The FRG co-sponsored
the Greening XIV, the annual meeting of Southern
California's environmental researchers. It was held
on Saturday, January 25, 2005 in MPAA Building 408.
The Institute on Global
Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) has a number of funding
opportunities for academic funding and job
opportunities. For more information, please
visit the
IGCC website.
The FRG co-sponsored a
presentation on coastal water quality to be made by
Professor Stanley Grant on May 6, 2004 in 343 MPAA. This
event will be co-sponsored with the Newkirk Center for
Science and Society. More information is available on
the Newkirk
Center Website.
The
Greening XIV, the annual meeting of Southern
California's environmental researchers, will be held at
the University of California, Irvine on January 22,
2005. More details forthcoming.
The journal
International Environmental Agreements has put
out a call for papers. International Environmental
Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics is a
peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal that focuses
on the theoretical, methodological and practical
dimensions of achieving cooperative solutions to
international environmental problems. The journal, which
is published four times each year, emphasizes both
formal legal agreements (such as multilateral treaties)
and less formal cooperative mechanisms (such as
ministerial declarations and producer-consumer
agreements). The journal's scope encompasses the full
range of environmental and natural resource issues,
including (but not limited to) biosafety, biodiversity
loss, climate change, desertification, forest
conservation, ozone depletion, transboundary pollutant
flows, and the management of marine and fresh-water
resources. For more information, please visit the
website for
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law
and Economics.
FRG Member Joe
DiMento presented on science and environmental law at
the 2004 American Association for the Advancement of
Science meeting in Seattle.
NEPA
represented an "environmental constitution," said Joseph
Dimento, a professor of planning, law and management at
the University of California, Irvine. It was the first
time the environment was recognized as part of
government actions, he told United Press International.
A Graduate
Group Meeting was held on Friday, February 6th, in
SEII 2303. Graduate students discussed
their research projects.
On Thursday, January 22,
2004 at 4:00 Professor Joseph DiMento gave an informal talk on
Climate Change and U.S. Policy. This talk was located in MPAA 343
Nils Petter Gleditsch,
presented
"A Resource Curse? Scarcity and Abundance
as Causes of Conflict." Thursday, January 22, 2004, 10:00
am - 11:00am, 408 MPAA Building. Gleditsch is a Research
Professor at the International Peace Research Institute,
Oslo (PRIO) and editor of the Journal of Peace Research.
On Saturday, January 24,
2004 the Greening XIII Conference will be held at the Hedco
Neurosciences Conference Room and Auditorium at the University of
Southern California in downtown Los Angeles. The event is sponsored by
the Jesse Unruh Institute of Politics and the Environmental Studies
Program at USC.
In 2004, the
FRG will host a Conference on Trade and the Environment in Europe and
the Americas. The date and location will be announced.

Read
"Climate Change: Italian Style"
by Joseph F. C. DiMento, a Professor of Law & Society and Planning, UCI,
and an observer at the Ninth Conference of the Parties of the Framework
Convention on Climate Change, Milan, Italy, December 1-12, 2003.
On October 28-30, 2004 a
Conference on Challenges of a Transboundary World will be held in the
Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences, at the University of
California, Irvine. The event is sponsored by the Urban Water Research
Center, the Focused Research Group in International Environmental
Cooperation, the Program in Industrial Ecology, the Center for the Study
of Democracy, and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies.
The Newkirk Center,
with co-sponsors Larry Agran, the Mayor of Irvine, the Department of
Criminology, Law, and Society, the School of Social Ecology, and the Los
Angeles County Public Defender presented “Science and the Law of
Evidence” on Saturday, November 15, at the Irvine Civic Center.
The UCI Newkirk Center for Science
and Society presented
Climate Change (The
Greenhouse Effect): What it Means for You, Your Children, and Your
Grandchildren. This event was held on October 30, 2003.
FRG member Joseph DiMento
was interviewed on international
environmental law on KUCI's
"A Few Things Considered."
FRG member Joseph DiMento's book
The Global Environment and International Law is now available.
The FRG and the
UCI
Newkirk Center for Science & Society sponsored a colloquium on March 10,
2003 by William
H. Calvin on "A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt
Climate Change."
FRG Member Joseph DiMento
has been named Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society.
He was recently profiled in an article on UCI New University, to read
the article click here.
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