Discovery Park's Center for the Environment to host Rosina Bierbaum as part of Distinguished Lecture Series

On Thursday (March 23), Discovery Park’s Center for the Environment will host Rosina Bierbaum in the Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture Series.

Bierbaum’s talk, "Advancing Resilience through the Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the Sustainable Development Goals," will highlight the role of researchers in assisting practitioners to develop suitable indicators, best practices and "lessons learned" to guide future resilience efforts.

Bierbaum is a professor and dean emerita at the University of Michigan and the Roy F. Westin Chair in Natural Economics at the University of Maryland. Her experience extends from climate science into foreign relations and international development. Bierbaum served for two decades in both the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government and ran the first Environment Division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She chairs the Scientific and Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility, is an adaptation fellow at the World Bank, and a lead author of the U.S. National Climate Assessment.

Beirbaum will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Pfendler Hall, Room 241 (Deans Auditorium). The talk is open to the public.

For more information about Bierbaum’s lecture, contact Rose Filley, managing director of the Center for the Environment, at 765-496-3211 or rfilley@purdue.edu.

Writer: Amy Schlueter, 765-496-7823, aschlue@purdue.edu
Source: Rose Filley, 765-496-3211, rfilley@purdue.edu