Joint Cross-border Workshop on Sustainability
Environmental sustainability issues are at the top of the U.S. and Canadian policy agendas. This interdisciplinary and comparative workshop aims to address the challenges posed by sub-national, national, and international attempts to achieve environmental sustainability objectives in the face of growing climate change concerns.
The workshop will (1) facilitate interactions among scholars working in a range of disciplines and on variety of topics related to sustainability issues, (2) provide a forum for scholars to present works in progress and (3) build institutional ties among the participating institutions.
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Some topics may include:
- Sustainability and land use regulation issues, including market and regulatory approaches;
- Sustainability and trans-border issues, including regulation of transnational water bodies such as the Lake Champlain Basin, the Gulf of Maine, and the Arctic Ocean;
- Sustainability and international law issues, including the effectiveness of international environmental regulation and enforcement;
- Sustainability and human rights, including comparative constitutional analyses of sustainability-related rights, such as the right to scarce natural resources.
A collaboration of the Vermont Law School, and 海外直播b站's Faculty of Law, this event is made possible in part by a generous grant to Vermont Law School from the Canadian Government's 2010-2011 Canadian Studies Conference Grant Program.
