[Folda] Thursday lecture

[Halldóra Bergþórsdóttir]

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson from Landvernd (The Icelandic Environment
Association) is gonna visit us this Thursday 21st of March.
Place: The geology cofee room at 3rd floor in Askja.
Time: 12 o´clock.

This lecture will cover a short overview of the major nature conservation
issues facing Iceland today, including energy utilization and power lines,
increasing tourism, oil drilling, national planning (Landsskipulag),
off-road driving, climate change, invasive species, restoration of degraded
land and restoration of wilderness areas. More detailed examples of recent
ongoing debates or other pressing issues will be dealt with in more detail.
The lecture will end with a discussion on public participation in nature
conservation and environmental issues.

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson (a.k.a. Mummi) holds a BS degree in biology
from the University of Iceland and a masters degree in environmental
management from Yale University. He has been a parttime lecturer at the
University of Iceland since 2006 and the University Centre of the
Westfjords since 2011. Mummi leads the environmental NGO, Landvernd (The
Icelandic Environment Association), as the managing director since
September 2011.

Everybody is very welcome
Cheers,
Folda and Flóki boards
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