Seminar Announcement: Achieving Sustainability:
Povert
Achieving Sustainability: Poverty
Elimination and the Environment
A one-day seminar for
industry, academics, voluntary organisations and NGOs
Wednesday 9 April 2003
at
Loughborough University, UK
Can environmental improvements lead to
poverty reduction or they are a burden on the poor? This one day
seminar offers an opportunity to understand various perspectives on
the topic from a range of speakers. The seminar is organised by the
Centre for Environmental Studies in collaboration with the Department
of Geography and the Water, Engineering and
Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University.
The context of the seminar is international development.
Speakers include Department for
International Development (DFID), World Health Organisation
(WHO), WSP Group, Public Services International Research Unit
(PSIRU) University of Greenwich, International Development
Department of the University of Birmingham, Loughborough
University, Water Aid. We already have participants confirmed from a
range of Southern countries.
The seminar will be of particular
interest to consultants, academics and NGOs concerned with
international development. Students are also welcome to
attend. Reduced fee for students and voluntary sector
organisations.
Further details and a booking form are
available at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/cens/pov_sem.htm
Dear all,
This should be a really interesting day and a somewhat unique
forum given the presence of critical and mainstream voices. Specific
topics to be discussed include PRSP and the environment, the
privatization of water resources etc.
If anyone wants more details then please contact me,
Best wishes,
Ed Brown
