2008 Wilderness Issues Lecture Series
CLIMATE
CHANGE:
Moving
From Science
to Solutions
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February-April
2008
Tuesdays 7pm
Urey Underground Lecture Hall
(unless otherwise noted)
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Climate change has fast become one of the
most pressing environmental and social issues of the 21st
century. The 2008 Series will include speakers from varied
disciplines and fields, each with practical experience working
in innovative ways to understand and effectively respond
to climate change. Speakers will draw on expertise in science,
policy, ethics, religion, law, journalism, education, and
more. Moving from science to solutions, this series explores
how we as a society can respond to the challenge of climate
change.
PDF Lecture Series schedule
2008 Topics and Speakers:
2/5 The Great Warming,
Drought, and the Flail of God: An Archaeologist Looks at
Climate Change
Brian Fagan, Archaeologist and Author of
The Little Ice Age and The Great Warming
2/12 Cascading Climate
Change Impacts on the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem
Dan Fagre, Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological
Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
2/19 Law and Climate
Change: Government’s Atmospheric Trust Responsibility
Mary Wood, Professor of Law, University
of Oregon School of Law
3/4 Climate Change &
the Press: Improving the Public Dialogue -
Gallagher Business Bldg. 106
Frank Allen, President and Executive Director,
Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources
Michelle Nijhuis, Contributing Editor,
High Country News
Steve Schwarze, Associate Professor, Communication
Studies, University of Montana
3/11 Climate Change Negotiations:
On the Need of Nations to Follow what Justice Requires
Donald Brown, Associate Professor
of Environmental Ethics and Program Director, Ethical Dimensions
of Climate Change, Penn State University
3/18 Adapting to Climate
Change: The Importance of Wilderness in an Uncertain World
Thomas DeLuca, Senior Forest Ecologist,
The Wilderness Society
4/1 Climate Change: Biblical
Solutions to a World in Crisis
Tri Robinson, Pastor, Vineyard of Boise
and author of Saving God’s Green Earth
4/8 The Greatest Generation:
How Today’s 20 Year-Olds Will Save the Planet
Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics,
Lewis and Clark College, and Project Director, Focus the
Nation
4/15 Climate Solutions:
For a New, Sustainable Prosperity
K.C. Golden, Policy Director, Climate Solutions
Co-Sponsored by the
Wilderness Institute and Center
for Ethics.
Each year the series addresses a theme of current interest.
Past themes have included Visions and Voices: Writers on Conservation,
Wildness, and Nature; Cultural Perspectives on Wilderness,
Women and Wilderness, Bioregionalism: Re-inhabiting the Northern
Rockies, Living with Wilderness, Wilderness: Looking Toward
the Future, Montana: The Changing Face of People and Place,
Managing Wilderness in an Era of Chaos and Uncertainty, and
Wilderness and Spirit.
