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FS Alumni Society Program- Family Life and Global Warming. Part I: A Preliminary Conversation with Family Scholars
7:00pm
University of Connecticut
Dodd Research Center, Konover Auditorium
Storrs CT
How will families be affected by global climate changes and how might families prepare for a future that will require them to reduce the carbon footprint they generate? These issues are the focus of a special program sponsored by the Family Studies Alumni Society and the Family Studies Undergraduate Council at the University of Connecticut. So far the debate about global warming and global climate change has primarily involved policy makers, economists, and natural scientists. Family scholars, to date, have not been included in these discussions in spite of the fact that these anticipated climate changes most definitely will impact on the structure and experience of family life. Family scholars, because of their knowledge of family dynamics, family systems, parent-child, gender and generational relations, as well as family therapy and family policy, can cast new light on some of the “inconvenient truths” that future generations of families will confront. We invite you to join several HDFS faculty members as they begin to consider the relationship of family and some of these environmental issues with a colleague from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Prof. Nancy Bull, and Prof. Karl Pillemer, a Gerontologist from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. A second program is scheduled for April 22, 2009.
This program is sponsored by the Family Studies Alumni Society, the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and the Connecticut Affiliate of the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences.
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