This will be the 16th program in the “Toward a Sustainable 21st Century” series addressing major unsolved sustainability challenges of global society. The underlying problems confronted across the domains of this conference are particularly daunting:
- World population is expected to increase from its over 7 billion today to at least 9 billion by 2050.
- 1 billion people in the developing world depend on the world’s fisheries for their source of vital protein.
- The broad trends are well known: declines in fish size and availability in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres raise the specter of food insecurity on a global scale.
- In addition to the over exploitation of fisheries, the world’s ability to produce food is negatively impacted by growing competition for energy, land and water.
- The productivity of the world’s oceans is already stressed beyond the pressure on global fisheries by toxic contamination, increasing organic pollution, the degradation of coastal waters, and the effects of climate change.
The conference will address the topic across the domains of the urgency of the problem, defining the underlying science, presenting challenges of law and governance, and imperatives for action.
Keynote Speaker
Andrew Sharpless, CEO, Oceana
Speakers and Panelists
Welcome
John C. Hemminger
Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Irvine
Defining the Science
Matthew Bracken
Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology, UC Irvine
Donovan German
Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine
Allison Moreno
Graduate Student, Earth System Science, UC Irvine
Katherine Mackey
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science, UC Irvine
Law, Governance and Science
Anastasia Telesetsky
Associate Professor of Law, University of Idaho
Donna Christie
Elizabeth C. & Clyde W. Atkinson Professor of Law, Florida State University
Josh Eagle
Solomon Blatt Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
Food Security
Richard Matthew
Director, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs;
Professor, Planning, Policy and Design, and Political Science, UC Irvine
Mark Spalding
Chair and President, The Ocean Foundation
Imperatives for Action
Geoff Shester
California Campaign Director, Oceana
Erin Meyer
Associate Scientist for the MPA Monitoring Enterprise, California Ocean Science Trust
Rebecca Martone
Ecosystem Health Program Lead, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University
Moderators
Adam Martiny
Associate Professor, Earth System Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine
Alejandro Camacho
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources, UC Irvine
Joseph F.C. DiMento
Professor of Law, Joint Appointment in Law and Planning, Policy, and Design, UC Irvine |
