Event Host: COMPAS (Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society
Short Description: The spring COMPAS conference takes a turn toward the practical: the challenge of realizing sustainability. Who bears responsibility for this challenge and how can we motivate the necessary shifts in public policy and personal behavior?
The fall COMPAS conference explored the value trade-offs involved in pursuing competing visions of a sustainable future. The spring COMPAS conference takes a turn toward the practical: the challenge of realizing sustainability. Who bears responsibility for this challenge and how can we motivate the necessary shifts in public policy and personal behavior? If the Paris meetings represent a moment, as President Obama has stated, when "nations embrace their responsibility to assure a world worthy of our children," what policy implications follow from that change in moral viewpoint? The conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts from communications, decision sciences, economics, law, philosophy, and political science, among other fields, to address these issues.
Speakers will include:
- Julia Driver (Washington University in St. Louis)
- John Gowdy (Rensselear Polytechnic Institute)
- Bob Inglis (The Energy and Enterprise Initiative; former U.S. Representative, South Carolina)
- Matthew Nisbet (Northeastern Uniiversity)
- Jason Shogren (University of Wyoming)
- Rena Steinzor (University of Maryland)
- Michael Vandenbergh (Vanderbilt University)
- Steve Vanderheiden (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Robyn Wilson (Ohio State University)
To see the complete schedule of events, visit the COMPAS conference website.