Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, successful concern with the California Water Institute and the Maddy Institute astatine Fresno State, volition big the 11th yearly Eccles Family Rural West Conference astatine Fresno State’s Linda and Stewart Resnick Student Union connected Feb. 26 and 27.
The league is escaped and unfastened to the public. This year’s league taxable is “People and Places: Resourcing California’s Climate Future successful the Central Valley.” Centered successful a portion that is simply a crossroad betwixt biology sustainability, economical resilience and assemblage engagement, the lawsuit volition research the Central Valley’s captious relation successful addressing clime alteration and its interaction connected agrarian communities.
In its committedness to advancing scholarly and nationalist knowing of the past, contiguous and aboriginal of Western North America, the Bill Lane Center and its partners are collaborating to assemble speakers, presentations and sheet discussions featuring influential voices successful clime science, argumentation and assemblage development.
Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval volition present the keynote code and attendees volition person the accidental to link with academics, practitioners and policymakers shaping the aboriginal of the agrarian West. Key topics see the aboriginal of moving lands, agriculture, vigor and h2o resources successful the discourse of clime action.
For programme details and updates, sojourn the event webpage. To attend, taxable an RSVP by Feb. 18. For much information, interaction the California Water Institute astatine 559.278.7001.
(Story by Julissa Zavala)
