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What 1 Billion Slum Dwellers Mean for the Environment

Series: For the Greener Good
Presented By: Michael Cohen, Pietro Garau, Rose Seisie Molokoane, Sergio Palleroni, Maria Sonia Vicenta Fadrigo, Regional Director, and Robert Neuwirth (moderator)
Date Recorded: January 22, 2008
Duration: 01:47:14

Michael Cohen, director, The New School International Affairs Program; Pietro Garau, past chief of research, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat); Rose Seisie Molokoane, Board member, Slum Dweller International; Sergio Palleroni, co-founder and director, BaSiC Initiative; Maria Sonia Vicenta Fadrigo, regional director, Homeless People's Federation Philippines (HPFP) examine the long-term environmental consequences of a slum dwelling population that grows by 25 million people a year. Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World moderates.

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