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The Ohio State University
Environmental Policy Initiative
Second Annual
National Policy Conference

Responding to Contemporary Environmental Risks

Co-Sponsored by The Ohio State University Center for Urban and Regional Analysis

(Links in the Program Below will Open the Papers Presented)

Monday, May 13, 2002

9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

140 Pfahl Hall

Conference Center

280 West Woodruff Avenue

The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

Effective public policy responds and adapts to emerging sources and types of environmental risk threatening the health and safety of citizens and their environment.  The Environmental Policy Initiative's second annual public policy symposium will explore environmental risks and how they affect public policy.  It will expand the awareness of risk issues among our audience of academics, policy makers, and stakeholders, by stimulating research, engaging policy experts, and educating the broader audience.  This symposium is issue-oriented, and will leave people with a policy agenda for responding to contemporary environmental risks.  The highlight of the symposium will be four keynote addresses by internationally recognized experts on environmental risk.  Local policy makers and experts, drawn from state and local agencies and the university community, will discuss Ohio's evolving public policy response to environmental risks.

Symposium Program

9:00 - 9:20 a.m.       Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:20 - 10:00 a.m.     Introduction to Symposium, Welcome, and Opening Remarks

                                    Alan Randall, Leader, Environmental Policy Initiative, OSU

                                    C. Bradley Moore, Vice President for Research, OSU

                                    Sam Speck, Director, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

10:00 - 11:00 a.m.    Environmental Risk: What's Worth Knowing - and Saying?

                                    Moderator: Paul Robbins, The Ohio State University

Keynote Speaker: Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University

                                    Discussant: Jon Krosnick, The Ohio State University

11:00 - 12:00 p.m.       Strategic Responses to the Risks of Eco-terrorism

Moderator: Ed Pfau, Hull and Associates, Inc.

Keynote Speaker: Yacov Haimes, University of Virginia

Discussant: Joe Arvai

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.     Lunch (Box Lunches Provided)

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.     Public-Private Partnerships for Managing Environmental Risk

Moderator: Ed Malecki, The Ohio State University

Keynote Speaker: Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania

                                    Discussant: Barry Goodwin, The Ohio State University

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.           Responding to Contemporary Environmental Risks - The Take-home Message

                                    Moderator: Alan Randall

Panelists: Baruch Fischhoff, Yacov Haimes, Howard Kunreuther, Joe Arvai, and Barry Goodwin

3:30 p.m.                      Adjourn