"Resilience: An Operating System for the 21st Century?"
Panel Discussion
Friday, Sept. 9, 2011
6:00 PM
PNCA
1241 NW Johnson Street
Portland, OR 97209
Join us for complimentary Hotlips pizza and beer at 6PM
Panel starts at 7PM
VIP dessert reception to follow
On social, economic, and environmental grounds, the institutions of the 20th century are failing. What does transformation look like? Join resilience ecologist C.S. Buzz Holling and a panel of regional leaders from around the globe moderated by Peter Schoonmaker to explore how the practice of resilience can create economic opportunity, social equity and environmental well-being in the times ahead.
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Panelists
Mia Crawford is the Head of the Baltic 21 unit of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). Initiated by the Prime Ministers of the Baltic Sea countries in 1996, Baltic 21 is a regional expression of the global Agenda 21 adopted by the United Nations "Earth Summit." As of January 2010 Baltic 21 has been integrated into the structure of the CBSS as an Expert Group on Sustainable Development. Crawford is currently facilitating the integration of Baltic 21 into the CBSS and supporting numerous of Baltic 21 Lighthouse projects covering topics such as bioenergy promotion, sustainable production, balanced urban and rural development and setting up of model eco-regions. Prior to working at CBSS Secretariat. Crawford worked as a Program Officer at the United Nations in New York dealing with sustainable forestry and sustainable development. She holds an MSc in Environmental Policy and an MSc in Biology.
Buzz Holling is currently Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. He was among the first ecologists to recognize the importance of bifurcation theory (including ideas of stability, multiple stable states, strange attractors, and chaos).
President Anote Tong is the leader of the central Pacific Island nation of Kiribati. President Tong has attracted international attention by warning that his country may become uninhabitable by the 2050s due to rising sea levels and salination provoked by climate change. Tong has stated that Kiribati may cease to exist altogether, and that its entire population of 94,000 may need to be resettled as climate refugees. In 2008, under his leadership, Kiribati made a grand gift to the world: it declared 150,000 square miles of its Phoenix Islands marine area a fully protected marine park, making it off limits to fishing and other extractive uses. This pristine ocean wilderness is the size of California and has been designated a UN World Heritage Site.
Peter Yu is a Yawuru man from Broome in the Kimberley region in Northern Australia with more than 30 years of experience in indigenous development and advocacy in the Kimberley as well as the national level. He led the Kimberley Land Council during the 1990s and had a national leadership role negotiating the Australian nation's response to the High Court's 1992 Mabo decision, which recognized indigenous rights in Australia’s common law. He was a key negotiator on behalf of the Yawuru native title holders with the Western Australian State Government over the landmark 2010 Yawuru native title agreement, and was the first CEO of the Yawuru Corporate Group. Peter is currently the chair of the Northern Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance and a member of the National Advisory Council of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Council of the National Museum of Australia.
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