Governance and Sustainability Seminar
University of Westminster
Ethics, Sustainability and Climate Change
Dr. Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen)
Thursday 10th February 2011 5pm – 6.30pm
Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW.
Nigel Dower is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland where he taught for most of the period 1967-2004. He has also been a visiting professor a number of times in America and Iceland. He now acts as an academic consultant on ‘Cosmopolitan agendas –ethics in a globalized world’. He was President of the International Development Ethics Association from 2002 to 2006.
Dr Dower’s research interests in the last twenty years have focussed on various issues in global ethics, including development, the environment, human rights, war & peace, and global citizenship. His publications include World Ethics – the New Agenda (1998; 2nd edition, 2007), Introduction to Global Citizenship (2003) and The Ethics of War and Peace (2009). In 2007 he received an Honorary Doctorate (TD) from the University of Uppsala for his work on global ethics and related issues.
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Governance and Sustainability Seminars Spring/Summer 2011
Climate Change and Responsibility
Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW.
Thursday 10th February 5pm – 6.30pm
Ethics, Sustainability and Climate Change
Dr. Nigel Dower, University of Aberdeen
Thursday 10th March 5pm – 6.30pm
Climate Change, Conflicting Duties, and the Priority Rule
Dr. Elizabeth Cripps, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 31st March 5pm – 6.30pm
Personal Carbon Trading
Tina Fawcett, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Thursday 14th April 12pm – 1pm
Global Climate Ethics
Professor Paul Harris, Hong Kong Institute of Education
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See more about events at the Governance and Sustainability Research Programme website www.westminster.ac.uk/governance+sustainability
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