Schedule

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, December 7-8, 2007
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies Berkeley China Initiative Institute of East Asian Studies This conference is supported by a grant from the Luce Foundation

All panels are free and open to the public.
Presentation titles to be posted soon

Friday, December 7, 2007

9:15 am

Opening Remarks

Tom Gold (UC Berkeley)
George Breslauer (Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley)

10:00 am

Keynote Address: China's Environment: Opportunities and Challenges for the International Community

Barbara Finamore

10:45 am

Panel I: Getting the Data Out: Institutions, Media, and Government Policy

Moderator: Orville Schell

Panelists:
Isabel Hilton
Wenran Jiang, Paradigm Shifts: Meeting China's Environment Challenges
C.S. Kiang, Balance of Energy and Environment in China — Challenges and Opportunities
Ye Qi
Lili Wang, China's Environmental Communication: History and Challenges

12:30 pm
Lunch break

2:30 pm

Panel II: Tracing Invisible Threats: Disease and the Environment

Moderator: Roger Cohn

Panelists:
Kirk R. Smith, China's Environmental Health Challenges: The Energy and Climate Connections
Peng Gong, Environmental Data Assembling and Analysis for Disease Transmission Modeling
Robert Spear, Managing China's Environment: Manpower Challenges in the Trenches
Feng Ting Li

4:00 pm
Coffee break

4:15 pm

Panel III: Cycles, Predictions, and Policy: Issues of Local and Global Air Pollutants

Moderator: Lin Jiang

Panelists:
Max Auffhammer, China's New Leadership Role In Carbon Emissions and Policy
Mark Levine, Can China Gain Control of its Energy Future?
Larry Li
ZhongXiang Zhang, China Is not a Christmas Tree to Hang Everybody's Complaints: Putting its Energy-Saving and Pollutants-Cutting into Perspective

6:00 pm

Keynote Address: The China Sustainable Energy Renewable Energy Program

Jan Hamrin

Saturday, December 8, 2007

9:15 am

Panel IV: The Green Market: Renewing the Environment through Entrepreneurship and Investment

Moderator: Jeremy Potash

Panelists:
Robert Collier, Difficulties in Greening China: Why the Clean Tech Revolution Won't Happen without Environmental Re-Regulation
Po Chi Wu, Discontinuities & Paradoxes: An Investor's Perspective
Chris Raczkowski, Information Scarcity, Market Peculiarities & Decision Making for Sustainable & Clean Tech Investors in China
Daniel Spitzer

10:45 am
Coffee break

11:00 am

Panel V: When Abundance Becomes Scarce: Managing China's Water Supply

Moderator and panelist: Gang He

Panelists:
Gang He, Crises and Choices: China's Climate Change Strategy
Peter Perdue, Environmental Discourse in China: Media and Historical Constraints
Chi-yuen Wang, Water Supply Challenges in China's Northwest: Some Personal Observations
Michael Zhao, A Multimedia Perspective on Water

12:30 pm

Keynote Address

Ma Jun

1:30 pm
Lunch break

2:45 pm

Panel VI: Sustaining Development: Inhabiting Urban and Rural Space

Moderator: Julia Strauss

Panelists:
Sheldon Brown, Representation and Development: The Scalable City in China
Harrison Fraker
Mark Henderson, Urbanization, Land Conservation, and Climate Change
Shannon May, How Much Arable Land Is There Out There?

4:15 pm
Coffee break
Rick and Ann's coffee/tea/pastries

4:30 pm

Keynote Address: Environmental Journalism in China: The View from Beijing

Jim Yardley

5:30 pm

Wrap-up

6:00 pm
Reception

Cosponsors:

Technical support:

ETS, UC Berkeley

Catering:

Rick and Ann's

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