Crispin Tickell 

 Useful links 

Contents

1. Lectures
2. Articles
3. Broadcast interviews
4. Published interviews
5. Climate change
6. Urban Task Force
7. Near Earth Objects
8. Global governance
9. UKG Panel on Sustainable Development
10. Sustainable development
11. Other recommended links

Welcome...

Welcome to the official links page of Sir Crispin Tickell. We are currently scouring the web for relevant links in order to compile them into this page.

We have also just created a website containing the definitive collection of his various articles, essays, lectures, book reviews etc. This is located at http://www.crispintickell.com/.

Please use the links on this page (below) to submit any suitable links that you know of for inclusion on this page.

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This page has been created with support from the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding, an independent think tank set up by Sir Crispin in 1992 during his term as Warden of Green College, Oxford.

1. Lectures

• Catastrophes - The St Andrews Prize Lecture, Royal Institution, London - 22 October 2001. (Third lecture on page).
• El Nino and its significance - "El Nino has been sloshing back and forth for at least the last 10,000 years, and we all have to adapt with the changes it brings. For a society living at our ecological limits as we do with our incredible pressure of population, any change is perilous and represents a challenge which most cannot meet...". Deleivered to the Royal Geographical Society in Hong Kong, 11 November 1999.
• Risks of Conflict: Population and Resource Pressures - speech presented at the Woodrow Wilson Center, April 2001.
• Risks of Conflict: Population and Resource Pressures - the full version of the speech given at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC, 10th April 2001. HTML.
• Schumacher Lecture - October 1993, Bristol. "The road from Rio". (118KB).
• "Sustainable Development has become a kind of slogan for global progress. It spans an apparent contradiction, and has even been described as an oxymoron. In fact it is an attempt to reconcile two very different interpretations of past, present and future...". Given at the Harvard Medical School Centre for Health & the Global Environment.

• See the CrispinTickell.com website for a growing collection of his articles, lectures and book reviews - all indexed and searchable.
• From a Bipolar World to Multilateralism - delivered to LEAD, originally prepared for a lecture to the Centro Argentino por Relaciones Internacionales, Buenos Aires, 25 March 1997.
• RELIGION, ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANITY - Sir Crispin Tickell, Portsmouth Cathedral, 30 November 2002. "Environment is the stuff of religion, and religion is the stuff of the environment. Their relationship once went without saying. Yet we live at a time when they are being prised apart. This is the slow-acting result of two main factors: our vastly increased knowledge of the natural world and the place of the human species within it; and our vastly increased knowledge of the human mind, and how and why we believe and act as we do..."
• Risks of Conflict: Resource and Population Pressures contains a report on an address by CT. April 10 2001
• The Earth Summit - speech given on 30 June 1992 to the European Atlantic Group about the recently concluded conference.

2. Articles

• This useful Biographical sketch was published prior to a Harvard seminar, 18 April 2002.
• The Future Foundation promises to post an address & interview by CT - not available at time of writing.
• Poor Prospects for Earth Summit, report by Alex Kirby on CT speech for BBC online, 15 July 2002 following speech to the Society for Conservation Biology.
• There are many articles quoting CT on www.bbc.co.uk - to find them, just enter "Crispin Tickell" into the search box.

• See the CrispinTickell.com website for a growing collection of his articles, lectures and book reviews - all indexed and searchable.
• A Letter to David Pearce, the economist rejecting his fundamentalist approach to cost-benefit analysis. Archived by the Global Commons Institute. Facsimile letter in .pdf format.
• Stop using the sky as a waste-bin, says CT, 17 March 1999.

3. Broadcast interviews

• Transcript of CT on BBC Breakfast with Frost, 18 November 2000.

• Transcript of CT on BBC Breakfast with Frost, 18 August 2002.

4. Published interviews

• Jurgen Kronig interview with CT about the NEO Taskforce, 16 October 2000. Full version of interview published in the German weekly magazine Die Zeit on 15 September 2000.
• The US rejection of Kyoto - a silver lining? - an interview by Nina Morgan for Re-Focus. June 2001.

• The Space Frontier Foundation interview with CT about the UK NEO Taskforce.
• The Europe negotiator - an BBC interview with CT about his role in the 1970 negotiations for the UK's accession to the Common Market.

5. Climate change

• British urge rapid action, reported the New York Times on 8 May 1989, following CT's speech to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
• Communicating Climate Change - from Science Volume 297, Number 5582, Issue of 2 Aug 2002, p. 737.
• Politicians urged to take a lead on global warming - report in The Independent, 2 Feb 2000, following publication of 6th UKG Panel on Sustainable Development Report.
• The US rejection of Kyoto - a silver lining? - an interview by Nina Morgan for Re-Focus. June 2001.
• Time for a Change, argues CT in the Winter 2001 Rolex Awards for Enterprise Journal (pdf download).

• A short feature on Climate change and history, published by Science Net.
• Coal driven Indian economy adding to global warming - report of speech to TERI, 11 Jan 2001.
• El Nino and its significance - "El Nino has been sloshing back and forth for at least the last 10,000 years, and we all have to adapt with the changes it brings. For a society living at our ecological limits as we do with our incredible pressure of population, any change is perilous and represents a challenge which most cannot meet...". Deleivered to the Royal Geographical Society in Hong Kong, 11 November 1999.

6. Urban Task Force

• Urban Task Force Reports has links to the various reports of the UTF.

7. Near Earth Objects

• A useful compendium of press articles on the NEO Task Force from January 2001.
• The NEO Information Centre has the Task Force reports and other info.
• The Space Frontier Foundation interview with CT about the UK NEO Taskforce.
• Taskforce tackles asteroid threat - BBC report on the formation of the Near Earth Objects Task Force. 4 Jan 2000.

• Jurgen Kronig interview with CT about the NEO Taskforce, 16 October 2000. Full version of interview published in the German weekly magazine Die Zeit on 15 September 2000.
• Space objects could strike Earth - report from Brown University Herald.
• The danger above - Zachary Block reports on CT's speech to Brown University alumni, 7 Nov 2001.

8. Global governance

• Détente in Europe, 1972-76: Selected Extracts (Part 2) contains a number of quotes from CT, who was occupied at the Foreign Office with arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union. Includes rare period photograph.
• The handbagging of Europe was never a simple affair, writes Bruce Anderson in The Independent (6 Feb 2001), with interesting anecdotes about CT, Mrs Thatcher & Helmut Schmidt.

• Détente in Europe, 1972-76: The MBFR Song-book - has an amusing anecdote about the song book used by arms reduction negotiators to create rapport between the opposing sides.
• From a Bipolar World to Multilateralism - delivered to LEAD, originally prepared for a lecture to the Centro Argentino por Relaciones Internacionales, Buenos Aires, 25 March 1997.
• A press release from the Vail roundtable, preparatory meeting for the 2002 Johannesburg Summit.

9. UKG Panel on Sustainable Development

The Panel was set-up in January 1994 to provide independent advice to the Government on strategic sustainable development issues. Each year the Panel reported directly to the Prime Minister on a number of topics of its own choosing and the Government responded officially to the Panel's recommendations. In May 1999 the Government announced that the Panel and the UK Round Table on Sustainable Development were to be subsumed into a new body, the Sustainable Development Commission. Sir Crispin Tickell's term as the Convenor of the Panel came to an end on 29 February 2000 which marked the end of the Panel's existence.

• This links page connects you to the Panel's six reports, and the Government's responses to them.

• Politicians urged to take a lead on global warming - report in The Independent, 2 Feb 2000, following publication of 6th UKG Panel on Sustainable Development Report.

10. Sustainable development

• The Green College Centre for Environmental Policy & Understanding home page.
• Report on the The World Summit on Sustainable Development - with link to live audio of CT's contribution. 24/25 Sept 2001.

• The Earth Summit - speech given on 30 June 1992 to the European Atlantic Group about the recently concluded conference.

11. Other recommended links

• The personal website of Edward Goldsmith, founder and editor of The Ecologist magazine, with a growing number of his writings and lectures.