HOT FIELD OF ECONOMIC TOOLS TO COOL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS WILL SHOWCASE FINDINGS AT PACE UNIVERSITY
Expert national and international scholars will scrutinize these and a myriad of other “sustainable development” issues in a national conference at Pace University’s downtown Manhattan campus from this Saturday, June 23 through Wednesday, June 27.
(PressZoom) - New York, NY, June 18, 2007 –What do experts think of the environmental plan for New York City in 2030 that includes congestion pricing, put forward by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a rumored Presidential candidate?
As the world eats more fish, can the collapse of commercial fisheries be staved off?
Can developing nations control their environmental issues?
Expert national and international scholars will scrutinize these and a myriad of other “sustainable development” issues in a national conference at Pace University’s downtown Manhattan campus from this Saturday, June 23 through Wednesday, June 27.
The conference will present new findings in the growing field of “ecological economics” at a time when economic tools are becoming increasingly important for dealing with environmental issues.
A detailed schedule with preview synopses of all presentations is available at http://appserv.pace.edu/emplibrary/usseeconference2007_061407.pdf . Media are welcome; admission by press pass. Pace is just east of City Hall and south of the Brooklyn Bridge on Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street.
The occasion is the biennial meeting of the US Society of Ecological Economics ( USSEE ), held this year in partnership with the Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies ( PIERS ).
Ford Foundation, Fisheries Society. The breath of interest in ecological economics is shown by the diversity of the session’s supporters and sponsors. Financial backing is coming from the Ford Foundation, VeruTEK Technologies, Inc., Calvert, the Hudson River Estuary Program, the New York Power Authority, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and Pace University’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsoring societies and organizations are the American Fisheries Society, Bioneers, The Environmental Science section of the Ecological Society of America, the New York Academy of Science, the Estuarine Research Federation, the Hudson River Environmental Society, and Sustainable Hudson Valley.
Hudson River, Tanzania and beyond. Presentations will cover topics ranging from carbon pricing to AIDS, the ecology of the US’s Hudson River valley, Tanzania and India, the Kyoto Protocol, NAFTA, biofuels, global warming, overfishing, and the reviving interest in 19th Century economist Henry George. A small sampling:
Saturday --Evaluation of the skeptical analysis of green roofs done recently by New York City
Sunday --Assessments of the Bloomberg Administration’s PLANYC 2030 and Sustainable Queens 2030 initiative --A questioning look at the 2006 greenhouse gasses legislation in California.
Monday --Environmental effects of the emergent left-leaning economic philosophies in Latin America --Environmental efforts in the Amazon by the Brazilian oil company Petrobras
Tuesday --Progress and problems with the trend to set prices on carbon emissions to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy --A new high-rise residential building in New York City that has reduced wastewater discharge 63% in its first 30 months by reusing its water --The restoration of the Golden Horn in Istanbul --Connections between HIV/AIDS and the environment ( the disease is devastating rural agriculture; but microfinance may give women the strength to insist on measures like condoms ) --The environmental restoration of New York City’s Jamaica Bay.
Wednesday --Preventing further collapse of commercial fisheries --Water-quality crediting and trading in the Tahoe basin of California and Nevada –Mixed effects of NAFTA on energy use in the US, Mexico and Canada --A seeming paradox: Sprawl-related factors account for 83% of US household energy consumption, but in 2003 sprawl was only 18 – 19 % more energy intensive than compact living.
Among the speakers are David Orr ( Oberlin College ), Mathis Wackernagel ( Global Footprint Network ), Eban Goodstein ( Lewis & Clark College ), Robert Costanza ( The Gund Institute, University of Vermont ), and Shari Dworkin ( Columbia University ).
Overall, the stress will be on the results of economic incentives and strategies. Conferees also will take up ways of putting concrete values on environmental damage and progress, following the late US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s mordant dictum that in policy, “if you can’t count it, it doesn’t count.’’
Pace University, noted for both environmental studies and business education, for 101 years has prepared students for leadership through a combination of exceptional academics, professional experiences and the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, Pace has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, enrolling nearly 13,500 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. www.pace.edu. Background on the USSEE is at http://www.ussee.org. Media contacts Chris Cory, Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1117, ccory@pace.edu Robert Chapman, Director, Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies, 212-346-1364, rchapman@pace.edu
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