11 June 2013
Bristol, UK

Wolfgang Lutz on BBC Shared Planet

Shared Planet will wrestle with the economics, political, human and wildlife issues generated by the needs of 7 billion people on one natural world

The weekly documentary series for BBC Radio 4, presented by Monty Don and produced in Bristol by the BBC Natural History Unit Radio team has invited Wolfgang Lutz together with Lord Robert May, former president of the Royal Society, to discuss the topics world population and wild life. the show will be aired on 11 June 2013, 11-11.30AM.

Shared Planet explores the complex and growing interface between people and the natural world. As the world population increases by approximately 200,000 people per day and our demand for resources rises year by year, is there enough room for nature?

Each program in the series will concentrate on one theme and invited guests, the world’s greatest thinkers on the environment, looking at the economic, political and social drivers that affect our relationship with nature. Field reports will illustrate the issues and what is being done on the ground to help solve the problems. Kelvin Boot, the Shared Planet correspondent, will summarize points of view, and actions taken, from around the world.

Listen to the podcast here.

For more information please visit the BBC website


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CONTACT DETAILS

Wolfgang Lutz

Interim Deputy Director General for Science Directorate - DDG for Science Department

Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Population and Just Societies Program

Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group - Population and Just Societies Program

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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