April 17, 2001

Expert to speak on sustainable

development movement May 8

MIDDLEBURY, Vt.―Pamela Chasek

will give a talk titled “Negotiating Survival: A Progress Report

on the Sustainable Development Movement” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8,

at Middlebury College. A consultant to the United Nations Environment

Program from 1995-1997 and the United Nations Commission on

Sustainable Development from 1999-2000, Chasek is assistant professor

of international politics at Manhattan College. Her talk is the 2001

Christian A. Johnson lecture. The event will take place at the Center

for International Affairs in the Robert A. Jones House on Hillcrest

Road off College Street (Route 125). Admission is free.

Chasek is also the founder and editor

of Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on United Nations

environment and development negotiations. A member of the Middlebury

class of 1983, she earned a master’s degree in 1990 and a

doctorate in 1994 at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced

International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Chasek’s recent publications

include “Earth Negotiations: Analyzing Thirty Years of Environmental

Diplomacy” and “The Global Environment in the Twenty-First Century:

Prospects for International Coopertion.”

Her visit is co-sponsored by several

Middlebury College organizations—the Christian A. Johnson

Economics Chair, the international studies program, the environmental

studies program, and the Career Services Office. For more

information, contact Professor of Political Science David Rosenberg

at 802-443-5612

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