2009 PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONFERENCE

Global Assessment of Vulnerability to Climate Change

Alex de Sherbinin is a senior research associate at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), an environmental data and analysis center within the Earth Institute at Columbia University. de Sherbinin is a geographer whose research interests focus on the human aspects of environmental change at local, national and global scales. He has written peer-reviewed articles, chapters and reports, addressing population dynamics and the environment, remote sensing applications for environmental treaties, social science applications of remote sensing, environmental indicators, climate change vulnerability, consumption impacts on the environment, environment and security, urban sustainability, land-use and land-cover change, and community-based natural resource management. Prior to joining CIESIN, he served as a population-environment fellow with the Social Policy Program of IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland, and a population geographer at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Washington, D.C. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania, West Africa.

When: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Room: PSU Theater