Conservation and Development Forum
2006 Fall Schedule

September 20 The Packard Foundation's 5-year, $5 million grant program to reduce Amazon deforestation--what is it, how it could be scaled up, and how it's impacts can be monitored. Dan Zarin and Bob Buschbacher
October 4 Social Movements in the Amazon Region: network's strategies , an agenda for sustainable development, and influences on environmental policies. Nazare Soares and Fabio Abdala (TCD/ACLI Visiting Scholars)
October 18 Benefits and potential pitfalls of working with rural people: elite capture, project sustainability and gender. Aly Degang, Theron Morgan-Brown, Adam Wilcox, and Others.
November 1 The University of North Carolina IGERT on Population and Environment. 4-5 Students from UNC
November 15 Forest Policy and Community: A comparison of Quintana Roo, Mexico and tha Maya Biosphere Reserva, Guatemala. Kelly Biedengweg, Luis Antonio Ramos, Maria DiGiano, Georgina Cullman, Jeremy Radachowsky, Shoana Humphries, Ane A. Alencar
November 29 To be announced  

Location: All sessions are held in Newins-Ziegler 376

Time: 2-3:30 pm

For more information please contact Theron Morgan-Brown at kimbiaje@ufl.edu