A Mansfield Center Brown Bag Lecture.

Speakers: Truong Quoc Hung, Deputy Director General, Office of the Institute for Legislative Studies under the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam and Dan Spencer, Professor of Environmental Studies, UM.

Vietnam is a country rich in natural resources with a rapidly growing economy and a population eager to build better lives for themselves and their children. How does a developing country balance economic development and natural resource use, especially as climate change threatens to upset balances throughout the region?

Mr. Truong Quoc Hung of the Office of the Institute for Legislative Studies, which provides research and information for Vietnam's National Assembly members, will discuss Vietnam's natural resource management policy, and Dr. Dan Spencer will provide a brief introduction into how UM's Wintersession in Vietnam program allows students to study these issues first hand.