The Zayed International Prize for the Environment is a prize awarded by the Zayed International Foundation for the Environment.
The Zayed Prize, worth 1 million US dollars is awarded every two years, in the name of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, based on stringent selection criteria.
The Zayed Prize is classified into four award categories. The recipient of the Global Leadership on the Environment component receives $USD 500,000, the recipient of the Scientific and Technological Achievement component receives $USD 250,000, and the recipient of the Environmental Action Leading to Positive Change in Society component receives $USD 200,000 and Young Scientists Award for Environmental Sustainability $USD 50,000 [1] The value of the prize is the highest of any environmental prize.[2]
The prize was established in 1999 by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and was first awarded in 2001.[3] The prize was named after Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan.[4]
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I'm Maggie Xenopoulos and I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Trent University. My research interests are actually in aquatic ecosystems. I am very much interested in trying to understand how we humans are changing our lakes and rivers and in particular I try to understand how land use like agricultural land use and urban land use is changing the materials that's coming into our streams and lakes and how they in turn effect the way that the streams and lakes are functioning. It's really great to be working here on these issues, we have a lot of issues that we should be concerned about. In fact, I'm very concerned about the future of my children, whether they'll have clean water when they grow up, whether they'll have the same fishing opportunities, whether they'll be able to go for a nice, quiet stroll along a stream. And so it is really, I think, very important that we work and try to maintain the nice water that we have. At Trent it is a very nice place to do this type of research because we are surrounded by all kinds of water. There's a lot of nice flowing rivers just north of us big, flowing rivers that are still wild, that are not yet dammed. All you have to do is drive 10 minutes and you're in cottage country, so it's just a a great place to be. Oh, my work is ah -- keeps me very busy all the time. I spend a good chunk teaching students - of course when I'm not on sabbatical - I'm very excited about the classes that I teach. I teach in Aquatic Ecology, Limnology sometimes, which is the study of inland waters, I teach about global change in aquatic ecosystems, so how do the changes that we see in Ontario compare to the rest of the world. When you incorporate climate and other stressors like invasive species... I have a gaggle of grad students and undergraduates that I help write proposals and do their research, we go out on the field and collect water and analyze the water for its quality for the critters that live in it. We need water to survive, we need fresh water to survive, and the future is in water. We have to find a nice balance where we humans are using the water, where we are using the ecosystems that generate the water, the streams and the lakes and the services that they provide to humans, but at the same time where we maintain clean water so a nice circle and that's really hard to do because we tend to - when we use the water, we want nice lifestyles, and we build farms, we want food to grow and eat we need to build cities to accommodate our increasing population and so we need to be also -- we need to also apply conservation measures so that we keep having in the future this very valuable resource. Trent University is an ideal place to do this type of research because the location where we're at all we have to do is drive five to ten minutes and we're surrounded by lakes and rivers. We're also not very far from some from northern parts of Ontario where there is nice clean systems that we can use to study as a contrast. There's a nice group of researchers that do water research at Trent so it's a great place to collaborate it's a great place to meet other students and other faculty in the area. There's a lot of nice resources at Trent as well.
Winners
Global Leadership on the Environment
2001 | Jimmy Carter |
2003 | British Broadcasting Corporation |
2005 | Kofi Annan |
2008 | Gro Harlem Brundtland |
2011 | Lee Myung-bak |
2014 | Albert II of Monaco |
Scientific and Technological Achievement
2001 | Mohamed El-Kassas | World Commission on Dams | |
2003 | Godwin Obasi | Mostafa Tolba | Bert Bolin |
2005 | Millennium Ecosystem Assessment | ||
2008 | Jane Lubchenco | V. Ramanathan | |
2011 | Partha Dasgupta | ||
2014 | Ashok Khosla | Zakri Abdul Hamid |
Environmental Action Leading to Positive Change in Society
2001 | Yolanda Kakabadse | Stephan Schmidheiny |
2003 | Badria Al Awadhi | Jamal Mohamed Safi |
2005 | Angela Cropper | Emil Salim |
2008 | Environment Development Action in the Third World | Tierramérica |
2011 | Mathis Wackernagel | Najib Saab |
2014 | Luc Hoffmann | Paula Caballero Gómez |
See also
References
- ^ "Environmental prize for UN chief". British Broadcasting Corporation. 19 December 2005.
- ^ "Sir Partha Dasgupta Awarded US$300K Zayed Prize". APN News. 16 March 2011.
- ^ Nadeem Hanif (7 May 2014). "Sustainability efforts recognised by Zayed environmental awards". The National.
- ^ "Zakri awarded prestigious environment prize". MalayMail Online. 3 February 2014.