Dates: Nov. 16 to 17, 2007
Description
In November 2007, the Center for Global Business and Development sponsored a symposium on "Taking Stock of Sustainable Development at 20: A Principle at Odds with Itself? It examined the development and current status of sustainable development, both generally, and through the lens of two specific applications.
Day One of the conference was sponsored by the Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure. It considered the human-resources side of efforts to develop sustainably. In particular, it looked at the impact on sustainable development of the "brain-drain cycle" — in which younger, educated workers migrate from developing regions to metropoles — and outsourcing — in which back-office services migrate from developed economies to newly industrialized developing countries.
Day Two was sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Development. By focusing on two key anniversaries, it traced the origins and development of the concept of sustainable development and its influence on state practice. Speakers examined the impact of the path-breaking Brundtland Commission Report, Our Common Future, 20 years after it made sustainable development the paradigm for reconciling efforts at environmental protection and economic development. Speakers also assess the contribution of the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses 10 years after its adoption by the UN General Assembly.
| 2007 | ||
| Friday, November 16th | ||
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| 1:20 PM |
Michael Malloy, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 1:20 PM - 1:30 PM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Panel 1 - The Brain Drain and Economic Development Ali Mansoor, Development Government of Mauritius McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel 2 - Outsourcing and Economic Development Mark Baker, University of Texas at Austin McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Michael Malloy, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| Saturday, November 17th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Elizabeth Rindskopf parker, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM |
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| 9:10 AM |
Session 1: The Promise of the Brundtland Commission: Honored or Betrayed? Alberto Szekely, Legal Experts Group to the Brundtland Commission McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM |
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| 9:10 AM |
Session 1: UN Special Envoy for Climate Change (by video recording) Gro Brundtland, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
Session 2: Sustainable Development: From Rhetorical Bridge to Substantive Content David Caron, University of California Berkeley McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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| 10:30 AM |
Iwona Rummel-Bulska, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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| 12:00 PM |
Keynote Address: Durable River Basin Agreements: Sustainability in a Hydrology Perspective Malin Falkenmark, Stockholm International Water Institute McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Session 3: The 1997 UN Convention on International Watercourses: retrospect and Prospect Stephen McCaffrey, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Flavia Loures, World Wildlife Fund McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Gregory Weber, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
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