Chinese Studies public lecture

September 27, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Mānoa Campus, QLC 412ueen LiliÊ»uokalani Center for Student Services 412

“China’s Environmental Tipping Point and Eco Warriors”

Jennifer Turner, Director, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.

Queen Lili‘uokalani Center for Student Services, Room 412, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

4:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 27, 2016

China is at a crucial environmental tipping point. At the heart of China’s unprecedented economic boom lies powerhouse cities that are choked by air pollution so severe that even the mayor of Beijing called his city “unlivable.” Rural areas are equally challenged by air, water and soil contamination. With industrial and mining development threatening biodiverse and ecological fragile regions, China’s development rests at a pivotal moment. While China’s central government “war” on pollution pushes promising reform, the question remains the same: will this be enough? Drawing on 16 years of experience, Jennifer Turner will delve deeper into the government efforts and grassroots activism necessary to solve China’s seemingly intractable environmental problems.

Jennifer Turner has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 16 years where she creates meetings, exchanges and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly on water, energy and green civil society issues. She leads the Wilson Center’s Global Choke Point Initiative, which together with Circle of Blue, has produced multimedia reports, films, and convening on water-energy-food confrontations in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. Other major initiatives include: Cooperative Competitors: Building U.S.-China Clean Energy Partnerships, From Farm to Chopsticks: Food Safety Challenges in China, and Storytelling is Serious Business: Workshops for Chinese Environmental Professionals. Dr. Turner also serves as editor of the Wilson Center’s journal, the China Environment Series, and most recently coauthored China’s Water-Energy-Food Roadmap. She received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics in 1997 from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in the China.


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Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at UHM, Mānoa Campus

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