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The Copenhagen Protocol:

Problems and Possibilities

An interdisciplinary perspective

PROGRAMME

Lincoln College

Oxford, England

Sunday, March 21, 2010

3:00 – 4:00 pm REGISTRATION

Beckington Room, Lincoln College

7:00 pm RECEPTION


7:30 pm OPENING DINNER

Lincoln College Dining Hall

Welcome to Oxford

Kern Alexander, Facilitator, Oxford Round Table

Oxford Round Table

Monday, March 22, 2010

7:30 – 8:25 am BREAKFAST – Lincoln College Dining Hall

SESSION I Oakshott Room, Lincoln College

Facilitator: Kern Alexander

8:25 – 8:30 am Introductions, Kern Alexander

8:30 – 8:45 am Title: Copenhagen Climate Accord Implementation:

Premises and Promises

Presenter: Mohan K. Wali, Professor, The Ohio

State University, OH

8:45 – 9:00 am ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Discussion Leader: James Englehardt, Professor,

University of Miami, FL

9:00 – 9:15 am Title: Environmental Justice Beyond Copenhagen:

The Environmental Ethics of Eco-Colonialism and

the Un-Fair Trade of Eco-System Services

Presenter: Paul Brandt-Rauf, Dean, University of

Illinois at Chicago, IL


Discussion Leader: Yehia Khalil, Professor of

Chemical Engineering and Environmental

Engineering, Yale University, CT

9:30 – 9:45 am Title: Climate Instability and Public Health: The

Issue of Malaria

Presenter: Clive Shiff, Associate Professor, Johns

Hopkins University, MD

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Monday, March 22, 2010 - Continued


Discussion Leader: Kamiel Gabriel, Assistant

Deputy Minister and Science Adviser, Ministry of

Research and Innovation, Ontario, Canada

10:00 – 10:30 am TEA & COFFEE

10:30 – 10:45 am Title: Multinational Corporations and the

Environment: Legal Standards and Voluntary

Incentives

Presenter: Paul Lewis, Professor, The John Marshall

Law School, IL


Discussion Leader: Osamu Ieda, Professor,

Hokkaido University, Aichi, Japan

11:00 – 11:15 am Title: Does Sustainable Mining Have Any

Meaning?

Presenter: David Williams, Golder Professor of

Geomechanics, The University of Queensland,

Australia


Discussion Leader: Reuben Barrett, Professor of

Biology, Prairie State College, IL

11:30 – 11:45 am Title: Sustainable Development Under Ambitious

Medium Term Target of Reducing Greenhouse

Gases

Presenter: Ryuji Matsuhashi, Professor, The

University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

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Monday, March 22, 2010 – Continued

11:45 – 12:00 pm ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Discussion Leader: Deborah O'Bannon, Associate

Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO

12:00 pm LUNCH – Lincoln College Dining Hall

Afternoon Session - Continued Lincoln College, Oakshott Room

1:30 – 1:45 pm Title: Regulating Multinational Corporations:

Incentives and Constraints

Presenter: Hlako Choma, Senior Lecturer and Head

of Department: Public Law, University of Venda,

South Africa

1:45 – 2:00 pm Title: Questions from a Colleague

Presenter: Deborah O'Bannon, Associate Professor,

University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO


Discussion Leader: Ronald L.C. Maribett, Visiting

Lecturer, Bridgewater State College, MA

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Monday, March 22, 2010 – Continued

6:30 pm RECEPTION


7:00 pm DINNER


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Tuesday, March 23, 2010


SESSION II Oakshott Room, Lincoln College



8:30 – 8:45 am Title: Trade Liberalization and Global Warming:

The Role of Foreign Aid for Sustainable Economic

Growth

Presenter: Atsuko Matsumura, Professor, Tokyo

International University, Japan


Discussion Leader: Anna Allard, Researcher, SLU

Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Sweden

9:00 – 9:15 am Title: Russia's Role in the Post-2012 Climate

Change Policy: Key Contradictions and

Uncertainties

Presenter: Elena Lioubimtseva, Associate Professor

of Geography and Director, Environmental Studies

Program, Grand Valley State University, MI


Discussion Leader: Thomas Amidon, Professor,

SUNY College of Environmental Sci/Forestry, NY

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - Continued

9:30 – 9:45 am Title: China, India and the United States: Energy

Policy Innovation Makes Strange Bedfellows

Presenter: Lenneal Henderson, Daniel T. Blue

Endowed Chair in Political Science, North Carolina

Central University, NC


Discussion Leader: Tsanangurayi Tongesayi,

Assistant Professor-Analytical and Environmental

Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Medical

Technology and Physics, NJ

10:00 – 10:30 am TEA & COFFEE

10:30 – 10:45 am Title: The Role of Psychological Ownership in

Achieving the Copenhagen Protocol: Sage Lessons

from Sage-Grouse

Presenter: Terry Messmer, Professor, Utah State

University, UT


Discussion Leader: Leelavati Murthy, Professor of

Biology, Community College of Allegheny County,

PA

11:00 – 11:15 am Title: The Copenhagen Protocol: The View from

Las Vegas - Problems, Possibilities and Shifting

Paradigms in Sustainable Urbanism

Presenter: Robert Dorgan, Director, Downtown

Design Center, University of Nevada - Las Vegas,

NV

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 – Continued


Discussion Leader: Oswald Glean Chase, Professor

of Architecture, NY

11:30 – 11:45 am Title: The Past is Prologue, the New World is Yet to

Come: Governing the Global Commons in an Age of

Transition

Presenter: Sheila Collins, Prof. of Political Science

and Dir. MA in Public Policy and International

Affairs, William Paterson University, NY


Discussion Leader: Nathalie Brandes, Professor of

Geosciences, Lonestar College- Montgomery, TX

12:00 pm LUNCH - Lincoln College Dining Hall

Afternoon Session Lincoln College, Oakshott Room

1:30 – 1:45 pm Title: Capitalism, Copenhagen and Climate Change:

What Price the Planet?

Presenter: Christopher Williams, Adjunct Professor,

Pace University, NY

1:45 – 2:00 pm Title: Framework for Reducing Greenhouse Gas

Emissions and Driving Sustainable Changes in

Energy Usage

Presenter: Rhonda Ross, Assistant Professor of

Law, Saginaw Valley State University, MI

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 – Continued

Afternoon Session - Continued Lincoln College, Oakshott Room

2:00 – 2:15 pm Title: Climate Change: A "Hard Nut" for

Developing Countries - Policy Implications for East

African Countries

Presenter: Joel Ongaro, Lecturer, Bergen

Community College, NJ


Discussion Leader: Muktesh Kumar Singh,

Associate Professor, Department of Applied and

Regional Economics, India

6:30 pm RECEPTION


7:00 pm DINNER


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Wednesday, March 24, 2010


SESSION III Oakshott Room, Lincoln College



8:30 – 8:45 am Title: Emission Control: From Conventional

Methods to Innovative Technologies

Presenter: Yehia Khalil, Professor of Chemical

Engineering and Environmental Engineering, Yale

University, CT


Discussion Leader: Jonathan Martin, Professor and

Chair of Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic

Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

9:00 – 9:15 am Title: Environmental Policy Matrix by Space and

Time Scales: Cases in Slavic Eurasian Water

Regions

Presenter: Osamu Ieda, Professor, Hokkaido

University, Japan


Discussion Leader: Paul Lewis, Professor, The John

Marshall Law School, IL

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - Continued

9:30 – 9:45 am Title: The Use of a Comprehensive Set of Variables

and Subclasses in Environmental Monitoring and

Subsequent Dynamic Classification of Data into

Different Hierarchies to Achieve a Multitude of

Assignments

Presenter: Anna Allard, Researcher, SLU Sveriges

Lantbruksuniversitet, Sweden


Discussion Leader: Terry Messmer, Professor, Utah

State University, UT

10:00 – 10:30 am TEA & COFFEE

10:30 – 10:45 am Title: Evidence and Impacts of Climate Change in

the Mississippi Delta

Presenter: Edward Laws, Professor, Louisiana State

University and University of Hawaii


Discussion Leader: Clive Shiff, Associate Professor,

Johns Hopkins University, MD

11:00 – 11:15 am Title: Feasibility of Decreasing Carbon Dioxide

Emissions Through Forest Management

Presenter: Donald Grebner, Associate Professor of

Forestry, Mississippi State University, MS


Discussion Leader: Sheila Collins, Professor of

Political Science and Dir. MA in Public Policy and

International Affairs, William Paterson Univ, NY

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - Continued

11:30 – 11:45 am Title: Principle of Sustainable Development

Presenter: Leelavati Murthy, Professor of Biology,

Community College of Allegheny County, PA


Discussion Leader: Elena Lioubimtseva, Associate

Professor of Geography and Director, Environmental

Studies Program, Grand Valley State University, MI


Wednesday afternoon and evening are free

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Thursday, March 25, 2010


SESSION IV Oakshott Room, Lincoln College



8:30 – 8:45 am Title: Localization: A Principle of Sustainable

Development

Presenter: James Englehardt, Professor, University

of Miami, FL


Discussion Leader: Muhammad Sabir Rehman,

OMEP, Pakistan

9:00 – 9:15 am Title: Predicting Impacts of Climate Change on

Biodiversity

Presenter: Mark Andersen, Professor, New Mexico

State University, NM


Discussion Leader: Ahmad Pourmovahed,

Professor, Kettering University, MI

9:30 – 9:45 am Title: Global Warming: The Reality

Presenter: Tsanangurayi Tongesayi, Assistant

Professor-Analytical and Environmental Chemistry,

Department of Chemistry, Medical Technology and

Physics, NJ

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Thursday, March 25, 2010 - Continued


Discussion Leader: Donald Grebner, Associate

Professor of Forestry, Mississippi State University,

MS

10:00 – 10:30 am TEA & COFFEE

10:30 – 10:45 am Title: A Geologic Perspective on Climate Change

Presenter: Nathalie Brandes, Professor of

Geosciences, Lonestar College- Montgomery, TX


Discussion Leader: Lenneal Henderson, Daniel T.

Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science, North

Carolina Central University, NC

11:00 – 11:15 am Title: A Multicultural, Multidisciplinary Short

Course to Introduce Recently Graduated Engineers

to the Global Issues of Sustainability in Their Future

Professional Practice

Presenter: Pamela Hazelton, Program Head Post-

Graduate Environmental Engineering, University of

Technology, Sydney, Australia


Discussion Leader: Mohan K. Wali, Professor, The

Ohio State University, OH

11:30 – 11:45 am Title: From Diplomacy to Legal Deference

Presenter: Reuben Barrett, Professor of Biology,

Prairie State College, IL

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Thursday, March 25, 2010 - Continued

11:45 – 12:00 pm Title: Sustainable Design Strategies

Presenter: Raj Barr-Kumar, FAIA RIBA, Professor

of Practice / President, Barr International Architects,

Catholic University of America / Barr International

Architects, DC


Discussion Leader: Rhonda Ross, Assistant

Professor of Law, Saginaw Valley State University,

MI


7:00 pm RECEPTION


7:30 pm CLOSING DINNER


Presentation of Certificates

Oxford Round Table

Friday, March 26, 2010

7:30 – 9:00 am CONCLUDING BREAKFAST


Oxford Round Table

Participants

Dr. Anna Allard

Researcher

SLU Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet

Inst foer Skoglig Resurshushaallning

Umeaa, SE-90183 Sweden

Telephone: 46-90-7868465

Fax: n/a

E-Mail: [email protected]

Dr. Thomas Amidon

Professor

SUNY College of Environmental Sci/Forestry

1 Forestry Drive 321 Walters Hall

Syracuse, NY 13210-2712 USA

Telephone: 315-470-6501

Fax: 315-470-6945


Dr. Mark Andersen

Professor

New Mexico State University

Dept of Fish/Wildlife/Conservation Ecology

Las Cruces, NM 88003-0003 USA

Telephone: 575-646-8034

Fax: 575-646-1281


Dr. Raj Barr-Kumar, FAIA RIBA

Professor of Practice / President, Barr International Architects

Catholic University of America

1875 Eye Street NW, Suite 500

Washington, DC 20006 USA

Telephone: 202-421-1010

Fax: n/a


Professor Reuben Barrett

Professor of Biology

Prairie State College

2203 East Sauk Trail

Sauk Village, IL 60411 USA

Telephone: 708-709-3668

Fax: 708-755-2587


Professor Nathalie Brandes

Professor of Geosciences

Lonestar College- Montgomery

20006 Crossvine Trail

Cypress, TX 77433 USA

Telephone: 281-543-5494

Fax: 936-273-7362


Professor Paul Brandt-Rauf

Dean

University of Illinois at Chicago

1603 West Taylor Street

School of Public Health, Office of the Dean, 11th Floor

Chicago, IL 60612 USA

Telephone: 312-996-5939

Fax: 312-996-1374


Professor Oswald Glean Chase

Professor of Architecture

60 West 13th Street

New York, NY 10011 USA

Telephone: 212-691-3577

Fax: n/a

E-Mail: n/a

Hlako Choma

Senior Lecturer and Head of Department: Public Law

University of Venda

Private Bag X5050

Thohoyandou, 0950 South Africa

Telephone: n/a

Fax: n/a


Dr. Sheila Collins

Professor of Political Science and Dir. MA in Public Policy and

International Affairs

William Paterson University

65 Rockland Place

New Rochelle, NY 10801 USA

Telephone: 914-633-0456

Fax: 973-720-3477


Professor Robert Dorgan

Director, Downtown Design Center

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

401 South 4th Street, Suite 155

Las Vegas, NV 89101 USA

Telephone: 702-895-1958

Fax: n/a


Dr. James Englehardt

Professor

University of Miami

11408 Smathers Circle

Pinecrest, FL 33156 USA

Telephone: 305-284-5557

Fax: 305-284-3492


Dr. Kamiel Gabriel

Assistant Deputy Minister and Science Adviser

Ministry of Research and Innovation

56 Wellesley Street West

Toronto, Ontario M7A 2E7 Canada

Telephone: 905-666-2601

Fax: n/a


Professor Donald Grebner

Associate Professor of Forestry

Mississippi State University

Box 9681 Department of Forestry

Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA

Telephone: 662-325-0928

Fax: 662-325-8726


Dr. Pamela Hazelton

Program Head Post graduate Environmental Engineering

University of Technology, Sydney

PO Box 123 Faculty of Engineering and IT

Broadway, New South Wales 2007 Australia

Telephone: 61-2-952-503-91

Fax: n/a


Dr. Lenneal Henderson

Daniel T. Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science

North Carolina Central University

1801 Fayetteville Road

Durham, NC 27707 USA

Telephone: 410-707-5873

Fax: 410-740-0902


Professor Osamu Ieda

Professor

Hokkaido University

Hayato 5-1-902, Showa-ku

Nagoya, Aichi 466-0833 Japan

Telephone: 81-52-831-7373

Fax: 81-11-706-4952


Professor Yehia Khalil

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering

Yale University

37 Pine Hurst Street

Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA

Telephone: 860-463-2562

Fax: 860-646-2030


Dr. Edward Laws

Director, Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine

University of Hawaii and

Professor, Louisiana State University

Department of Environmental Sciences

Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4110 USA

Telephone: 225-578-8800

Fax: 225-578-5328


Mr. Paul Lewis

Professor

The John Marshall Law School

315 S. Plymouth Court

Chicago, IL 60604 USA

Telephone: 312-427-2737

Fax: 312-427-5280


Dr. Elena Lioubimtseva

Associate Professor of Geography and

Director, Environmental Studies Program

Grand Valley State University

1 Campus Drive MAK-B-4-202

Allendale, MI 49401 USA

Telephone: 616-331-2874

Fax: 616-331-8635


Professor Ronald L.C. Maribett

Visiting Lecturer

Bridgewater State College

269 Elm Street

Kingston, MA 02364 USA

Telephone: 781-588-4251

Fax: n/a


Professor Jonathan Martin

Professor and Chair of Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1225 W. Dayton Street

Madison, WI 53706 USA

Telephone: 608-262-9845

Fax: 608-262-0166


Professor Ryuji Matsuhashi

Professor

The University of Tokyo

5-1-5 Kashiwanoha Graduate School of Frontier Sciences

Kasiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8561 Japan

Telephone: 47136-4706

Fax: 35841-7055


Professor Atsuko Matsumura

Professor

Tokyo International University

3-8-13 Kitasenzoku Ohta-ku

Tokyo, 145 0062 Japan

Telephone: 0081-3-3727-3976

Fax: 0081-3-3727-3976


Dr. Terry Messmer

Professor

Utah State University

UMC 5230

Logan, UT 84322-5230 USA

Telephone: 435-797-3975

Fax: n/a


Dr. Leelavati Murthy

Professor of Biology

Community College of Allegheny County

595 Beatty Road

Monroeville, PA 15146 USA

Telephone: 412-421-7185

Fax: n/a


Dr. Deborah O'Bannon

Associate Professor

University of Missouri-Kansas City

5100 Rockhill Road 352 Flarsheim Hall

Kansas City, MO 64110 USA

Telephone: 816-235-1287

Fax: 816-235-1260


Professor Joel Ongaro

Lecturer

Bergen Community College

400 Paramus Road Division of Mathematics, Science, and Technology

Paramus, NJ 07652-1504 USA

Telephone: 908-2277741

Fax: 908 4287380


Dr. Ahmad Pourmovahed

Professor

Kettering University

1700 University Avenue

Flint, MI 48504 USA

Telephone: 810-762-9758

Fax: 810-762-7860


Professor Muhammad Sabir Rehman

OMEP Pakistan

Suite C-2 Shazco House

Block 13/A Gulshan E-Iqbal

Karachi, Sindh 74000 Pakistan

Telephone: n/a

Fax: n/a


Dr. Rhonda Ross

Assistant Professor of Law

Saginaw Valley State University

7400 Bay Road, C330

Saginaw, MI 48710 USA

Telephone: 989-964-4000

Fax: n/a


Dr. Clive Shiff

Associate Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Bloomberg School of Public Health

615 N. Wolfe Street

Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

Telephone: 410-955-1263

Fax: 410-955-0105


Dr. Muktesh Kumar Singh

Associate Professor

Department of Applied and Regional Economics

MJP Rohilkhand University Bareilly - 243006

U.P. India

Telephone: 91-9421188056

Fax: n/a


Dr. Tsanangurayi Tongesayi

Assistant Professor-Analytical and Environmental Chemistry

Department of Chemistry, Medical Technology and Physics

Monmouth University 400 Cedar Avenue

West Long Branch, NJ 07764 USA

Telephone: 732-263-5627

Fax: 732-263-5213


Professor Mohan K. Wali

Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources

The Ohio State University

2021 Coffey Road

Columbus, OH 43210-1085 USA

Telephone: 614-292-9814

Fax: 614-292-7432


Professor Christopher Williams

Adjunct Professor

Pace University

170 Joralemon St Packer Collegiate Institute

Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA

Telephone: 646-234-0553

Fax: n/a


Professor David Williams

Golder Professor of Geomechanics

The University of Queensland

School of Civil Engineering

Brisbane, Queensland 4072 Australia

Telephone: 7-3365-3642

Fax: 7-3365-4599


Facilitator of the Oxford Round Table

Professor Kern Alexander holds postgraduate degrees from the

University of Oxford, Pembroke College and Indiana University,

Bloomington. Dr. Alexander is Excellence Professor of Educational

Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. Earlier

in his career he served as Professor of Educational Administration at the

University of Florida for two decades, University Distinguished

Professor at Virginia Tech, President of Western Kentucky University,

Bowling Green and, later, as President of Murray State University,

Murray, Kentucky. He is the author or co-author of several books,

including American Public School Law, now in Sixth Edition, West-

Wadsworth Publishers; The Law of Schools, Students and Teachers,

West Publishing Company; and Public School Finance, Allyn and

Bacon. Dr. Alexander takes an active part in school finance planning

and litigation.

Oxford Round Table Advisory Committee

Don Aitkin, President Emeritus, University of Canberra, Canberra,

Australia

Hugh Benjamin, Former Deputy Director, Stantonbury Campus, Milton

Keynes, UK

Maria Elvira Gomez, Rectora, Universidad Nacional Experimental,

Francisco de Miranda, Facon, Venezuela

James Giordano, Samueli-Rockefeller Professor, Departments of

Medicine and Neurosciences, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown

University Medical Center

Medwin Hughes, DPS FRSA-Principal, Trinity College in the

University of Wales

J.M. Irvine, Former Vice Chancellor, University of Birmingham, UK

Rassie Malherbe, Professor of Public Law, Rand Afrikaans University,

Johannesburg, South Africa

Charles Mould, Fellow, St. Cross College, Oxford University

Canon Brian Mountford, Vicar, University Church of St. Mary’s,

Oxford University

Godehard Ruppert, Rektor, University of Bamberg, Germany

Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Rector, AGH University of Science and

Technology, Poland

Mamuka Tavkhelidze, Rector, Grigol Robakidze Univ, Tbilisi,Georgia

Geoffrey Thomas, President, Kellogg College, Oxford University

Richard Tur, Benn Professor of Law, Oriel College, Oxford University

Julie Underwood, Dean, School of Edu, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

David Woods, President Emeritus, Rhodes University, Grahamstown,

South Africa

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