The Precautionary Principle: Applying Ethical Environmental Decision Making in a World of Uncertainty - Carolyn Raffensperger
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 23 Mar 2006 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Sun Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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In 1982 she left a career as an archaeologist in the desert Southwest to join the environmental movement. She first worked for the Sierra Club where she addressed an array of environmental issues including: forest management, river protection, pesticide pollutants, and disposal of radioactive waste. She began working for SEHN in December 1994. As an environmental lawyer she specializes in the fundamental changes in law and policy necessary for the protection and restoration of public health and the environment.
Carolyn is co-editor of Protecting Public Health and the Environment:
Implementing the Precautionary Principle, published by Island Press (1999).
This volume is the most comprehensive exploration to date of the history,
theory, and implementation of the precautionary principle. Carolyn coined the
term "ecological medicine" to encompass the broad notions that both health and
healing are entwined with the natural world. She serves on editorial review
boards for several environmental and sustainable agriculture journals, and has
served on USEPA and National Research Council committees. In addition, she
writes the Science for Lawyers column for the Environmental Law Institute's
journal Environmental Forum.
Carolyn has been featured in Gourmet magazine, the Utne Reader, Yes! Magazine, the Sun, Whole Earth, and Scientific American. Along with leading workshops and giving frequent lectures on the Precautionary Principle, Carolyn is at the forefront of developing new models for government that depend on these larger ideas of precaution and ecological integrity. The new models include a vision for the courts of the 21st century and the public trust doctrine.
Sponsored by ISU chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology