Finding the balance between creating a sustainable future and ensuring economic strength will be the subject of a conference presented by the Law School’s Environmental Law & Policy Program April 8 and 9.
The ELPP conferences are held every other year with the goal of shedding light on current issues in environmental law and policy. This year’s conference proceeds from the idea that a sustainable future depends on rethinking our approach, so that a healthy environment is seen as the basis for a strong economy.
“If we don’t have a strong environment, if we don’t protect our habitat, we won’t have an economy to sustain,” says event organizer and ELPP Director David Uhlmann, the Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice at the Law School.
With that in mind, panels will examine different parts of the question. An international, interdisciplinary collection of professors from fields of law, economics, ecology, and natural resource scholarship will join with government officials and other policy makers.
Panels will include Cost Benefit Analysis and Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation; The Green Economy and Efforts to Harmonize Sustainability and Economic Growth; and Ecological Economics: Rethinking the Relationship Between Environment and Economics.
“We’ll be very much focused on sustainability, and how we can be more true to the principles that led to the founding of Earth Day 40 years ago,” Uhlmann says. “We hope this will propel us towards a future when we’ll live more harmoniously with nature.”
Registration is required.
For more information, go to www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/elpp/conference/Pages/ELPPConference.aspx.
