Event

Food for Thought Public Lecture Series: Decision-making that brings us closer to what sustains us: why and how

Tuesday, November 3, 2020 19:00to20:00
Online

The annual Food for Thought Public Lecture Series is in its 21st season of bringing timely science topics to the community: our neighbours, alumni, students, staff and faculty! 

This year's theme is Building Back Better: How to Sustainably Restructure Our Way of Living.

Join us at the next lecture hosted on Zoom:  https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82430557218 (Meeting ID: 824 3055 7218)

Guest Speaker: Dr Klara Winkler, Deputy Science Director NSERC-ResNet, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University

Klara Winkler is a sustainability scientist interested in human-nature relationships and processes of sustainable transformation. She uses a governance perspective to research these phenomena on multiple levels of social-ecological systems – from the individual to supranational organizations. With her research, Klara aims to better understand how actions of individuals and policies relate and affect each other. The focus of her work is on highly-developed countries where a sustainability transformation is urgently needed to have ecological systems that can contribute to human well-being today and in the future.

Klara will take us from German vineyard landscapes to the lands of McGill and share her thoughts on why it is important to be aware of individuals when making decisions for society.

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