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SEMINARS & EVENTS
2005 Academy


Sustainability: Theory and Applications

November 18 & 19, 2005
The Dearborn Inn
Dearborn, MI

Purpose: The SMEP Academy is a multi-disciplinary forum to explore and refine novel and cutting edge approaches to research, engagement and practice in areas related to the mission of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. This year the Academy will sponsor a two day workshop on sustainability.

Audience: Michigan State University faculty and graduate students. Space will be limited. A limited number of spaces for guests will be available.

Guest Speakers:
    Helen Ingram, Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design and Political Science, and Drew, Chace and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology of Peace and International Cooperation, University of California at Irvine
    http://www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/ingram

    Tim Ford, Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Harvard University
    http://www.montana.edu/wwwmb/timswebpage_files/timwebpagenew.htm

    Bryan Norton, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
    http://www.spp.gatech.edu/faculty/faculty/bnorton.php

    Each of our guest speakers was asked to make a presentation on the theme of sustainability, emphasizing their current research and stressing how they approach sustainability conceptually and methodologically. There was ample time for questions comments, probing and critical discussion of each presentation. The workshop concluded with a discussion of how SMEP might usefully shape or promote research relating to sustainability at MSU.
Tour: A tour of the Ford Rouge Plant was part of the 2005 Academy. (For a discussion of the Rouge Plant Renovation that is meant to be “a transformation of the plant from a “20th Century industrial icon into a model of 21st century sustainable manufacturing”, see: http://www.ford.com/en/goodWorks/environment/cleanerManufacturing/rougeRenovation.htm

Academy Agenda

Guest Speaker Bios

Emerging Issues In Water and Health Research

Approaching Sustainability from an Environmental Health Perspective

Water Sustainability: Policy Innovation and Conditions for Adaptive Learning

An Adaptive Approach to Environmental Choice

Comments on Norton Presentation

2005 Academy Report (Full Document – 1.24 MB; 110 pages) Accompanying Papers by Guest Speakers







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