Speakers in alphabetical order
Boada, Martí – Martí Boada (1949), doctor en Ciencias Ambientales por la Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Licenciado en Geografía (UAB). Cursó Sociología en el Instituto Católico de Estudios Sociales de Barcelona (ICESB) y Química en la Escuela Industrial de Barcelona. Es miembro del Comité Español del PNUMA (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente), de la Comisión de Comunicación y Educación de la UICN (Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza) y del Fórum Global 500 de las Naciones Unidas. Actualmente es profesor titular de la UAB, donde desempaña docencia e investigación en el Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnología Ambientales -ICTA- y en el Departamento de Geografía de la misma universidad. Profesor del Master de Intervención Ambiental, Universidad de Barcelona. Ha sido galardonado, entre otros premios, con los de: Global 500 de las NNUU, 1995, Premio Nacional de Medio Ambiente 2004 (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente), Premio Medio Ambiente 2005. Ha publicado más de cincuenta libros. Algunos: Medio Ambiente, una crisis civilizadora (2000), Cambio Global (2003). El Planeta, nuestro cuerpo. La ecología, el ambientalismo y la crisis de la modernidad (2003) – coautor con Victor Toledo-, ed. Fondo de Cultura Economica, México.. Diagnosis ambiental en el Parque Natural Montnegre-Corredor(2005)- coautor con J.Rieradevall-. Serie Monografías de Medio Ambiente – coautor con F.J.Gomez.-. Naturaleza y uso público: movilidad, impactos y propuestas (2007) – coautor con J. Benayas-Naturaleza y sociedad 3.(2008). Ver website: http://www.martiboada.com . Spain.
Bosselmann, Klaus - PhD, Professor of International and Environmental Law at the University of Auckland. He has been the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law since its inception in 1999. Former Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and in 1987 co-founded Germany’s first Institute for Environmental Law in Bremen. He was also a co-founder of the Green parties in Germany (1980) and New Zealand (1990). Visiting professor at leading universities in the US and Europe and Consultant to the governments of Germany and New Zealand, UNEP, OECD and EU. Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Ethics Specialist Group and Co-Chair of the Global Ecological Integrity Group. Author of 18 books on Political Ecology, Environmental Law and Governance, most recently Governance for Sustainability (IUCN, 2008), Reconciling Human Existence and Ecological Integrity (Earthscan, 2008) and The Principle of Sustainability: Transforming Law and Governance (Ashgate, 2008). New Zeeland.
Canals, Purificació - President of DEPANA (League for the Defense of Natural Heritage), Associate Professor of Physiology at Tarragona University and International Projects Manager at Taller de Ingeniería Ambiental S.L., combining this work with a wide range of holdings in the work of IUCN. This collaboration was initiated by the CEC – Commission for Education and Communication in 1993, but was gradually expanding. Purificació Canals has been Regional Councilor for West Europe from 2000 to 2008, Vice President of the organization from 2005 until October 2008 and Chair of the Preparatory Committee of the IV World conservation Congress held in Barcelona in 2008. She’s also member of the World Commission on Protected Areas. Spain.
Garcia, Maria da Glória – Professor at the Law School of the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon. She participated in various committees for Portuguese law elaborations. She is a member of Groupe Européen de Droit Public (European Group of Public Law), a consultant of the Center for Civic Education in the USA and a Collaborator of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws Kluwer Law International, among many other things. She was distinguished with the degree of Grand-Official of the Infante D. Henrique Order, granted by the Portuguese President of the Republic in 1995. Portugal.
Martins, D.Manuel – Catholic Bishop, graduated in Canon Law by the Gregorian University of Rome. Professor and Vice-rector of the Major Seminary of Porto and the S. Manuel Institute. Awarded several medals of merit. Known for his open and direct speech and his social interventions. Portugal .
McKibben,Bill – American Environmentalist and Author who frequently writes about Global Warming, Alternative Energy and the risks associated with Human Genetic Engineering. Frequent Contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. Board Member and Contributor to Grist Magazine. Author of “Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future” (2007). Scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. He now works alongside people in every part of the world helping coordinate 350.org, a global citizen response to the problem of global warming. USA.
Magalhães, Paulo – Jurist, nature photographer and environmentalist. Author of the Earth Condominium Project, published the book “The Earth Condominium – from the Climate Change to a New Juridic Conception of the Planet.” Portugal.
Nobre, Fernando – PHd in Medicine by the Free University of Brussels. Former assistant in Anatomy and Embryology and Specialist in General Surgery and Urology at the Free University of Brussels. Doctor Honoris Causa by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. Administrator of “Doctors Without Borders,” in Belgium. Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Portuguese Culture. Founder of AMI (International Medical Assistance), which he still presides. Participated as surgeon in over 200 missions of study, coordination and humanitarian medical aid in over 70 countries of all continents. Portugal.
Pereira, Henrique Miguel – Ciência 2007 Researcher at the Center for Environmental Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is one of the lead authors preparing the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 and a member of the steering committee of the Biodiversity Observation Network of the Group on Earth Observations. Prof. Pereira received his PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he coordinated the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. From 2006 to 2009 he was the Director of Peneda-Gerês National Park in Northern Portugal. His research interests revolve around global biodiversity change, including monitoring schemes for biodiversity, spatially explicit and species-area models for biodiversity scenarios, and empirical studies of the consequences of farmland abandonment for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Portugal.
Rosa, Luiz Pinguelli – Master in Nuclear Engineering by COPPE and PhD in Physics by PUC-RJ. Professor at UFRJ. Three times President of COPPE/UFRJ. Former President of the Brazilian Society of Physics and Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, having received several awards. Member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC/ONU). Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change and Coordinator of the Energy Management Programme of COPPE. Brazil.
Sobrino, Jose Manuel - Professional employment and academic education : 1991-today – Professor in Public International Law, University of A Coruña, Spain. Director of the University Institute for European Studies, Salvador de Madariaga, University of A Coruña.Leader of Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of A Coruña: 2000-2007 and 2008-2013. 1986 – 1990 - Senior Lecturer of Public International Law, University of Santiago de Compostela. 1981-1986 - Lecturer in Public International Law, University of Santiago de Compostela. 1984 - Ph.D in Public International Law, University of Santiago de Compostela. Ten most important publications : - (2008) Carta de los derechos fundamentales de la Unión Europea. Comentario artículo por artículo (A. Mangas, dir.; L.N. Gónzalez, coord.; M. López, J. Martín y J.M. Sobrino), Ed. Fundación BBVA, Bilbao, 931 pg. – (2008) “La reforma de la Política Pesquera Común y la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada”, Noticias de la Unión Europea, nº 277, pp. 79-92. – (2008) “La personalidad jurídica de la Unión Europea”, J. Martín y Pérez de Nanclares (coord.): El Tratado de Lisboa. La salida de la crisis constitucional, Ed. IUSTEL, Madrid, pp. 333-349. – (2008) “Algunas consideraciones en torno a las nociones de integración y de supranacionalidad”, F. Aldecoa, J.M Sobrino y otros (coords.): 50º Aniversario de la firma de los Tratados de Roma. Perspectivas desde la Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales, Ed. Marcial Pons, Madrid, pp. 177-194. – (2007) Organizaciones internacionales (M. Diez de Velasco, J.M. Sobrino, C. Escobar, A. Mangas, G.C. Rodríguez Iglesias y otros), 15ª ed., Ed. Tecnos, Madrid. – (2007) “La protección marítima: nueva dimensión de la Política marítima de la Unión Europea”, Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo, nº 27, pp. 417-462. – (2007) Instituciones de Derecho internacional público (M. Diez de Velasco, J. Cardona, M. Pérez González, A. Mangas, J.M. Sobrino y otros), 16ª ed., Ed. Tecnos, Madrid. – (2007) “Les aspects de sûreté dans la politique maritime de l’Union europeenne », A. Cudennec et G. Gueguen-Hallouet (dirs.) : L’Union européenne et la mer, Ed. Pedone, Paris, pp. 349-359.- (2007) Migraciones y desarrollo, F. Aldecoa y J.M. Sobrino (coords.), Ed. Marcial Pons, Madrid.- (2007) Mares y océanos en un mundo en cambio: Tendencias jurídicas, actores y factores, J.M. Sobrino (coord.), Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 932 págs. Spain.
Soromenho-Marques, Viriato – Professor of Social and Political Philosophy and History of the Ideas in Contemporary Europe at the Languages Department of the University of Lisbon. Also responsible for the MA in Philosophy of Nature and the Environment. Portugal.
Soskolne, Colin – Professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. His focus is on the upstream determinants of human health, and in reconnecting human values and ethics in a sustainable paradigm. He is concerned about current policies globally that are degrading life-supporting ecosystems, with dire consequences for human health, well-being, and civilization. Author of the book “Sustaining Life on Earth: Environmental and Human Health through Global Governance.” Canada.
Tuxá, Uilton – Member of the Executive Commission of the “Articulação dos Povos e Organizações Indígenas do Nordeste, Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo” (Apoinme -Organisations of Indigenous People) and a supporter of change of the Indian Statute to Statute of the Indigenous People, ensuring the protection of their rights. Brazil.
Kumar, Pushpam – Dr Pushpam Kumar has a teaching and research experience in Environmental Economics and Management for more than 17 years at the University of Liverpool (current), University of Cambridge, Institute of Economic Growth and University of Delhi. His research interests include Valuation and Accounting of Ecosystem Services and Environmental Damages, Policies and Response Options for Ecosystem Management and Poverty-Ecosystems Linkages. Pushpam’s research has been strongly focussing on policy aspects of environment and development. His views and contributions have been taken seriously by the decision makers at different levels. He was Coordinating Lead Author for Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and Lead Author for the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC (Mitigation) which got the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. Presently, he is in the expert panel of the European Environmental Agency (EEA) on Accounting for Ecosystem Services and the member of the Study Leader Team for the Stern like Report on Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services constituted by the European Commission. Pushpam has been contributing policy relevant research papers on the theme of ecological economics in journals of international repute.India.
