Irish environmental policy expert John Barry will give a talk entitled “Vulnerability, Security, and Green Political Economy” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 in the Gould Library Athenaeum at Carleton College. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Barry, the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science at Carleton, is the director of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen’s University, Belfast. An expert on international environmental politics and policy, he has published extensively on such issues as sustainable development, environmental citizenship, green economics, deep ecology, ecological modernization and Green party politics. He is also a director of the Green Party in Northern Ireland and has run for office on the Green Party ticket twice since 2003.
This talk is part of a book project Barry is working on while at Carleton, in which he is examining the political economy of sustainable development. Barry is calling for the creation of a reformed, ethically based and scientifically informed view of the economy that meets the challenges of global climate change. He also links the dominant economic growth model and its dependence on cheap fossil fuels to the war in Iraq, describing how unsustainable development is a threat to global and national security.
The lecture is sponsored by the environmental and technology studies department. For more information, call (507) 646-5769.
