 Russ Barnett
Russ is the director of the Kentucky Institute for Environmental
and Sustainable Development. His role in this project was to
be the liason between the University of Louisville and Eastern
High School.
The Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable
Development (KIESD) at the University of Louisville has begun
its fourth year. Through research, education, and advocacy, KIESD
tries to highlight connections between the environment and the
economy, and between academia, government, and industry. We try
to bring public attention on the need to develop the economy
in harmony with natural systems which work for people in their
communities.
The Institute is comprised of eight thematic program centers.
These Centers are each based in a school or college within the
University; as a result, each is a multidisciplinary effort that
draws faculty and resources primarily from its own academic unit.
However, each Center has been mandated to develop outreach policies
that will encourage affiliation with industry, the government,
and other academic departments to ensure successful overall programs.
The University of Louisville Kentucky Institute for the Environment
and Sustainable Development (KIESD), created in July 1992, will
play an active role in providing a neutral source of multidisciplinary
research and analysis, and consultation on local, state, national
and global environmental-related issues. In support of this goal,
KIESD has the following objectives:
1.provide a comprehensive resource center to which those
with environmental problems can turn for expertise, analytical
evaluation, and information;
2.strengthen the environmental research base at the University
of Louisville and facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative
efforts of researchers so that multidisciplinary approaches can
be applied to environmental issues;
3.develop and implement a series of courses and seminar that
will enable government, industry, and the University faculty
to understand better the problems each encounters in formulating
environmental policy and establishing an environmentally conscious
management program;
4.incorporate environmental themes and courses into University
curricula, preparing students for environment and development
challenges of the 21st century; and
5.serve as a forum for communicating problems and mediating
differences arising among government, industry, and the community.
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