The
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine Campus
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Economics
Sustainable
Economic Development Unit (SEDU)
[for Small and Island Developing States (SIDS)]
Workshops
May 16-17, 2006
UWI St. Augustine Workshop on
A Collaborative Agenda on Sustainable Development for
UWI and other Caribbean Research,
Teaching and Outreach Institutes”
Co-hosted by the UWI (Office of Research and Sustainable
Economic Development Unit, the Caribbean Natural Resources
Institute (CANARI), The Cropper Foundation, the United
Nations Department for Economics and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (UN-ECLAC)
Click
here to view the Workshop Brochure and Agenda
May 15, 2006
Sustainable Development Post Graduate Day
Co-hosted by UWI-SEDU and The Cropper Foundation
The May 16-17, 2006 workshop seeks to bring together a
number of international and regional initiatives and commitments,
all broadly linked to the theme of sustainable development
and the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy which
was adopted at the January 2005 United Nations International
Meeting in Mauritius to Review the Implementation of the
Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of
Small Island Developing States.
The Workshop will be preceded on Monday May 15, 2006 by
a workshop focused on post-graduate research on Sustainable
Development at the UWI and post-graduate students from
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies who are
participating in a semester course in Sustainable Development
policy and practice with special reference to the insular
Caribbean led by Senator Angela Cropper. This workshop
will be co-hosted by the UWI Sustainable Economic Development
Unit (SEDU) and The Cropper Foundation.
Professor
Gustave Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies also will deliver an open, public lecture at the
Central Bank, Port-of-Spain on Climate Change on the evening
of Monday May 15, 2006.
Click
here to view the Workshop Brochure and Agenda
Report of the International Meeting
to Review the Implementation of the
Programme of Action for the
Sustainable Development
of Small Island Developing States 
