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| Monday, May 18, 2009: 3:30 PM-6:15 PM | |||
| Pantlind Ballroom | |||
| Special Session - Population and Economic Growth Versus Biodiversity Conservation | |||
| Aquatic ecologists are increasingly relating the condition of aquatic ecosystems to land use and landscape-scale stressors, but ecological economists and global ecologists view economic and population growth as the root causes of ecosystem impairment. At the same time, local planning agencies are trying to stimulate economic and population growth via increased urban development and employment opportunities. At state and national scales, governments view economic and population growth as desirable if not essential. An initial set of speakers in this session will document linkages between economic/population growth and the impairment of aquatic ecosystems. Other speakers will offer alternatives to economic and population growth, discuss the limits of technological improvements and research, and suggest optional indices for monitoring quality of life. A brief panel discussion will follow the formal presentations. | |||
| Moderators: | Robert M. Hughes Jerry Mead | ||
| 3:30 PM | 70 | Urbanization and stream ecosystems: Predictable responses and inevitable socioeconomic conflict Michael J. Paul | |
| 3:45 PM | 71 | The reference-degraded continuum - assessing biological condition relative to anthropogenic disturbance Jan J.H. Ciborowski, Lucinda B. Johnson, Jabed H. Tomal, Karen Fung, Yakuta Bhagat, Jian Zhang | |
| 4:00 PM | Talk withdrawn by author | ||
| 4:15 PM | 73 | Buried costs of mountain top removal coal mining – biological effects, regulatory reality, economic consequences Joseph Schiller | |
| 4:30 PM | 74 | Can instream flow requirements protect biodiversity? Mary C. Freeman, James T. Peterson | |
| 4:45 PM | 75 | Dramatic declines in diadromous fishes Karin Limburg, John R. Waldman | |
| 5:00 PM | 76 | Scenarios of global energy usage and climate change: Potential impacts on water temperature and fish growth potential Jerry V. Mead, Fredrick N. Scatena, Richard J. Horwitz, Yude Pan, Richard Birdsey | |
| 5:15 PM | 77 | Using ecological concepts to understand and communicate environmental impacts of economic growth Paul L. Angermeier | |
| 5:30 PM | 78 | Economic growth, climate change, biodiversity loss: An ethical approach to breaking this deadly chain Jon R. Rosales | |
| 5:45 PM | Discussion | ||
| Sponsor: | Special Sessions | ||
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