REMINDERS:  Thursday, Oct. 24 - Toyota Auditorium

3:30 - 5 pm - Energy & Environmental Forum - JB Ruhl, Vanderbilt University 
Law, The Future of the Endangered Species Act....

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the nation’s most powerful of 
environmental laws. Over the past 40 years, it has disrupted the multiple use 
mandate that governs many federal public lands, intervened in the “law of the 
river” in dozens of river management regimes, and has become the closest the 
federal government has to a land use regulation law in urban development 
settings. Looking ahead, three trends are converging to define a turning point 
for the statute’s implementation: Climate change, emerging energy regimes in 
the form of renewable sources and new fossil fuel sources and concepts of 
adaptive ecosystem management and of valuing ecosystem services are 
beginning to dominate natural resources policy and could pose challenges to 
the ESA’s species-specific conservation regime. This presentation explores 
what these trends have in store for the ESA, and species conservation 
generally, over the next several decades.


FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!