California Coast
UC Irvine presents “Enhancing the Future of the California Coast,” a daylong conference featuring legal, environmental, engineering and nonprofit experts discussing the preservation of the state’s rich marine environment.
The event is the eighth in the “Toward a Sustainable 21st Century” series, presented by UCI’s School of Law, Program in Public Health, School of Social Ecology and Newkirk Center for Science & Society.
03/04/2011
Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering (bldg. 80, grid C4 on campus map)
09:00 a.m.
9 a.m.: UCI Chancellor Michael Drake will deliver opening remarks.
10 a.m.: Richard Hildreth, law professor at the University of Oregon and director of its Ocean & Coastal Law Center, will address regulations concerning use of the ocean, its resources and the coastal zone.
11 a.m.: Brian Baird, manager of the California Ocean Resources Management Program, will discuss policy terrain for ocean and coastal protection.
1 p.m.: David Feldman, chair of UCI’s Department of Planning, Policy & Design, and Margaret Caldwell, director of the Environmental & Natural Resources Law & Policy Program at the Stanford University Law School, will explore future visions of law, governance and science for the California coast.
3 p.m.: Sunny Jiang, UCI professor of civil & environmental engineering, and Joseph DiMento, UCI professor of law and planning, policy & design, will discuss what people can do to sustain the Orange County coast.
For a complete agenda, visit http://socialecology.uci.edu/events/enhancing-future-california-coast