NEWS

By REBECCA RUDD
Carolina Environmental Program

CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. David Vogel, University of California at Berkeley professor and an expert on environmental policy, will discuss globalization’s effect on the environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 3.

In Vogel’s lecture, "Trading up or a Race to the Bottom? The Impact of Globalization on Environmental Standards," he will assert that globalization can lead to a strengthening of worldwide standards, as opposed to the view that the global economy will weaken environmental policy.

The 4 p.m. free lecture is part of the UNC Carolina Environmental Program’s 2003-2004 Environmental Seminar Series. The location will be the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium. A reception will follow in the fifth-floor lounge.

The event is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences’ department of public policy and the Carolina Environmental Program.

Vogel, an expert in environmental and risk management policies, is George Quist professor of business ethics at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a professor of political science.

He has published many essays, articles and books on environmental policy, including "Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship Between Politics and Business in America" and "Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy." Vogel also is the editor of the California Management Review.

The Carolina Environmental Program is a multidisciplinary initiative addressing factors building an environmentally sustainable society through degree programs, collaborative research, technical assistance, training and more.

UNC’s department of public policy, offering bachelor’s and doctoral degrees, stresses analysis of alternative public policies, using concepts and techniques from several disciplines, with application to health, the environment, international affairs, urban and rural development and social welfare.

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Carolina Environmental Program contact: Tony Reevy, (919) 966-9927 or tony_reevy@unc.edu
UNC department of public policy contact: Dan Gitterman, (919) 843-6407 or danielg@email.unc.edu