Thursday, February 24, 2005 << >>

The Resources panel

Resources and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Robert France
Associate Professor of Landscape Ecology at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Series Editor, "Integratives Studies in Water Management and Land Development"; Editor, Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Ancient Presage for Contemporary Ecocide in Iraq (forthcoming) and Sustaining the Marshlands: Restorative Redevelopment in Iraq (forthcoming)

Fred Pearce
Environment and Development Consultant and former News Editor, New Scientist; Author, Secrets of the Jungle ,When the Rivers Run Dry , and The Dammed: Rivers, Dams and the Coming World Water Crisis

Daniel Sandweiss
Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine; Chair-Designate, Committee on the Americas, Society for American Archaeology; former President, Scientific Committee, Foundation for Research and Exploration on Cultural Origins; Coauthor, The Pyramids of Túcume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City and "Early maritime adaptations in the Andes: Preliminary studies at the Ring Site, Peru"

Joseph Tainter

Joseph Tainter
Author, The Collapse of Complex Societies ; Project Leader, Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Moderators: Jason Bauer and Nia Stoykova, EPIIC Colloquium