March 18, 2008
Two Opportunities for Continuing Education Credits at NAU
Water Scarcity & Conservation
Monday, March 24
5:30 to 7 pm
Gardner Auditorium at the W.A. Franke College of Business on the NAU campus
The M.S. Program in Environmental Sciences and Policy is co-sponsoring the second event in the Lecture Series in Western Landscape Conservation. The discussion is titled Water scarcity: Conservation strategies, new policy, and the changing legal context for a warming West. The discussion will feature three speakers from around the west: David Getches, a natural resources law professor at the University of Colorado School of Law; Katherine Jacobs, the Executive Director of the Arizona Water Institute; and Brent Haddad, an environmental policy expert from the University of California at Santa Cruz and author of Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water in California. This talk will illuminate the emerging opportunities for achieving sustainable water management and the policy changes needed to realize it. Grand Canyon Trust, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and NAU are co-sponsors.
Go to www.westernconservationseries.org for more information.
Livable Cities
Friday, March 28, 5 - 8:30 pm
Saturday, March 29, 9 am - 3 pm
Sunday, March 30, 9 am – 2 pm
NAU Liberal Arts Building #18
The Master of Arts in Sustainable Communities is sponsoring a 1 credit course and workshop on Livable Cities by Corrado Poli, International Faculty who is professor of Economics and Environmental Ethics at the University of Bergamo, Italy and International Faculty at the Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins. This course will consider the peculiarity of middle sized cities and towns, diverse ideas of quality of life related to social status, income, values, gender and urban planning, based on environmental ethics, and traffic as the crucial problems of the contemporary city. He will be looking at strategies and policies that have been implemented in Europe and the U.S. to create livable communities.
For more information, contact Holly Hulen at 928-523-9359 or holly.hulen@nau.edu or check out www.cal.nau.edu/mls
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