DIIS Seminar programme 2008

The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the Danish Development Research Network (DDRN) have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series on:
Local Livelihood Strategies and Climate Change – Part I
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 13.30-16.30
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K

Background
Climate change has become a high profile issue in the global debate, but we still know little about the implications for the poorest and their livelihood strategies. How can development interventions address and monitor these issues locally and nationally, what are the implications in terms of local rights and participation, and what is in fact new compared to existing approaches in natural resource management?

Chasca Twyman is Senior Lecturer with the University of Sheffield . She holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1993), and a PhD from the University of Sheffield (1997: Community Development and Wildlife Management: Opportunity and Diversity in Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas, Botswana). Between 1998 and 2001, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on a Department of International Development (DFID) funded project investigating poverty, policies and natural resource use in Southern Africa . In January 2001, she took up her appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield , and was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2005.

Her current research is based around the human dimensions of local and global environmental change, natural resource management (water, ecosystems, and wildlife) and policy in Southern Africa . She is currently working on a project entitled “Adaptation to environmental and climatic variability amongst natural-resource dependent populations”, which investigates how natural resource-dependant societies in the developing world, particularly Southern Africa, respond and adapt to climatic variability and shocks such as drought and floods, and how these responses may better inform an understanding of likely 21st century responses to global warming-induced climate change.

Of particularly interest to the topic of local livelihood strategies and climate change is her publication (with D.S.G. Thomas) “Equity and Justice in Climate Change Adaptation Amongst Natural-Resource-Dependant Societies” (Global Environmental Change, 15, 2005).
Programme
13.30-13.40 Welcome

Nanna Hvidt, Director, DIIS

Ole Mertz, Chair, Danish Development Research Network

13.40-14.25 Local Livelihood Strategies and Climate Change

Chasca Twyman, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield
14.25-14.45 Debate

14.45-15.05 Coffee Break

15.05-16.30 Debate

Hans Peter Dejgaard, Consultant, HP Consult, Ole Mertz, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

This is the first of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series, which is organised by DIIS and DDRN. For more information about the lecture series, please visit http://www.diis.dk/sw53133.asp

For more information about the research unit on Natural Resources and Poverty, please visit http://www.diis.dk/sw20945.asp