Sustainability Seminar (WRRC Special Seminar)

From waves to watersheds: integrating socio-economic and environmental values to build sustainability?

Len Materman Program Advisor for Stanford University's Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development

Solving our major challenges related to the environment and natural disasters requires that we navigate the complex relationships between natural, economic and social interests within society. In preparing future leaders to address these problems, research universities must give students the tools to access and synthesize various disciplines; in recent years, Stanford University has initiated several programs and research projects to try to do just that. Similarly, mitigating the most serious natural hazard facing our nation, the State of Hawai'i, and the University of Hawai'i -- flooding -- requires that we integrate environmental with socio-economic interests, and make a multi-jurisdictional watershed approach the norm rather than the exception.

Event Sponsor
Water Resources Research Center, Manoa Campus

More Information
Philip Moravcik, 956-3097, morav@hawaii.edu, http://www.wrrc.hawaii.edu/seminars/matermanseminar.htm