A perfect storm ahead: food, water and energy security

Programme and Presentations

Presentations and speaker biographies can be downloaded from the right-hand menus.

A full transcript of the keynote speech is available.

 

Introduction

Dr Rita Gardner, Director, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Morning Chair: Professor Sir Gordon Conway, Chair in International Development, Imperial College

 

Session one - Background

Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office - Climate change context

Professor Andrew Watkinson, Director Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) and University of East Anglia - Research background

 

Session two - Keynote speaker

Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. A full transcript of the speech is now available.

 

Session three - Security challenges from the 'Perfect Storm'

Professor Nigel Arnell, Director Walker Institute, University of Reading - Water

Dr David Buffin, Centre for Food Policy, City University London - Food

Mike Bradshaw, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester - Energy

 

Afternoon chair: Mike Bradshaw, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester

 

Session four - Geographical understanding: case studies

Dr Glyn Davies, Director of Programmes, WWF-UK - The heart of Borneo – land use options

Professor Carys Swanwick, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield - Changes in UK Land Use

Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Chair of Geography, Energy, and Environment at the Department of Geography, and Deputy Director of the Durham Energy Institute, Durham University - Cities and housing

 

Session five - Discussion: weathering the storm

Rob Hopkins, Co-Founder of Transition Towns Totnes and Transition Network

Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business, Marks and Spencer

Professor Mike Bradshaw, University of Leicester [Closing statement]

 

The post-event was reception sponsored by Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) to mark their publication of Food Security and Global Environmental Change (Earthscan, 2010).