January 28, 2005
CHAPEL HILL — “Perspectives on Environmental Values,” a symposium focusing on what aspects of the natural world people care about and why, will be held on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus March 4 and 5.The Carolina Environmental Program’s 2005 Environmental Symposium is intended to deepen participants’ understanding of the different ways people value the natural world and to stimulate creative thinking about how to factor these values into environmental policymaking. The location is the Kresge Commons Room in the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in Graham Memorial.

The event is co-sponsored by UNC’s Parr Center for Ethics and is open to the public, with a registration fee of $25 (the deadline to register is Feb. 10). The fee does not cover travel, lodging and dinner the evening of March 4. For more information, call (919) 966-9922, e-mail cep@unc.edu or visit www.cep.unc.edu/symposium/2005/index.html.

Speakers for the event include:

7 Alison Deming, professor of English at the University of Arizona;

7 Dr. W. Michael Hannemann, Chancellor’s professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley;

7 Dr. Lisa Heinzerling, professor of law at Georgetown University;

7 Dr. Joan E. Roughgarden, professor of biological sciences and geophysics at Stanford University;

7 Dr. Mark Sagoff, senior public policy research scholar at the University of Maryland;

7 Dr. Paul Slovic, president of Decision Research;

7 Dr. Scott Slovic, professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada at Reno; and

7 Dr. Kerry Smith, University distinguished professor of agricultural and resource economics at N.C. State University.

“Perspectives on Environmental Values” is chaired by Dr. Doug MacLean, professor of philosophy and director of the Parr Center for Ethics at UNC. MacLean is an authority on environmental ethics and environmental risk management.

The Carolina Environmental Program is a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to addressing factors that build an environmentally sustainable society. The program offers majors in environmental science and environmental studies within the College of Arts and Sciences and environmental health science within the School of Public Health; fosters collaborative research on large-scale environmental challenges; and provides technical assistance, training and up-to-date information on environmental issues to N.C. communities.

UNC’s Parr Center for Ethics brings together UNC’s resources in ethics. The center, housed within the College of Arts and Sciences, is the public face of UNC’s commitment to ethics; supports and encourages attention to ethics on campus and in the broader UNC community; is the central point of coordination and communication for UNC regarding ethics; and provides the necessary resources, vocabulary, intellectual framework and opportunities to explore ethical questions productively.

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Carolina Environmental Program contact: Tony Reevy, (919) 966-9927 or tony_reevy@unc.edu

News Services contact: Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu

For further information please contact Emily Smith by email at ejsmith@email.unc.edu

 

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