apr 13, 2005

Myron Gutmann
Director, ICPSR, University of Michigan

"How can we share data while protecting confidentiality?"

Co-sponsored by the Population Program

Flyer for printing

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