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DESCRIPTION:With Andrew Gonzalez\, Professor\, Dept. of Biology\, 51³Ô¹ÏÍøUn
 iversity\n\nThe erosion of biological diversity and global climate change 
 are the two great environmental crises of our time. They threaten the sust
 ainability of human society in the coming century. They are affecting the 
 food we eat\, the diseases we face\, our vulnerability to fire and flood\,
  and they jointly challenge our ability to adapt and persist far into the 
 future. In this talk\, Prof. Gonzalez will present our current understandi
 ng of these threats\, but will also discuss the opportunities we have to s
 teer a course to a sustainable human society without irreversibly degradin
 g the Earth's biosphere.\n\nAndrew Gonzalez is Professor\, Liber Ero Chair
  in Biodiversity Conservation\, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 
 in the Department of Biology\, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. He is a past Killam Rese
 arch Fellow and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity Science. He
  has published 154 papers\, including papers in Nature and Science. He is 
 an ISI highly cited researcher (2019 and 2020) a distinction given to 6200
  of the world's researchers\, across 21 research fields and multiple field
 s. Peer citations place him in the top 0.02% most highly cited scientists 
 in the field of Environment/Ecology. His major research interests include:
  1) the causes of biodiversity change and its impact on society\, 2) rapid
  evolution and the maintenance of biodiversity in human modified environme
 nts\, and 3) the application of network science to the conservation of bio
 diversity at large scales. He is the founding Director of the Quebec Centr
 e for Biodiversity Science. He is the co-Chair of the Group on Earth Obser
 vations Biodiversity Observation Networks (GEO BON) an international netwo
 rk that contributes to effective management policies for the world’s biodi
 versity and ecosystem services. He was a member of the Executive Council o
 f the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution\, and member of the Exper
 t Panel on Biodiversity Science for the Council of Canadian Academies in 2
 010. In 2017\, he spoke at TEDx and the World Economic Forum in Davos. He 
 is co-founder of the environmental consultancy and spin-off company eco2ur
 b.\n\nWatch the recording Discover the Mini-Science series\n\n\n\n	\n		Mini-S
 cience is brought to you with the generous support of the Trottier Family 
 Foundation.\n\n\n\n	\n		Mini-Science has been certified a Virtual Sustainable
  Event by the McGill Office of Sustainability.\n\n
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SUMMARY:Bicentennial Mini-Science: Charting a Course to Global Sustainabili
 ty in the 21st Century
URL:/science/channels/event/bicentennial-mini-science-
 charting-course-global-sustainability-21st-century-326931
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