Wednesday 14 March 2012 at 13:00
Environmental Law Discussion Group
Water, Law, and Policy In At Least Some of the United States Right Now: How Many Blinkered Projections, Constitutional Roadblocks, Democratic Manglings, Greedy Impulses, Historic Impasses, Hubristic Settlement Patterns, Market-based Distortions, Moth-Eaten Legal Conceits, and Let Us Not Forget Rampant Senses of Entitlement Can Swarm the Field of Adaptive Water Management?
Speaker: Professor Jane Cohen, Edward Clark Centennial Professor, University of Texas
Venue: Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Seminar Room
This talk will include examples from the extensive inventory that Professor Cohen is compiling of recombinant impediments to the reform of water law and policy in the United States. Problems are not limited to the replication of past errors, but to the ways that stolid practices combine with current economic and political strategies to overwhelm the adaptive evolution of water resource management. The talk will include reference to a brand-new study of “fracking” in the oil and shale gas industries and, possibly, to Pascal’s wager.
For more information please contact: Dhvani Mehta
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Organised by the Environmental Law Discussion Group in conjunction with Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
