2009-2011 Theme: Climate Ethics and Climate Equity
Theme Overview:
The two-year inquiry on Climate Ethics and Climate Equity examines overarching ethical issues involved with climate change as well as solutions that focus on equity and environmental justice, both domestically and internationally.
Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics:
 Dale Jamieson is in residence at the UO during fall term 2009. He is Director of Environmental Studies at New York University where he is also Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Law. Jamieson is a well-known scholar on environmental values and policy and climate change. His books Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction, and Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature” have become standard texts in environmental ethics. Jamieson will be hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Environmental Studies Program. He will teach a seminar for graduate and undergraduate students called Climate Ethics and Law. Please read Dale Jamieson's CV here. (228K PDF).
Distinguished Visitors:
The following year, 2010-2011, we will host two visitors in the Wayne Morse Chair.
Maxine Burkett will visit the School of Law during fall semester, 2010. Burkett is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii and inaugural director of the Island Climate Center. She will teach a law class on environmental justice. Please read Maxine Burkett's CV here. (120K PDF).
 Dr. Vandana Shiva will visit the UO during winter term, 2011. She is a scientist and activist on issues of agriculture and food, bioethics, globalization, gender, and the worldwide impacts of climate change. She recently released Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Change. Please read Dr. Vandana Shiva's abbreviated CV here. (56K PDF).
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Resident Scholars for 2009-2010:
 Adell Amos, School of Law, “Ethical Water Allocation in a Changing Climate.” Professor Amos, a water resources lawyer and scholar, plans to evaluate mechanisms for allocating water resources using an ethical framework. She will examine current ethical guidelines set out by the field of environmental ethics to critically analyze various national and international approaches to water allocation and suggest policy reforms.
Ted Toadvine, Department of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, “Ethics and Intrinsic Value in Environmental Problem-Solving: The Case of Global Climate Change.” Framing environmental problems empirically ignores the inescapably normative and ethical dimensions that frame all such problems and that are essential for just and equitable policy responses. This project proposes an interdisciplinary approach to environmental problems that includes the interpretive and normative contributions of the humanities as complementary to the natural and social sciences.
Distinguished Speaker 2009-2010:
 Rebecca Tsosie In conjunction with the School of Law and the inauguration of the Indian Tribes Professorship, the Wayne Morse Center will host Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law and director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University. She has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental ethics, policy and cultural rights. Tsosie will speak to natural law, native environmental ethics and policy, and traditional approaches to environmental stewardship.
Dissertation Fellow 2009-2010:
Shangrila Joshi Wynn, a Ph.D. student in Geography and Environmental Science, will be a 2009-10 Dissertation Fellow. Wynn's research examines issues of equity and justice in climate change policy with a focus on the role of India in international negotiations. She addresses the challenges of reconciling ecological justice and international equity.
Wayne Morse Center Law Fellows 2009-2010:
The following law students have been selected for fellowships due to their activism, outstanding course work, and interest in Climate Ethics and Climate Equity theme.
- First Year: Emily Johnson, Maya Leonard-Cahn and Nadia Dahab
- Second Year: Aaron Kraft, Kiran Sahdev and Brent Wilkins
- Third Year: Erin Gould, Autumn Johnson, Tim Ream (Spring 2010)
and Jillian Clearman (Fall 2009)
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Project Grants 2009-2010:
Each year the Wayne Morse Center sponsors community events and scholarly activities of UO faculty members and students. These supplement the activities of the Wayne Morse Center for the new thematic inquiry, “Climate Ethics and Climate Equity.”
UO Labor Education and Research Center (LERC)
“Equity and Green Jobs: Paving the Way for Worker Participation in Oregon’s Emerging Green Economy.” LERC will conduct organizing, training and technical assistance to create a new network of low-income and worker advocates who can pursue a “green jobs agenda” in their communities. Participants will include key stakeholders in three rural Oregon communities. The project includes a collaborative meeting in Eugene featuring Van Jones or another speaker from Green for All in Oakland, California.
UO Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (JELL). JELL will conduct a student-led symposium on September 11, 2009: “Environment of Equality: Legal and Ethical Duties in a changing Climate.” Panelists will discuss current negotiations on climate change law, access to environmental justice, legal ethics and litigating on behalf of environmental refugees. The program includes Continuing Legal Education credits for Oregon attorneys.
UO Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI), Institute for a Sustainable Environment.
The Junior Climate Stewards program, a youth-focused program for schools, builds on the successful Climate Master program to enhance youth awareness, knowledge and skills pertaining to climate change. The program focuses on intergenerational equity and explores the ethics of stewardship.
UO Institute for Sustainability Education and Ecology (ISEE) and the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP). Funds support an ELP service-learning project that brings together university students, community nonprofit organizations and middle schools to raise awareness about equity, safety and climate issues associated with student transportation to and from school.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW). ELAW will host the 2008 Goldman Prize winner Pablo Fajardo from Ecuador for an ELAW Fellowship. He will present several lectures at the university and in the community. Fajardo’s work holding multinational oil giants accountable for decades of polluting activities in the Ecuadorean Amazon has received worldwide attention.
Katie MacKendrick, UO Masters Student in community and regional planning. Thesis: “American Indian Tribes and Climate Change Adaptation Planning." Katie is working with the Coquille and the Hoopa Valley tribes and will discuss the implications of her research with these tribes and the UO community. Her research considers the ethical issues facing policymakers and tribes in climate change adaptation.
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