Printed texts of a lecture series which is a collaboration between UNEP-WCMC (United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre), New Hall, St Edmund's College, and the Brititsh Antarctic Survey, and sponsored by BP, which examines our current relationship with the natural world and discusses what tomorrow might bring.
2005/6 lectures:
Klaus Toepfer - Nature's capital: the key to poverty eradication;
Zhao Baige - Human development in China;
Hans Rudolf Herren - Agriculture and food production: quo vadis;
Anne Power - The changing face of cities
Kathryn Fuller - Women and conservation;
2006/7 lectures:
Jacqueline McGlade - Europe on the edge;
Jeremy Leggett and Ian Vann - Are we running out of oil?;
Zhang Jing - The impacts of the Three Gorges Dam;
Berrien Moore III - Humans and carbon: a Faustian bargain?;
Richard Saxon CBE - Valuing sustainability;
David Fisk - Transport: a case of systematic sclerosis?