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from the issue of November 8, 2007
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Narain offers E.N. Thompson Lecture Nov. 12
BY SARA GILLIAM, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
Sunita Narain, an advocate for environmentally sustainable development, will deliver the next E.N. Thompson Forum lecture, "Changing Nature in an Unequal World," at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Mark Burbach, an environmental scientist in the School of Natural Resources, will give a pre-talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room, seating is limited. Burbach will also lead a follow-up discussion at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at Saint Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M St.
Narain is director of the Centre for Science and Environment in New Dehli, India, director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of Down to Earth magazine. She sees environmentally sustainable development as a matter of survival for millions of poor in India and around the world. She has authored or co-authored a number of influential works on sustainable development including "Towards Green Villages," which advocates participatory democracy as the key to sustainable development, and "Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism."
Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, she has contributed to a number of articles and papers on the need for equity and entitlements in climate negotiations. Since then, she has worked on policy interventions for water rights, poverty reduction and the eco-regeneration of India's rural environment. In her writing and her advocacy work, Narain links issues of local democracy with global democracy, arguing that every human being has an entitlement to the global atmospheric common.
Thompson Forum lectures are free and open to the public. New this year, free tickets will be required for all lectures. Tickets are available by calling the Lied Center ticket office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.
The forum will be broadcast live on the UNL Web site (www.unl.edu), Lincoln cable Channel 21, UNL campus TV Channel 8, NEBSAT 105 and KRNU radio station (90.3 FM). For more information, go online to http://enthompson.unl.edu.
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