The Hixon Center for Urban Ecology supports both lectures series and
conferences as a means to disseminate ideas and information of the critical
issues confronting urban ecosystems and related research required for
the foreseeable future.
Distinguished
Speaker Series The
Hixon Center Speaker Series is designed to forge a guide to environmental
revitalization and related research required for
the foreseeable future.
Community participants, ecologically-oriented persons in diverse
parts of the University, and all Yale students are welcome.
Spring
2003 Land-Use Class and Public Lecture Series
Each
lecture will take place at noon in Bowers-Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street
February
7, 2003
Clint Andrews, Associate Professor at the E.J. Bloustein School
of Planning & Public
Policy, Rutgers University; President, IEEE Society
on Social Implications of Technology
“Agency in Industrial Ecosystems”
February
14, 2003
John Nolon, Professor of Law, Pace Law School; Director,
Land Use Law Center
“Breaking the Code: Local Laws that Protect the Environment”
February
28, 2003
Ruben
Lubowski, Natural Resource Economist, Economic Research Service,
USDA
“Determinants of Land-Use Change in the United
States, 1982-1997”
March
7, 2003
Wendi Goldsmith, President and Founder, The Bioengineering Group, Inc.
“Sustainable Hydrology – Foundation for Effective
Green Site Design” March
28, 2003
Russell Albanese, Developer, Albany Development
Corp.; James Lima, Senior Vice President, Special Projects Division,
NYC Economic
Development Corporation
“Developing a Green High Rise Residential Building in
New York City: A Case Study – The Solaire, 20 River Terrace”
April
4, 2003
Tom Schueler, Center for Watershed Protection
Conferences
The
Yale-IGES International Workshop on Urban Environment and Sustainability
March
27-29, 2003
The
Yale-IGES International Workshop on Urban Environment and Sustainability
aims to present a systematic understanding of
the scope and consequences
of the issues facing sustainable urban development in rapidly
urbanizing regions, as well as review the theory and methodology
behind tackling
these problems, and highlight the barriers to and policy measures
regarding such sustainable development. Participants in the workshop
will look
toward shaping the development of future urban areas arising
in developing countries, particularly in Asia, as these regions
will change
the most
rapidly and drastically along the path to a predominantly urbanized
world, and thus have the greatest potential for being positively
shaped early in the process.
We
are inviting scholars from Yale and all over the world to present
their ideas on these matters. The
workshop will be conducted
from the 27th through the 29th of March 2003; the first half
will be
concerned
with general methodology issues, and the second half will
have a more regional focus. Participation in the workshop is based
on invitation,
but FES students and faculty will have a chance to participate
as well in an open evening session and a poster session.
After
the workshop has concluded, results of the discussions and presentations
will be gathered and edited into a book.
Rather than
being a collection
of essays, this book will ideally explore the environmental
challenges brought about by the process of urbanization
and emphasize the
temporal dimension of development. The last half-day of
the workshop will allow
participants to collaborate on the book’s creation.
Past
Distinguished Speakers
Fall
2002
Friday, September 20
Gary Machlis, Professor of Forestry and Professor of Sociology, University
of Idaho, and Visiting Chief Social Scientist, National Parks Service
“The
Structure of the Human Ecosystem”
Thursday,
September 26
Jonathan Rose, President, Jonathan Rose & Company LLC, New York & Rocky
Mountains
“Repairing the Fabric of Communities: Using Principles
in Planning and Development”
Friday,
October 4
Morgan Grove, Researcher Forester, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern
Research Station
“Patch Dynamics of Urban Ecosystems: A Case Study of
the Baltimore Metro Region”
Thursday,
October 10
Joyce
Lee, Chief Architect, City of New York, Office of Management
and Budget
“Green Buildings and Value-based Decisions”
Friday,
October 25
Timothy Beatley,
Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning,
University of Virginia School of Architecture
“The
Green Cities Movement”
Presented
in conjunction with Arts & Ideas
New Haven
Tuesday,
October 29
Frances E. Kuo, Director of the Human-Environment Research Laboratory,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“The Role of the Urban Forest in Healthy Human
Functioning”
Wednesday,
October 30
David Nowak, Project Leader for the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern
Research Station, New York
“Analyzing Urban Forest Structure, Functions,
and Value”
Thursday,
November 14
Alan Short, Architect, Short and Associates, London,
and Head, Department of Architecture,
University of Cambridge, England
“Built Projects: Research, Design & Performance”
Thursday,
November 21
Klaus Daniels, Environmental Engineer, HL-Technik
AG, Germany, Professor, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) and Director, Institut für Hochbautechnik
“The Structure of the Human Ecosystem” Spring
2002
January
16, 2002
Dr. Bunyan Bryant, Arthur Thurnau Professor and Chair
of the Resource Policy and Environment Concentration,
University
of
Michigan
“The History of the Environmental Justice
Movement: Issues and Dilemmas”
January
23, 2002
Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service
“Our
National Parks: Lessons for Diversity, Environmental Quality, and Justice”
January
30, 2002
Wangari
Maathai,
Coordinator of the GreenBelt Movement, and McCluskey Visiting Fellow
for Conservation,
Yale FES
“Restoration Agenda: Environmental Justice”
February
6, 2002
Michael Dorsey, Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Dartmouth
College
“Hejiars, Rio to Joburg:
Sustainability & Justice & Other
Malcontents”
February
13, 2002
Ted Kennedy, Health Care Regulatory Attorney, Dottie
Needham, DNS, APRN, Director for Yale Lead Program & Asthma
Outreach Project
“Lead Poisoning:
Justice or Injustice”
February
20, 2002
Steward Pickett, Project Director, Baltimore
Ecosystem Study and
William Burch, Hixon Professor of Natural
Resource Management, Yale FES
“Toward
an Understanding of Nature and Human
Nature on the Urban Frontier: Mapping
the Patches of a Hip Hop, Funky,
Jazz, Stravinsky, Bach, Rhythm and Blues Dance of Ecological Science”
February
27, 2002
Edwardo Rhodes, Professor of Public and Environmental
Affairs, Indiana University
“The
Challenges of Measuring and Evaluating
Environmental Justice”
March
6, 2002
Jeffrey Miller, Assoc. Dean for Graduate
Studies and Professor of Law, Pace
University School of Law
“Using
Federal Environmental Statues to
Promote Social Justice”
March
27, 2002
Randolph McLaughlin,
Professor of Law, Pace University
School
of Law
“Role of Civil Rights
Law to Promote Social Justice”
April
3, 2002
Gary Machlis, Ph.D., Visiting Chief Social Scientist, National
Park Service
“Land Matters: Wilderness in Modern America”
April
10, 2002
Patrick Kinney, Professor, School of Public Health, Columbia
University
”Community Based Air Quality Research in NYC”
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