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A near-perfect storm of population growth, changing environmental standards, and climate change has put the American West’s crucial water management systems at risk. Professors Kennedy and Thompson will explain the historical forces that have brought the entire region to this critical juncture, and explore some promising solutions going forward.
David Kennedy, ’63, is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, emeritus and director emeritus of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Professor Kennedy has long taught both undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from the 20th-century history of the United States to the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America. His research is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history. His book “Freedom From Fear” was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club and winner of the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman Prizes. In 1988, Professor Kennedy received the Richard W. Lyman Award for exceptional volunteer service to alumni.
Buzz Thompson, ’73, MBA ’75, JD ’76, is the Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Although he works on a variety of environmental issues, Professor Thompson is a confessed water wonk. Professor Thompson chairs the board of both the Resources Legacy Fund and the American Farmland Trust, is a California trustee for The Nature Conservancy, and serves as a board member of the Sonoran Institute. He also serves as special master for the United States Supreme Court in an interstate dispute involving the Yellowstone River system. In 2008, he received the Richard W. Lyman Award for exceptional volunteer service to alumni.
This Stanford+Connects seminar was filmed on location at Stanford University. Stanford+Connects is a program of the Stanford Alumni Association.
