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Environmental Issues

Can We See the Forest for the Trees? The Role of Forests in our Ecosystem and Economy

Basic facts for NH/VT forests (or in PDF format)

 

Governmental Issues

Excessive Partisanship in American Politics Today

A talk by Dr. Joe Bafumi, Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Read the summary here. (October 4, 2007)

NH Education Funding and Property Tax Reduction?

A bipartisan group of NH legislators have come together to propose a new education funding plan that they believe meets the Claremont and Londonderry NH Supreme Court rulings and will create significant local school property tax reduction throughout the State. Former Representative Asselin made the presentation. Read his summary here. (December 6, 2006)

Can we create better election districts? Redistricting, independent commissions, and political competitiveness

A talk by Benjamin Forest, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College. He has published articles on identity, race and ethnicity, and political representation in a number of academic journals, including Political Geography, The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (January 19, 2006)

Do We Still Need an ERA?

Remember the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?  Isn't the ERA dead? Maybe not.

A talk by Lisa Baldez, an Associate Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author, with Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin, of "Does the U.S. Constitution Still Need an ERA?", an article that will appear in The Journal of Legal Studies later this year, and "Constitutional Sex Discrimination," published last year in the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy. Read an outline of this talk as a pdf file. (May 5, 2005)

Out of the Sweatshop, Into the Voting Booth: Working Women and the Struggle for Suffrage

By Carrie Brown, a cultural historian specializing in exploring the human story behind technologic change and historic events. (May 5, 2003)

 

International Issues

Health beyond our Borders: Dartmouth in Dar es Salaam

By Lisa V. Adams and Richard D. Waddell, Assistant Professors, Dartmouth Medical School, International Health. After describing the global health issues related to tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, the two speakers presented a fascinating picture of the health situation in Tanzania and how Dartmouth and the Muhimbili University in Dar es Salaam are partners in research, training, and medical care programs, a partnership known as the DarDar programs. The speakers also introduced Dartmouth new Global Health Initiative. Read the presentation in PDF format (8 Mb) or see the article in The Dartmouth.
Find out more about the DarDar program and about the Dartmouth Global Health Initiative.
(Jointly sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Upper Valley and by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College in October 2006)

Ten Years Later: What Progress since the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women?

What do you know:

Increasingly, it is being realized that gender equality is good for all of us and that empowerment of women is the single most effective strategy for economic improvement in the developing world.  (April 2005)

International Trade, Poverty and Inequality in the Developing World

By Nina Pavcnik, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth, who said that increased international trade and reduction in trade barriers help reduce poverty in poor countries. However, some industries and workers can be hurt in the process, and should be helped to adjust. Also, inequality between skilled and unskilled workers can increase, even though most workers' income is going up. Read the outline of Professor Nina Pavcnik's talk as a pdf file.
(Jointly sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Upper Valley and by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College in November 2004)

Child Labor in the Global Economy

By Dr. Eric V. Edmonds, Associate Professor, Dept of Economics, Dartmouth College who described the scope and types of child labor in poor countries, why it exists, and how to alleviate it. He addressed questions such as how to evaluate the heart-breaking stories about child labor in developing countries that we have all read. What are the scope and causes of child labor? What types? What are its consequences on schooling of boys and girls? How does globalization affect it? How is it influenced by the policies of rich countries? What can be done to curb its deleterious effects without hurting the children and their families? Read the outline of Professor Eric Edmunds's talk and also a report in the eDartmouth.
(Jointly sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Upper Valley and by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College in November 2005)

Coping with Population Growth: Impacts and Solutions

(Brown Bag Lunch Seminars, sponsored by the LWVUV Natural Resources Committee, February 2004)

Women's Health in Developing Countries - The Role of the United Nations

A talk, sponsored by the International Relations Committee, given by Charlotte Houde-Quimby, a certified nurse-midwife with over 25 years clinical and teaching experience and first-hand experience in developing countries. (November 2002)