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March 2010
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Environment in development
Dr. John B. R. Agard is Professor of Tropical Island Ecology and Head of the UWI Department of Life Sciences, and has served internationally as Lead Author in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
Professor John Agard (above) delivered his Professorial Inaugural Lecture in February at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI St. Augustine. Professor Agard’s lecture, titled “Environment in Development: From Plantation Economy, Biodiversity Loss and Global Warming, Towards Sustainable Development,” argued that the Plantation Economy Model of Caribbean economic structures and characteristics can be further elaborated by the inclusion of the environment as a provider of ecosystem services.