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Linacre College

Environmental

The First Green Student was Alex Doukas. The Environmental Working Party and the

This studentship is supported by the Common Students’ Green Society have worked with Old

Room, Old Members and the College. Members and staff to ensure that Linacre and

its buildings, especially the Abraham Building,

are the greenest within Oxford University.

Mee ng the 10:10 goal has encouraged Linacre

to aim for an 80% reduc on in emissions.

The close connec on to ECI, both in terms of

Fellows and students, is a feature of the College.

Linacre Lectures 2012—supported by Tetra

Laval Group and the Rausing Family

Environmental Governance and Resilience

“Social-ecological resilience: A framework for

stewardship in an uncertain and rapidly

changing world.”

Professor Stuart Chapin – InsƟtute of ArcƟc

Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks

“Planning for ecological resilience on

landscapes: the importance of the past to plan

for the future.”

Professor Kathy Willis, Director, Biodiversity

InsƟtute

“Enframing and poiesis in environmental

management.”

Professor Andy Pickering, University of Exeter

“Governance, genomes, Gaia.”

Professor Gisli Palsson, Department of

Anthropology, University of Iceland

“Solu ons for a Sustainable and Desirable

Future.”

Professor Robert Costanza, Director, InsƟtute for

Sustainable SoluƟons, Portland State University

“Resilience and social-ecological systems.”

Professor Carl Folke, Director, Stockholm

Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

The Green Society now has its own allotment

in the garden of a College house.