Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
Interdisciplinary Discussion Forum for Energy and the Environment

The Baker Center Discussion forum is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers, and students from outside their own discpline but who have a common interest in environmental and energy issues. We invite roughly six speakers each semester from fields such as ecology, economics, urban planning, atmospheric chemistry and sociology to present on occasional Thursdays at 3:30pm in the Baker Center's Toyota Auditorium.

Click on "Topic" of past speakers' for a link to video of their talk.

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic
February 2012
2	Rob Jackson, Professor, Biology Department, Duke University	Shale Gas and Its Environmental Footprint
23	Maxine Burkett, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawaii & Director, Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy	In Search of Refuge: Climate Justice, Climate-Induced Migration, and the Law (Skype)
March 2012
8	Alex Pfaff, Associate Professor, Sanford School Public Policy, Duke University	Topic: The Effect of Policy Design on Deforestation
29	Michael Price, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Tennessee	Using Social Comparisons to Influence ‘Green’ Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment
April 2012
12	Mercedes Pascual, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan	Climate-driven infectious diseases in a changing human landscape: two case studies on cholera and malaria
25	Christine Todd Whitman, Former Governor of New Jersey and 9th Administrator of the EPA	The Need for Climate Change in Washington: How Hyper-Partisanship Has Paralyzed Policymaking. NOTE: 7:30pm in Baker Center
N/A	Dale Whittington, Professor, Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and City & Regional Planning, University of North Carolina	Postponed until Fall 2012

Fall 2011 Speakers