Stanford University

Environment

FSI scholars approach their research on the environment from regulatory, economic and societal angles. The Center on Food Security and the Environment weighs the connection between climate change and agriculture; the impact of biofuel expansion on land and food supply; how to increase crop yields without expanding agricultural lands; and the trends in aquaculture. FSE’s research spans the globe – from the potential of smallholder irrigation to reduce hunger and improve development in sub-Saharan Africa to the devastation of drought on Iowa farms. David Lobell, a senior fellow at FSI and a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, has looked at the impacts of increasing wheat and corn crops in Africa, South Asia, Mexico and the United States; and has studied the effects of extreme heat on the world’s staple crops.

Secret Practices of the War on Terror

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Barbara Olshansky is Director Counsel of the Global Justice Initiative and Deputy Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Barbara's current docket at the Center for Constitutional Rights includes class action lawsuits concerning international human rights; immigrants' rights; race discrimination in employment, education, the environment, and public health; and prisoners' rights. Barbara recently co-authored two books: the most recent, entitled America's Disappeared, discusses the plight of America's "war on terror" detainees; and the second, entitled Against War With Iraq, analyzes the international law ramifications of the U.S. decision to pursue a military campaign in Iraq.

Barbara has also written two other books: Democracy Detained, discussing America's secret practices used in the "war on terror," and Secret Trials and Executions, assessing the military commissions scheduled for Guantánamo detainees. Stanford Law School recently named her 2005 Public Interest Lawyer of the Year.

Stanford Law School, Room 190

Barbara Olshansky Director Counsel of the Global Justice Initiative and Deputy Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Speaker
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Eden Undone: Global Consequences of Earths' Changing Landscapes

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Carnegie Institution
Department of Plant Biology
260 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305

Jon Foley Director, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment; Professor of Environmental Science and Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, University of Wisconsin Speaker
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Integrated Circuit Development in Globalization - a China Experience

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In today's global economy, access to resources around the world has never been easier. The high tech industry has always been in the forefront of globalization in lowering costs, acquiring talent as well as serving markets. For instance, Asian countries have long been known for their vast manufacturing bases for western high tech industry.

In recent years, thanks to Y2K, India has become the leader in software outsourcing. China, given its expanding economy as well as its open market direction, has rapidly become the emerging location for multi-national semiconductor companies to outsource their product development amidst China's own burgeoning integrated circuit (IC) industry. Mr. Lee has first-hand experience in building and managing an IC product development center in Shanghai, China. He will discuss the challenges of operating a R&D organization in an environment of different languages and cultures. He will also share his vision of the future of the IC industry in China.

Mr. Lee is Group Vice President and general manager of Timing Solutions Products at Integrated Device Technology, Inc.(IDT), a public semiconductor company of $650 million annual sales, focusing on valued-added solutions for communication, consumer and computing markets. He has been with IDT for the last 22 years and has served various management roles. In 2001, he architected the acquisition of Newave Semiconductor Corporation in China and established the Shanghai Product Development Center for IDT. Before joining IDT in 1984, Mr. Lee spent 5 years at Intel Corporation as a technologist for the early development of flash memory technology. Mr. Lee earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1975 and M.S. degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1979.

Philippines Conference Room

Jimmy Lee Group Vice President & General Manager of Timing Solutions Products Speaker Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Seminars
Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)

Is the United States Feeding the Nuclear Fire in South Asia?

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Zia Mian, a research assistant with the Program on Science and Global Security (PS&GS) at Princeton University and lecturer of public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, has been with PS&GS since 1997. His interests include nuclear weapons and nuclear energy programs in South Asia, and finding alternative policies that can contribute to disarmament and sustainable development. With Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Mian co-produced Crossing the Lines, a documentary film about India, Pakistan, and the battle over Kashmir, which was shown at CISAC this past summer. He has edited and co-edited a number of books on South Asia, including Out of the Nuclear Shadow (co-edited with Smitu Kothari; Zed Press, London and Rainbow Press, New Delhi, 2001). Mian has also co-edited a volume with Iftikhar Ahmad and Dohra Ahmad, Between Past and Future: Selected Essays on Pakistan by Eqbal Ahmad (Oxford University Press, Karachi).

Reuben W. Hills Conference Room

Zia Mian Research Assistant, Program on Science and Global Security, and Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Speaker Princeton University
Seminars

Energy Security

"Energy security" is an elastic concept. However, it offers the prospect of linking "hard security" issues, such as territorial protection and supply of vital fuels, in mutually reinforcing ways, with "soft security" issues, such as protection of the environment generally and specifically the limitation of the emissions that lead to global climate change. Such linkages, which could engage a large number of countries and diverse interests, make energy security a good prospect for early action by the L20. Moreover, security of energy supply is once again high on the agenda of most governments because of the current high prices for energy, notably oil. Political action is needed not only because consumers demand it, but also because a large and growing fraction of the world oil supply is under direct control of governments who make supply decisions on the basis of political factors.

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Oksenberg Conference Room

Workshops

Steven Were Omamo

500E Encina Hall East
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

(650) 724-9335
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FSI (Visiting Scholar), Director for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) East Africa Program
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Were is 'returning to the Farm' having completed his Masters here in International Development Policy, a PhD in Agricultural Economics, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Food Research Institute.

He is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader for Agricultural Science and Technology Policy at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. He is leading a newly created global research program focused on agricultural science and technology policy in developing countries. He is also the Coordinator for IFPRI's Eastern Africa Food Policy Network covering Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique. His experience will be greatly appreciated as CESP expands its work in the area of food security and the environment.

In addition to his professional fellowships and consulting experience, Were is also a novelist. Publishing such books as The Men Do Not Eat Wings - A Novel and Private Solutions: A Tale of Political Awakenings and Coming-of-Age in Africa. We look forward to passing his books around the office.

Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development

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Richard and Rhoda Goldman Conference Room

Pamela A. Matson Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences and FSI Senior Fellow Speaker Stanford University
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Science publishes PESD policy brief, "A Madisonian Approach to Climate Change"

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The PESD article by David Victor, Josh House, and Sarah Joy, explains current efforts to slow and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and suggests a direction for future progress. The authors compare the six current carbon credit trading systems to the "bottom up" decentralization James Madison envisioned in the Federalist Papers. This analagous approach invites their theories for eventual globification of the effort, including US and developing country involvement.

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Daniel Rutherford

Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

(650) 724-6405 (650) 723-6530
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Takahashi Fellow

A doctoral candidate in environmental engineering, Daniel Rutherford's research interests concern the design and implementation of environmental policy in Japan. His dissertation entails a detailed interdisciplinary case study of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's regulation of diesel pollution under Governor Shintaro Ishihara. Tokyo's local regulations, which catalyzed substantial changes in central policy, structured a new domestic market for clean diesel technologies, and led to substantial improvements in local air quality, serve as one of the premiere examples of dramatic policy change in recent years in Japan.

Dan is currently affiliated with Shorenstein APARC as a Takahashi Predoctoral Fellow. During his graduate career, he has received support as a U.S. EPA STAR Fellow, an IIE-Fulbright Graduate Fellow, a Stanford Graduate Fellow in Science and Engineering, and from the Japan Fund. He received his BA in chemistry from the University of Minnesota-Morris and his MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford.

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