December 11, 2008
National Conference on Climate Governance
On December 11 and 12, 2008, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia will hold a national conference on the governance of climate change strategies.
While scientific analysis and technical policy recommendations abound, officials and experts have given little attention to matters of actual governance: which level of government should make what types of decisions and determinations about climate change.
- What role should local, state, and federal government each play?
- How do these national and sub-national units of government manage a problem that is inherently international in scope?
- What policy options are most likely to garner political support, and to be be implemented?
This conference, featuring leading scholars and practitioners, will produce a detailed report to help guide the new Presidential administration and Congress, and an edited, peer-reviewed academic volume.
Participants include:
- Christopher Borick, Muhlenberg College
- Martha Derthick, University of Virginia
- Kirsten Engel, University of Arizona
- Susan Gander, National Governors Association
- Marc Landy, Boston College
- Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Pietro Nivola, Brookings Institution
- Paul Posner, George Mason University
- Barry Rabe, University of Michigan
- Leigh Raymond, Purdue University
- Walter Rosenbaum, University of Florida
- Ian Rowlands, University of Waterloo
- Henrik Selin, Boston University
- Stacy VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire
The National Conference on Climate Governance is made possible by grants from WestWind Foundation, Muhlenberg College; the Center for Local, State and Urban Policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald Ford School of Public Policy; the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and Altria Group, Inc. and an anonymous Charlottesville foundation.
This event is invitation only. However, it will be simulcast in viewing rooms within the Miller Center, webcast live and archived at www.millercenter.org.