[URBANTH-L]Re: Nature Ecology & Society Colloquim March 7

[CFish at bmcc.cuny.edu]

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Seventh Annual Nature, Ecology & Society Colloquium
Scales of Environmental Justice
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Friday, March 7, 2008
Free
 
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome
David Chapin, Jason A. Douglas and Tsai-Shiou Hsieh, PhD Program in 
Environmental Psychology, GC, CUNY

10:15 – 10:30 Opening Remarks
Tom Angotti, Center for Community Planning and Development, Hunter College

10:30 – 11:30 Educating for Just Stewardship
Chair: Cheryl Fish, English, Borough of Manhattan Community College 
William D. Solecki, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College
Annette Williams, B.E.S.T. Program Director, Sustainable South Bronx
Kimberly Libman, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center

11:30 – 11:45 Break and View Research Posters

11:45 – 12:45 Environmental Justice New York
Chair: Judith Kimerling, CUNY School of Law, Queens College 
Juliana Maantay, Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences, 
Lehman College
Philip Silva, Campaign Coordinator, Southern Bronx River Watershed 
Alliance
Tom Angotti, Center for Community Planning and Development, Hunter College

12:45 – 1:30 Lunch & Discussion 
Global Identity: How to Encourage Concerns on a Planetary Level / Leanne 
Rivlin, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center
Human Dimensions of Climate Change / Janis Roze, The Americas Center, 
Graduate Center
Curriculum Development in Sustainability at CUNY / William D. Solecki, 
CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College
Environmental Regulation, Pollution Trading Schemes and Social Justice / 
Rebecca M. Bratspies, CUNY School of Law, Queens College
Sustainable CUNY / Yehuda Klein, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 
Graduate Center

1:30 – 1:45 Student Comments on the Research Posters*

1:45 – 2:45 Just Climate
Chair: Hari Pant, Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences, 
Lehman College
Radley Horton, Center for Climate Research, Columbia University
Cecilia McHugh, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College 

Jingwu Wang and Hari K. Pant, Environmental, Geographic, and Geological 
Sciences, Lehman College

2:45 – 3:00 Break and View Research Posters

3:00 – 4:00 Constructing Green
Chair: Elizabeth Housley, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center
Kenneth Gould, Sociology, Brooklyn College
Peter Marcotullio, Urban Planning/Geography, Columbia University and 
Hunter College
Rob Crauderueff, Sustainable Alternatives Coordinator, Sustainable South 
Bronx

 
*  There will be 13 research posters presented.
 
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Cheryl J. Fish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Borough of Manhattan Community College
City University of New York