Keynote Speakers
Vandana Shiva PhD, Director
Research Foundation for Science
Technology and Ecology, New Delhi
Tel: 91-11-26968077 and 26853772
Fax: 91-11-26856795 and 26562093
Email: vshiva@giasdl01.vsnl.net.inAWARDS
In 1993, Vandana Shiva received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize )"...For placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse." Other awards she has received include the Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1993, and the Earth Day International Award of the United Nations (UN) for her dedicated commitment to the preservation of he planet as demonstrated by her actions, leadership and by setting an example for the rest of the world.
Additional awards include:
2001, HORIZON 3000 Award of Austria in recognition to rendering useful service for defending Human Rights and Preservation of Peace and for the vision of a world wide fair development in the third millennium
2000, Pellegrino Artusi Award, Italy for original contribution to reflections on relations between humans and food
1998, Commemorative Medal by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand on the occasion of the Celebration of the 18th World Food Day, organised by FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok; Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic from the International Scientific Committee of the Pio Manzu Centre at Rimini, Italy during the XXIV Pio Manzu International Conference on "The Horizons of Hermes"
1997, The Golden Plant Award (International Award of Ecology), Denmark, for the remarkable contribution for Ecology and Environment; Alfonso Comin Award, Barcelona, Spain, for important contribution both scientifically and personally to the ecologist and feminist movement in India
1995, "Pride of the Doon" Award from Doon Citizen Council, Dehra Dun, India, in recognition of distinguished contributions to the region
1993: Order of the Golden Ark, by his Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands for outstanding services to conservation and ecology; VIDA SANA International Award, Spain, for her contribution to Ecology and Food SecurityBiography
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a passionate advocate of socially and ecologically sustainable development. She is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of many books. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, an organisation dedicated to high quality and independent research to address ecological and social issues of our times, and is on the board for the International Forum on Globalization, an international research and educational organisation.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. In 1991, she founded Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seeds.
Dr. Shiva has contributed in fundamental ways to changing the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. Her books, “The Violence of Green Revolution” and “Monocultures of the Mind ” have become basic challenges to the dominant paradigm of non-sustainable Green Revolution Agriculture. Her book, “Staying Alive” dramatically shifted the perception of third World women. In 1990 she wrote a report for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Women and Agriculture entitled, “Most Farmers in India are Women ”.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Biodiversity are other areas where Dr. Shiva has contributed intellectually and through campaigns. The “Basmati Campaign” is example of her leadership in IPR rights and Biopiracy issues. Besides her activism, she also serves on expert groups of government on IPR legislation. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering are another dimension of her international campaigning. She has helped movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria with their campaigns against genetic engineering.
Dr. Shiva has been a visiting professor and lectured at the Universities of Oslo, Norway, Schumacher College, U.K., Mt. Holyoke college, U.S., and lectures at York University, Canada, University of Lulea, Sweden, University of Victoria, Canada, and Organisations and Institutions worldwide on environment, feminism and economic development.
Besides her academic and research contributions, Dr. Shiva has also served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as NGOs such as the International Forum on Globalisation, Women's Environment and Development Organisation and Third World Network.
Publications:
Dr. Shiva is recognised for her contributions to the fields of women and environment, biodiversity, biotechnology and intellectual property rights and ecological issues related to agriculture. Her books include:
Water Wars, South End Press, Boston , 2001
Patents, Myths and Reality, Penguin India, 2001
Tomorrow's Biodiversity, Thames and Hudson, London 2000
Stolen Harvest The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. South End Press, 1999
Biopiracy:The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, South End Press, USA, 1997 (Translated into Spanish, Italian and Japanese)
Biopolitics (with Ingunn Moser), Zed Books, U.K. 1995
Closer to Home, Earthscan, London , 1994 Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections (Editor), Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and Kali for Women (1993)
Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture, Third World Network, Penang and Zed Press, U.K.1993, (translated into two Italian and Japanese)
Ecofeminism, Kali for Women, New Delhi and Zed Books, U.K.1993 (Translated into Portuguese language)
Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives (Editor); Third World Network, Penang, Zed Press, U.K. 1992 (translated into two languages)
Ecology and the Politics of Survival : UNU, Tokyo and SAE, New Delhi and London 1991
The Violence of the Green Revolution; Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab; Third World Network, Penang, Zed Press, 1993 (Translated into Japanese language)
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India; Kali for Women, New Delhi 1988, Zed Press , U.K. (translated into 6 other languages)
In addition, Dr. Shiva is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.
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Jeffrey A. McNeely
IUCN Chief Scientist
Jeff has been at IUCN since 1980, when he was appointed Executive Officer of the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. He served as Director of the Programme Division from 1983 to 1987, when he became Deputy Director General (Conservation). He was named Chief Conservation Officer in 1988, a position which was converted to Chief Biodiversity Officer in 1992; he was appointed Chief Scientist in 1996, responsible for overseeing all of IUCN's scientific work.
McNeely has designed numerous programmes, advised governments and conservation organizations on conservation policy and practice, and produced a variety of technical and popular publications. Books have included: National Parks, Conservation, and Development (the proceedings of the III World Congress on National Parks); People and Protected Areas in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya; Culture and Conservation; Economics and Biological Diversity; Conserving the World's Biological Diversity; Biodiversity Conservation in the Asia-Pacific Region; and Conservation and the Future: Trends and Options Toward the Year 2025.
As Secretary-General of the IV World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas (Caracas, 1992), McNeely helped develop new concepts relating people to protected areas, and in this capacity edited Parks for Life, the official report resulting from the Congress. He edited or co-edited a number of other books resulting from Caracas , including: Partnerships for Conservation; Protecting Nature: Regional Reviews of Protected Areas; and Protected Areas Economics and Policy.
He has published over 300 technical and popular articles on a wide range of conservation issues, seeking to link conservation of natural resources to the maintenance of cultural diversity and to economically-sustainable ways of life. He serves on the editorial advisory board of seven biodiversity-related journals.
Daniel Simberloff
PhD (1969, Harvard University)
Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The University of Tennessee
569 Dabney Hall
Knoxville , TN 37996-1610
(865)974-0849
FAX: (865)974-3067Email: dsimberloff@utk.edu
Interests:
Population and Community Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, Invasion Biology, Conservation Biology, Statistical Ecology, Plant-Insect InteractionPublications:
Ecological resistance to biological invasion overwhelmed by propagule pressure (with B. Von Holle). Ecology, in press. 2005.Ecological and community-wide character displacement: The next generation (with T. Dayan). Ecology Letters 8:875-894. 2005.
The politics of assessing risk for biological invasions: the USA as a case study. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:216-222. 2005.
Variability and correlations in carnivore crania and dentition (with S. Meiri and T. Dayan). Functional Ecology , in press. 2005.
Introduced species policy, management, and future research needs (with I.M. Parker and P. Windle). Frontiers 3(1):12-20. 2005.
Insular carnivore biogeography: Island area and mammalian optimal body size (with S. Meiri and T. Dayan). American Naturalist 165:505-514. 2005.
Interaction of hybrid imported fire ants ( Solenopsis invicta x S. richteri ) with native ants at baits in southeastern Tennessee (with L. Gibbons). Southeastern Naturalist 42:303-320. 2005.
Variability and sexual size dimorphism in carnivores: testing the niche variation hypothesis (with S. Meiri and T. Dayan). Ecology 86:1432-1440. 2005.
Community ecology: Is it time to move on? American Naturalist 163:787-799. 2004.
Indirect effects of introduced ungulates on pollination and plant reproduction (with D. Vazquez). Ecological Monographs 74:281-308. 2004.
Body size of insular carnivores: little support for the island rule (with S. Meiri and T. Dayan). American Naturalist 163:469-479. 2004.
Testing Fox's assembly rule: Does plant invasion depend on recipient community structure? (with B. Von Holle). Oikos 105:551-563. 2004.
Now you see them, now you don't! – Population crashes of established introduced species (with L. Gibbons). Biological Invasions 6:161-172. 2004
How much population biology is needed to manage introduced species? Conservation Biology 17:83-92. 2003
Introduced species and management of a Nothofagus/Austrocedrus forest (with M.A. Relva and M. Nuñez. Environmental Management.31:263-275. 2003.
Eradication – preventing invasions at the outset. Weed Science 51:247-253. 2003
Confronting introduced species: a form of xenophobia? Biological Invasions 5:179-192. 2003
Changes in interaction biodiversity induced by an introduced ungulate (with D. Vazquez). Ecology Letters 6:1077-1083. 2003.
The importance of biological inertia in plant community resistance to invasion (with B. Von Holle and H. Delcourt). Journal of Vegetation Science 14:425-432. 2003.
Community- and ecosystem impacts of single-species extinctions. Pp. 221-233 in P. Kareiva and S. Levin (eds.), The Importance of Species: Perspectives on Expendability and Triage . Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003.
Geoff Park
Dr Geoff Park is an independent Wellington-based ecologist and writer on landscape. After graduating from Victoria University in 1969 with a degree in botany and geology, he completed a Masters with Honours (1 st Class) degree in ecology and soil science. Following a period teaching, he undertook doctoral studies at the Australian National University , Canberra in forest ecology.
From 1975 to 1981 he was employed as a botanical scientist with the Botany Division, DSIR, involved mainly in conservation ecology in the Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast regions. From 1981 to 1986 he established and led the New Zealand Biological Resources Centre, prior to its incorporation in the Department of Conservation.
In 1986-87 he was J D Stout Fellow in New Zealand Culture, Society and History at Victoria University . This led to the book Nga Uruora, The Groves of Life: Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape (VUP) which was published in 1995 . From 1987 to 1996, he was a senior scientist with the Department of Conservation, where he wrote the book New Zealand as Ecosystems . Between 1996 to 2000, he operated the consultancy, Geoff Park Landscape Ecology & History. Between 2000 and 2003, he was Concept Leader - Papatuanuku, at Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand.
Since 2003, he has been undertaking an ecological history of pre-1840 Bay of Islands , the landscape in which the Treaty of Waitangi was originally signed, with the tangata whenua, Ngati Hine, making a film about Guthrie-Smith of Tutira, advising on ecological restoration, and completing the recently published book Theatre Country :Essays on Landscape and Whenua (VUP).
Ross Cullen
BCom(Hons) PhD (Otago), DipAgr DipVFM (Lincoln)
Professor of Resource Economics
Commerce Division
Lincoln University
cullenr@lincoln.ac.nz
Ross Cullen has expertise in resource and environmental economics, ecological economics, and development. Topics investigated include: optimal timing of gold mining; the payoff from oil and gas exploration; management of outdoor recreation; opportunity cost of landscape preservation, fisheries management; national sustainability indicators; non market valuation of improved water quality; productivity of endangered species programmes; evaluation of vertebrate pest control projects; infrastructural requirements of tourism; New Zealander's perceptions of the environment. A particular research interest is the use of scarce resources for species management and particularly evaluations using Cost Utility Analysis. Other research interests include: ecosystem services and agriculture; sustainable tourism, and peoples' perceptions of the state of the environment. He has published widely in resource and environmental economics, is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Environmental Management and is a member of New Zealand Association of Economists; Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society; American Economics Association; Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and International Society for Ecological Economics.Ross is an active conservationist and enjoys ecological restoration work on Otamahua (Quail Island), a mountaineer and guidebook author, and is a Life Member of the New Zealand Alpine Club.
Recent Research publications include:
Upasena, J, Ward, BD, Cullen, R and Cook RA. (1998). Analysis of oil and gas exploration and discovery in New Zealand - a basis for supply forecasting. 1998 New Zealand Petroleum Conference Proceedings, 387-395.Bicknell, KB, Ball, RJ, Cullen, R and Bigsby, HR. (1998) New methodology for the Ecological Footprint with an application to the New Zealand Economy. Ecological Economics, 27(2)149-160.
Cullen, R and Bicknell, KB, (2000). Possum management, an economic analysis. In (ed) T. Montague, Possums in New Zealand: The biology, impact and management of an introduced marsupial. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln. 198-207.
Hughey, KFD Cullen, R Kerr.GN. 2000. Stakeholder groups: The next step in ensuring sustainable fisheries utilisation? Marine Policy 24: 119-127.
Cullen, R, Fairburn, G Hughey, KFD 2001. Measuring the productivity of threatened species programs. Ecological Economics 39: 53-66.
Booth, KL and Cullen, R, (2001). Managing Recreation and Tourism in New Zealand Mountains . Mountain Research and Development
Booth, KL and Cullen, R, (2001). Managing Recreation and Tourism in New Zealand Mountains . Mountain Research and Development. 21(4), 331-334.
Cullen, R, Moran, E and Hughey, KFD. (2002). Evaluation of six multiple species projects in the conservation of threatened species. Conservation Science Newsletter. 45, 11-13.
Cullen, R, Booth, K and Hughey, K. (2003). Ecotourism: issues and options in New Zealand . Tourism Recreation Research. 28(2), 89-92.
Hughey, KFD, Cullen, R and Moran, E. (2003). Integrating economics into priority setting and evaluation of conservation management initiatives. Conservation Biology. 17(1), 1-12.
Cullen, R. Dakers, A and Meyer-Hubbert, G. (in prep). Tourism demands upon urban infrastructure. In (eds) D Simmons and J Fairweather, Understanding the Tourism Host-guest Encounter in New Zealand: Foundations for Adaptive Planning and Management.
Moran, E., Cullen, R. and Hughey, K. (2006). Financing biodiversity conservation: the costs of threatened species management and the budget constraint. In (eds) Joshua Bishop and Stefan Pagiola, Buying biodiversity: Financing conservation for sustainable development, Earthscan. In prep.
Joni Seager
Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto
Joni Seager is a scholar and activist in feminist geography, women's studies, and environmental studies. She is a pioneer in feminist environmentalism, and is highly regarded for her work on militarism and the environment. She is the author of 10 books, including the classic Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms With the Global Environmental Crisis (1993), and dozens of articles, essays and commentaries. Joni has been active in several collaborative feminist environmental endeavors, and has participated in international and national feminist and environmental conferences and gatherings. She was a founding member of the "Committee on Women, Population & Environment," a coalition of activists, scholars, and health practitioners dedicated to bringing feminist perspectives into population/environment debates and to influencing public policy in this arena. She is the author of a global survey of the state of the environment -- the "State of the Earth Atlas" (1990 and 1995). As a feminist geographer, her atlases on the global status of women ("The State of Women in the World Atlas", 1997) have received considerable critical acclaim. She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the “Global Environmental Change and Human Security” project of the International Dimensions of Human Dimensions Programme o n Global Environmental Change, an international, interdisciplinary science programme dedicated to promoting, catalyzing and coordinating research on the human dimensions of global environmental change.
Publications
Seager, Joni & Betsy Hartmann. Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assessment and Early Warning. NY: United Nations Publications. 2005.Seager, Joni & Lise Nelson, eds. The Companion to Feminist Geography. London/ NY: Blackwell Publishers. 2005.
The State of Women in the World Atlas (Third Ed). NY: Penguin; London: Women's Press; Paris: Autremont Editions. 2003.
Seager, Joni & Mona Domosh. Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World. NY: Guilford Press, 2001.
The State of Women in the World Atlas. NY & London: Penguin, 1997; Berlin: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1998; Paris: Editions Autrement, 1998; Madrid: Ekal, 2000.
The New State of the Earth Atlas, 2nd edition. New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Penguin Books; Berlin: Dietz; Paris: Editions Autrement; Goteborg: Forlag; Oslo: Pax Forlag; Madrid: Ekal. 1995.
Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms With the Global Environmental Crisis. New York: Routledge; London: Earthscan. 1993.
The State of the Earth: An Atlas of the Global Environment. London: Harper/Collins; New York: Simon & Schuster; Australia: Allen & Unwin; Germany: Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf; Japan: ERIC; France: Editions Autrement. 1990.
Embryos, Ethics & Women's Rights: Exploring the New Reproductive Technologies. (Co-edited with Baruch & D'Amado). New York: Haworth Press, 1988.
Women in the World: An International Atlas. (With Ann Olson). New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Pan Books; Toronto: Collins; Berlin: Fischer Verlag; Norway: Universitet Forlaget; Netherlands: An Dekker; Denmark: Klim; Rome: Europeo. 1986.
Cultural Resources in Massachusetts: A Model for Management. (With Michael Steinitz). Washington DC: US Department of Interior, Resource Protection Planning series, 1979.
