FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Cath Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SeaViews Conference, 11-14 Feb 1998 - pass it on To: Antony William Kusabs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority: normal 25 September 1997 Dear Antony, I'm writing to let you know about the following conference and to ask you to send this notice on to others on your marine and coastal networks. Titled, SeaViews: Marine Ecosystem Management - Obligations and Opportunities, it is to be held in Wellington, New Zealand 11-13 February 1998, the start of the international Year of the Oceans. February is summer in New Zealand, which has a temperate climate. Keynote speakers include Dr Paul Dayton marine ecologist of the Scipps Institute, USA; Larry Merculieff of the Aluet people in Alaska who with Russian scientific collaboration has initiated community management programmes, Professor Doliver Nelson of the London School of Economics Law School who is on the Arbitral Tribunal of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea; Dr Tevor Ward of CSIRO in Western Australia who specialises in marine indicators and water quality; Shane Jones, one of the Maori Commissioners on New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission. The conference will explore the nature of ecosystem approaches to managing human impacts on the marine environment, and in a participatory framework, will get people discussing their preferred futures for the sea, and how to get there. Conference goers will be a mix of international and New Zealand, drawn from all sectors of the policy and science communities, users of the marine environment, commercial and traditional, recreational the public. We have support from both local and central government agencies and are seeking further sponsorship. This is an invitation to those on your networks to come and we would appreciate it if you could pass it on. We are calling for papers with a deadline of 14 November 1997 for abstracts and decisions on these to be made on 8 December. If you or others are interested, please contact me by reply email or contact the conference secretariat at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or myself on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Cath Wallace Cath Wallace Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Economics Schhold of Business and Public Management Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600 Wellington New Zealand ++64-4-495-5233x8552 Tel, ++64-4-495-5084 fax; Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
