British environmentalist Norman Myers, visiting professor at Oxford Centre for the Environment, will give a lecture titled, "The Citizen Is Willing But Society Won't Deliver: The Problem Of Institutional Roadblocks" on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 3 p.m. in the Frank Livak Ballroom, Davis Center.

Myers is a James Marsh Professor-at-Large, a UVM program that appoints top scholars from around the world as honorary members of the faculty in order to enrich the cultural and academic life of the campus.

For more than three decades, Myers has researched and warned the world about the threat of mass extinction and the dangers posed by the destruction of "biodiversity hotspots," regions that support nearly 60 percent of the world's plant, bird, mammal, reptile, and amphibian species. He has served as an adviser to the United Nations, the World Bank and the White House and is one of only two people to receive all three of the leading environmental prizes, including the Volvo Environment Prize, the United Nations Sasakawa Environment Prize and the Blue Planet Prize.

A reception will immediately follow the lecture.

Read more about the Professors-at-Large Program.

 

PUBLISHED

10-05-2011
University Communications