dann habe ich auch gleich eine ankündigung:
Presse- und Kulturabteilung
des US-Generalkonsulats in Frankfurt am Main
Öffentlicher Gastvortrag
in englischer Sprache
Prof. Jacob Park
(Green Mountain College, Vermont, USA)
China and Sustainable Development: Global Risks and Opportunities
Während Afrika sich über den von China angeheizten Rohstoffboom freut, fürchtet der Westen eine Ölkrise und eine Verschärfung der Umweltproblematik. Welche Risiken und Chancen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung birgt der wirtschaftliche Aufstieg Chinas?
Prof. Jacob Park hat eine Professur für Public Policy in und ist China- und Asien-Pazifik-Experte. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören insbesondere Fragen nachhaltiger Entwicklung und sozialer Verantwortung im Kontext der Globalisierung. Der Vortrag an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität erfolgt auf Einladung des US-Generalkonsulats in Frankfurt.
Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006, 14 Uhr c.t.
Campus Bockenheim, Raum FLAT 8
Robert-Mayer-Str.1, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
(U4/6/7 Station Bockenheimer Warte/Universität)
hier ein cv:
Dr. Jacob Park
Green Mountain College, Vermont
Biosketch
Jacob Park is professor of business and public policy at Green Mountain College in Vermont specializing in the teaching and research of global environment and business strategy, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and community-based entrepreneurship and innovation with special expertise/interest in Japan, China and the Asia-Pacific region.
Prof. Park is also an ethical research consultant with Green Cay Asset Management, a socially responsible hedge fund/financial investment company. From 1999-2004,he was a senior research consultant and a Japanese and Asian equity specialist in the Governance and Socially Responsibility Investment Group of ISIS Asset Management (now F&C Asset Management), a London-based investment company.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Free University of Berlin's Environmental Policy Center; a Fellow at The Fannie and Alan Leslie Humanities Center at Dartmouth College; Visiting Professor in the Corporate Environmental Governance Program at the University of Hong Kong's Center for Urban Planning and Environmental Management; a Research Scholar in the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda, University of Maryland; and a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban Engineering at the University of Tokyo.
He is a senior fellow of the Environment Leadership Program and serves on the International Planning Board of the Greening of Industry Network and the IUCN/World Conservation Union's Commission on Ecosystem Management. He also serves as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group III), an external reviewer of the Corporate Environmental Governance Program at the University of Hong Kong, and a former lead author in the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment.
Dr. Park is an editorial member of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Business Strategy and the Environment, Greener Management International, and Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. His most recent book is the "Ecology of the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Global Information Technology, Communication, and Electronics Industries" (Greenleaf Publishing, 2002) and is currently working on two edited books, "Towards a New Theory and Practice of Global Sustainability Politics", and " Ecological Modernization & Asia-Pacific." His writings on a wide range of global energy, environmental, and business issues have appeared in journals such as the International Studies Review, Washington Quarterly, Energy Policy, Corporate Environmental Strategy, as well as in newspapers and journals such as Fortune, Christian Science Monitor, Far Eastern Economic Review, Nikkei Weekly, and the Asian Wall Street Journal.
Green Mountain College
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