Abstract Submission :: 2011 Colorado Conference on Environmental Governance

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The following is an overview of the conference program in order to give participants an outline of the conference schedule. Please note that individual papers are still being assigned to particular sessions. Sessions and time are subject to change. A more detailed overview of the conference structure will be posted closer to the conference date.

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Tuesday 17 May

5:00 -7:00pm	Registration
5:30-7:30pm	Opening Reception Welcome James A. Cooney, Vice Provost for International Affairs, CSU

Wednesday 18 May

7:00-9:00am	Registration
9:00-10:30am	Opening Plenary Welcome from the Conference Hosts Diana Wall, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, CSU Frank Biermann, IHDP Earth System Governance Project Michele Betsill, Environmental Governance Working Group, CSU Building a New Energy Economy The Honorable Bill Ritter, Colorado Governor 2007-2011
10:30-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm	Panel Sessions I
12:30-2:00pm	Lunch Networking Tables Early Career Researchers, hosted by Theresa Jedd and Faith Sternleib, CSU Communicating Earth System Governance: Media and Storytelling, hosted by Vanessa Timmer, University of British Columbia and One Earth
2:00-3:30pm	Panel Sessions II
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00-5:30pm	Semi-Plenary I: Sugaring Off: Enduring insights from four decades of theorizing about environmental governance Oran Young, University of California Santa Barbara Semi Plenary II: Crossing Boundaries & Building Bridges with Technology in Earth System Governance Research

Thursday 19 May

8:00-9:00am	Registration
9:00-10:30am	Panel Sessions III
10:30-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm	Semi-Plenary III: Conversation Cafe on the International Architecture for Earth System Governance Semi-Plenary IV: Promoting Climate Change Mitigation and Livelihoods at the Forest-Farm Frontier Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
12:30-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00-3:30pm	Panel Sessions IV
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00-5:30pm	Panel Sessions V

Friday 20 May

8:00-9:00am	Registration
9:00-10:30am	Panel Sessions VI
10:30-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30pm	Panel Sessions VII
12:30-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00-3:30pm	Panel Sessions VIII
3:30-4:30pm	Closing Plenary
6:00-10:00pm	Conference Dinner at Planet Bluegrass

Saturday 21 May

~8:00am-8:00pm

Optional Field Trip
Rocky Mountain National Park

Key dates

Program Corrections Due: 20 April 2011
Registration Confirmation Due: 20 April 2011
Full papers due: 1 May 2011

Conference themes

Linking across Scale
Linking the Social and Natural Sciences
Linking Research to Practice
Linking the 5As

Colorado International Steering Committee

Michele Betsill, Co-Chair, Colorado State University, USA
Tony Cheng, Co-Chair, Colorado State University, USA
Pete Taylor, Co-Chair, Colorado State University, USA
Frank Biermann, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jessica Clement, Colorado State University, USA
Kathleen Galvin, Colorado State University, USA
Joyeeta Gupta, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Norichika Kanie, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Louis Lebel, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Diana Liverman, University of Arizona, USA and Oxford University, UK
Dennis Ojima, Colorado State University, USA
Robin Reid, Colorado State University, USA
Heike Schroeder, Oxford University, UK
Bernd Siebenhüner, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Dimitris Stevis, Colorado State University, USA
Jessica Thompson, Colorado State University, USA
Marcela Velasco, Colorado State University, USA
Susana Camargo Vieira, Universidade de Itaúna, Brazil
Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University, USA
Pius Z. Yanda, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania