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Third International Conference on Climate Change 2011 CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE PLENARY SPEAKERS Alison Anderson Alison Anderson is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Science and Social Work at the University of Plymouth UK. She has a BA (Hons) in Sociology from the University of York and a PhD in ‗The Production of Environmental News‘ from the University of Greenwich, and has researched and published extensively on media and environmental risks over the past twenty years. Her most recent co-authored book is Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication (Palgrave, 2009) and her forthcoming book is entitled Media, Environment and the Network Society (Palgrave, 2011). She has guest edited a number of special editions of journals including: Health, Risk and Society; Journal of Risk Research; New Genetics and Society and Sociological Research Online. Her Economic and Social Research Council and British Academy funded research on nanotechnologies is among the first on the social aspects of nanotechnologies in the UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Associate Founding Editor of the International Journal of Technoethics, editorial board member of Environmental Communication and Sociology and a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association. Peter F. Nardulli Peter F. Nardulli is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the founding Director of the Cline Center for Democracy, and the editor of a book series with the University of Illinois Press: Democracy, Free Enterprise and the Rule of Law. He has been on the faculty at UIUC since 1974 and served as department head in Political Science from 1992 until 2006. Nardulli is the author of six books on various aspects of the legal process and empirical democratic theory. He has authored a number of articles in journals such at the American Political Science Review, Public Choice, Political Communication, Political Behavior and a number of law reviews. Nardulli is currently directing a global study, the Societal Infrastructures and Development Project (SID). SID uses a number of technologically advanced, innovative methodologies to examine the impact of political, legal and economic institutions on a wide range of societal development indicators (economic growth, human rights, societal stability, environmental quality, educational attainment etc.). Current projects involve using data from the SID project‘s Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) project to examine the impact on civil unrest of such things as climate change, natural resources, socio-cultural animosities and political institutions. Larry Pryor Larry Pryor has worked as a reporter, writer, editor and photographer, first at the Louisville Courier-Journal and later at the Los Angeles Times. At those publications, he covered the environment and became an assistant metropolitan editor at the Los Angeles Times with responsibility for topics involving science, medicine, urban affairs and the environment. He left journalism to work with Governor Jerry Brown as press secretary in a presidential campaign and published a novel. He went back to the Los Angeles Times and took part in new media projects there, starting in the 1980s. He became editor of latimes.com, before moving to USC in 1997 to head the Online Journalism and Communications Program at the Annenberg School and to edit the Online Journalism Review. He has since returned to concentrating on environmental journalism. In addition to teaching, he researches topics associated with climate change and public discourse. Phil Simmons Phil Simmons has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from Sydney University and Master of Arts and PhD from Duke University. After his Doctorate he was a Senior Economist at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics in Canberra, Australia. He later joined the School of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of New England where he became Head of Agricultural and Economics and later Group Leader for Economics. Phil has broad ranging research interests including development where he is the Editor of an <strong>international</strong> journal in development economics. In the last twelve months his focus has shifted to energy markets and possible alternatives to coal generated electricity. In this area, he is interested in costs of capital in different types of energy markets, especially risk premiums, and using CGE- GTAP models to understand different energy scenarios. 4
GRADUATE SCHOLARS Third International Conference on Climate Change Graduate scholars contributed to the flow and overall success of the <strong>conference</strong>. Their key responsibilities include chairing the parallel sessions, keeping the <strong>conference</strong> on schedule, providing audio-visual technical assistance and assisting with the registration process. We would like to thank the following Graduate Scholars who participated in the 2011 Climate Change Conference: Donovan Campbell Donovan Campbell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of the West Indies (Mona campus). Their current work at the University of the West Indies (Mona) centers on climate change impacts on domestic food production, food security and the livelihood vulnerability of small farmers in Jamaica. Their research utilizes both qualitative (ethnography) and quantitative techniques to understand how small farmers cope with and adapt to climatic variability and change. Throughout Donovan‘s graduate career they have been most fortunate to have had ample opportunity to teach and do research. As a Teaching Assistant they have been afforded a great deal of experience with a wide range of courses, including Geographies of Development, Tropical Agricultural Systems, Research Methods and Geographic information system (GIS). Additionally, Donovan has been engaged in systematic research for the past four years which resulted in a number of peer-reviewed articles relating to environmental change, livelihood vulnerability and food security issues. Donovan‘s lifelong dream is to set up a NGO to enhance livelihoods in poor rural communities in Jamaica. Deborah Cotton Deborah Cotton is an associate lecturer in the School of Finance and Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Deborah completed a Bachelor of Business with Honours in Finance at UTS and has a Masters in Environmental and Business Management from Newcastle University. Currently she is undertaking a PhD in Economics through Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Deborah‘s‘ research interests and PhD thesis are in Emissions Trading. Her teaching is in the areas of financial management and the financial system. Tyson-Lord J. Gray Tyson-Lord J. Gray is a visiting professor at Seoul Christian University in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.A. in Religion from Trinity International University, M.Div. in Theology from the Interdenominational Theological Center, S.T.M. in Philosophy from Boston University School of Theology and is currently pursuing a PhD from Vanderbilt University in Ethics and Society. His interests are in the areas of pragmatism, environmental ethics and social justice. More information regarding Tyson-Lord‘s research and scholarship can be found at www.tysonlordjgray.com. Asha Naznin While Asha was only 21, she became the Editor of a biography book of ‗Nasir Ali Mamun,‘ the celebrity portrait photographer and photojournalist of the Bangladesh. She is also the editor of the 6th Anniversary Publication of the Channel I (Eye), the one of the popular satellite televisions of the country. Asha was awarded with UNICEF‘s Meena Media Award 2007 for her journalistic work in Bangladesh whilst she was working for the country‘s most widely circulated and popular newspaper the daily Prothom Alo. By training she is a Sociologist, graduated from the University of Dhaka, now pursuing her second Masters in Climate Change and Development at the University of Sussex. Since October 2010, she has been serving as a Politics Editor for the ―Pulse Magazine‖ of the University of Sussex Student Union (USSU). 5
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