Upcoming Events
December
2007
December 8-9, 2007
The University of Miami's Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science
and Policy Will Host Conference on Ecosystem Restoration
On Friday and Saturday, December 8-9, 2007, The
University of Miami's Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and
Policy (the Abess Center) will host a conference titled: Measuring Success:
Ecosystem Restoration in the 21st Century. Experts from around the country
involved in large-scale ecosystem restoration efforts will gather to discuss
topics of shared interest. Participants include representatives from restoration
initiatives such as the Everglades, Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes,
Mississippi/Gulf Coast, Missouri River Basin, Puget Sound, and California
Bay-Delta.
The conference will be held at the University of Miami School of Communication's
new International Building, lecture room 2055. The sessions will explore common
issues, challenges, and lessons learned. Presenters will also examine the
principal federal funding mechanisms and programs that are available to support
these initiatives. Speakers with experience on Capitol Hill and both the state
and federal executive branches will provide their views and advice on ways in
which the government at both levels might sustain ecosystem restoration
projects. Conference participants will be able to see and gain knowledge on the
South Florida/Everglades ecosystem restoration effort.
UM Law School Professor Mary Doyle, Co-Director of the Abess Center and a
conference organizer, will give the Welcome Remarks on Thursday evening and will
participate in a panel on Saturday, December 8th. To view the Conference
schedule, click below [pdf file]:
http://www.law.miami.edu/news/images/804images/ecosystem_conference.pdf
Conference sessions are open to members of the Law School
community, but seating is limited. For more information, please call
305-284-8259 or email Andee Cohen at
acohen@law.miami.edu.
Conference web page with links to
presentations and bios.
http://www.cesp.miami.edu/meetinginformation.htm
Previous Events
October 2005
October 27, 2005
Former U.S. Secretary of
the Interior to Speak at UM
Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy invites you to attend a reading
featuring Bruce Babbitt, discussing his new book, Cities in the Wilderness.
Coral Gables,
Florida
University of Miami
Storer Auditorium - School of Business
5:00 p.m.
Secretary Babbitt's talk will be
followed by a Q&A session and book signing. CESP will sponsor Secretary
Babbitt's visit in cooperation with Books & Books of Coral Gables.
Event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call
(305) 284.8259.
Bruce Babbitt
Currently practicing law in Washington, D.C., Bruce Babbitt served as U.S.
Secretary of the
Interior from 1993 to 2001, as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as
Attorney
General of Arizona from 1975 to 1978. He is the author of Cities in the
Wilderness: A
New Vision of Land Use in America (Island Press, $25.95), a brilliant and
gracefully written
important book that brings fresh thought to questions of how we can build a
future we
want to live in. A key architect of many environmental success stories,
including the
Florida Everglades restoration project, Babbitt reveals how broad restoration
projects have
thrived through federal-state partnerships and how their principles can be
extended to
other parts of the country. This will be a fascinating and especially relevant
discussion in
the aftermath of Katrina's destruction of the City of New Orleans.
Links
More information on
Cities in the
Wilderness -
http://www.islandpress.com/books/detail.html/SKU/1-55963-093-0
Click here for
Flyer.
** PDF
Center for Ecosystem
Science and Policy
http://www.cesp.miami.edu/
December 2004
December 06-10, 2004
First National Conference on Ecosystem
Restoration
Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration Through Integration of Science, Planning and
Policy
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/ecosystem/index.html
This First National Conference on
Ecosystem Restoration (NCER) will enable national and international information
exchange on many issues involved in landscape-scale ecosystem restoration.
NCER will be held December 6-10, 2004 in Orlando, Florida at
the Wyndham
Palace, which provides a centralized setting and more than 200,000 square feet
of meeting space to comfortably accommodate our educational sessions, workshops,
poster displays and exhibits. Despite the fact it is high season in Florida, the
hotel has agreed to extend a very special rate within the confines of federal
per diem. Mark your calendar and make plans to attend
this first-time national event focusing on ecosystem restoration efforts
throughout the country. Join your fellow scientists, educators, and restoration
planners, managers and
decision-makers to discuss similarities and differences and successes and
failures of ecosystem restoration programs throughout the country. Read
more
October 2004
October 28, 2004
Boyden Gray,
partner at WIlmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP, in Washington, D.C.,
served as Counsel to President George H.W. Bush for four years.
October 21, 2004
J.
Allison DeFoor II, General Counsel of Tidewater Consulting, Inc., of
Tallahassee and is Counsel to Hershoff, Lupino & Mulick in the Florida Keys
and was most recently the Everglades Policy Coordinator for Governor Jeb
Bush
October 14,
2004
David J. Hayes is the Global Chair of the
Environment, Land & Resources Department at Latham & Watkins, a department
comprised of nearly 100 lawyers who work on environmental, energy and resources
matters throughout the United States and in the firms overseas offices.
Mr. Hayes is resident in the Latham & Watkins
Washington, D.C. office, where his practice focuses on counseling, litigation
and transactions involving environmental, energy and natural resources matters.
Mr. Hayes has practiced in the field for more than twenty years, combining an
extensive background in EPA-related regulatory matters (contaminated sites,
chemical regulation, air and water pollution issues) with natural
resource-related matters (water rights and allocation, endangered species act
implementation, energy project permitting, land conservation projects, and
Indian-related matters).
More about
this Lecture
http://www.miami.edu/debate04/debatecalendar.html
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