I just returned from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference and wanted to highlight a plenary speaker whose work engages ecocritical approaches to water rights, species preservation, and climate change:
Subhankar Banerjee
Director's Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Fall 2011. As a photographer, writer, activist and founder of ClimateStoryTellers.org, Banerjee is a leading voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights, resource development and climate change. He has also focused on global forest deaths from climate change, including the loss of old growth forests in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico caused by the recent out-of-control fires. His world-renowned blog, "Climate Storytellers: A Gathering Place for Stories on All things Global Warming" includes posts by James E. Hansen and Dr. Vandana Shiva.
See the Climate Story tellers blog here.
Robert Fischman
Law, Indiana University
author of The Meanings of Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health and The National Wildlife Refuges: Coordinating a Conservation System through Law
Fishman is one of the leading U.S. scholars in environmental law and has written numerous books and articles on public land management, endangered speices recovery, animal migration, environmental impact analysis, feeralism, and global climate change. His work in the areas of resource management and conservation highlight the affects of property ownership on water and land rights. Work to promote Land Trust and Conservation Easements, for example, has preserved resources on at least 150 million acres, and the Refuge system has conserved only 20 million. The Property Clause in the U.S. Constitution and the Endangered Species act have both promoted an increase in public lands via legal channels. Such work also preserves the resources available on those lands, including water.
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