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*CANCELLED* CAIS Seminar: Meredith Gore - Wildlife Trafficking in the Anthropocene: Conservation, Crime & Communities

Speaker: Meredith Gore, PhD

Talk Title: Wildlife Trafficking in the Anthropocene: Conservation, Crime & Communities

Series: USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS) Seminar Series

Abstract: Levels of unsustainable and illegal natural resource exploitation have escalated in scope, scale, and severity. Illegal over-harvest of plant and animal species occurs around the world and poses risks to species, ecosystems, and people. Beyond the risk of species loss, overexploitation represents stolen natural resources, is associated with corruption and insecurity, human rights abuses, and regional destabilization in some of the world's most vulnerable developing nations. This presentation will discuss conservation criminology-”an interdisciplinary and applied science for understanding risks to global natural resources.


Biography: Dr. Meredith Gore is a conservation social scientist leveraging concepts of risk to enhance understanding of human-environment relationships. Her scholarship is designed to build evidence for action. The majority of her scientific inquiry can be described as convergence research on conservation issues such as wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, fishing and mining. She received her PhD in Natural Resource Policy and Management from Cornell University, MA in Environment and Resource Policy from George Washington University, and BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Brandeis University. She's a MSU Global Research Academy Fellow, National Academies of Sciences Jefferson Science Fellow, US Department of State Embassy Science Fellow and Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader.


Host: USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS)

Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Computer Science Department