The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) will host a symposium on September 23 and 24, 2021, on “Population and Environmental Change,” to discuss development, environmental impacts and other issues entwined in the Anthropocene — the geological era in which human impacts have changed the planet at a global scale. Five invited speakers from different disciplines will present the latest advances on the interactions between human populations and the environment. The symposium will end with a panel discussion from leading thinkers who will put the research into perspective, including Future Earth’s Dr. Wendy Broadgate, Director of the Swedish Global Hub.

Invited speakers:

• Professor Lori M. Hunter, University of Colorado Boulder
• Professor Eric Lambin, Stanford University and University of Louvain
• Professor Wolfgang Lutz, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna Institute for Demography, and the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Professor Brian O’Neill, University of Denver
• Professor Karen Seto, Yale University.

Panellists:

• Professor Gustav Arrhenius, Institute for Future Studies
• Dr. Wendy Broadgate, Future Earth
• Professor Line Gordon, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
• Professor Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg

Programme

Thursday 23 September

Moderator: Agneta Sundin, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Sweden.

15:00
Welcome remarks
Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Sweden.
Anne-Sophie Crépin, Deputy Director, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Sweden.

15:15
Population dynamics, carbon emissions, and climate change
Professor Leiwen Jiang, Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI), Shanghai University, China and Population Council, USA.

16:00
Break

16:10
Urbanization and Planetary Solutions
Professor Karen Seto, Yale University, USA.

16:55
Break

17:05
Population and land use: from coupled to telecoupled systems
Professor Eric Lambin, Stanford University, USA and University of Louvain, Belgium.

18:00
Closing remarks

Friday 23 September

Moderator: Agneta Sundin, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Sweden.

15:00-15:15
Welcome remarks

15:15
Climate change and migration
Professor Lori Hunter, University of Colorado, USA.

16:00
Break

16:10
Population and human capital scenarios for the 21st century in the context of environmental change
Professor Wolfgang Lutz, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna), Austria.

16:55
Break

17:05
Panel discussion
Professor Gustav Arrhenius, Institute for Future Studies, Sweden, Dr. Wendy Broadgate, Future Earth, Sweden, Professor Line Gordon, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden, Professor Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

17:50
Closing remarks

The program is subject to change.

Register for the webinar 

Please note that the link you receive upon registration will be used both on 23 September and 24 September. Spaces on the webinar, with interactive possibilities, are limited but the event will also be available as a livestream.

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Contact

Peter Brandén
Program Coordinator
program@kva.se