| DATE: | Friday-Saturday, December 7-8, 2007 |
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| 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 |
Barbara Finamore (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Barbara Finamore is a Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She founded and directs NRDC's China Program, which promotes innovative policy development, demonstration and capacity building in energy efficiency, advanced energy technologies, green buildings, environmental law and public health. Ms. Finamore has had over twenty-five years of experience in environmental law and policy. She is also co-founder and President of the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote global sustainability by working with China to harness efficiency as a viable energy resource.
http://www.nrdc.org/international/china/ichina.asp
www.chinauseealliance.org
Jan Hamrin (Center for Resource Solutions, San Francisco)
Dr. Hamrin was the founder and executive director of the Independent Energy Producers Association in the 1980s, helping to make California a world leader in new renewable development. In 1997, Dr. Hamrin founded the Center for Resource Solutions and was instrumental in developing the Green-e Renewable Energy Certification Program. Dr. Hamrin co-authored "Achieving a 33% Renewable Energy Target," which provided information on the necessary changes needed to expand renewables to meet Governor Schwarzenegger's greenhouse gas reduction targets. She also performed a pivotal role in the development of China's 2005 Renewable Energy Promotion Law. She currently serves as President of the Center for Resource Solutions.
http:// www.acore.org/ pdfs/ 05policy_Hamrin.pdf
Ma Jun (Environmentalist)
Ma Jun is a leading Chinese investigative journalist, environmentalist, non-fiction writer, and environmental consultant, responsible for raising the alarm in China about the possible consequences of unsustainable growth. He worked at the South China Morning Post from 1993 to 2000 where he produced his own reports and wrote many feature articles on the Chinese environment. He also directs Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs which developed the China Water Pollution Map; the first public database of water pollution information in China. His book Zhongguo shui weiji (China's Water Crisis) was published by China Environmental Sciences Publishing House in late 1999.
Jim Yardley (New York Times, International Herald Tribune)
Jim Yardley has been a correspondent in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times since August 2003. He has traveled throughout China and written on a wide range of topics, including social unrest, rising inequality and the country's widespread pollution problems. Mr. Yardley was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. In 2007, a three-part article by Jim Yardley, "Crisis on the Yellow River" — published in three parts in the Asia edition of the International Herald Tribune — won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for explanatory reporting.
Recent publications: "Beneath Booming Cities, China's Future is Drying Up", New York Times
"China's Environmental Problems Mirrored in the Yellow River", International Herald Tribune
Max Auffhammer (U.C. Berkeley)
Maximilian Auffhammer has been an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in Agriculture and Resource Economics/ International Area Studies since 2003. He received his M.Sc. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998 and his Ph.D. in economics from UC San Diego in 2003. He has published several papers in refereed journals, such as PNAS, Environmental and Resource Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, and the Journal of Regional Science as well as some book chapters and reports. He has conducted extensive research on the environment and carbon dioxide emissions, and is currently researching projections for China.
Recent publications: "China's Chance to Lead" (op-ed article by Max Auffhammer and Richard Carson)
Abstract for Auffhammer's award-winning "Brown cloud" paper
Sheldon Brown (UCSD)
Sheldon Brown is Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) where he is a Professor of Visual Arts and the head of New Media Arts for the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (Cal-(IT)2). His work examines the relationships between mediated and physical experiences. The development of his work in the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art and its alluring critique of development with idealized, yet corrupt, processes have received great attention in China.
Links to Projects: http:// www.sheldon-brown.net/ scalable/
http:// www.experimentalgamelab.net/
Roger Cohn (Editor, Yale Environment)
Cohn, a 1973 graduate of Yale, has written for the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, New York Observer, and Outside. He was recruited to run YaleEnvironmental Online, an online, not-for-profit magazine that will be a mix of opinion, research, investigative journalism and policy pieces, with an emphasis on global stories. Cohn was among the first environmental beat reporters in the country (for the Philadelphia Inquirer, beginning in 1977) and went on to remake two of the most important environmental magazines on newsstands — Audubon and Mother Jones. http:// www.journalismjobs.com/ roger_cohn.cfm
Robert Collier (U.C. Berkeley)
Robert Collier was a foreign-affairs reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1991 to August 2007. He reported from a total of 25 nations on the politics and diplomacy of global warming, international energy policy, the environment and trade. He is now a visiting scholar at the Center for Environmental Public Policy at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy.
Recent publications: "The China Syndrome," op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle
Harrison Fraker (U.C. Berkeley)
Harrison S. Fraker. Jr. is Dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. He is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, day lighting and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice. Dean Fraker has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit oriented neighborhoods. He is currently pursuing his beliefs through a whole systems design approach for entirely resource-self-sufficient, transit-oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China. http:// www.ced.berkeley.edu/ ced/ people/ query.php?id=54&dept=all&title=all
Peng Gong (U.C. Berkeley)
Peng Gong is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.Sc. in Geography at Nanjing University in China in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1990. He is also the Director of CAMFER (Center for the Assessment and Monitoring of Forest and Environmental Resources). Mr. Gong's current projects include a proposal for a research field called Photo-Ecometrics: the science and technology using digital image analysis and spectral analysis for precise ecological measurements, focusing on forest inventory, crown reconstruction, biophysical and biochemical data and species recognition.http://nature.berkeley.edu/~gong/
Recent publications: Henderson, Yeh et al., "Validation of urban boundaries from nighttime satellite imagery," International Journal of Remote Sensing (2003, v24 n3).
Gang He (Columbia University, Graduate Student Fellow)
Currently working on M.A. in Climate and Society, Gang He is also working at the Global Roundtable on Climate Change in The Earth Institute, together with Asia Society and Peking University Environment Fund for US-China Partnership on Climate Change. It's his understanding that joint efforts between these two big emitters should be done urgently to break the deadlock and take the global leadership. Before that he was a visiting scholar in UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism for the China Environment Report Program.
Recent publications: http:// www.cefc.com.hk/ uk/ pc/ sommaire.php?idsom=69
Mark Henderson (Mills College)
Mark Henderson teaches in the public policy program at Mills College in Oakland, California. His current research focuses on the spatial analysis of environmental trends in China, including urbanization, land use, and climate, as well as the policy applications of remote sensing and geographic information science. He holds a masters degree in Regional Studies--East Asia from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley (where he studied in Ye Qi's Ecosystem Dynamics and Management Group), and has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Regional Systems Analysis Project at UC Davis. http://han.skinner.ucdavis.edu/mh
Recent publications: Qi, Henderson, et al., "Evolving core-periphery interactions in an urban landscape: Beijing," Landscape Ecology (2004, v19 n4)
Henderson, Yeh et al., "Validation of urban boundaries from nighttime satellite imagery," International Journal of Remote Sensing (2003, v24 n3).
Isabel Hilton (China Dialogue)
Isabel Hilton is a London based international journalist and broadcaster. She has studied at the Beijing Foreign Language and Culture University and at Fudan University in Shanghai before taking up a career in written and broadcast journalism, working for The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian and The New Yorker. In 1992 she became a presenter of the BBC's flagship news programme, "The World Tonight" and currently presents BBC Radio Three's Night Waves. She is a columnist for The Guardian and her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Granta, the New Statesman, El Pais, Index on Censorship and many other publications. She is the founder and editor of ChinaDialogue.net, a non-profit, fully bilingual online publication based in London, Beijing an San Francisco and Beijing that focuses on the environment and climate change. www.chinadialogue.net
Recent publications: "China's Freedom Test" Article about Freedom of Press in China
"We must take the lead" - comment article on China and climate change
Wenran Jiang (University of Alberta)
Wenran Jiang is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Acting Director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Special Advisor on China to US and Canada based Energy Council, Leader of Energy and Resources Research Group of Canada's Emerging Dynamic Global Economies (EDGE) Network, President of Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security, Board Member of Canadian Association of Asian Studies, and a Business Week online columnist. He is the organizer of an annual Canada-China energy conference since 2004, and has written widely on China's energy and environment issues.
Recent publications: "China Debates Green GDP and Its Future Development Model"
"The Cost of China's Modernization"
C.S. Kiang (College of Environmental Sciences at Beijing University)
C.S. Kiang is the Founding Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences at Beijing University. Dr. Kiang is responsible for bringing to China many of the world's leading experts on sustainable development, both to educate the next generation of leaders and to develop a working case study in the south of China. His vision to build a "Chinese Characteristics, World Impact" College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University will set up the basic infrastructure for the development of human resources of the next century leadership in sustainable development.
Recent publications: "Megacities and Atmospheric Pollution"
Mark Levine (U.C. Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Mark Levine leads the China Energy Group at LBNL, which has pioneered many important undertakings with China on energy efficiency policy analysis since its inception in 1988. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley. http:// eetd.lbl.gov/ MDL/ home.html
Recent publications: "Small Steps Save Big in Energy"
Feng Ting Li (Tongji University, China)
Feng Ting Li is the Associate Dean at the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, UNEP at the Tongji University Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development. His research is directed to the study of environmental chemistry, with a special focus on agricultural chemicals, its intereactivity with colloids, and their environmental behavior in the transport, deposition, speciation, and bioavailability. Dr Li and his institute cooperate with UNEP to chair the Leadership Program of Environment for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific.
Recent publications: "Highly efficient microbial compound containing oil wastewater treatment process optimization" (Water Treatment Technology)
"The Preparation of Inorganic Coagulant — Poly Ferric Sulfate"
Larry Li (U.C. Riverside)
Larry Li is Professor of Ecology and Director of CAU-UCR International Center for Ecology and Sustainability at University of California-Riverside. He has published more than 140 refereed journal articles, 28 book chapters and proceedings papers, and 8 books or edited special issues. He is an elected Fellow (1988) of the Institute for Human Ecology, USA, elected Honorary Professor (2005) of Russian Academy of Sciences, and elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006). He is also faculty associate and Ph.D. major professor with Australian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Russian universities and research institutions. He has served on many professional committees and review panels of federal funding agencies in U.S. and internationally. He is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal: Ecological Complexity, and chairs International Scientific Committee of Eco Summit. http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=1863
Recent publications: Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, Springer, the Netherlands, 497 p., 2008.
Lin Jiang (China Sustainable Energy Program)
Dr. Lin Jiang is Vice President and the Director of the China Sustainable Energy Program at the Energy Foundation. Prior to joining the Energy Foundation, he was a Scientist at the China Energy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, where he has conducted research since 1994 on energy policies in China, particularly focusing on energy efficiency policies. He has served as advisors to government agencies in China as well as to multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations. He was one of the principle architects that helped UNDP and China launch the China Green Light Project in 1999, which has transformed the global market for quality compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). His most recent research projects include analyzing China's recent trend in energy use, investment, and economic growth and options that may help China to achieve its 20% target in energy intensity reduction by 2010.
Shannon May (U.C. Berkeley, Graduate Student Fellow)
Shannon May is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She received her BA Magna Cum Laude in Social Studies from Harvard University in 2000, and her MA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley in 2004. Her dissertation research addresses how emergent, transnational modes of "scientific" and "sustainable" development are reconfiguring the Chinese rural landscape, and re-valuing people who live there. Her work uncovers the social ties and practices that are being articulated and displaced in rural Chinese society as it struggles with integration into the world economy, and environment. Related research areas include global philanthropy, organizational behavior, urban planning and architecture. Ms. May also serves as an advisor for current eco-city projects in China. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellowship, as well UC Berkeley's Joseph R. Levenson Award for outstanding graduate work in Chinese studies in 2003 and 2004.
Recent publications: "A Sino-US Sustainability Sham" Far Eastern Economic Review, April 2007, 57-60
"What's Next: Shannon May" Worldchanging.com, 28 December 2006
Peter Perdue (MIT)
Professor Perdue received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (1987), and several articles, including "The Qing State and the Gansu Grain Market, 1739-1864," "Technological Determinism in Agriculture," and "Military Mobilization in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China, Russia, and Mongolia." His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history. He was awarded the James A. Levitan Prize and he is currently writing a book on the Chinese conquest of Central Asia from 1680 to 1760.
Affiliations: Ford International Career Development Chair
Recent publications: "Water Control in the Dongting Lake Region during the Ming and Qing Periods"
Jeremy Potash (California-Asia Business Council)
Jeremy W. Potash is the founding executive director of the California-Asia Business Council (Cal-Asia). Cal-Asia, in cooperation with the U.S. Commercial Service (Department of Commerce), has embarked upon a long-term Asia clean development initiative (see www.greeningasia.org) intended to identify clean development projects planned or underway in Asia for which their may be a US solution. Cal-Asia, Commercial Service and partners are hosting a series of programs, including breakfasts, seminars and receptions, which bring together leaders from business, government and universities. Jeremy is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the western arm of the Council on Foreign Relations. http:// calasia.org/
Ye Qi (Tsinghua University, China)
Dr. Ye Qi has been a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Policy and Management at the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management since 2004. Dr. Qi's research areas include climate change impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, global and regional carbon cycling, environmental and resource policy for sustainable development, and ecosystem management. He serves as consultant and adviser to governments, NGOs and international organizations.
http:// ggbg.cic.tsinghua.edu.cn/ ggbg_en/ board9/ detail.jsp?seq=1094&boardid=1601
Recent publications: "Taking China's Temperature: Daily Range, Warming Trends, and Regional Variations" by Mark Henderson, Qi Ye, and others.
Chris Raczkowski (Azure-International)
As a partner and managing director of Azure, International, Chris specializes in renewable energy technologies, technology transfer and project development. He has worked as an independent technical and management consult delivering expertise for sustainable energy development to companies in Europe and China. Chris holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in materials and mechanical engineering from Harvey Mudd College in the US, and he completed his MBA in Holland at the NIMBAS Graduate School of Management. http:// www.azure-international. com
Orville Schell (U.C. Berkeley and the Asia Society)
From his days as a student of Far Eastern History at Harvard College through his graduate work in Chinese History at the University of California, Berkeley, to his latest work on China, Hong Kong, Tibet and the media, Orville Schell has devoted his professional life to reporting on and writing about Asia. Mr. Schell has written fifteen books, eleven of them about China. His most recent is "Mandate of Heaven." He serves on the boards of the Yale-China Association and Human Rights Watch and is a member of the Pacific Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. http:// orvilleschell.com/
Recent publications: http:// orvilleschell.com/ articles.htm
Kirk R. Smith (U.C. Berkeley)
Kirk R. Smith is Professor of Global Environmental Health and holds the Maxwell Endowed Chair in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also founder and coordinator of the campus-wide Masters Program in Health, Environment, and Development. Previously, he was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he still holds appointment as Adjunct Senior Fellow in Environment and Health after moving to Berkeley in 1995. He is also a Visiting Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. His research work focuses on environmental and health issues in developing countries, particularly those related to health-damaging and climate-changing air pollution, and includes ongoing field projects in India, China, Nepal, and Guatemala. He serves on a number of national and international scientific advisory boards including those for the Global Action Plan for Pneumonia, the Global Energy Assessment, and the WHO Air Quality Guidelines. He is on the editorial boards of a range of international journals and has published over 250 scientific articles and 7 books. He holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from UC Berkeley and, in 1997, was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors awarded to US scientists by their peers. http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/
Recent publications: "Rural Air Pollution: A Major but often Ignored Development Concern"
Robert Spear (U.C. Berkeley)
Dr. Robert Spear received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanical Engineering, respectively, from the University of California at Berkeley and the Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering from Cambridge University in 1968. After several years in the aerospace industry his interests turned to environmental issues and he returned to Berkeley in 1970 to take up a post-doctoral position in this field in the School of Public Health. Dr. Spear's research interests focus on the assessment and quantification of human exposures to toxic and hazardous agents in the environment, and is currently working on an ongoing project involving determinants of the incidence and control of schistosomiasis in the mountainous regions of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/people/spear.htm
Recent publications: "Environmental Effects on Parasitic Disease Transmission Exemplified by Schistosomiasis in Western China"
Daniel Spitzer (Venture Capitalist, on BCI Board)
Daniel Spitzer has spent 25 of the past 30 years based in Asia, working in development, finance/investing, and as an entrepreneur. In 1993 Daniel founded Plantation Timber Products Group, which he built into the leading wood products company in China. The business concept was to encourage hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers in Western China to grow fast-cycle trees from which PTP manufactured wood panels, as an import substitute to replace huge volumes of environmentally destructive plywood imported from Indonesian tropical rainforests. Daniel is now engaged in developing new entrepreneurial ventures in Asia.
http:// bci.berkeley.edu/ BCI-AdvBoardProfile.asp? Profile=DanielSpitzer
http:// www.ptp.com.cn/en/
Julia Strauss (SOAS, London)
Julia Strauss is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and the Editor of The China Quarterly in the Department of Politics and International Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley as well as her B.A. from Connecticut College. Her interests include Institution building and governance in China, local administration and environmental policy (especially forestry) in China, and domestic politics of China and Taiwan, all of which she has written numerous publications on throughout her career.
Affiliations: The China Quarterly, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London
Recent publications: "The Evolution of Republican Government"
Chi-yuen Wang (U.C. Berkeley)
Chi-yuen Wang is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.S. in Geology in 1958 from Taiwan National University and his Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Harvard in 1964. He became a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. During the last twenty years he has been researching and teaching aspects of hydrogeology, including the migration of fluids in sedimentary basins and the interaction of water with earthquakes. More recently he became interested in China's water resources and traveled extensively in China's Northwest to study water resources in the region.
http:// eps.berkeley.edu/ development/ view_person.php?uid=4902
Recent publications: "Streamflow increases due to rupturing of hydrothermal reservoirs: Evidence from the 2003 San Simeon, California, Earthquake", Geophysical Research Letters, 2003, v.31, L10502, doi:10.1029/2004GL020124.
Lili Wang (Tsinghua University)
Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University. For seven years, she worked for China Radio International as a journalist and anchor before returning to complete graduate work in journalism. A co-founder of China Environment and Resources Website, (http://www.ce65.com/) she won the Ford Environment Protection Prize in 2001. Currently, Wang is a Visiting Research Fellow at the John L Thornton China center, The Brookings Institution.
Recent publications: Green Media - Environmental Communication in China
Po Chi Wu (CleanTech)
Po Chi has been a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, business development/R&D executive, scientist and educator. Po Chi has made and been responsible for investments in many different high technology areas, including life sciences, IT, semiconductors, materials, and software, as well as in more traditional businesses. He also served as an International Finance Advisor for the Guangzhou Municipal Government and was a member of numerous boards including those of the Ta-You Foundation and the Advisory Council of the Lawrence Hall of Science here at Berkeley.
Recent publications: http://pochiwu.blogspot.com
ZhongXiang Zhang (Senior Fellow, Research Program East-West Center)
ZhongXiang Zhang is senior fellow at Honolulu-based East-West Center. He also is an adjunct professor of economics at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University, and University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is co-editor of International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, and has served on the editorial boards of eight international journals. He is also serving as Director of the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics, and Executive Director of the Chinese Society for Environmental Economics. He authored The Economics of Energy Policy in China (1997), co-authored International Rules for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading (1999), and edited An Economic Analysis of Climate Policy (2004), Energy Economics and Policy in Mainland China and Taiwan (2006), and Trade and the Environment in North America (2007). http:// www.eastwestcenter.org/ about-ewc/ directory/ ?class_call= view&staff_ID= 499&mode= view
Recent publications: "Can China Afford to Commit Itself an Emission's Cap? An Economic and Political Analysis", Energy Economics, 2000.
Michael Zhao (Asia Society, Center on U.S.-China Relations)
Michael Zhao graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he produced an in-depth multimedia thesis on electronic waste dumping from the rich world to developing countries. Michael worked for the New York Times Beijing Bureau as a reporting assistant from 2003-2005. He graduated from the Beijing Language & Culture University with a bachelor's degree in English. He co-authored a book on learning Chinese language and culture, Urban Chinese: Mandarin in 21st Century China. He now works at Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations as a multimedia producer in New York. http:// michaelzhao.net/ index.html
Recent publications: http:// chinadigitaltimes.net/ author/ michael_zhao
