Please reply to Robin Goettel at goettel@uiuc.edu .........
ANNOUNCING AN IMPORTANT NATIONAL EVENT . . .
--0__=IVPYXyfynGvIkPFQiJsdoEErYXfHGVHQnMesUnkY9gcJLfHtsTsSp2bx
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
=A0Great Cities/Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Urban Water Resources Confer=
ence
=A0=A0=A0=A0IMPROVED DECISION-MAKING FOR WATER RESOURCES:
=A0=A0=A0 THE KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR METROPOLITAN REGI=
ONS
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 September 16-17, 1999
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 University of Illinois at Chicago
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Chicago, Illinois
WE EXTEND A SPECIAL INVITATION TO THE FOLLOWING PROFESSIONALS:
1.=A0 Practitioners, professionals, and environmental and planning=
officials
involved in water resources, sustainable development, and regional=
growth
issues and projects.
2.=A0 Scholars in water resource research and related educational
disciplines.
3.=A0 Government officials interested in water resource and region=
al growth
issues
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 For complete conference information and regi=
stration materials:=A0 <
http://www.uic.edu/depts/oceps/sea-grant
>http://www.uic.edu/depts/oceps/sea-grant
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
-=A0 Honorable William M. Daley (invited)
=A0=A0 U.S. Secretary of Commerce
-=A0 Honorable David Crombie
=A0=A0 Chair, Waterfront Regeneration Trust, Toronto, Ontario, Can=
ada
-=A0 Franklin M. Fisher
=A0=A0 Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technolo=
gy,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
OVERALL PURPOSE OF CONFERENCE:
This important national conference seeks to bring together hydrolo=
gical
resource scholars, researchers, state, federal and municipal offic=
ials,
practitioners, and civic organizations to advance the understandin=
g of
water resources as the basis of sustainable metropolitan communiti=
es.
THE CONFERENCE WILL:
1.=A0 Develop a more sophisticated understanding of the relationsh=
ip between
regional economic growth and its hydrological resource base.
2.=A0 Examine case studies highlighting problems and explore possi=
ble
responses that can support region-based governance of urban water
resources.
3.=A0 Offer an overview of problems imposed by current water suppl=
y and
sewage infrastructure practices and their economic implications.
4.=A0 Present a vision of how improved water resource modeling, co=
mbined with
preservation of existing natural capital, might guide future inves=
tments in
urban hydrological infrastructure.
5.=A0 Identify the research requirements necessary to create regio=
nal-scale
integrated economic-ecologic models and decision-making tools that=
can
guide future urban water infrastructure investments and governance=
.
Again, for complete conference information and registration materi=
als:=A0 <
http://www.uic.edu/depts/oceps/sea-grant
>http://www.uic.edu/depts/oceps/sea-grant
<<<<
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Robin G. Goettel, Communications Coordinator
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
University of Illinois
63 Mumford Hall
1301 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
ph 217 333-9448 fax 217 333-2614 email goettel@uiuc.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
=
--0__=IVPYXyfynGvIkPFQiJsdoEErYXfHGVHQnMesUnkY9gcJLfHtsTsSp2bx--
To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command
"unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command
"unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest".
To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command
"subscribe sanet-mg-digest".
All messages to sanet-mg are archived at:
http://www.sare.org/htdocs/hypermail