Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

This symposium presents a coherently integrated series of
interdisciplinary research projects unified around the argument
that the primary barriers to sustainability are not a lack of existing
knowledge, but socially constructed obstacles hindering our
capacity to act on the basis of that knowledge.
8:00 AM Introductory remarks
8:05 AM SYMP 6-1 Fischer, J, Leuphana University Lueneburg.
Policy reform for sustainability: Contrasting challenges in
different settings.
8:25 AM SYMP 6-2 Wyborn, C, Australian National University.
Engaging civil society across scales: Integrating local
community perspectives into large scale biodiversity
conservation initiatives in Australia and North America.
8:45 AM SYMP 6-3 Watanabe, C, University of Tokyo.
9:05 AM
Consumption and population in underdeveloped nations:
The health impacts of food consumption by high density
populations: Case study from Bangladesh.
SYMP 6-4 Lovejoy, T, George Mason University & Heinz
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
Financial institutions and sustainable development.
9:25 AM Break
9:35 AM SYMP 6-5 Gross, C, Australian National University.
Fairness and justice: Water allocations, food bowl
modernization, and divided communities, case of
Victoria, Australia.
9:55 AM SYMP 6-6 Freitag, A, Duke University. Values and
beliefs: Utilizing different ‘ways of knowing’ in smallscale
fishing communities in North Carolina.
10:15 AM SYMP 6-7 Steffen, W, Australian National University.
Ways forward: The wicked problem of global change:
Towards more sustainable futures.
10:35 AM SYMP 6-8 Ehrlich, PR, Stanford University.
Interdisciplinary research platforms to support evidencebased
policy making in coupled human-natural systems:
Lessons from the MAHB.
10:55 AM Discussion
OOS 8 - Living at Water’s Edge: Shifting Human
Patterns Impacting Coastal Ecosystems
A106, Oregon Convention Center
Organized by: ME Lam (mimibethlam@gmail.com), BR Pohlad
Moderator: ME Lam
This symposium synthesizes ecological theory and practice in
a way that renders the science understandable, both to resource
users and regulators of human activities, to shift human patterns
of consumption and industry impacting coastal ecosystems and to
identify what is needed to promote collaborative governance.
8:00 AM OOS 8-1 Lam, ME1 and BR Pohlad2 , (1)University of
British Columbia, (2)Ferrum College. Living at Water’s
edge: Connecting ecology, communities, and policy.
8:20 AM OOS 8-2 Pitcher, TJ, University of British Columbia.
Sea change: Historically based restoration and the sea
ahead.
8:40 AM OOS 8-3 Pérez-Quintero, AE, University of Puerto
Rico. Mobilizing coastal communities to protect coastal
ecosystems.
9:00 AM OOS 8-4 Zandvliet, DB, Simon Fraser University. Revisioning
environmental learning to sustain communities.
9:20 AM OOS 8-5 Berkes, F, University of Manitoba. Marine
and coastal co-management: How can we foster learning
and adaptive processes?.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM OOS 8-6 Fluharty, DL, University of Washington. Living
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
8 am-11:30 am
at the edge: Making integrated coastal management and
marine policy work.
10:10 AM OOS 8-7 Leslie, HM, Brown University. Ecosystembased
management in practice: Learning from placebased
initiatives.
10:30 AM OOS 8-8 McLeod, KL, COMPASS. From metaphors to
measurements: Mobilizing science for ecosystem-based
management.
OOS 9 - Population, Environment and Sustainability
Issues In the U.S.
A105, Oregon Convention Center
Organized by: SH Hurlbert (shurlbert@sunstroke.sdsu.edu)
Moderator: R Costanza
Conflicts between sustainability and population growth as
exemplified by U.S. past, present and future population trends,
policies, and case histories of major negatively impacted
environmental resources of the U.S. and bordering regions of
Canada and Mexico, with intimations of the way forward.
8:00 AM OOS 9-1 DeYoung, MBC, Californians for Population
Stabilization. U.S. population policies, trends and
projections: 1900-2050.
8:20 AM OOS 9-2 Pimentel, D, Cornell University. Estimating a
sustainable population for the United States.
8:40 AM OOS 9-3 Dietz, R, The Daly News. Moving toward
ecological economics: Why are we still haunted by the
ghosts of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Julian
Simon?.
9:00 AM OOS 9-4 Cafaro, P, Colorado State University.
Developing an environmental impact statement for U.S.
immigration policy.
9:20 AM OOS 9-5 Schindler, DW, University of Alberta. Oil
sands operations, first nation peoples and a sustainable
Canada.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM OOS 9-6 Ceballos Gonzalez, G, Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico. Continental ecology, connectivity,
and the conservation of biodiversity in the Mexico-U.S.
border region.
10:10 AM OOS 9-7 Michael, H1 and R Lackey2 , (1)Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife, Retired, (2)Oregon State
University. Past, present and future of salmonid stocks in
the Pacific Northwest.
10:30 AM OOS 9-8 Zuckerman, B, University of California Los
Angeles. Population growth and projection of future U.S.
greenhouse gas outputs.
10:50 AM OOS 9-9 Hurlbert, SH, San Diego State University.
Sustainibility, censorship and unholy left-right alliances.
OOS 10 - Ecological Effects of Artificial Light At Night
D136, Oregon Convention Center
Organized by: EK Perkin (liz.perkin@igb-berlin.de), F Hölker
Moderator: JS Richardson
This session seeks to update the ecological community about recent
advances in artificial light research and to increase awareness of the
potential effects of artificial light on ecosystems.
8:00 AM OOS 10-1 Rotics, S, T Dayan and N Kronfeld-Schor,
Tel-Aviv University. Light pollution in a rocky desert
community: Foraging behavior, activity patterns, and
inter- and intraspecific interactions in spiny mice.
8:20 AM OOS 10-2 Kempenaers, B, Max Planck Institute for
Ornithology. Artificial night lighting disrupts songbird
breeding behavior.
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