12:00 Registration

12:30 Welcome and Introductions - Gerald Visgilio, Ph.D. Associate Director, The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies

Keynote Address

Environmental Justice: History, Issues, and Dilemmas- Bunyan Bryant, Ph.D. Chair of Resource Policy and Behavior Concentration, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

1:30 Session I. Race, Class and Environmental Hazards

Green Imperialism: Indigenous People and Conservation of Natural Environments - Manuel Lizarralde, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Anthropology/Botany, Connecticut College

Syndrome Behavior and the Politics of Environmental Justice - Harvey L. White, Ph.D Associate Professor, Public and Urban Affairs, International Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2:30-3:00 Break with light refreshments

Risky Business? Relying on Empirical Studies to Assess Environmental Justice - Pam Davidson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Burning and Burying in Connecticut: Are Regional Solutions to Solid Waste Disposal Equitable? - Timothy Black, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Social Research, University of Hartford and John A. Stewart, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology, Research Associate of the Center for Social Research, University of Hartford

4:30 Adjourn

5:30 Reception and Dinner

7:30 Evening Presentation

Ethical Values and Environmental Equity - Virginia Ashby Sharpe, Ph.D. Deputy Director and Associate for Biomedical & Environmental Ethics, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York

Saturday, April 21 2001

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - Session II. Confronting Environmental Injustice

Panel: Confronting Environmental Injustice in Connecticut

Federal Government Laws and Policy- James Younger, Director of Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency

Policy in the State of Connectictut- Edith Pestana, Assistant Commissioner's Office, Environmental Equity Program Administrator, Department of Environmental Protection

Protecting Urban Environments in CT through Community Education and Advocacy - Mark Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H. Director Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice

Multi-racial, Cross-cultural Environmental Mobilization: One Person Can Make a Difference - Cynthia Jennings, Board Chairperson, Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice

10:30 - 11:00 Break

Environmental Justice, Federalism, and the Division of Land Use Authority Between Federal, State and Local Governments - Vicki Been, J.D. Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Environmental Justice and Native Americans - Jace Weaver, Ph.D. Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies and Law, Yale University

For the People: American Indian and Hispanic Women in New Mexico's Environmental Justice Movement - Diane-Michele Prindeville, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Government, New Mexico State University

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch provided

Session III. Prospects for the Future

Panel: In Pursuit of Healthy and Livable Communities

Public Health in Brownfields - Brian Toal, Bureau of Community Health, Connecticut State Department of Public Health

Coalition Building at the Local Level - Estelle Bogdonoff, Co-chair, Southeastern Connecticut Indoor Air Quality Coalition

People, Places and Asthma: Its Ecological Imprint in Our Midst - Kathy Cooper McDermott, Environmental Health Nurse, New London Health Department

Tools for Schools, Open Airways for Schools - Deborah Anne Hovey, Administrative Director, Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health

The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice - Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland at College Park

4:30 Closing Remarks

Bunyan Bryant, Ph.D. Chair of Resource Policy and Behavior Concentration, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

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