Program

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Thursday October 29
5:00pm Conference Registration, Clayton Lobby
6:00pm Reception
   
Friday October 30
8:00am Breakfast
8:30am Welcoming Remarks

Thomas M. Powers, Director UD Science, Ethics and Public Policy Program

Fred Schueler, Chair UD Department of Philosophy

George Watson, Dean UD College of Arts & Sciences

8:45am Session 1:

Fritz Nelson, UD Department of Geography and Director, Permafrost Group

9:45am Break
10:00am Climate Change Policy: The Precautionary Principle vs. Economics - Lauren Hartzell, Stanford University

Loaves and Fishes in the Future: Who Pays for Ocean Desertification? - Matt Oliver, UD School of Marine Science and Policy

Human vs. Geological Times Scales in Global Climate Change - Kyngsoo Yoo, UD Department of Plant & Soil Sciences

11:30pm Panel Discussion
12:00pm Lunch
1:15pm Session 2:

John Broome, Oxford University

2:15pm Break

2:30pm

Session 3:

Counting the Costs Before They Are Hatched - Melinda Roberts, The College of New Jersey

Present Policies, Future Generations - Idil Boran, York University

3:30pm Robert L. Nadeau, George Mason University
4:30pm Panel Discussion

5:00pm Adjourn

 

Saturday October 31

8:30am Breakfast
9:15am Session 4:

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame

10:15am Break
10:30am Voluntary Self Restraint to Fight Global Warming - Scott Forschler, Chicago Illinois

The Role of Fair Equality of Opportunity - Edward Abplanalp, lllinois Central College

11:30pm Panel Discussion
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Session 5:

The Possibility of Intergenerational Moral Community - Mike Meyer, Santa Clara University

Global Climate Change and the Nature of Liberalism - Nicole Hassoun, Carnegie Mellon University

Limited Natural Resources and Future Generations - Anna-Karin Andersson, Harvard University

2:30pm Panel Discussion
3:00pm Break
3:15 Session 6: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Panel - Nancy Tuana, Donald Brown, Petra Tschakert, Erich Schienke, Penn State University

5:00pm Discussion and Adjourn