Ninth Annual Norman Williams LectureVLS hosts its ninth annual Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law. The speaker will be Robert L. Liberty, director of the Urban Sustainability Accelerator at Portland State University. His talk, titled "Rising to the Land Use Challenge: How Planners and Regulators Can Help Sustain Our Civilization," will address global climate change as only one of the multiplying signs that global civilization is threatened by humans' destruction of the natural systems that support us. "In this country many land use planners have the training, skills and knowledge to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy, to restate the necessity of the regulation of the use of land and to play a leadership role in preparing our nation and our world for the changes that we must make to sustain our civilization," he says. More ...]]>Chase CenterAnne Mansfield Linehan, <a href="mailto:alinehan@vermontlaw.edu">alinehan@vermontlaw.edu</a>20130207T17:00:0019700101T22:30:00