Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet

Date: 

Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 6:00pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street

Megan Epler Wood, Director, International Sustainable Tourism Initiative, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Megan Epler Wood will draw from her new book, Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet, to explore how the growth of the global tourism economy over the next 20 years will affect vital natural and social treasures worldwide. She will present visualizations of the impact of unmanaged growth and present far-reaching thoughts on the type of reforms required to lower tourism’s impacts and protect the health of local populations, ecosystems, cultures, and monuments worldwide. 

Presented in collaboration with the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

This program is located at the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street.
Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Free and open to the public. 
See also: Public Lectures