Day 1 - THURSDAY, JULY 26th
6:30pm to 8:00pm	Opening Plenary Room: Commonwealth A Welcome: Dr. Kent Gustavson, Chair, CANSEE 2007 Eva Kras, CANSEE President (2005-2007) Speaker: Dr. Hazel Henderson (via webcast) Title: "Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy"
8:00pm to 10:00pm	Opening Reception Room: Atlantic Ballroom   Complimentary snacks and cash bar provided

Day 2 - FRIDAY, JULY 27th
8:30am to 10:00am	Plenary Room: Commonwealth A Speaker: Dr. Charles Perrings Title: "The Economics of Open Ocean Fisheries: Managing for the Resilience of the Global Commons"
10:00am to 10:30am	Nutrition Break Room: Commonwealth B   Beverages and snacks will be provided
10:30am to 12:00pm	Concurrent Sessions A A.1   Valuation and Socioeconomics I Room: Harbour Suite A Session Chair: Murray Rudd (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College)   "Choice Experiment Valuation of Wetlands" Mary Kilfoil (Canada) "Public Opinions on the Threats to, and Importance of, Conserving Aquatic Species at Risk in Canada" Murray Rudd (Canada) "Socio-economic Impacts of Sea-level Rise and Climate Change" Lisa Fougere, Kelly Murphy, Gilles Martin and Omer Chouinard (Canada) "Economic Value of Medicinal Plant Resources: A Case Study of Western Ghat Region of Kerala, India" V.Santosh and P.Pushpangadan (India) A.2   Resource Management Room: Harbour Suite B Session Chair: Kent Gustavson (Jacques Whitford Limited)   "Community-based Forest Management through Socio-cultural Institutions: Dynamics of Biodiversity Conservation and Subsistence Living of Adi Tribe Under Subtropical Ecosystem in Eastern Himalaya" Ranjay Singh (India) "Equity, Participatory Water Management and Ecological Economics" Patricia E. Perkins (Canada) "Management of Common Property Resources, Collective Action and Institutional Framework: An Empirical Assessment" VS Gajavelli (India) "Degradation in Agro-ecosystem and the Problem of Sustainability" Ratan Kumar Ghosal (India) (to be confirmed) A.3   Tourism and the 21st Century Room: Lunenburg Session Chair: Denisa Georgescu (Parks Canada)   "Tourism Challenges and Realities" Randy Williams (Canada) "The Impacts of Climate Change on Tourism" Brenda Jones (Canada) "Economic, Personal and Societal Benefits of Parks and Protected Areas" Peter Whiting (Canada) A.4   Foundations of Ecological Economics Room: Cornwallis Session Chair: Eva Kras (SILCHA International)   "The Implications of Ecological Scarcity for Liberal Democracy" Edward Crummy (Canada) "Ecological Economics and Root Values: What is involved in our Transformation in Thinking?" Eva Kras (Canada) "The Tensions of Neo-liberal Globalization with Democracy and Ecological Sustainable Economic Development" Frank Muller (Canada)
12:00pm to 1:00pm	Lunch Break Room: Atlantic Ballroom   Lunch will be provided
1:00pm to 2:30pm	Concurrent Sessions B B.1   Sustainability Indicators Room: Harbour Suite A Session Chair: Robert Smith (Statistics Canada)   "Contrasting and Comparing Sustainable Development Indicators" Jeffrey Wilson, Peter Tyedmers and Ron Pelot (Canada) "Creating Community-based Indicators to Monitor Sustainability: A Fisheries Case Study" Anthony Charles and Heather Boyd (Canada) "Challenges in Environmental Indicators and Surveys" Robert Smith (Canada) B.2   International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) Global South Panel Room: Harbour Suite B Session Chair: Murray Rudd (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College)   "Who should manage the mangrove forests? Changing regimes of land enure in the Red River Delta, Northern Vietnam" Le Thi Van Hue (Vietnam) "Strengthening Institutions: Panacea for Tribal Forest Governance in India?" Purabi Bose (India) "The Influence and Impact of the Common Property Debate in the Management of Pulsed Tropical Fisheries: A Case of Kapenta (Limnothrissa Moidon) Fishery at Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe" Kefasi Nyikahadzoi (Zimbabwe) "Beyond Indigenous Practices and Local Participation: An Analysis of Bonding, Bridging and Linking Social Capital in the 'Effective' Management of Kalahan Forest Reserve in the Philipines." Krishna Prasad Adhikari and Ganga Ram Dahal (Indonesia) B.3   Life Cycle Assessment and Food: Insights and Opportunities to Improve the Eco-efficiency of Food Production Systems Room: Lunenburg Session Chair: Peter Tyedmers (Dalhousie University)   "Application of Life Cycle Assessment to Wine and Implications for the Nova Scotia Industry" Emma Point and Peter Tyedmers (Canada) "Comparing the Environmental Impacts of Pasture-based and Confinement-based Dairy Systems in Nova Scotia (Canada) Using Life Cycle Assessment" Nicole Arsenault, Peter Tyedmers and Alan Fredeen (Canada) "Assessing Alternative Aquaculture Technologies: LCA of salmonid culture systems in Canada" Nathan W. Ayer and Peter Tyedmers (Canada) B.4   Policy Approaches Room: Cornwallis Session Chair: Kent Gustavson (Jacques Whitford Limited)   "Ecological Fiscal Reform in the Assessment and Permitting of Oil and Gas Projects in Canada's North" Kent Gustavson, Anish Neupane and Jack Ruitenbeek (Canada) "The Use of Property Tax Credits to Conserve Natural Capital" Cynthia Edwards, Lyne Boychuk, Graham Thibault and Dave Howerter (Canada) "Valuing the Flows: Payments for Watershed Services in the Canadian Prairies" Dimple Roy and Henry David Venema (Canada)
2:30pm to 3:00pm	Nutrition Break Room: Commonwealth B   Beverages and snacks will be provided
3:00pm to 4:30pm	Concurrent Sessions C C.1   GPI Atlantic and the Canadian Index of Well-being Room: Harbour Suite A Session Chair: Clair Levin (GPI Atlantic)   "Measuring Ecosystem Health in the Nova Scotia Genuine Progress Index" Clare Levin and Nathan Ayer (Canada) "The Canadian Index of Wellbeing" Mark Anielski (Canada) C.2   International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) Special Session Room: Harbour Suite B Session Chair: Murray Rudd (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College)   "Common Property Resources and Institutional Arrangements: A Micro-level Study" VS Gajavelli (India) "No Institutional Linkages for You!: International Agreements Between Sub-National Entities in the Laurentian Great Lakes" Jeffrey Henquinet (Canada) "How We Created the Gabriola Commons: The Principles and Practices Used to Obtain, Hold, Use and Sustain Community Land on Gabriola Island, BC" Shelagh Huston (Canada) "Improving the management of and sustainable utilization of indigenous natural resources by communitites living adjacent to fragile ecosystems: The Mwingi District Case Study, Kenya" Ester N. Kioko, S.K. Raina, K.O. Fening, E.M. Muli and J. Macharia (Kenya) C.3   Life Cycle Assessment and Food: Insights and Opportunities to Improve the Eco-efficiency of Food Production Systems Room: Lunenburg Session Chair: Peter Tyedmers (Dalhousie University)   "The Price of Luxury: Life cycle environmental impacts of Nova Scotia's live lobster industry" Catherine Boyd and Peter Tyedmers (Canada) "Life Cycle Assessment as a Tool for Evaluating Impacts of Resource Management Systems: Comparing lobster fishery management in the Gulf of Maine" John Driscoll and Peter Tyedmers (Canada) "Calories in Context: Considerations for Improving the Sustainability of Industrial Food Production" Nathan Pelletier and Peter Tyedmers (Canada) C.4   Sustainability and the Market Room: Cornwallis Session Chair: Kent Gustavson (Jacques Whitford Limited)   "Corporate Environmental Liability, Common Property Resources and Sustainable Development" Devashis Bose (India) "Preferences of E-waste Recycling and Green-electronic-product Purchasing Using Contingent Ranking Method" Yuki Takatsuka, Jean-Daniel Saphores and Oladele Ogunseita (USA)
4:30pm to 5:30pm	Poster Session and Discussion Room: Commonwealth B   All poster presenters and exhibitors will be in attendance
6:30pm to 10:00pm	Conference Banquet Location: Pier 21 Theme: Sustainable Food Choices Speaker: Lil MacPerson, Owner/Operator, The Wooden Monkey Restaurant This is a separate ticketed event. Directions to the venue are provided in your registration package.

Day 3 - SATURDAY, JULY 28th
8:30am to 10:00am	Plenary Room: Commonwealth A Speaker: Dr. Bill Rees Title: "Returning to Our Roots: Far-from-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the End of Growth"
10:00am to 10:30am	Nutrition Break Room: Commonwealth B   Beverages and snacks will be provided
10:30am to 12:00pm	Concurrent Sessions D D.1   Marine and Coastal Management Room: Harbour Suite A Session Chair: Tony Charles (Saint Mary's University)   "Implementing Co- and Community-based Fisheries Management to Sustain Communities and Improve Governance" Kate Bigney (Canada) "Measuring the Value of Designating Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Sustaining Local Economies" Mary Kilfoil (Canada) "Ocean Zoning, Conflict Resolution and Increased Species Production: What Area 19 Snow Crab Fishermen Already Know" Laura Loucks (The Netherlands) D.2   Valuation and Socioeconomics II Room: Harbour Suite B Session Chair: Kent Gustavson (Jacques Whitford Limited)   "Economic Valuation of Biodiversity in a Context of Forest Management Zoning in Quebec" Virginie Mai Ho and Nancy Gélinas (Canada) "Private Land and Public Values: The Importance of Private Lands for Big Game Herds in Wyoming" Roger Coupal, Donald McLeod and Gary Beauvais (USA) "Socioeconomic Analysis of Species at Risk" Anish Neupane and Kent Gustavson (Canada) "Assessing Deforestation in Iran Using Environmental Kuznets Curve" Abdoulkarim Esmaeili and Fateme Nasrnia (Iran) D.3   Municipal Approaches Room: Lunenburg Session Chair: Clare Levin (GPI Atlantic) Panel: Jim Donovan (Halifax Regional Municipality) Brenda Kelley (Bathurst Sustainable Development) Glen Tait (City of Saint John) Title: "Integrating Economic Development and Sustainability Strategies"
12:00pm to 1:30pm	Lunch Break Room: Atlantic Ballroom   Lunch will be provided
12:00pm to 1:30pm	CANSEE Annual General Meeting Room: Cornwallis   Open to all CANSEE members
1:30pm to 3:00pm	Plenary Room: Commonwealth A Session Chair: Anthony Charles Panel: Arthur Bull (Bay of Fundy Marine Resource Centre) Maggy Burns (Ecology Action Centre) Sherry Pictou (Bear River First Nation) Title: "The Nova Scotia Scene: Toward Healthy Ecosystems and Sustainable Communities"
3:00pm to 3:30pm	Nutrition Break Room: Commonwealth B   Beverages and snacks will be provided
3:30pm to 5:00pm	Public Session Room: Commonwealth A Session Chair: Kent Gustavson (Jacques Whitford Limited) Panel: Mark Anielski (Anielski Management Inc.) Anthony Friend (Oikoz, Economy for a Sustainable Planet) Leslie Malone (Atlantic Canada Sustainable Energy Coalition) Glen Murray (National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy) Bill Rees (University of British Columbia) Title: "Climate Change: How Can Canada Respond?"
5:00pm to 5:30pm	Conference Closing Room: Commonwealth A Closing Remarks:   Kent Gustavson, Chair, CANSEE 2007