Speech Title : How to Overcome the Limitations Inherent in Sustainable Development
Prof. and Dr Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of the Asia Climate Change Education Center and an emeritus professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University in South Korea. He received a BA and MA degree in sociology from Korea University (South Korea) and a PhD in environmental sociology from the University of Queensland (Australia). He was a professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include being a teaching professor at the University of Sheffield in the UK, the president of the Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a delegate of the South Korean government to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the OECD environmental meeting, and a member of the Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development of the Republic of Korea, etc. He has published 60 environment-related research papers in domestic and international academic journals and 13 books, including Environmental Sociology. He has conducted 100 unpublished environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organisations.