international environment

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Lawrence Susskind, Vice Chair of Pedagogy, PON Executive Committee

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Lawrence E. Susskind has been a Professor at MIT for more than 35 years. He teaches negotiation as well as a number of other advanced subjects and runs a substantial research program as Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. He has supervised more than 60 doctoral students who now work around the world in academia, government and the private sector.

Adil Najam

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Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment at Boston University, Professor Najam also served as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

International Environmental Negotiations

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International Environmental Negotiations
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY (DHP P231)
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (DUSP 11.364)

NOT OFFERED 2012-2013

Global environmental policy concerns (e.g., climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, acid rain, ocean dumping, desertification, fisheries decline, biodiversity, and forest loss) have become increasingly important in international relations. This seminar looks at the problems of achieving development while maintaining

Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies

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Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies (DHP D230)
FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY

FALL 2012
Instructor:
Daniel Maxwell
617-627-3410

This course examines the evolution of the humanitarian action in relation to changes in the operating environment and changes in the international system. This multi-disciplinary course will cover a broad range of subjects, and addresses a number of topics:
• A historical perspective on

International Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

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International Environmental Conflict and Collaboration (ENVS 18b)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

NOT OFFERED FALL 2012
Instructor:
Charles Chester
cchester@brandeis.edu

A study of the development of international environmental law and policy through a historical lens. Examines how early diplomatic initiatives have–and importantly, have not–shaped the contemporary structure of international environmental relations. (Monday and Wednesday 5:10-6:30 p.m.)

Global Environmental Treaty-Making

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Another round of global climate change negotiations (following the Kyoto Protocol) will begin in 2009 in Copenhagen. New rounds of negotiations regarding possible changes in dozens of global environmental agreements are also planned in the coming year. The “system” of global environmental treaty-making is still in a rather primitive form. There is much we

International Environmental Negotiation

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Modeling the future of multilateral diplomacy in the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNSCD)

Jonathan Margolis
Director, Office of Policy Coordination and Initiatives
Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Jonathan Margolis, a career member of the Senior Executive Service, serves as the Director of the Office of Policy Coordination and Initiatives in

Cross-sector Collaboration in Diplomacy

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Jonathan MargolisDirector, Office of Policy Coordination and Initiatives
Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Jonathan Margolis, a career member of the Senior Executive Service, serves as the Director of the Office of Policy Coordination and Initiatives in the Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in the Department of State

New from PON: Transboundary Environmental Negotiation

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A new book by Lawrence Susskind, William Moomaw, and Kevin Gallagher, eds.
More than 150 international environmental treaties have been adopted since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment first drew global attention to the dangers of transboundary pollution and rapid resource depletion. The elements of a makeshift international treaty-making system have been pieced together,