The Gaia Foundation would like to invite you to a special event in collaboration with Navdanya, India.
Community Resilience: A new form of Community Governance to deal with Climate Change
An evening with Prof. Jacqueline McGlade and Dr Vandana Shiva
On Monday 15 June 2009
6.30pm drinks & light buffet at Hampstead Town Hall
(213 Haverstock Hill, NW3 4QP – nearest tube Belsize Park)
7.30pm Talk & discussion
The Gaia Foundation are very pleased to invite you to a special event with Prof. Jacqueline McGlade and Dr. Vandana Shiva who will share their work and vision for Europe and the Himalayas, respectively, in building community resilience and capacity to influence governance in these turbulent times.
The multiple crisis we are facing now from climate change, to species extinction, to financial meltdown, to community fragmentation, are interconnected and need to be responded to in an integrated way. Community resilience will require global citizens to be able to “ground truth” political and scientific policy and practice and to hold governments and corporations to account.
Jacqueline has been working with a team to develop an interactive Global Citizens Environmental Observatory, to be trialled first with indigenous peoples and in Europe. This will enable citizens to feed their environmental observations into policies and to monitor the implementation in their locality.
Vandana has been working in the Himalayas, which is one of the areas most affected by climate change because of the melting glaciers, which provide water for a vast area around them. She has been working with local communities to enhance their capacity to mitigate and adapt to the changes, and also to develop strategies to observe, identify and respond to disasters triggered by climate change.
They will both reflect on the vital, underestimated role of communities and biodiversity in mitigating and adapting to climate change – and the implications for governance at the local, national, regional, and global level.
Booking Essential. Tickets £10.
You can reserve your place online at: www.gaiafoundation.org/learning/online.php
Or send a cheque for £10, made payable to The Gaia Foundation.
For further details please contact Sarah at: sarahn@gaianet.org or 020 7428 0055.
Dr Vandana Shiva – world-renowned environmental activist, author and Director of Navdanya, India. She has received many awards including the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. Her many books include “Staying Alive”, “Eco Feminism” and “Protect or Plunder”.
Prof. Jacqueline McGlade – Executive Director of the European Environment Agency. She is author of numerous research papers, and has presented many radio and television programmes including her own BBC series “The Ocean Planet” and more recently “Our Arctic Challenge”.