Call for Papers:
MICHIGAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
2017
Annual Meeting: Environmental
sociology in the 21st century: where do we go from here?
October 27-28, 2017
The annual Michigan Sociological Association conference,
sponsored by Grand Valley State University, will take place in Grand Rapids,
Michigan on October 27th & 28th, 2017. We are seeking sessions and papers that align
with our broad theme of Environmental Justice. As a general sociology
conference, MSA also welcome papers that come from a range of areas of
sociological inquiry. MSA encourages work that examines life in Michigan and
welcome work that is interdisciplinary and that will connect with the
community.
Dr. Paul Mohai is a Professor of Sociology at the
University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment and
Faculty Associate for the Social Environment and Health Program Survey Research
Center Institute for Social Research University of Michigan. He will deliver a luncheon keynote address entitled “Environmental
Justice”. Dr. Paul Roof, a former Associate
Professor at Charleston Southern University will deliver a Friday evening
keynote entitled “Microbrewing: the CASE of sustainability”.
If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see
the list of sessions available on our website: http://www.michigansociology.org/index.html. We
are also open to new session proposals.
Please send session proposals and paper abstracts to macalusm@gvsu.edu. The
deadline for title submission is September 30, 2017. Include in the email all
author names and affiliations, an email and mailing address, and telephone
number.
Additionally there will be undergraduate student paper and
poster sessions and an undergraduate paper competition. Please encourage your
students to submit their work. Further details are posted on the http://www.michigansociology.org/index.html website.
The conference will be held at the L.V. Eberhard Center of
Grand Valley State University in downtown Grand Rapids. Hotel accommodations will be available at the
Holiday Inn of Grand Rapids, which is across a parking lot from the conference
location. The Eberhard Center is also within easy walking distance of other
hotels, breweries, museums, and restaurants. For additional information about
the downtown area please visit the Experience Grand Rapids website: https://www.experiencegr.com/.
CFA
Food Justice, the Environment, and Climate Change
Although theoretical explorations of food have exploded in recent literature, sustained philosophical treatment of the environmental implications of food systems, especially regarding global climate change (GCC), is still absent. In contrast, there is considerable popular discussion of how agricultural practices, dietary choices, and the structure of globalized food systems affect the environment broadly and climate change more specifically (e.g., Bittman, Pollan, etc). This volume aims to bridge the gap between the academic discourse and the mainstream discourse by engaging a diverse array of scholars in analysis and reflection on the ethical and political implications of food and agricultural practices in relation to environmental concerns, with special attention to climate change. In particular, the goal of this collection of essays is to develop a discussion at the intersection of food justice, environmental justice, and climate justice, with an emphasis on identifying both the philosophical and practical relationships that exist between these problems/areas of study. We hope this volume will speak to a broad audience (ranging from undergraduate students to research scholars), and will address both activist and scholarly concerns by employing diverse methods and frameworks. Towards this end, we invite authors to submit abstracts that address one of the below questions and/or other relevant topics.
Abstracts should be 750-1000 words in length, and should explicitly address how the essay will fit within the aims and ends of the volume as a whole. Interested authors should send abstracts to Erinn Cunniff Gilson (e.gilson@unf.edu) and Sarah Kenehan (skenehan@marywood.edu) no later than July 3rd, 2017. In the interest of anonymous review, please leave off identifying information.
Potential Questions:
What philosophical concepts, theories, and viewpoints best address the complex relationships between global food systems, environmental problems, and climate change? What connections can be made between food justice, environmental justice, and climate justice? For instance:
How do environmental justice perspectives and food justice perspectives contribute to understanding the harms of global climate change (GCC), the sources of these harms, and the possibilities for activism and change?
When it comes to food systems, is GCC one environmental issue among many or the primary one?
How should we understand GCC in relation to other environmental problems stemming from agricultural and food production practices (such as soil degradation, desertification, clear-cutting, water and air pollution, loss of biodiversity)?
In light of the increased demand for food, how can and should the tension between conservation and agriculture be addressed?
How can the harms to oceans and riparian ecosystems stemming from GCC (rising water temperatures, loss of coral reefs, sea level rise) and intensive fishing and aquaculture (pollution, species loss, dead zones) be theorized?
How are the injustices related to food and agriculture best conceptualized? As food insecurity? An absence of food sovereignty? How does the way such injustices are conceptualized impact the kinds of normative conclusions that are drawn?
How do these injustices overlap with other forms of subordination and oppression such as racism, sexism, capitalism, xenophobia, and so on? What does an intersectional approach to food justice and/or climate justice look like?
In relation to the nexus of problems concerning food, environment, and climate, what are the ethical and political responsibilities of various parties (e.g., individuals, communities, towns, cities, states, national governments, corporations, international organizations such as NGOs and governing bodies such as the UN)? More specifically:
In the context of global climate change, do individuals have an obligation to adopt diets that rely less on animal products, as animal agriculture is one of the leading contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? To adopt diets that rely less on food that is not local in origin to reduce emissions from food transportation? What other kinds of individual actions are necessary (e.g., growing one’s own food, participating in a CSA or community garden, minimizing food waste, salvaging wasted food, etc.)?
Is individual action sufficient? Why/why not? Given the scale of environmental problems, do individualized responses distract and divert attention from the broad-scale political and structural remedies that are needed? Or are individual actions important for motivation, developing knowledge, fostering affective engagement, and community-building?
The activities of industrialized nations have contributed in significant ways to the ability of many peoples to maintain food and water security. What obligations do industrialized nations have to mitigate this harm and to help the affected peoples adapt? Do these obligations change given differing conditions and varying levels of food insecurity and/or instability (e.g., famine, drought, desertification)?
Given the inefficiencies and environmental harms of intensive animal agriculture (high levels of water use, air and water pollution, deforestation in developing nations, reductions in biodiversity, excessive use of antibiotics, and so on) and its role in GCC, do nations have a moral obligation to produce food that is more (resource) efficient? Should governments continue to subsidize intensive animal agriculture or do they, conversely, have an obligation to reorient food production?
What practices and technologies can and should be used to increase the efficiency of food production? E.g., geo-engineering to create more favorable conditions to grow food and genetic modification to make products that can grow in unfavorable conditions? How should “efficiency” be measured so as to take what are usually deemed externalities into account?
To what extent should food production and agricultural processes be taken into consideration in the calculation of carbon taxes and carbon compensation methods? Should nations that rely on food imports be treated differently than those whose economic stability depends on exporting food to the rest of the world?
Are food production and agriculture considered sufficiently in climate negotiations and policy decisions both intra- and inter- nationally? Should such concerns be offered a more substantive role?
What obligations do relatively affluent and/or privileged parties have to frontline communities (indigenous peoples, racially marginalized groups, impoverished communities) within their own nation who are and will be adversely effected by GCC and other environmental harms?
If migration is an effect of GCC and environmental degradation more broadly, what does global justice entail for climate refugees or environmental migrants? Do these effects create a new category of migration - agriculture/food migration?
How might ethical and political obligations be related when it comes to food, environmental, and climate justice?
Do shifting political atmospheres (such as the increase in support for far-right political parties) alter the political responsibilities of individuals, nations, and international organizations with regard to obligations of food, climate, and environmental justice?
How do epistemic, cultural, political, and ethical claims intersect and overlap when it comes to food, environmental, and climate justice? For instance:
What role should scientists have in shaping global climate policy?
What role should indigenous peoples have in informing global climate, environmental, and food policy?
To what extent do claims of cultural sovereignty matter in discussions about sustainable food systems?
How can epistemic justice frameworks facilitate food, environmental, and climate justice, especially when significant power to make policy, mitigate harm, and intervene globally rests in the hands of the governments of Western, industrialized nations?
What forms of knowledge are marginalized (e.g., those of “subjugated,” “subaltern,” and/or indigenous people)? Why might such knowledge be crucial for achieving food, environmental, and climate justice?
Which kinds of standards should be employed to determine the merit of potential remedies for the effects of GCC and environmental degradation? Efficacy? Participation/democracy? Cultural and biological diversity?
What are the obstacles to remedying environmental and food injustice, and ameliorating the effects of GCC? How can those obstacles be understood better and addressed?
CFP: Political ecologies of austerity: conservation and park management in an age of austerity
Session Convenors:
Marion Ernwein (University of Oxford, UK)
Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford, UK)
When a 40% cut in the budget of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was proclaimed in 2010, conservation organisations rallied to denunciate the "austerity countryside" such a cut would lead to (Jowitt et al. 2010). With their insistence on fiscal consolidation and decrease of state expenditures, post-2008 austerity policies have indeed degraded social and environmental conditions, leading to increased food poverty and land dispossession (Calvario et al. 2016), but also decreased conservation budgets. In this session, we want to map out the consequences of austerity on conservation and park management, more specifically on ways of conceiving of, categorizing, managing, and being-with the more-than-human, material world.
We aim to explore the specificities of austerity approaches to conservation and park management: Are they to any extent different from neoliberal conservation (Büscher et al. 2014) and park management (Gabriel 2016)? Do they merely prolong it, or do they have they own discourses, rationales, and practices? How do conservation organisations and park managers react to austerity? What strategies do they devise to continue with the upkeep of these areas? How do different versions of austerity relate to different conservation practices?
The questions addressed by the papers may encompass but should not be limited to:
· Austerity and non-humans: What ecologies are being produced under austerity? Do new discourses on nature accompany austerity measures? Is there a specifically austere biopolitics of conservation (Hodgetts 2017)? How is life revalued under austerity (Barua 2016)?
· Austerity and work in conservation: How is work reorganized, perhaps eventually redefined, as workforce massively decreases? How are other forms of nonhuman/voluntary labour conceived of and valued?
· Relationships between austerity and the financialization of environmental management. What links should be drawn between austerity and the rise of new market mechanisms like offsetting, banking, etc?
· Austerity and knowledge politics in conservation: is citizen science in conservation changing under austerity? Which ways of knowing nature, which concepts tend to become hegemonic?
· Austere conservation and in/justice: What kinds of new social organisations emerge from / contest these changes?
· Austerity in the Anthropocene: As austerity is combined with biological extinction, how do park managers deal with a double - budgetary and biological - absence? How is austerity articulated with the urgency of new response-abilities (Haraway 2016) in the Anthropocene?
· Genealogical perspectives on austerity conservation: Is current conservation under 21st-Century austerity specific or does it share any character with previous austerity eras?
· Austerity, farmland abandonment, and new conservation practices: how do emerging practices of conservation such as rewilding relate to land abandonment?
· Austerity and eventification of conservation: what is at stake when event-generated funding replaces state funding?
· Are we seeing the end of austerity in nationalist responses to neoliberalism? What are the implications for environmentalism?
We welcome papers that approach conservation and austerity in a variety of national contexts, addressing nature conservation and park management in either rural or urban settings. We do expect participants to address austerity not merely as a background but as a generative concept.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent jointly to marion.ernwein@ouce.ox.ac.uk
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Call for Papers: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science” 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick
We invite papers to a workshop on the theme of Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science, held on 3-4 May 2017, at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK.
Citizen science has long been a key means of seeking environmental justice, by bridging the divide between formal expertise and the public. The availability of new digital technologies, Big Data and the Internet has meant community involvement in pollution monitoring has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon.
However, the context of expertise and the environment is rapidly changing, with new vulnerabilities emerging. We live in a world of post-truth politics, ‘alternative facts’, and a new wave of climate change denial. The inauguration of Donald Trump in the USA and the shock Brexit result in the UK have created a threatening political climate for experts of all kinds. Just as the value of expertise has been questioned by a new political elite, so too are fresh environmental vulnerabilities emerging at both the global and local levels.
What role does citizen science play in this uncertain landscape? What can we learn from the successes and failures of citizen science campaigns, and the involvement of the public in environmental decision-making, in overcoming these challenges?
This two-day workshop will bring together international researchers working at the intersection of air pollution, environmental justice, and citizen science, from across different regions, disciplines, and scales. Researchers will discuss the possibilities as well as challenges of engaging with new technologies and strategies for environmental justice and citizen science.
We will conclude our discussions with a public-facing “ideation” workshop, inviting participation from community organizations, NGOs, members of the public, and data scientists. This collaborative workshop will inform our Toxic Expertise project plans to create an international public resource, with accessible information and tools for understanding, monitoring, and reporting toxic pollutants and their health impacts.
In this CFP we welcome scholars from a broad range of disciplines and career stages, as well as environmental justice activists who are interested in - or actively use - citizen science. This session draws attention to the recent changes in the value of expertise, as well as long-standing environmental justice challenges and victories.
Applicants are invited to submit a 200-word abstract on Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science to the email address below. Participants will have 20 minutes for presentations and questions. Participants will be offered UK travel expenses, as well as accommodation (with breakfast) for the 3rd of May. Lunch and dinner will also be provided for attendees.
Confirmed speakers include: Professor Phil Brown (Northeastern University); Dr Gwen Ottinger (Drexel University); Dr Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths University); Dr Sam Geall (University of Sussex); and Dr João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick).
Deadline for abstracts: 28th February 2017
Please contact toxic.expertise@warwick.ac.uk to register interest.
Event Organisers:
Dr Alice Mah, Dr Thom Davies, Dr Cynthia Wang, India Holme (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick). This event is the second annual Toxic Expertise workshop, funded by the ERC and the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. More information on the Toxic Expertise project can be found here:
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Call for Papers: 2nd Symposium on Universities and Climate Change: The Role of Climate Change Research and Projects
in Fostering Climate Action, London, United Kingdom, 12th - 13th December 2017
Many universities across the world perform state- of-the art research on matters related to climate change, both in respect
of mitigation, and adaptation. Yet, as shown by the latest 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on
Climate Change (COP 21), held in Paris in December 2015, there is much room for improvements in the role played by
universities in the negotiations and in influencing decision-making on a matter of such a global importance.
There are unfortunately relatively few events where a multidisciplinary overview of university-based research efforts and
projects on climate change can be show cased, and where researchers from across the spectrum of the natural and social
sciences have had the opportunity to come together to discuss research methods, the results of empirical research or exchange
ideas about on-going and future research initiatives focusing on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
It is against this background that the 2nd Symposium “Universities and Climate Change” is being organised by
Manchester Metropolitan University, Queen Mary University of London (UK), and HAW Hamburg, Germany, under the
auspices of the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP).
It will involve researchers in the field of climate change in the widest sense, not only from traditional climate
science, but also from the fields of environment, human geography, business and economics, arts, administration and
media studies. The Symposium will focus on the role of climate change research and projects in fostering
climate action, and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.
A peer-reviewed publication titled "The Role of Climate Change Research and Projects in Fostering Climate
Action" will be published, with all accepted papers. This will be a unique, state-of-the-art publication,
which will document and promote the research on climate change taking place at universities
across the world. The publication will be part of the award-winning “Climate Change Management
Sustainability Series” (launched in 2008), published by Springer, one of the world´s
top five scientific publishers.
Further details can be seen at: universities2017: FTZ-ALS: HAW Hamburg
Interpretive Policy Analysis, 12th International Conference
5-7th July 2017
Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Call for Papers
Panel Convenors:
Raquel Ajates Gonzalez, University of Dundee and City University of London
Kelly Parsons, City University of London
Deadline: 17th February 2017
Panel: Achieving Integrated Food Policy: Slim Pickings or Feast of Possibilities?
Food policy currently suffers from fragmentation: horizontally between portfolios of government; vertically between the multiple levels of food governance; along the stages of the food supply chain; as well as between policymakers and the people impacted by their decision-making.
It is widely acknowledged that the gaps, overlaps and inconsistencies resulting from a disjointed approach are hindering attempts to address the current environmental, public health and social crises of the food system, and a more integrated approach, which forges new alliances, is required to overcome this ‘wicked problem’.
For the purposes of this panel, integrated policy is defined as policy where health, environmental, economic and other relevant objectives are brought together in a jointly-formulated approach across these often competing domains, covering all stages of the food supply chain. However, we are also interested in approaches and ideas covering the related concepts of policy coordination and policy coherence.
The panel will discuss what food policy integration could/should look like at different levels:
- Horizontal, within national cross-department policy programmes
- Vertically, from local to global (e.g. National frameworks for municipal level food policy)
- Integration of policies designed to improve different food systems outcomes (e.g. integration between sustainability and human health)
- The comparison of integrative approaches in more affluent versus developing societies.
Papers are therefore invited from academic and civil society colleagues in response to the following questions:
- What methods can help us map and analyse food policy integration?
- What feasible and credible policy processes and institutions can achieve integration?
- What have been the most significant examples of policy integration attempts: How have different elements of food policy been successfully integrated to date? What can we learn from failed attempts?
- What type of integrative approaches can ensure people’s lived experiences feed into policy-making processes?
- How best can activists working to improve different areas of the food system integrate their own asks to governments for more effective impacts?
Papers should be emailed to IPAconference2017@dmu.ac.uk quoting the name of the panel. Panel convenors will review and select papers. Proposals should include: panel number; paper title; name, role, institutional affiliation and email address; abstract (no more than 300 words). For more details, see the conference webpage: www.dmu.ac.uk/ ipaconference
CfP 4S: Clashing environments in Latin
America
Annual Meeting of the Society for
Social Studies of Science (4S)
Boston, Massachusetts
August 30 – September 2, 2017
Sheraton Boston Hotel, 39 Dalton Street
Submission deadline: 1st of March
Panel: 101. Clashing Environments in
Latin America
Organized by: Raoni Rajão, Federal
University of Minas Gerais; Susanna
Since the beginning of STS a few decades
ago, the environment has become an important site for understanding the
relation between different forms of knowledge (Wynne, 1996), the delimitation
of science-policy interfaces (Jasanoff, 1990) and the management of
technological risks (Wiertz, 2016). But as with most of STS, these discussions
tend to have a distinctively
Annual Meeting: Environmental
sociology in the 21st century: where do we go from here?
October 27-28, 2017
The annual Michigan Sociological Association conference,
sponsored by Grand Valley State University, will take place in Grand Rapids,
Michigan on October 27th & 28th, 2017. We are seeking sessions and papers that align
with our broad theme of Environmental Justice. As a general sociology
conference, MSA also welcome papers that come from a range of areas of
sociological inquiry. MSA encourages work that examines life in Michigan and
welcome work that is interdisciplinary and that will connect with the
community.
Dr. Paul Mohai is a Professor of Sociology at the
University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment and
Faculty Associate for the Social Environment and Health Program Survey Research
Center Institute for Social Research University of Michigan. He will deliver a luncheon keynote address entitled “Environmental
Justice”. Dr. Paul Roof, a former Associate
Professor at Charleston Southern University will deliver a Friday evening
keynote entitled “Microbrewing: the CASE of sustainability”.
If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see
the list of sessions available on our website: http://www.michigansociology.org/index.html. We
are also open to new session proposals.
Please send session proposals and paper abstracts to macalusm@gvsu.edu. The
deadline for title submission is September 30, 2017. Include in the email all
author names and affiliations, an email and mailing address, and telephone
number.
Additionally there will be undergraduate student paper and
poster sessions and an undergraduate paper competition. Please encourage your
students to submit their work. Further details are posted on the http://www.michigansociology.org/index.html website.
The conference will be held at the L.V. Eberhard Center of
Grand Valley State University in downtown Grand Rapids. Hotel accommodations will be available at the
Holiday Inn of Grand Rapids, which is across a parking lot from the conference
location. The Eberhard Center is also within easy walking distance of other
hotels, breweries, museums, and restaurants. For additional information about
the downtown area please visit the Experience Grand Rapids website: https://www.experiencegr.com/.
CFA
Food Justice, the Environment, and Climate Change
Although theoretical explorations of food have exploded in recent literature, sustained philosophical treatment of the environmental implications of food systems, especially regarding global climate change (GCC), is still absent. In contrast, there is considerable popular discussion of how agricultural practices, dietary choices, and the structure of globalized food systems affect the environment broadly and climate change more specifically (e.g., Bittman, Pollan, etc). This volume aims to bridge the gap between the academic discourse and the mainstream discourse by engaging a diverse array of scholars in analysis and reflection on the ethical and political implications of food and agricultural practices in relation to environmental concerns, with special attention to climate change. In particular, the goal of this collection of essays is to develop a discussion at the intersection of food justice, environmental justice, and climate justice, with an emphasis on identifying both the philosophical and practical relationships that exist between these problems/areas of study. We hope this volume will speak to a broad audience (ranging from undergraduate students to research scholars), and will address both activist and scholarly concerns by employing diverse methods and frameworks. Towards this end, we invite authors to submit abstracts that address one of the below questions and/or other relevant topics.
Abstracts should be 750-1000 words in length, and should explicitly address how the essay will fit within the aims and ends of the volume as a whole. Interested authors should send abstracts to Erinn Cunniff Gilson (e.gilson@unf.edu) and Sarah Kenehan (skenehan@marywood.edu) no later than July 3rd, 2017. In the interest of anonymous review, please leave off identifying information.
Potential Questions:
What philosophical concepts, theories, and viewpoints best address the complex relationships between global food systems, environmental problems, and climate change? What connections can be made between food justice, environmental justice, and climate justice? For instance:
How do environmental justice perspectives and food justice perspectives contribute to understanding the harms of global climate change (GCC), the sources of these harms, and the possibilities for activism and change?
When it comes to food systems, is GCC one environmental issue among many or the primary one?
How should we understand GCC in relation to other environmental problems stemming from agricultural and food production practices (such as soil degradation, desertification, clear-cutting, water and air pollution, loss of biodiversity)?
In light of the increased demand for food, how can and should the tension between conservation and agriculture be addressed?
How can the harms to oceans and riparian ecosystems stemming from GCC (rising water temperatures, loss of coral reefs, sea level rise) and intensive fishing and aquaculture (pollution, species loss, dead zones) be theorized?
How are the injustices related to food and agriculture best conceptualized? As food insecurity? An absence of food sovereignty? How does the way such injustices are conceptualized impact the kinds of normative conclusions that are drawn?
How do these injustices overlap with other forms of subordination and oppression such as racism, sexism, capitalism, xenophobia, and so on? What does an intersectional approach to food justice and/or climate justice look like?
In relation to the nexus of problems concerning food, environment, and climate, what are the ethical and political responsibilities of various parties (e.g., individuals, communities, towns, cities, states, national governments, corporations, international organizations such as NGOs and governing bodies such as the UN)? More specifically:
In the context of global climate change, do individuals have an obligation to adopt diets that rely less on animal products, as animal agriculture is one of the leading contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? To adopt diets that rely less on food that is not local in origin to reduce emissions from food transportation? What other kinds of individual actions are necessary (e.g., growing one’s own food, participating in a CSA or community garden, minimizing food waste, salvaging wasted food, etc.)?
Is individual action sufficient? Why/why not? Given the scale of environmental problems, do individualized responses distract and divert attention from the broad-scale political and structural remedies that are needed? Or are individual actions important for motivation, developing knowledge, fostering affective engagement, and community-building?
The activities of industrialized nations have contributed in significant ways to the ability of many peoples to maintain food and water security. What obligations do industrialized nations have to mitigate this harm and to help the affected peoples adapt? Do these obligations change given differing conditions and varying levels of food insecurity and/or instability (e.g., famine, drought, desertification)?
Given the inefficiencies and environmental harms of intensive animal agriculture (high levels of water use, air and water pollution, deforestation in developing nations, reductions in biodiversity, excessive use of antibiotics, and so on) and its role in GCC, do nations have a moral obligation to produce food that is more (resource) efficient? Should governments continue to subsidize intensive animal agriculture or do they, conversely, have an obligation to reorient food production?
What practices and technologies can and should be used to increase the efficiency of food production? E.g., geo-engineering to create more favorable conditions to grow food and genetic modification to make products that can grow in unfavorable conditions? How should “efficiency” be measured so as to take what are usually deemed externalities into account?
To what extent should food production and agricultural processes be taken into consideration in the calculation of carbon taxes and carbon compensation methods? Should nations that rely on food imports be treated differently than those whose economic stability depends on exporting food to the rest of the world?
Are food production and agriculture considered sufficiently in climate negotiations and policy decisions both intra- and inter- nationally? Should such concerns be offered a more substantive role?
What obligations do relatively affluent and/or privileged parties have to frontline communities (indigenous peoples, racially marginalized groups, impoverished communities) within their own nation who are and will be adversely effected by GCC and other environmental harms?
If migration is an effect of GCC and environmental degradation more broadly, what does global justice entail for climate refugees or environmental migrants? Do these effects create a new category of migration - agriculture/food migration?
How might ethical and political obligations be related when it comes to food, environmental, and climate justice?
Do shifting political atmospheres (such as the increase in support for far-right political parties) alter the political responsibilities of individuals, nations, and international organizations with regard to obligations of food, climate, and environmental justice?
How do epistemic, cultural, political, and ethical claims intersect and overlap when it comes to food, environmental, and climate justice? For instance:
What role should scientists have in shaping global climate policy?
What role should indigenous peoples have in informing global climate, environmental, and food policy?
To what extent do claims of cultural sovereignty matter in discussions about sustainable food systems?
How can epistemic justice frameworks facilitate food, environmental, and climate justice, especially when significant power to make policy, mitigate harm, and intervene globally rests in the hands of the governments of Western, industrialized nations?
What forms of knowledge are marginalized (e.g., those of “subjugated,” “subaltern,” and/or indigenous people)? Why might such knowledge be crucial for achieving food, environmental, and climate justice?
Which kinds of standards should be employed to determine the merit of potential remedies for the effects of GCC and environmental degradation? Efficacy? Participation/democracy? Cultural and biological diversity?
What are the obstacles to remedying environmental and food injustice, and ameliorating the effects of GCC? How can those obstacles be understood better and addressed?
CFP: Political ecologies of austerity: conservation and park management in an age of austerity
Session Convenors:
Marion Ernwein (University of Oxford, UK)
Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford, UK)
When a 40% cut in the budget of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was proclaimed in 2010, conservation organisations rallied to denunciate the "austerity countryside" such a cut would lead to (Jowitt et al. 2010). With their insistence on fiscal consolidation and decrease of state expenditures, post-2008 austerity policies have indeed degraded social and environmental conditions, leading to increased food poverty and land dispossession (Calvario et al. 2016), but also decreased conservation budgets. In this session, we want to map out the consequences of austerity on conservation and park management, more specifically on ways of conceiving of, categorizing, managing, and being-with the more-than-human, material world.
We aim to explore the specificities of austerity approaches to conservation and park management: Are they to any extent different from neoliberal conservation (Büscher et al. 2014) and park management (Gabriel 2016)? Do they merely prolong it, or do they have they own discourses, rationales, and practices? How do conservation organisations and park managers react to austerity? What strategies do they devise to continue with the upkeep of these areas? How do different versions of austerity relate to different conservation practices?
The questions addressed by the papers may encompass but should not be limited to:
· Austerity and non-humans: What ecologies are being produced under austerity? Do new discourses on nature accompany austerity measures? Is there a specifically austere biopolitics of conservation (Hodgetts 2017)? How is life revalued under austerity (Barua 2016)?
· Austerity and work in conservation: How is work reorganized, perhaps eventually redefined, as workforce massively decreases? How are other forms of nonhuman/voluntary labour conceived of and valued?
· Relationships between austerity and the financialization of environmental management. What links should be drawn between austerity and the rise of new market mechanisms like offsetting, banking, etc?
· Austerity and knowledge politics in conservation: is citizen science in conservation changing under austerity? Which ways of knowing nature, which concepts tend to become hegemonic?
· Austere conservation and in/justice: What kinds of new social organisations emerge from / contest these changes?
· Austerity in the Anthropocene: As austerity is combined with biological extinction, how do park managers deal with a double - budgetary and biological - absence? How is austerity articulated with the urgency of new response-abilities (Haraway 2016) in the Anthropocene?
· Genealogical perspectives on austerity conservation: Is current conservation under 21st-Century austerity specific or does it share any character with previous austerity eras?
· Austerity, farmland abandonment, and new conservation practices: how do emerging practices of conservation such as rewilding relate to land abandonment?
· Austerity and eventification of conservation: what is at stake when event-generated funding replaces state funding?
· Are we seeing the end of austerity in nationalist responses to neoliberalism? What are the implications for environmentalism?
We welcome papers that approach conservation and austerity in a variety of national contexts, addressing nature conservation and park management in either rural or urban settings. We do expect participants to address austerity not merely as a background but as a generative concept.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent jointly to marion.ernwein@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Marion Ernwein (University of Oxford, UK)
Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford, UK)
When a 40% cut in the budget of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was proclaimed in 2010, conservation organisations rallied to denunciate the "austerity countryside" such a cut would lead to (Jowitt et al. 2010). With their insistence on fiscal consolidation and decrease of state expenditures, post-2008 austerity policies have indeed degraded social and environmental conditions, leading to increased food poverty and land dispossession (Calvario et al. 2016), but also decreased conservation budgets. In this session, we want to map out the consequences of austerity on conservation and park management, more specifically on ways of conceiving of, categorizing, managing, and being-with the more-than-human, material world.
We aim to explore the specificities of austerity approaches to conservation and park management: Are they to any extent different from neoliberal conservation (Büscher et al. 2014) and park management (Gabriel 2016)? Do they merely prolong it, or do they have they own discourses, rationales, and practices? How do conservation organisations and park managers react to austerity? What strategies do they devise to continue with the upkeep of these areas? How do different versions of austerity relate to different conservation practices?
The questions addressed by the papers may encompass but should not be limited to:
· Austerity and non-humans: What ecologies are being produced under austerity? Do new discourses on nature accompany austerity measures? Is there a specifically austere biopolitics of conservation (Hodgetts 2017)? How is life revalued under austerity (Barua 2016)?
· Austerity and work in conservation: How is work reorganized, perhaps eventually redefined, as workforce massively decreases? How are other forms of nonhuman/voluntary labour conceived of and valued?
· Relationships between austerity and the financialization of environmental management. What links should be drawn between austerity and the rise of new market mechanisms like offsetting, banking, etc?
· Austerity and knowledge politics in conservation: is citizen science in conservation changing under austerity? Which ways of knowing nature, which concepts tend to become hegemonic?
· Austere conservation and in/justice: What kinds of new social organisations emerge from / contest these changes?
· Austerity in the Anthropocene: As austerity is combined with biological extinction, how do park managers deal with a double - budgetary and biological - absence? How is austerity articulated with the urgency of new response-abilities (Haraway 2016) in the Anthropocene?
· Genealogical perspectives on austerity conservation: Is current conservation under 21st-Century austerity specific or does it share any character with previous austerity eras?
· Austerity, farmland abandonment, and new conservation practices: how do emerging practices of conservation such as rewilding relate to land abandonment?
· Austerity and eventification of conservation: what is at stake when event-generated funding replaces state funding?
· Are we seeing the end of austerity in nationalist responses to neoliberalism? What are the implications for environmentalism?
We welcome papers that approach conservation and austerity in a variety of national contexts, addressing nature conservation and park management in either rural or urban settings. We do expect participants to address austerity not merely as a background but as a generative concept.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent jointly to marion.ernwein@ouce.ox.ac.uk
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Call for Papers: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science” 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick
We invite papers to a workshop on the theme of Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science, held on 3-4 May 2017, at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK.
Citizen science has long been a key means of seeking environmental justice, by bridging the divide between formal expertise and the public. The availability of new digital technologies, Big Data and the Internet has meant community involvement in pollution monitoring has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon.
However, the context of expertise and the environment is rapidly changing, with new vulnerabilities emerging. We live in a world of post-truth politics, ‘alternative facts’, and a new wave of climate change denial. The inauguration of Donald Trump in the USA and the shock Brexit result in the UK have created a threatening political climate for experts of all kinds. Just as the value of expertise has been questioned by a new political elite, so too are fresh environmental vulnerabilities emerging at both the global and local levels.
What role does citizen science play in this uncertain landscape? What can we learn from the successes and failures of citizen science campaigns, and the involvement of the public in environmental decision-making, in overcoming these challenges?
This two-day workshop will bring together international researchers working at the intersection of air pollution, environmental justice, and citizen science, from across different regions, disciplines, and scales. Researchers will discuss the possibilities as well as challenges of engaging with new technologies and strategies for environmental justice and citizen science.
We will conclude our discussions with a public-facing “ideation” workshop, inviting participation from community organizations, NGOs, members of the public, and data scientists. This collaborative workshop will inform our Toxic Expertise project plans to create an international public resource, with accessible information and tools for understanding, monitoring, and reporting toxic pollutants and their health impacts.
In this CFP we welcome scholars from a broad range of disciplines and career stages, as well as environmental justice activists who are interested in - or actively use - citizen science. This session draws attention to the recent changes in the value of expertise, as well as long-standing environmental justice challenges and victories.
Applicants are invited to submit a 200-word abstract on Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science to the email address below. Participants will have 20 minutes for presentations and questions. Participants will be offered UK travel expenses, as well as accommodation (with breakfast) for the 3rd of May. Lunch and dinner will also be provided for attendees.
Confirmed speakers include: Professor Phil Brown (Northeastern University); Dr Gwen Ottinger (Drexel University); Dr Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths University); Dr Sam Geall (University of Sussex); and Dr João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick).
Deadline for abstracts: 28th February 2017
Please contact toxic.expertise@warwick.ac.uk to register interest.
Event Organisers:
Dr Alice Mah, Dr Thom Davies, Dr Cynthia Wang, India Holme (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick). This event is the second annual Toxic Expertise workshop, funded by the ERC and the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. More information on the Toxic Expertise project can be found here:
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Call for Papers: 2nd Symposium on Universities and Climate Change: The Role of Climate Change Research and Projects
in Fostering Climate Action, London, United Kingdom, 12th - 13th December 2017
in Fostering Climate Action, London, United Kingdom, 12th - 13th December 2017
Many universities across the world perform state- of-the art research on matters related to climate change, both in respect
of mitigation, and adaptation. Yet, as shown by the latest 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on
Climate Change (COP 21), held in Paris in December 2015, there is much room for improvements in the role played by
universities in the negotiations and in influencing decision-making on a matter of such a global importance.
of mitigation, and adaptation. Yet, as shown by the latest 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on
Climate Change (COP 21), held in Paris in December 2015, there is much room for improvements in the role played by
universities in the negotiations and in influencing decision-making on a matter of such a global importance.
There are unfortunately relatively few events where a multidisciplinary overview of university-based research efforts and
projects on climate change can be show cased, and where researchers from across the spectrum of the natural and social
sciences have had the opportunity to come together to discuss research methods, the results of empirical research or exchange
ideas about on-going and future research initiatives focusing on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
projects on climate change can be show cased, and where researchers from across the spectrum of the natural and social
sciences have had the opportunity to come together to discuss research methods, the results of empirical research or exchange
ideas about on-going and future research initiatives focusing on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
It is against this background that the 2nd Symposium “Universities and Climate Change” is being organised by
Manchester Metropolitan University, Queen Mary University of London (UK), and HAW Hamburg, Germany, under the
auspices of the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP).
Manchester Metropolitan University, Queen Mary University of London (UK), and HAW Hamburg, Germany, under the
auspices of the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP).
It will involve researchers in the field of climate change in the widest sense, not only from traditional climate
science, but also from the fields of environment, human geography, business and economics, arts, administration and
media studies. The Symposium will focus on the role of climate change research and projects in fostering
climate action, and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.
science, but also from the fields of environment, human geography, business and economics, arts, administration and
media studies. The Symposium will focus on the role of climate change research and projects in fostering
climate action, and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.
A peer-reviewed publication titled "The Role of Climate Change Research and Projects in Fostering Climate
Action" will be published, with all accepted papers. This will be a unique, state-of-the-art publication,
which will document and promote the research on climate change taking place at universities
across the world. The publication will be part of the award-winning “Climate Change Management
Sustainability Series” (launched in 2008), published by Springer, one of the world´s
top five scientific publishers.
Action" will be published, with all accepted papers. This will be a unique, state-of-the-art publication,
which will document and promote the research on climate change taking place at universities
across the world. The publication will be part of the award-winning “Climate Change Management
Sustainability Series” (launched in 2008), published by Springer, one of the world´s
top five scientific publishers.
Further details can be seen at: universities2017: FTZ-ALS: HAW Hamburg
Interpretive Policy Analysis, 12th International Conference
5-7th July 2017
Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Call for Papers
Panel Convenors:
Raquel Ajates Gonzalez, University of Dundee and City University of London
Kelly Parsons, City University of London
Deadline: 17th February 2017
Panel: Achieving Integrated Food Policy: Slim Pickings or Feast of Possibilities?
Food policy currently suffers from fragmentation: horizontally between portfolios of government; vertically between the multiple levels of food governance; along the stages of the food supply chain; as well as between policymakers and the people impacted by their decision-making.
It is widely acknowledged that the gaps, overlaps and inconsistencies resulting from a disjointed approach are hindering attempts to address the current environmental, public health and social crises of the food system, and a more integrated approach, which forges new alliances, is required to overcome this ‘wicked problem’.
For the purposes of this panel, integrated policy is defined as policy where health, environmental, economic and other relevant objectives are brought together in a jointly-formulated approach across these often competing domains, covering all stages of the food supply chain. However, we are also interested in approaches and ideas covering the related concepts of policy coordination and policy coherence.
The panel will discuss what food policy integration could/should look like at different levels:
- Horizontal, within national cross-department policy programmes
- Vertically, from local to global (e.g. National frameworks for municipal level food policy)
- Integration of policies designed to improve different food systems outcomes (e.g. integration between sustainability and human health)
- The comparison of integrative approaches in more affluent versus developing societies.
Papers are therefore invited from academic and civil society colleagues in response to the following questions:
- What methods can help us map and analyse food policy integration?
- What feasible and credible policy processes and institutions can achieve integration?
- What have been the most significant examples of policy integration attempts: How have different elements of food policy been successfully integrated to date? What can we learn from failed attempts?
- What type of integrative approaches can ensure people’s lived experiences feed into policy-making processes?
- How best can activists working to improve different areas of the food system integrate their own asks to governments for more effective impacts?
Papers should be emailed to IPAconference2017@dmu.ac.uk quoting the name of the panel. Panel convenors will review and select papers. Proposals should include: panel number; paper title; name, role, institutional affiliation and email address; abstract (no more than 300 words). For more details, see the conference webpage: www.dmu.ac.uk/ ipaconference
Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization
COSMOS and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore invite applications for the upcoming Summer School on “Media in Political Participation and Mobilization” which will be held in Florence (Italy) in June 2017, from Monday 26th to Friday 30th included.
The Summer School will explore the complex relationship between media and diverse instances of political participation and mobilization. More in particular, the lectures during the Summer School will revolve around three main themes on which literature flourished in the past few years, providing new perspectives on the relationship between media and political participation/mobilizations: (1) media cultures; (2) media materialities; and (3) media practices.
Participants (up to 15) will be given the possibility to present their ongoing research and project activities during afternoon sessions. Other participants and speakers will provide feedback and suggestions. Participants will also have the possibility to schedule a meeting with the Summer School invited lecturers to discuss more in details their work and receive targeted advices.
http://cosmos.sns.it/all-events/summer-school-on-media-in-political-participation-and-mobilization/
CfP: Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey Hamburg, 27-28 October 2017
The TürkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ) of the University of Hamburg will host a two-day academic workshop to examine new approaches to the environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Environmental history is an emerging field in Ottoman and Turkish studies. Contrary to the growing number of environmental historical studies in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world, the number of studies in this burgeoning subfield in Ottoman and Turkish studies still can be counted on the fingers of one hand. This workshop is an invitation to historians, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, environmental and natural scientists, and all other researchers, both early career and experienced, identifying themselves or showing an interest in the field of Ottoman/Turkish environmental history. The workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum, and therefore, is open to a wide range of subjects, topics, approaches, and methodologies. We invite researchers from any disciplines working on projects related to Ottoman/Turkish environmental history to submit proposals for individual papers or panel sessions. The chronological scope is from the foundation of the Ottoman Empire to the present day.
Possible topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:
1. Changing relationship between the people and their environments in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
2. Urban environmental history: cities and their socio-ecological contexts
3. City-country relations in a historical context
4. Mining and environmental change
5. Renewable, chemical, fossil, and nuclear energies and environmental change
6. Water history, water and history
7. Climate history, climate and history
8. Forest history
9. History of consumption and waste
10. History of conservation and management
11. History of commons, commons in history
12. Industrial and post-industrial environmental history
13.Environmental conflicts, environmental movements, and environmental activism
14. Theories, methods, approaches, and sources in Ottoman/Turkish environmental history
15. The historical construction of land and waterscapes and ideas about Ottoman/Turkish natures
16. Histories and theories of literature and the environment
Practical Information: Organization and Venue
The workshop “Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey” is organized by the TürkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ) of the University of Hamburg and will take place at the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg on 27-28 October 2017.
Paper Proposals: please submit short paper proposal of no more than 400 words together with personal information of presenter(s) including full name(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information to Dr. Onur Inal, TürkeiEuropaZentrum, University of Hamburg (onurinal79@gmail.com) and Dr. Selçuk Dursun, History Department, Middle East Technical University (dselcuk@metu.edu.tr) no later than 1 March 2017. Accepted proposals will be notified by 1 April 2017.
Accommodation: depending on the funding, we hope to be able to cover the accommodation costs for all or most of the participants coming from outside of Hamburg. Please indicate whether you need this kind of support when submitting your paper proposal.
Workshop fee: there is no fee for the workshop. Language of the workshop: the workshop languages are English and German. NonEnglish participants are expected to join discussions in English. Post-workshop publication: we aim to publish selected articles in an edited volume in 2018. Submission deadline will be 31 December 2017. Articles submitted for publication will be subject to the peer-review procedure.
INOGOV Workshop Call for Papers - Deadline for abstracts: 11 May 2016
“Pioneers and Leaders in Polycentric Climate Governance (PiLePoC)”
Hull, UK, 15-16 September 2016
A burgeoning academic literature has identified pioneers and leaders as important drivers for climate change innovations (including innovative policies, instruments and approaches). Although a wide range of actors (e.g. international organisations, NGOs, corporations and cities) have been identified as potential and actual leaders and/or pioneers in climate change governance, much of the academic debate is still largely focused on states. What is missing is a systematic review and clear analytical conceptualization of the different types of actors who can act as leaders and/or pioneers at different levels of climate governance (e.g. local, national, regional, supranational and international). The proliferation of a wide range of competing definitions of what constitutes a leader and/or pioneer in climate change governance has led to analytical confusion and made difficult the emergence of theory-guided cumulative empirical research. Moreover, little systematic research exists on the motives, capacities, styles and strategies of different types of leaders and/or pioneers at different levels of climate governance.
The main goals of the workshop are to:
(1) Review systematically the often discipline-specific literature(s) with the aim of developing a common terminology and analytical framework which allows for more robust and generalizable conclusions on leaders and pioneers in climate change governance;
(2) Apply systematically this more robust analytical concept to different types of actors (such as states, international organisations, the EU, cities, NGOs and businesses) which operate at different levels of climate governance (e.g. the local, national, supranational and international level);
(3) Encourage mutual learning between experienced and early career researchers from different disciplines with the aim of closing important research gaps while identifying and helping to set new research agendas.
Topical themes:
The workshop is open for paper proposals which focus in particular on one (or several) of the following themes:
I) Governmental sources of climate leadership and pioneership
· International organisations as climate pioneers and leaders
· The European Union as climate pioneer and leader
· States as climate pioneers and leaders
· Cities and regions as climate pioneers and leaders
II) Non-governmental sources of climate leadership and pioneership
· Corporations as climate pioneers and leaders
· NGOs as climate pioneers and leaders
· Consumers and supermarkets as climate pioneers and leaders
· SMEs as climate pioneers and leaders
III) Drivers for and barriers to climate innovation
· Capacities and strategies for climate policy innovations
· Diffusion of climate policy innovations: The climate leader-follower dynamic
· Innovative climate policy instruments
· Retreating climate pioneers and leaders
· Climate laggards
· Non-diffusion of climate innovations: Inertia and the leader-laggard stalemate
· Domestic/internal and/or foreign/external motivations of climate pioneers and leaders
The above stated list of themes is not exhaustive. Paper proposals on other topics related to climate change leaders and pioneers are also welcome including proposals which take a comparative analytical perspective.
The following keynote speakers will give talks at the workshop:
Prof Alexander Aylett (INRS, Montreal, Canada)
Prof Martin Jänicke (FU Berlin and IASS Potsdam, Germany)
Prof Stacy VanDeveer (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Practicalities and submission deadlines:
· Submission deadline for paper proposals (which should not exceed 500 words): 11.05.2016
· Date by which the applicants will be informed of the acceptance/rejection of their proposal: 23.05.2016
· Submission deadline for full papers: 29.08.2016
Proposals for papers should be sent to the workshop organisers Prof Rüdiger Wurzel (R.K.Wurzel@hull.ac.uk) and/or Dr Duncan Liefferink (d.liefferink@fm.ru.nl) who are happy to answer queries about the workshop which is supported under the COST Action funded Innovations in Climate Governance (INOGOV) programme.Applicants from COST-INOGOV member countries can apply for financial support for reasonable travel expenses and accommodation cost. COST Action IS1309 INOGOV countries include: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK. There is also some more limited financial support for participants from other countries.
Call for Participants
ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE: SECURITY, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL CONFLICT
A workshop aimed at Early Career Researchers in Turkey and the UK
funded under the Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund Researcher Links scheme and co-organised by Boğaziçi University and Durham University
ISTANBUL, JUNE 27th TO JULY 1st 2016
Deadline for applications - April 15th 2016
New energy infrastructure is key to addressing the challenge of securing reliable, affordable and environmentally sustainable energy supplies. But energy infrastructure raises profound questions for society: Whom does infrastructure serve? Who has a voice when infrastructure decisions are made? How do infrastructures shape resource flows and consumption practices? To what political possibilities do energy infrastructures give rise? This interdisciplinary early-career researchers workshop (1) seeks to build a new generation of research capacity in Turkey and the UK to assess, analyse and address the social, distributional and knowledge conflicts associated with large energy infrastructure projects; (2) promote a model of practically-engaged social science that works with stakeholders and affected communities to define relevant research problems; and (3) develop approaches, capacities and networks to sustain research collaboration into the future.
Funded under the Research Links scheme offered within the Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund, a workshop on Energy Infrastructure: security, environment and social conflict will be held at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul (Turkey) from Monday June 27th to Friday July 1st 2016. The workshop is co-ordinated by Professor Gavin Bridge (Durham University) and Professor Begüm Özkaynak (Boğaziçi University) with contributions from other leading researchers, including Professor Stefan Bouzarovski (University of Manchester), Dr Clemens Hoffman (Bilkent University), Professor Marcus Power (Durham University), Professor Ali Kerem Saysel (Boğaziçi University) and Dr Ethemcan Turhan (Sabanci University).
Please note: Places are limited and there is a competitive application process. Application materials and full details on eligibility can be found via the attached application form or here http://www.britishcouncil.org.
For questions, contact the Workshop Secretariat by e-mailing energyinfrastructure2016@gmail
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
This workshop aims to build research capacity on energy infrastructure and social conflict at the nexus of economic development, energy security and climate change. Because these issues transcend conventional disciplinary approaches to knowledge generation, effective solutions will require an interdisciplinary approach to socio-environmental analysis, and a process of co-learning with stakeholders. To this end the workshop incorporates expert panels and keynote lectures, participant presentations and opportunities for co-writing, extensive stakeholder participation, and a collaborative learning field excursion centred on coal, climate and development. The workshop provides a unique opportunity for sharing research expertise and networking.
OUTLINE STRUCTURE
MONDAY 27th June (late afternoon arrival in Istanbul)
4pm onwards: Registration and Welcome
SESSION 1: Keynote, followed by Reception
TUESDAY 28th June
SESSION 2: Expert Panel, Energy, Economy and the Contested Politics of Energy Infrastructure
SESSION 3: Expert Panel, Perspectives on Energy Conflict
SESSIONS 4 & 5: Early Career Researcher Poster Session, followed by Plenary
SESSION 6: Keynote, Energy, Climate and Development
WEDNESDAY 29th June
Collaborative Learning Field Excursion: Coal, Climate and Development
THURSDAY 30th June
SESSION 7: Keynote, Political Ecologies of Energy Infrastructure
SESSION 8: Research Agendas Open Space
SESSION 9: Panel Session, From Idea to Implementation – Collaborative Tales from the Field
SESSION 10: Plenary Panel, Research Grants, Building Professional Networks, Doing Impactful Research (indicative topics)
Reception and Workshop Dinner
FRIDAY July 1st
SESSION 11: Collaborative Research Proposals
SESSION 12: Writing for Public Intervention
1 pm Workshop Closes
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The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has the pleasure to announce 4 PhD fellowships and 1 Postdoctoral fellowship.
These vacancies are open to all applicants regardless of citizenship or current residency status.
PhD in International Environment and Development Studies - with a focus on:
* Gender Dimensions of Community-based Policing in Post Conflict Contexts<https://www.
The Department invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at developing new knowledge in relation to gender dimensions of community-based policing in post conflict contexts. Priority will be given to creative, innovative and interdisciplinary proposals addressing theoretical and empirical aspects of issues relevant to this topic, such as: the nature of relationships between the police and community women, men and youth; the role of ICT in contributing to human security in post conflict contexts; gendered aspects of violence and insecurity and community-based policing.
* The Green Economy in India<https://www.jobbnorge.
The Department invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at investigating the practical implications of a shift to a green(er) economy in India. The position will be linked to a new project titled 'Greenmentality: A Political Ecology of the Green Economy in the Global South', which is funded by the Research Council of Norway and NMBU.
* The Politics of Numbers<https://www.jobbnorge.
The Department invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at developing new research on International Political Economy in the interface between International Environment and Development Studies. Priority will be given to creative and innovative proposals addressing "the politics of numbers" within or across the following thematic and theoretical foci:
1) Global Political Economy & International Regulation
2) Politics of Development
3) International Relations
* Agri-Food Systems and Environmental Change<https://www.jobbnorge.
The Department invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at developing new knowledge on agri-food systems within the broader field of International Environment and Development Studies. Priority will be given to creative and innovative proposals addressing "agri-food systems and environmental change" within or across the following thematic foci:
1) Agri-cultures: Research on agriculture as coupled human-environment systems;
2) Agri-food system transformation in the face of environmental change;
3) Agrobiodiversity and seed systems.
Postdoctoral position
* Governance of Global Agri-Food Systems<https://www.jobbnorge.
The department invites proposals for a Postdoctoral fellowship on "Governance of global agri-food systems" within or across the following thematic foci:
1) Global political economy, trade and regulations;
2) Food supply and food security;
3) Issues of power and rights in agricultural development.
Please follow the links for the complete announcement texts.
The application deadline for all positions is 29 March 2016
With kind regards
Josie Teurlings
PhD and Research Coordinator
Department for International Environment and Development Studies<http://www.umb.no/
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas
Norway
Tel +47 67 23 13 09
josie.teurlings@NMBU.no<
PhD Summer School on Environmental Politics and Policy
13-24 June 2016 at Sciences Po Lille, Lille – France
This will be the seventh occasion that the ECPR's Environmental Politics Standing Group has run a Summer School.
The previous Schools were at Keele in 2001, Lulea in 2002, and Keele again in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2013.
The aim of the Summer School is to give 20 PhD students, or new postdoctoral researchers, working in the field of environmental politicsand policy the opportunity to network and to discuss their research with colleagues from other universities and research institutes.
Teaching is organised across five broad themes:
- Green political theory
- International relations of the environment
- Contemporary environmental politics
- Green movements and parties
- Public policy and the environment
Ten taught sessions will be given by leading academics from European universities.
Confirmed speakers (to date) include Andrew Dobson, David Schlosberg, Luc Semal, Bruno Villalba, Sherilyn McGregor, Yves Cochet, Brian Doherty, Sylvie Ollitrault, Neil Carter and Daniel Compagnon.
The programme is still being developed and we hope to post it soon on our website. www.sciencespo-lille.
(NB: the site is still under construction).
All delegates must present a conference-style paper (15 mins) based on their current research during the Summer School.
A title and abstract must be given at the time of application. Full papers (8,000 words) must be submitted one month in advance of the event.
Full registration cost is 150 €. This does not include accommodation.
Delegates will be able to book accommodation in a student house for 11 euros per night.
The deadline for applications: 30 March; notification two weeks thereafter.
An application form is attached and can also be downloaded from the Summer School website.
Enquires and applications should be sent to:
Sophie Bécart, Research assistant:
and
Mathilde Szuba–convenor of the Summer School:
The convenors of the Summer School are:
Magali Dreyfus (CNRS-CERAPS-Université Lille 2), Caroline Lejeune (CERAPS-Lille 2), Luc Semal (CESCO-MNHN et CERAPS-Lille 2), Mathilde Szuba (CETCOPRA-Paris 1) and Bruno Villalba (CERAPS-AgroParisTech)
“Small European states and the politics of climate change
We invite abstracts for a workshop on the topic of “Small European states and the politics of climate change” in Dublin City University on 1 and 2 June 2016. Please see attached a Call for Abstracts that includes a further description of the topic. Short abstracts (max. 300 words) should be submitted by email to Neil Carter (neil.carter@york.ac.uk), Diarmuid Torney (diarmuid.torney@dcu.ie) and Conor Little (cli@ifs.ku.dk) by Friday 18 December.
The two-day workshop will bring together scholars from several disciplines to present draft papers for a special issue on the politics of climate change in small European states. We will complement the academic workshop with a high-level practitioners’ panel comprising politicians, environmentalists, and climate policy experts. We plan to follow up on the workshop with one or two panels at the UACES Conference in London in 2016 in order to finalise draft papers and, ultimately, to publish these in a special issue of a high-impact international peer-reviewed journal.
We especially welcome studies of cross-national scope and case studies that make a clear contribution to the comparative literature. Papers may come from, inter alia, comparative politics, political theory, sociology, and international relations. You are welcome to circulate the attached call for papers among colleagues who may be interested.
When you are sending us your abstract, please indicate whether you would be available to present a revised version of your paper at the UACES Conference in London in September 2016. This is not a prerequisite for participating in the Dublin workshop, but we would appreciate having this information, as it will help us to plan the UACES panel(s) and the special issue proposal.
Do not hesitate to contact us – Neil Carter (neil.carter@york.ac.uk), Conor Little (cli@ifs.ku.dk) or Diarmuid Torney (diarmuid.torney@dcu.ie) – should you have any queries.
Regards,
Diarmuid Torney, Dublin City University
Neil Carter, University of York
Conor Little, University of Copenhagen
Call
for abstracts for a fully funded workshop:
The
Global Turn to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading:
Experiments, Innovation, Actors, Drivers and Consequences
Experiments, Innovation, Actors, Drivers and Consequences
8-9 February 2016, Leuven
Emissions Trading & Experimentation
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading has
gained prominence since the early 2000s. The overarching topic for this
workshop is the emergence of carbon markets in different jurisdictions and
their existing and potential linkages. The driving factors for adopting
emissions trading systems, their different designs, the main actors involved
and the main effects and consequences will be part of the workshop discussion.
Establishing a market is always accompanied by uncertainty. Its functioning
cannot be predicted with entire certainty. For this reason, they can be
considered experiments that produce information about successes and failures
and that may need to be adjusted in cases of unanticipated events. The workshop
will discuss to what extent the experiment concept is a suitable overarching framework
for research in this issue area.
This
fully funded workshop will bring together about 30 scholars and practitionersunder the flag of the COST
Action INOGOV (Innovations in Climate Governance) to discuss carbon markets, their drivers, innovation and
experimentation. It aims to foster better and more integrated analytical
discussions about carbon markets and how they play into the broader debate on
climate policy and governance innovation. We invite social scientists from all
disciplines and welcome theoretical papers and empirical studies. The aim of
the workshop is to produce a set of manuscripts that form a special issue or an
edited book.
Topical themes
We invite contributions that analyse how
and why different jurisdictions adopted GHG emissions trading systems. This
includes the identification of factors that can explain innovative adjustment
of ETS to domestic preferences and contexts and the evolution of ETS over time.
Papers addressing the various formal and informal connections between different
ETS and the role of public and private actors are very welcome. We aim to bring
together different in-depth case studies to identify global patterns of
diffusion, cross-fertilisation and idiosyncratism. The workshop aim at looking
at the bigger picture of an emergent, though fragmented, global web of carbon
markets. It strives to investigate in greater detail the different forms of
experimentation, innovation and coordination between the different existing and
emergent ETS.
Papers that address the following and
related questions are welcome:
- Who adopts an ETS
and who doesn’t? Can we identify adoption and non-adoption patterns?
- How can we conceptualise the (potential)
connections between the different ETS?
- What role does diffusion play? What global
patterns of diffusion, cross-fertilisation and ideosyncratism can we identify?
- To what extent and how does the design of
systems differ?
- What is the relationship between design
and effectiveness (in contributing to emissions cuts)?
- What domestic and international factors
can explain innovation, experimentation and adjustment of emissions trading?
- What role do actors, in particular policy
entrepreneurs, play in ETS innovation and experimentation?
- What is the role of organisations such as
the World Bank, UNDP, UNFCCC and ICAP?
- What role do
networks play?
- To what extent and how well do
multilateral and bilateral organisations and actors coordinated in this issue
area, for instance in the case of China?
- Can the EU ETS be considered a hub and
reference point for the development of ETS’ in other jurisdictions?
- To what extent and
how is the promotion of emissions trading integrated in the bilateral aid
programmes and diplomacy of states such as Germany, the UK, and the US?
The workshop aims at condensing and
integrating findings so as to generate a synthesis that can contribute to both
academic research and policy-making.
Practicalities and submission deadlines
The
workshop will be funded under the 4 year COST Action INOGOV (IS1309Innovations in
Climate Governance: Sources, Patterns and Effects) (2014-8). INOGOV will cover
reasonable travel costs and accommodation of all invited authors, subject to
standard COST reimbursement and eligibility rules.
Prof Michael Grubb, University College
London has confirmed his participation as keynote speaker.
Interested
participants/authors are invited to submit a 500-word abstract by 16 November 2015 as a first step towards
full paper development. Please send your abstract to Katja Biedenkopf: katja.biedenkopf@soc.kuleuven.be.
Authors will be
notified of acceptance/rejection by 30 November 2015.Contributing authors
are expected to submit their paper by 25 January 2016 (at the latest) to be
distributed to all participants before the workshop. The drafts will
intensively be debated at the workshop, which will take place on 8-9 February 2016.
Authors with specific questions are
encouraged to contact either Katja Biedenkopf (katja.biedenkopf@soc.kuleuven.be), Patrick Müller (patrick.mueller@univie.ac.at), Peter Slominski (peter.slominski@univie.ac.at) or Jørgen Wettestad (jorgen.wettestad@fni.no).
Local organizers: Katja Biedenkopf (katja.biedenkopf@soc.kuleuven.be) & Sarah Van Eynde (sarah.vaneynde@kuleuven.be), University of Leuven
Call
for abstracts for a fully funded workshop:
Climate
Policy Innovation and the Access to Clean Energy Technology in Developing
Countries
26-27 May 2016, Geneva
Innovation and diffusion of clean energy
technology is essential for moving toward a green economy in a
carbon-constrained world. While the developed world is trying to transition to
a more carbon-neutral energy mix, developing countries are struggling to secure
sufficient energy to meet basic human needs. This fully funded workshop will
bring together 20-25 scholars under the flag of the COST
Action INOGOV (Innovations in
Climate Governance) to discuss climate policy innovation and access to clean
energy technology in particular in developing countries.
This workshop aims to provide an in-depth
investigation of the barriers to the diffusion of clean energy technologies to
developing countries, as well as the governance mechanisms (policies and
international cooperation) that can help to unlock diffusion and improve clean
energy access. The workshop will contribute to INOGOV’s objectives by bringing
together academic and policy researchers working on climate policy to improve
integration of research and exchange, while informing future policy decisions.
We invite social scientists from all
disciplines to debate around three main questions:
1) What are the most important barriers to
low-cost green technology diffusion across developing countries?
2) What is the impact of innovative
domestic policies and transnational collaboration on the diffusion patterns of
low-cost clean energy technologies across states?
3) How can the transnational clean energy
regime facilitate the international diffusion of clean energy technologies and
thereby help to address energy poverty, green growth and climate change in
developing country contexts?
We
welcome theoretical papers, methodological papers, and empirical studies or
combinations thereof; and invite abstracts that discuss and examine climate
policy innovation and access to energy technology. The aim is to publish the
draft papers, subject to normal review process, as a special volume in a high ranked scientific journal/or edited book.
Practicalities and submission deadlines
The
workshop will be funded under the 4 year COST Action INOGOV. INOGOV will cover
reasonable travel costs and accommodation of all invited authors, subject to
standard COST reimbursement and eligibility rules.
Interested participants/authors are
encouraged to submit 500 word abstracts by 31 January 2016 as a first step towards full paper development. Please send your
abstract to the workshop organisers at cies@graduateinstitute.ch (subject line:INOGOV Climate Policy Innovation Workshop).
Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 29
February 2016 and those selected to contribute to the workshop will receive funding to
cover their costs of participation. Contributing authors are expected to submit
a full first draft of their paper by 1 April 2016 to be distributed to all workshop participants before the workshop. The
drafts will be intensively debated at the workshop and full papers should
tentatively be submitted for the review process by 31
August 2016.
Authors with specific questions are
encouraged to contact workshop organisers:Professor Liliana Andonova (liliana.andonova@graduateinstitute.ch) and Dr. Joëlle Noailly (joelle.noailly@graduateinstitute.ch).
Coordination and local organization:
Nathalie Fauvarque
Tel : +41-22 908 44 61
Centre
for International Environmental Studies
Graduate
Institute
Maison
de la Paix
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2
Petal 1, 8th floor
Case Postale 136
CH-1211 Genève 21
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2
Petal 1, 8th floor
Case Postale 136
CH-1211 Genève 21
Advancing Knowledge in Sustainable Tourism Development:
The Tourism and Water Nexus
to be held during the 5th International Conferences on Tourism -
ICOT 2015, at the Department of Marketing, Branding and Tourism of Middlesex
University, London, UK.
The call for papers is now open! http://iatour.net/icot2015/icot2015-approved-special-session/
This special session invites contributions that adopt an
interdisciplinary perspective on sustainable tourism development with a special
focus on the emerging issues and challenges related to the tourism-water nexus,
to advance knowledge about policy tools and good practice, as well as to
stimulate discussion and exchange new ideas.
This special session invites in particular papers that attempt
to address the following key issues:
- Theoretical Perspectives on Tourism (Political Ecology of
Tourism is very welcomed)
- Tourism Research and Methodology
- Case studies from developed and developing countries or
countries in transition
- Tourism Development, Policy and Planning
- Tourism and Water Equity
- Local government role and responses to sustainable tourism
development
- Top down and bottom up approaches to tourism and water
governance issues
- Community Responses to tourists and tourism and uses of
natural resources
- Economic/Social/Environmental impacts of tourism on water
resources
- Authenticity and Commodification
Any other issue related to tourism and sustainable tourism
development will be considered.
Sounds interesting?
Submit your abstract (max. 350 words) by Friday 5th June
2015
to: Dr. Elena Ridolfi, E.mail: elena.ridolfi.ueir@gmail.com
Notification of acceptance: 10th, June
For registration and further information about the conference,
please look up the website http://www.iatour.net/icot2015/
Call for Papers: Toxic Politics in Science as Culture
Co-editors: Manuel Tironi, Nerea Calvillo, Max Liboiron,
People have been creating new forms of toxic politics in the 21st century. The global economy produces pervasive contaminants, harmful pollutants, damaging particles, and poisonous atmospheres, which are inescapably part of everyday life. With new quantities and qualities of toxicants, sensing and affect have also taken on new modes, which become central to controversies over evidence of harm. Ordinary people, scientists, and other experts are coming together to form emergent publics; they create novel links between evidence and action – the crux of toxic politics.
Toxicants are completely enmeshed in living systems at both molecular and global ecological scales. They are ubiquitous yet unevenly distributed, both geographically and epidemiologically. They are often invisible, unruly, recalcitrant and difficult to identify scientifically. Subtle, ambiguous forms of toxicity are not recognized by toxicological science.
In response to those threats, public actions have been politicizing toxic substances and their futures. Various collectives are devising novel ways to identify toxicity, and then to express modes of harm. Other collectives are experimenting with new methods of making suffering visible; they include protocols and evidence not validated by expert cadres. These groups are changing how toxic sensing and affect are expressed, for instance by utilizing bodies, plants or DIY technologies as sentinel devices. Citizen-led collaborations with these devices create new recursive arenas of intervention and participation, hence strengthening collective action. For example, people with chemical sensitivity syndrome use their own bodies to identify harm; non-profit organisations create open source do-it-yourself technologies for environmental monitoring. Other collectives demand their right to know the source of various environmental injustices underpinning their lives; they link toxics with the political power that has shaped development patterns, especially in the global South.
Such ‘toxic politics’ attempts to promote new definitions of harm and their attendant rights for human protection; to create new indicators and contest established epidemiological classifications; to invent alternative ways of governing toxicity and bodies; to problematize chemical accumulation trajectories; and to propose alternative policies, towards different futures. From arsenic to plastics, cases of toxicity have become both means and an ends to doing political work.
This special issue anticipates the future of a permanently ubiquitously toxic world, whereby collectives create new links between science and politics. Some topics addressed are: everyday toxicants as matters of concern; collective experiments with/in chemical uncertainty; expert and non-expert divides and evidence-based toxicology; bodily knowledge, care and affects in the politics of toxic environments; citizen sensing and collaborative methodologies as modes of politicization; chemicals and environmental justice; intervention and ethics.
Abstracts and papers must follow the SaC guidelines:
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 June 2015 (250 words).
Deadline for full papers: 15 January 2016 (8k words maximum for first drafts)
Communication to: Manuel Tironi, metironi@uc.cl
Call for papers
Theorising Environmental Human Rights
The environmental challenges we face today emerge in the context of a political framework deeply shaped by the norms and institutions of human rights. This is reflected both in national and international legal settings – including the 2012 appointment of an Independent Expert on the Environment by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – and in an explosion of theoretical interest in the relations, tensions and possibilities that connect human rights theory and environmental political theory.
To date, much scholarly attention has been directed to the question of the coherence of environmental human rights (Boyle and Anderson 1991; Hayward 2005; Woods 2010), the environmental rights of future generations (Hiskes 2009; Düwell et al, forthcoming), the possibilities of the human rights framework for accommodating the rights of non-humans (Hancock 2003), specific substantial issues such as the human right to water (Risse 2014) and more recently the human rights implications of climate change (Caney 2006; Humphries et al 2010; Bell 2012; Lister 2014). It would be premature to suggest that many of these questions are settled. Yet there are further questions that have hitherto been comparatively neglected, but which merit further study.
The approaches to environmental protection and conservation based on the ideas of human rights are neither politically nor morally neutral. This is clear at least in the three following ways: Firstly, human-rights approaches are seemingly anthropocentric, but debate persists as to whether and how they are incompatible with non-anthropocentric approaches. Secondly, the notion of human rights can be, and has been, used as a basis for the environmentalist critique of actual policies and customs. Accordingly, legal reforms have been introduced recognising a right to participate in environmental decision making (most notably the Aarhus Convention, IEA). Many people, however, consider these reforms and related theoretical reflections inadequate. New debates emerge. One particularly promising possibility lies in consideration of the connections between environmental and human security and safety and the opportunities offered by the rights framework. A potentially complementary avenue for research is to be found in the emerging study of vulnerability as a theoretical lens, which has been developed in feminist human rights theory, but has yet to be brought into sustained dialogue with environmental conceptions of risk and resilience. Thirdly, human-rights approaches can inform incoherent sets of policies and thus involve choices in cases of conflicting rights; these choices are politically and morally inflected. Taken together, these points indicate that the human-rights approach comes in many possible forms that involve and express ideological commitments.
In this workshop, as part of the annual Mancept Workshops in Political Theory , 1st-3rd September 2015, we invite papers that advance our understanding of the theory of environmental human rights by engaging with these and related fields and questions. Scholars at any stage of their career are welcome to submit a paper. Please send an abstract (max. 350 words) to both convenors by 7 June, 2014 at the email addresses below.
Please note: full papers for the workshop will be pre-circulated.
Convenors:
Dr Kerri Woods (Leeds, UK), k.woods@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Markku Oksanen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), markku.oksanen@uef.fi
The 21st International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment
June 10‐13, 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
‐ Call for Abstracts ‐
Conference presentations should focus on understanding environmental problems and exploring possible solutions. Academics and practitioners may present papers or posters, organize sessions, or propose roundtable discussions. Authors should prepare papers and posters for audiences outside of their discipline. Revised and expanded conference papers can be submitted for publication in the journal, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), subject to peer review. Send abstracts to Shane Epting, Conference Chair, at ieaconference@gmail.com by May 1, 2015.
Conference registration includes membership hors d'oeuvres and adult beverages during the opening reception, lunches, and coffee breaks. Hotel guests receive free hot breakfasts featuring custom omelet service. Registration also includes membership in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association and a one‐year subscription to IER. Optional field trips are available before, during, and after the conference for a small fee.
Registration (due by May 12, 2015): $300
Student Registration (verification required): $100* Locals: $100
After May 12, 2014, include late fee of $75
Pay by credit card (2.99% fee), electronic check, or international transfer (variable fee depending on location) using the link below. http://www.assumption.
Hotel rate ($139/night + tax) available at www.sanjuan.house.hyatt.com
Participants may freely display advertisements or distribute information (brochures, job openings, etc.). Publishers and vendor displays cost $50 (with six‐foot table, $200).
Cancellations must be in writing, subject to a $75 fee. No refunds after June 1. Refunds will be processed after the conference. Individuals submitting abstracts that are not accepted will receive free refunds.
We would like to thank Universidad de Puerto Rico Río Piedras for support during the conference.
*Student membership does not include a subscription to IER, but students can subscribe for an additional $50.
Call for Book Sections:
Pedagogy of Environmental Communication
Co-Editors: Tema Milstein (University of New Mexico), Mairi Pileggi (Dominican University of California), Eric Morgan (New Mexico State University)
We are seeking chapter and assignment/activity submissions for an edited book on the scholarship of innovative and effective teaching and learning in environmental communication. Each semester, more environmental communication courses are added to higher education curricula. Overwhelmingly, those of us who teach environmental communication are developing the courses for the first time for our academic homes. While there have been numerous communities formed through professional associations to assist those of us who teach environmental communication and a few textbooks, the goal of this volume is to reach a wide community of environmental communication scholars and practitioners to provide a resource that helps organize and integrate diverse pedagogical practices, connect and inspire those interested in environmental communication learning, and feature thoughtful, creative, and highly effective approaches to environmental communication pedagogy.
The book will have an international and diverse focus to represent the range of environmental communication learning spaces and approaches, as well as the range of global and local issues our teaching engages. The book currently has interest from a top publisher and the editors are entering the second proposal stage.
The chapter sections of the book include but are not limited to:
(Re)conceptualizing the Environmental Communication Classroom
Diverse Approaches to Teaching Environmental Communication
Transformative Practice: Creating and Empowering Change Agents
An additional section of the book will be devoted to practical sharing of highly effective teaching gifts:
High Impact Environmental Communication Teaching Activities and Assignments
Our call, therefore, is for two types of contributions:
I. Chapters: These scholarly papers will address environmental communication pedagogical practice based on, but not limited to, the themes of: (Re)conceptualizing the Environmental Communication Classroom, Diverse Approaches to Teaching Environmental Communication, Transformative Practice: Creating and Empowering Change Agents
II. Activities/Assignments: These will be particular in-class and out-of-class activities and assignments you as teachers have found highly effective in your own classrooms. They will include a concise essay-like description (400 words max) about the activity/assignment and how it has been effective in teaching, followed by highly accessible and detailed how-to instructions, including learning objectives and evaluation approach.
Consider the following when contemplating your submissions: What are you doing to deepen and connect learning in your environmental communication classes and what innovative strategies are you using that have been highly effective? What approaches have you used to make learning relevant to your students and the world beyond the classroom? How do you design your course, your assignments, develop rubrics, and assess student learning to address environmental communication-specific learning outcomes? How do you include a diversity of voices (race, gender, socioeconomic class, sexuality, global south, animal other, more than human world, etc.) in the learning conversation? How are you integrating praxis and service? How are you collaborating across disciplines? How do graduate environmental communication courses differ from undergraduate? What high impact research and other creative projects have you undertaken with your students? How do you embed your course in local spaces, places, community, practitioner teachers, and environments? How do social media or other 21st Century skills figure in your environmental communication instruction? If reflection is a key component in your courses, how do you achieve this? How are you empowering and supporting yourself and your students to be transformative change agents in both thought and action? Finally, consider how the delivery or format of your submission can be as innovative, interactive, and/or evocative as the pedagogical content you discuss.
Scholars, educators, practitioners, and students across the discipline (and related fields) are invited to submit chapter and/or activity/assignment submissions:
CHAPTER SUBMISSIONS INCLUDE:
(1) a completed version of a paper (5,000-8,000 words including references) or an extended abstract (400-500 words)(APA 6th edition) and (2) a 200-word bio.
ACTIVITY/ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSIONS INCLUDE:
(1) a short essay-like description (400 words max) and how-to instructions, objectives, and evaluation and (2) a 200-word bio.
Due date for consideration: May 11, 2015
By May 11, 2015, email submissions to: either Tema Milstein at tema@unm.edu OR Mairi Pileggi at mairi.pileggi@dominican.edu
Note: All submitters will be contacted with decisions by the editors by June 8, 2015. Those given revise/resubmits and those submitting abstracts the editors want to consider further will be expected to submit revisions and/or complete papers by July 31, 2015.
PhD Conference
Sustainable environmental politics and economy
Date: Friday 03.07.2015 & Saturday 04.07.2015 (09:00-18:00)
Venue: Henry Ford Bau, Freie Universität Berlin
Organizing team: Gloria Amoruso, Andrzej Ceglarz, Natasha
Donevska, Florentine Koppenborg, Gerrit Mumm
Contact: phd-workshop-ffu@polsoz.fu-berlin.de
Overview
The PhD group of
the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at Freie Universität Berlin in
cooperation with the PhD-network for Sustainable Economics is organizing a
Sustainable Environmental Politics and Economy Conference. The conference aims
at bringing together young researchers from various disciplines to present and
discuss their research related to sustainability, environment, climate and
energy policies, politics, economy and governance. The conference will provide
a supportive forum for PhD researchers to present papers related to their
dissertations and other research projects. The conference will be divided into
broad thematic areas to allow for focused discussion and networking across
universities and disciplines.
The PhD
Confernce will be held in connection with the Annual meeting of the University
Day for Eco-Scocial Markets and Sustainability (www.hochschultage.org),
which are run by the Club of Rome, PhD-Network for sustainable economy (DNW),
FAW/n Ulm and the Green Budget Germany (FÖS).
Sections
Section 1: Climate and energy multi-level governance
Section 2: Energy transitions around the world
Section 3: Sustainable economics
Section 4: Sustainability and environmental policies
Guidelines and Deadlines
The organizing
team welcomes submissions along the following guidelines:
● Call for
abstracts
Abstracts (max.
300 words) outlining the aims and methods of individual papers should be sent
to phd-workshop-ffu@polsoz.fu-berlin.de by the 22nd
of March 2015. Please state the section you would like to submit your paper
to, your name, affiliation and full contact details.
● Paper
selection
Information on
whether a paper is accepted will be given by the 19th of April 2015.
● Submission
of final papers
Papers should be submitted to workshop participants 2 weeks
ahead of the workshop, by the 10th of June 2015, in order to allow
participants and discussants to prepare for the workshop.
Research and PhD seminar:
RESPONSIVE AND DELIBERATIVE GOVERNANCE IN NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
CALL FOR PAPERS
Joensuu, University of Eastern Finland 16th and 17th of April, 2015
Thursday at 12-18 (+ social event starting at 18:30) and Friday at 9-15
Organized by Institute for Natural Resources, Environment and Society (LYY), University of Eastern Finland in cooperation with Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UNIPID)
REGISTRATION: https://elomake.uef.fi/lomakkeet/11070/lomake.html
During this two days research seminar, we aim to discuss the various approaches to deliberative and responsive governance and analyse various cases where the deliberation over rights and responsibilities in natural resources management and policy takes place. The seminar seeks to bring together researchers and research that engages with questions related to responsive and deliberative governance of natural resources management and conservation as well as research studying environmental conflicts and various environmental planning interventions and impact assessment.
The responsive and deliberative governance aims to empower local citizens to influence the natural resources management and policy. The goal of responsive natural resources governance is to include wide range of actors and differing visions into local and regional natural resources management and conservation. The responsive and deliberative approach argues for development and social change that is strongly influenced by the local population in interaction with the companies, authorities, or other relevant actors. Usually deliberation refers to debate and discussion aimed at producing reasonable, well-informed opinions in which participants are willing to revise preferences in light of discussion, new information, and claims made by fellow participants. Responsive governance model emphasizes a government that is open and responsive to civil society and the private sector, one that is more accountable, and better regulated by external watchdogs and the law. Governments or corporations to be seen as responsive and deliberative, must adopt a governance model that focuses on articulating, aggregating, and incorporating in an active way the interests of the citizens in the policy making process, instead of seeing them as customers who would consume whatever policy or programme that the government offers.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Jens Friis Lund is an associate professor at the Department of Food and Resources Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on natural resources governance in developing countries, in particular participatory or decentralized approaches to forestry and wildlife management in Tanzania and Nepal. He has also done research on the political economy of timber governance in Ghana. Lastly, in a Danish context, he has done research on economic and social issues of hunting and other recreational uses of forests and natural landscapes. His current research interests include: relations between knowledge and power in participatory processes; impacts of participatory policies on conservation, livelihoods and social equity and; the political economy of natural resources management.
Jens is presently involved in a number of research activities in Nepal, Tanzania, Kenya and Denmark. Find more information from: http://ifro.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/267381
Daniel Franks is a deputy director of the Strategy and Mineral Policy at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests lie across the sustainability of the extractive resource industries with a particular focus on the social and environmental change associated with mining and energy developments. Daniel serves as a co-chair for Social Impact Assessment at the International Association for Impact Assessment and is a member of the Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources Thematic Group of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has field experience at more than 40 mining and energy sites internationally and has authored publications on topics such as mining policy, resource governance, social impact assessment, cumulative impacts and company-community relations. Find more information related to his research and institute from: https://www.csrm.uq.edu.au/people/daniel-franks
Irmeli Mustalahti is an academy research fellow at Department of Geographical and Historical Studies. She is currently leading an Academy of Finland funded research project called “REDD+: The new regime to enhance or reduce equity in global environmental governance? A comparative study in Tanzania, Mexico and Laos”. In 2012-2014, she was a leader of Academy of Finland funded research project called “Towards Responsive Governance in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation? Comparative case study in Tanzania and Nepal”. The main aim of her current research is to analyse forest governance as an environmental governance mechanism that can lead to expected and unexpected impact in the local communities and through it, distribution of benefits, risks and opportunities of land use and forest management. Currently, she is studying, proposing funding and involved theoretical debates on responsive governance in forest based bio-economy in Finland. You can find a short introduction related to her research from:
PROGRAMME & VENUE
The seminar is organized by the Natural Resources, Environment & Society Doctoral Programme and LYY Institute from the University of Eastern Finland. More information available: http://www.uef.fi/fi/lyy/doctoral-programme).
Researchers and doctoral students are requested to propose papers for presentations until 27th of 2015. If you are interested in presenting, send your abstract (max 500 words) toPaula.Inkeroinen@uef.fi
The detailed programme will be developed according to these proposed papers. The final deadline for the accepted paper will be 10th of April (max 8000 words).
The venue of the seminar is Olympia, 3B-building (5th floor) in Science Park of Joensuu (Thu at 12-18 and Fri at 9-15). And on Thursday, you are welcome to have a social event and sauna at University of Eastern Finland Joensuu Campus.
The seminar is free of charge, however, participants are responsible for their travelling and accommodation.
Registration: https://elomake.uef.fi/lomakkeet/11070/lomake.html
FUNDED:
INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY (LYY), UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND
FINNISH UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (UNIPID)
WELCOME!
Rauno Sairinen, Irmeli Mustalahti & Paula Inkeroinen
More information:
Paula Inkeroinen
Project Coordinator
LYY Institute
University of Eastern Finland
Department of Geographical and Historical Studies
Metria, Yliopistokatu 7
Room M348
PL 111, 80101 Joensuu
GSM +358 50 367 5236
Conference: Environmental Labour Studies
Looking back – looking forward: labour and nature through the
lens of life histories and prospective sustainability scenarios
17th – 20th of September 2015, Stockholm, Sweden
Organisers: Nora Räthzel, Department of Sociology, Umeå
University
David Uzzell, School of Psychology, University of Surrey
This conference aims to bring together scholars, trade
unionists, and environmentalists, who are forging the link between climate
justice and workers’ rights. It is meant to provide not only a learning space
but a space for exploration as well. The conference has three parts set up to
enable different forms of dialogue.
Part I: Looking back:
By ‘looking back’ at the life-trajectories of environmentally
active individuals in academia, labour movements, and environmental movements
the relationship between individual/collective practices and their historical,
organisational and spatial embeddedness will be discussed. This part will
consist of four sessions in which two people with different backgrounds will
interview each other about their life-histories The dialogue will develop along
the following questions: How did they become interested in environmental
issues? How were their actions received in their respective communities? What
were the main obstacles and what were the enabling developments? How do they
see the result of their work so far?
Part II: Paper presentations.
This part is open for paper submissions from scholars,
unionists, or environmentalists. We expect papers, which reflect on the
relationships between labour and the environment, e.g. environmental transformations
of production, alliances between labour and environmental movements, labour
campaigns against climate change, environmental representatives at plant level
and other issues. Depending on the number of papers received and accepted,
there will be parallel workshops around specific themes.
Part III: Looking forward:
The third part of the conference will be devoted to the
development of future scenarios. Small groups will be organised comprising
scholars, trade unionists and environmentalists, respectively to engage in the
method ‘IMAGINE’. This is an innovative method of deliberation devised by two
of the participants, Prof Stephen Morse, and Prof Simon Bell. Imagine requires
no lecturing or overt ‘teaching’; rather it is a process model which makes use
of the natural flows of facilitated group-work process. In a vigorous but
engaging thought experiment members of small groups gradually build up a shared
understanding of a problem and feed this back to the wider group. In a form of
fractal learning, the larger group then adopts the main themes agreed by the
smaller groups and with this, a rigorous understanding of the three realities
(where we are, where we want to be and how we want to get there) develops. This
understanding can subsequently be used as a blueprint for agenda setting and
the planning of strategies and research.
Confirmed Participants so far are:
Simon Bell: Professor of Innovation and Methodology, Faculty of
Mathematics, Computing and Technology, Department of Engineering and
Innovation, Open University.
Jacklyn Cock: Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University
of Witwatersrand, (SWOP)
Alana Dave: Education Officer, International Transport Workers
Federation (ITF)
Stephen Morse: Chair in System Analysis for Sustainability,
Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey.
Joaquin Sainz Nieto: Director of the Spanish (International
Labour Office) ILO branch. Responsible for Environmental policies at the
Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) between 1992 and 2007
Dimitris Stevis: Professor of Political Science, Colorado State
University.
David Uzzell: Professor of Environmental Psychology, School of
Psychology, University of Surrey
Abstracts for papers (not longer than half an A4 page) need to
be submitted until May, 30, 2015. Presenters will be informed about acceptance
of their paper until June, 30, 2015
Registration: 50 Euros for employed participants, 20 Euros for
PhD students, unemployed/retired, etc.
Registration starts now and ends July 15, 2015
Since the conference will take place at a conference venue with
limited facilities, participation is limited and (apart from paper presenters)
will be decided according to the first come, first served principle.
Abstracts, registrations, enquiries:
Nora Räthzel: nora.rathzel@soc.umu.senora.rathzel@soc.umu.se
Global Society, the City and the Environmental Question*
*X Italian Environmental Sociology
Conference*
*18th -19th June 2015*
*University of Bologna - Department of
Sociology and Business Law*
Call for abstract
Deadline: March 2015, 30th
Session n. 9
*Sustainable Cities? Investigating the
ambiguous relation between
environmental protection, accessibility
and social inclusion in
contemporary Cities*
Organizers: Roberta Cucca and Giampaolo
Nuvolati, Università di
Milano-Bicocca
Over the last decades, the need for more
sustainable cities has been
considered a key point of global
strategy for the future, and one of the
most important aims of European plans
for the urban environment. For this
reason, the European Union has been
committed in fostering several programs
to make cities environmentally friendly,
competitive in the global market
and oriented to social inclusiveness.
However, these aims seem to be
difficult to reach at the same time, and
sustainability can also be
described as one piece of rhetoric, an
urban brand, with no specific social
dimensions clearly set out. For all its
ubiquity and broad acceptance, the
concept remains suitable to promote
unexpected consequences in terms of
urban inequalities, such as processes of
ecogentrification and unequal
distribution of social, economic and
environmental resources among
citizens.
We encourage papers focusing on a
critical analysis of urban sustainability
from a wide range of theoretical,
conceptual and empirical perspectives.
The session aims to collect papers that
investigate questions such as: how
social inclusion enters in urban
policies for sustainability? There is the
chance that urban policies and
interventions for sustainability may foster
new forms of social inequalities? There
are processes of privatization of
environmental resources occurring as
result of urban sustainability
policies? Conversely, there are
processes of re-appropriation by the public
and the citizens of environmental
resources going on? What are the spatial
changes that take place in cities while
answering to different requests of
sustainability, by different social
groups? Also papers concerning
methodological approaches and strategies
(type of sources, data,
indicators, surveys, focus group)
currently adopted (or to be considered
for the future) in order to analyze
connections between sustainability and
social inequalities are welcome.
For information about the submission
please download the program in
Roberta Cucca
Research Associate
Department of Sociology and Social
Research
Università di Milano Bicocca
TÜRKİYE BAROLAR BİRLİĞİ
II. ÇEVRE VE KENT HUKUKU KURULTAYI
07-08 Haziran 2014 / Ankara
İNSAN HAKLARINDAN DOĞA HAKLARINA
"ÇEVRE HAKKI"
07.06.2014 CUMARTESİ
10:00– 10:30
Açılış
Konuşmaları
· Av. Metin Feyzioğlu – TBB Başkanı
· Av. Ali Arabacı – TBB Çevre ve Kent Hukuku Komisyonu Başkanı
10:30 – 12:30
I. OTURUM: İNSAN HAKLARI BAĞLAMINDA ÇEVRE HAKKI
Moderatör: Av. Başar Yaltı –TBB Başkan Yardımcısı
· Uluslararası İnsan Hakları Hukukunda Çevre Hakkı: Genel Bir Bakış - Prof.
Dr. Yasemin Özdek – Kocaeli Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Genel Kamu Hukuku ABD
· Yaşama Hakkı Kapsamında Çevre Hakkı ve Anayasal Düzenlemeler - Prof.
Dr. İbrahim Kaboğlu – Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Anayasa Hukuku ABD
· Çevresel Bilgiye Erişim Hakkı ve Aarhus Sözleşmesi –Doç. Dr. Ahmet
M. Güneş – Yalova Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi İdare Hukuku ABD
12:30 – 13:00
SORU - CEVAP
13:00 – 14:00
ÖĞLE ARASI
14:00 – 16:00
II. OTURUM: DOĞA HAKLARI BAĞLAMINDA ÇEVRE HAKKI
Moderatör: Av. Fevzi Özlüer – TBB Çevre ve Kent Hukuku Komisyonu
· İklim Siyaseti ve Çevresel Adalet – Prof. Dr. Aykut Çoban – Ankara
Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Kentleşme ve Çevre Sorunları ABD
· Gelecek Kuşaklardan Doğanın Haklarına: Bolivya ve Ekvador Anayasası
Örnekleri – Dr. Tolga Şirin – Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi
Anayasa Hukuku ABD
· Ekolojik Kriz Karşısında Yeni Bir Hukuk Arayışı: Uluslararası Suç Önerisi
Olarak Ekokırım – Av. Hande Atay - Ekoloji Kolektifi, ÇEHAV
16:00 – 16:30
SORU – CEVAP
08.06.2014 PAZAR
10:00-12:00
PANEL : ÇEVRE
HAKKININ GÜVENCELERİ
Moderatör: Av. Ayşegül Altınbaş – TBB Çevre ve Kent Hukuku
Komisyonu
· Halkın Çevresel Yönetime Katılım Hakkı ve ÇED Süreci – Av. Cömert
Uygar Erdem – Ekoloji Kolektifi, ÇEHAV
· İdari Başvuru ve Dava Hakkı – Av. Erol Çiçek, ÇEHAV
· Türkiye Ceza Hukukunda Çevreye Karşı Suçlar ve Çevresel Zarar – Yrd. Doç.
Dr. Ozan Ercan Taşkın – Anadolu Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi – Ceza ve Ceza
Usul Hukuku ABD
12:00 – 12:30
SORU – CEVAP
12:30 – 13:30
ÖĞLE ARASI
13:30 – 15:30
FORUM : KIRDA VE KENTTE
ÇEVRE HAKKI MÜCADELELERİ
Moderatör: Av. Berna Babaoğlu Ulutaş – TBB Çevre ve Kent Hukuku
Komisyonu
· Gerze Termik Enerji Santrali Mücadelesi – Şengül Şahin - Yeşil
Gerze Çevre Platformu
· Altın Madeni Karşıtı Mücadele – Nur Neşe Karahan - Yeşil Artvin
Derneği
· HES’lere Karşı Derelerin Özgürlüğü Mücadelesi – Zafer Keçin - Loç
Vadisi Koruma Platformu
· Nükleer Enerji Karşıtı Mücadele – Yılmaz Kilim - Nükleer Karşıtı
Platform
· Kentsel Dönüşüm Mücadelesinden Özyönetime
- Velaaddin Kılıç - Sarıyer Mahalle Dernekleri ve Mahalle
Kooperatifleri Birliği
- Aydemir Görmez - Derbent - Çamlıtepe Mahallesi Kooperatifi Başkanı
· Gezi Parkı Mücadelesi – Gürkan Akgün - Taksim Dayanışması
16:00 – 16:30
AVUKAT NOYAN ÖZKAN ÇEVRE VE EKOLOJİ MÜCADELESİ ONUR ÖDÜLÜ TÖRENİ
16:30 -17:00
SONUÇ BİLDİRGESİ VE KAPANIŞ
Av. Bülent Kaçar - TBB Çevre ve Kent Hukuku Komisyonu
Transformations of the Ecology Movement.
From the 'Limits to Growth' (1972) to the Rio Conference (1992)
Organisers: Green Memory Archive (Archiv Grünes
Gedächtnis) of the Green Political Foundation (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), Berlin;
Dr. Christoph Becker-Schaum, Green Memory Archive;
Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer, Aarhus University, Department of Culture and Society.
Place,
Time: 14 / 15 November 2014. Green Memory Archive, Eldenaer Str. 35, D-10247
Berlin/Germany
Deadline: 15 June 2014
The years
around 1970 have frequently been described as the time of the environmental
revolution. They mark the beginning of a new era of ecological thought, the
rise of environmental movements and environmental policy. This revolution –
which went hand in hand with the rise of political ecology - was a global
phenomenon. International organizations such as the United Nations (UN), NATO
or the European Communities, but also national governments – such as in the
United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, started environmental policy
initiatives and international cooperation on these issues. Based on the latest
computer-generated simulations, the study 'Limits to Growth' of 1972
popularized a central tenet of the new ecological worldview, which fell on fertile
ground in the context of the first UN conference on the Human Environment in
Stockholm 1972.
Twenty years later, representatives of 178
states met in Rio de Janeiro for the UN conference on the Environment and
Development in 1992. World leaders agreed on the Agenda 21, an ambitious action
programme, aiming at what came to be called "sustainable development"
to overcome the conflict between environmental concerns and development goals.
With the emergence of the issue of global warming, Rio marks an important
milestone in the history of environmental policy and a transition to our
present.
The ambition of this workshop is to
explore the development of the new environmental movement and the modernisation
of the nature conservation movement in Germany during the two decades between
the two events. The goal is to explore continuities and change with a view to
the issues and concerns of the environmentalists, their interaction at and
across different levels of policy-making e.g. with policy-makers, media and society,
as well as the organisational structures of the environmental movement and the
various groups and actors it consists of.
First, while anti-nuclear protest and the
demand for an energy transition have been centre stage, we know relatively
little about environmentalists' engagement with other concerns, which however
many local initiatives engaged in. These include waste, transport and city or
regional planning, (potentially dangerous) chemicals and genetically
manipulated organisms (GMO), the pollution of water, air and soil, as well as
human relations with animals and plants.
Secondly, the 1970s and 1980s are commonly
considered the heyday of the environmental movement. However, movements at the
national level are embedded in a larger global context of action. Environmental
movement groups and activists interact across different levels – from the local
and regional to the national and transnational levels. At the same time,
environmentalists challenge and cooperate with different types of actors from media
and the public sphere, public administration, industry, political parties and
governments, and the European Communities.
Thirdly, the environmental movement faced
various challenges with a view to its organisational structures – relations
between grass-roots local activists and the need for (and dynamic of)
professionalization and institutionalisation.
What we know so far about the
environmental movement is frequently based on specific cases situated in time
and space. Longer term trends and trajectories, as well as factors and elements
of change have so far remained unexplored. This conference seeks to shed new
light on developments over time, within these two decades, in order to enhance
our understanding of the environmental movement, with a view to a history of
the present. This overarching question is reflected in the five main issue
areas we propose to explore.
1. Between global problems and local
initiatives: how did the perception of environmental problems change between
the publication of the "Limits to Growth" report and the UN
conference on Environment and Development in 1992?
What role did the new issues
and global concerns about limited resources, limits to growth and the conflict
between environment and development play for the emerging environmental
movements on the ground? To what extent is protest and activism motivated by
the new ecological worldview? How does the environmental movement frame and
define its goals and claims? Which solutions seem sensible and acceptable?
2. Between environmental protest and
alternative solutions: how did
the new environmental movement, its groups and umbrella organizations such as
the Federation of Citizen Action Groups (Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen
Umweltschutz [BBU]) or the Union for the Environment and Nature Conservation
Germany / Friends of the Earth Germany (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz [BUND])
deal with the local grassroot environmental issues in the 1970s and 1980s –
nuclear power and energy concerns, pollution of the soil, air and water,
transportation and regional planning, chemicals, GMO and waste? Which
alternatives did the social movement advocate?
3. Between left and right: old and new
parties in the context of the new environmental movement. How did the environmental movement fall
within or cut across existing cleavages? In particular, what is the
relationship with the social democratic party as well as the emerging green
party.
4. Between civic engagement and professional
environmentalism: how did
groups, initiatives and organisations deal with the dynamic of
professionalization and institutionalization? How did they juggle the
contradictions between the commitment to grass-roots democracy and the need to
get organised and acquire know-how to be effective? What is the role of science
and expertise in this process? The roles of ecological think tanks and of
environmental NGOs in this process might be cases in point.
5. Between the public sphere and activism: media and the environmental movement.
Which role did the media, their agenda setting and the scandalization of
environmental problems play for the fledgling environmental movement?
Conversely, how did the environmental movement use the media? Which networks
emerge between the media and the environmental movement? What is the role of
alternative media – in the age before the internet?
Environmentalism, environmental movements
and environmental policy cut across borders. They are by no means a German, let
alone a West-German phenomenon, even if many of the questions raised above are
informed by the West German experience. Thus we are particularly interested in
contributions considering the history of the German environmental movement in a
comparative and/or transnational perspective. We particularly encourage the
submission of contributions studying developments, change and continuity over
time, covering this period.
We are planning to publish (a selection
of) the contributions to this conference in due course.
The
Heinrich Böll Foundation kindly sponsors reasonable travel costs, accommodation
and catering.
Languages:
German and English. Papers may be presented in either language.
Please
send your abstract (200 -250 words, with a reference to your empirical basis or
sources, in German or English) and a short biographical note (three – five
lines, possibly including 2-3 relevant publications)
until 15 June 2014,
reference
"Transformations of the Ecology Movement"
to both becker-schaum@boell.de and jhmeyer@gmx.de .
Contact:
Dr. Christoph Becker-Schaum, Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Eldenaer Straße 35, 10247 Berlin. Tel.: +49 (0)30
28534-265. Email: becker-schaum@boell.de
Call for papers:
Targeted journal: “Development and Change”
Deadlines
and guidelines
Abstracts (between 300 and 500 words) should be
submitted by September 15st 2013
to viviana.asara@uab.cat
Abstracts (between 300 and 500 words) should be
submitted by September 15st 2013
to viviana.asara@uab.cat
Final drafts (between 8,000 to 10,000 words including
notes and references) should be submitted by 30th October 2013 toviviana.asara@uab.cat
Please follow the Authors’ Guidelines at the journal’s
website http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
Degrowth was first launched in the beginning of the
21st century as a project of voluntary societal shrinking of production and
consumption aimed at social and ecological sustainability (Demaria et al,
2013). It quickly became a slogan against economic growth (Bernard et al.,
2003) and developed into a social movement. The term has also encompassed an
intellectual project, entering academic journals (Fournier, 2008;
Martinez-Alier et al, 2010; Victor, 2010) and at least five Special Issues or
Special Sections have been dedicated to the topic over the last four years
(Kallis et al. 2010; Cattaneo et al 2012; Saed 2012; Sekulova et al 2013;
Kallis et al. 2012).
This special issue aims at articulating the degrowth
critique, proposal and movement through a framework composed of four different
axes: critique to growth societies, degrowth policies, actors and strategies
for degrowth, and alternative world-visions. In “frame analysis perspective”
terms (Robert and Benford, 1988) the diagnostic part of the degrowth critique
of the first axis is thus complemented with the prognostic analysis of policies
(second axis) and bottom-up case studies (third axis). In the fourth axis, we
aim at building bridges with “alternatives to development” that are intimately
linked with the degrowth critique. The degrowth movement is indeed an ally not
only of the Environmental Justice movement and the “environmentalism of the
poor” of the South (Martinez-Alier, 2002), but also of other movements such as
Buen Vivir from Latin America, Radical Ecological Democracy (RED) from India or
Ubuntu from South Africa that put forward a different socio-economic model and
embody the cultural critique that represents one of the pillars of degrowth
framing. These concepts show that there are alternatives imaginaries to growth
and development. If degrowth challenges the idea of development in the Global
North, other imaginaries -such as Buen Vivir, RED or Ubuntu- challenge it
elsewhere. Degrowth, rather than arguing for 'less of the same' (i.e. less
GDP), advocates for different socio-ecological futures.
Inaugural Call for Papers & Poems
Eco-Gencies: Eco-Critical Responses to Contemporary Environmental Crises
Call for Papers:
Putting the Humanities on the Frontlines of Ecological Discourse…
We seek papers of approximately 15 to 25 pages (≈4,500 to 7,500 words) that illuminate, examine, analyze and criticize the role of the humanities in responding to, and ultimately addressing, one or more of the environmental crises that we face today. While the subject of study may be from another era, this issue will showcase papers that explicitly seek to show how study in the humanities may shape, suggest or even demand certain responses to the ecological challenges we face today.
Possible Topics Include:
>Literature as a propaedeutic to environmental ethics and eco-spirituality
>Philosophy and a considered response to environmental destruction and degradation
>Ecological literature and art as a prod to environmentalist activism
>Blue ecocritical approaches
>Alternative eco-critique and new methodologies
>Literature and art as embodiment and performance of environmental consciousness and trauma
>Linguistics and environmental destruction
>Global food studies, genetic modification, and sustainability
Call for Poems:
We seek poems of approximately 10-40 lines that, like the papers we seek, are oriented toward responding to, and ultimately addressing, one or more of the environmental crises that we face today. This issue will showcase poems that enact what our call for papers names “eco-gency”: responsiveness to and responsibility toward contemporary environmental challenges.
Submissions due by: 3 September 2013
Citations and endnotes in MLA style.
Please send all files by email in MS Word or Rich-Text format (‾.doc, ‾.docx, ‾.rtf)
For papers, please send submissions to either Co-Editor, Peter Schulman <pschulma@odu.edu>, or Josh Weinstein <jweinstein@vwc.edu>
For poetry submissions, please send to Poetry Editor H.L. Hix <hhix@uwyo.edu>
STRUGGLE
Nov 29-Dec 1, 2013 Toronto , Canada
Work
in a Warming World (W3): a research initiative among academics and community
partners is proud to announce its 1st International Conference.
We
invite abstract submissions (deadline: Aug. 15) for
panels and papers for a
major international conference on the role of labour and work in the struggle
to slow global warming. The Conference is for labour and environmentalists,
students, academic researchers, policy makers and the concerned
public.
The
3-day Conference will explore 18 themes, creating a forum where researchers
and unions can critically discuss particular topics, share knowledge
and experiences, while also developing ties that will enable innovation
and change. In addition to our keynote speakers—David Miller, Former
Mayor of Toronto and President & CEO of WWF Canada and Philip J. Jennings,
General Secretary of UNI-Global Union—we will be having a series of
panel discussions and paper presentations. We encourage scholars, students
and activists to submit abstracts for papers by following the submission
guidelines/deadlines located on the W3 International Conference website.
For
more information, please contact: Ann Kim (ann_kim@yorku.ca),
T:
W3
International Conference Website/Call For Papers:
W3
Website: http://www.
VII. Uluslararası Ekoloji ve Çevre Sorunları Sempozyumu
VII. Uluslararası
Ekoloji ve Çevre Sorunları Sempozyumu, 18 – 21 Aralık 2013 tarihleri arasında
Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi ve
Doğa Koruma ve Milli Parklar Genel Müdürlüğünün işbirliğiyle Antalya’da
düzenlenmektedir. http://www.iseep2013.com/
Sempozyumda ele
alınacak ana başlıklar aşağıdaki
gibidir.
Çevre
Eğitimi
Çevre Hukuku ve Felsefesi
Ekosistemlerdeki Kimyasal ve Fiziksel kirlenme ve alınacak önlemler;
Turizm ve Çevre
Alternatif ve Çevre Dostu Enerji
Biyolojik Çeşitlilik
Çevre ve Yerleşim
Ekoloji ve Ekonomi İkilemi
Enerji ve Çevre
Sağlık, Beslenme, GDO ve Çevre
Sanat ve Çevre
Çevre ile ilgili diğer konular
Çevre Hukuku ve Felsefesi
Ekosistemlerdeki Kimyasal ve Fiziksel kirlenme ve alınacak önlemler;
Turizm ve Çevre
Alternatif ve Çevre Dostu Enerji
Biyolojik Çeşitlilik
Çevre ve Yerleşim
Ekoloji ve Ekonomi İkilemi
Enerji ve Çevre
Sağlık, Beslenme, GDO ve Çevre
Sanat ve Çevre
Çevre ile ilgili diğer konular
Tam metinler
editöryal değerlendirmeden sonra "FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN" (SCI) da
basılabilecektir.
Kayıt ve özet
gönderimi için lütfen web sayfamızı kullanınız veya bilgilerinizi sempozyum
sekreterine e-mail ile gönderiniz. e-mail; albayraktamer@gmail.com
Call
for Papers: Postgraduate conference on New Actors and Institutions
in Development and the Governance of the Environment
Held
jointly by the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University
in Newcastle, UK and the Department of Political Science at
National Taiwan University
Venue
and date: Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK, 3 July 2013
The
contemporary world faces a wide array of intractable social and environmental
problems that often transcend established social and intellectual
boundaries. Thus modern governance is marked by constant attempts
at reorganization and rescaling as well as further specialization
in hope of finding optimal answers. This has resulted in
the emergence of a host of new actors, including new forms ofstate-society
relations, hybrid public institutions and networks ofmulti-sector
partnerships, while questions of accountability and legitimacy
remain unresolved. These developments necessitate a fresh look
at the question of governance. Focusing on pressing issues in development
and environmental governance, this postgraduate conference
aims to create a space for interdisciplinary dialogues and critical
methodological reflections, and to take stock of novel analytical
approaches to new governance problems.
Postgraduate
students from all relevant disciplines are encouraged to
apply.
The
organisers will consider all submissions for inclusion in the conference.
We particularly welcome papers that employ a conceptual discussion
and/or focus on South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia.
A
number of bursaries are available to cover travel within the UK.
Funded
by the British Academy and the National Science Council
To
submit a paper proposal and to express your interest in a travel
bursary,
please contact the joint organisers Dr Wang Ting-jieh
(tjw93@ntu.edu.tw)
and Dr Oliver Hensengerth
The American Society for Environmental History 2014 Conference
Crossing Divides March 12-16, 2014
The program theme, "Crossing
Divides," calls attention to new scholarship in environmental history that
bridges geographical and disciplinary differences. We seek panel and roundtable
proposals that engage with this theme in creative ways: studies in
environmental history from comparative regional and cultural perspectives;
investigations in such topics as food culture, urban and rural sustainability,
labor and migration, bodies and
toxicity, and the past and future of political ecology. The program
committee seeks to further discussions that cross disciplinary or conceptual
divides in new ways. We especially invite proposals that span gender,
generational, and geographic differences among presenters as well as topics. We
see the location of the conference in San
Francisco
Submission Guidelines
The program committee invites panel, roundtable,
individual paper, and poster proposals for the conference. We strongly
prefer to receive complete session proposals but will endeavor to construct
some sessions from proposals for individual presentations. Sessions will be
scheduled for 1.5 hours. Please note that it is ASEH policy to allow at
least 30 minutes for discussion in every session. No single
presentation should exceed 15 minutes, and each roundtable presentation should
be significantly shorter than that, as roundtables are designed to maximize
discussion among the speakers and with the audience. Commentators are allowed
but not required.
The committee invites
proposals in formats beyond the typical paper session where
presenters offer something other than verbatim recitals of written papers.To
maximize participation, we encourage session proposals with more participants
giving shorter presentations (e.g., four presenters at 12 minutes each). Please
note that individuals can be a primary presenter in only one panel, roundtable,
or other session proposal, but can also serve as chair or commentator in a
second session proposal.
Proposals can be submitted electronically beginning in May
2013. See www.aseh.net
“conferences” in May.
Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2013
ULUSLARARASI KONUT HAKKI SEMPOZYUMU
29–30 MART 2013 / ANKARA
29 MART 2013 CUMA
TMMOB Mimarlar Odası 5.Kat Toplantı Salonu, Konur Sok. 4/5 Yenişehir/Ankara
09.30 Birleşmiş Milletler Raportörleri İçin Türkiye’deki Kentsel Dönüşüm Süreçleri ve Afet Yasası’na İlişkin Bilgilendirme Toplantısı
11.00 Dikmen Kentsel Dönüşüm Alanı İnceleme Gezisi-Dikmen Barınma Hakkı Bürosu, Dikmen Vadisi
13.00 Mamak Kentsel Dönüşüm Alanı İnceleme Gezisi- Mamak Açık Hava Sineması ve Öğle Yemeği
15.00 İskitler, Atıfbey, Hıdırlıktepe, Çinçin Kentsel Dönüşüm Alanı İnceleme Gezisi
30 MART 2013 CUMARTESİ
TED Üniversitesi Toplantı Salonu, Ziya Gökalp Caddesi No:48, Kolej- Çankaya/Ankara
10.00 TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi Basın Toplantısı
10.50 Açılış Konuşması
Tezcan Karakuş Candan
TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi Sekreter Üyesi
1. OTURUM: NEO LİBERAL KENTLEŞME VE KONUT ÇEVRELERİ
11.00-11.40 ANA KONUŞMACI
Miloon Kothari
Birleşmiş Milletler Önceki Konut Hakkı Raportörü
11.40-13.00 PANEL
Oturum Başkanı :
Aydan Erim
Mimar
Panelistler :
Doç. Dr. Asuman Türkün
Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi, Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Bölümü
“Kentsel Ayrışmanın Son Aşaması Olarak Kentsel Dönüşüm”
Doç. Dr. Bülent Batuman
Bilkent Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar,Tasarım ve Mimarlık Fakültesi, Kentsel Tasarım ve Peyzaj Mimarisi Bölümü
"Neoliberalizmin Gölgesinde: Kent ve Siyasetin Son Yirmi Yılı"
Yrd. Doç. Dr. Emel Akın
Atılım Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar, Tasarım ve Mimarlık Fakültesi, Mimarlık Bölümü
“Neoliberal Politikaların Önemli Bir Aracı/Sonucu: TOKİ ve Kentsel Dönüşüm”
Doç. Dr. H.Tarık Şengül
ODTÜ İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü
“Neoliberal Dönemde Konutun Değişen Anlamı”
13.00-13.30 Öğle Arası
13.30-14.00 “Kentsel Dönüşüm” Konulu Kısa Film Gösterimi
2. OTURUM: ELVERİŞLİ KONUT HAKKI, İHLALLER, DİRENİŞLER VE ZORLA TAHLİYELER
14.00-14.40 ANA KONUŞMACI
Bahram Ghazi
Birleşmiş Milletler İnsan Hakları Yüksek Komiserliği
14.40-16.00 PANEL
Oturum Başkanı :
Arif Şentek
Mimar
Panelistler :
Cihan Uzunçarşılı Baysal
Siyaset Bilimci, Bağımsız Araştırmacı
“2009 Tarihli BM-Habitat AGFE İstanbul Raporu'ndan Bu Yana Ne Değişti? Mahalleler ve Direniş”
Yrd. Doç. Dr. Çiğdem Şahin
İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi, İktisat Bölümü
“Neo-Liberal Kent Politikaları Çerçevesinde Fener-Balat-Ayvansaray Mücadelesinin 'Barınma', 'Konut' ve 'Kent Hakkı' Mücadelesi Olarak Değerlendirilmesi”
Kutay Meriç
Halkevleri Akdeniz Bölge Temsilcisi
“Kentsel Yağma ve Halkın Barınma Hakkı Mücadelesi”
Doç. Dr. Tahire Erman
Bilkent Üniversitesi İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü
"Kentsel Dönüşüm Projeleri ve Yer Değiştirme: Uygulamalar, Söylemler, Deneyimler”
16.00-17.00 FORUM
Forum Yöneticisi :
Ali Hakkan
TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı
Sempozyum Düzenleme Kurulu
Arif Şentek, Mimar
Bülent Batuman, TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi
Candaş Türkyılmaz, Barınma Hakkı Meclisi
Cihan Uzunçarşılı Baysal, Siyaset Bilimci, Bağımsız Araştırmacı
Samut Karabulut, Halkevleri Genel Başkan Yardımcısı
Tezcan Karakuş Candan, TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi Yönetim Kurulu Sekreter Üyesi
Sempozyum Sekreteryası:
Esin Bölükbaş, TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi
Eylem Ekin, TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi
http://konut.mimarlarodasiankara.org/
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Nordic Environmental Social Science
Conference 11-113 June 2013
We are happy to invite you to the
To be held 11-13 June 2013 in Copenhagen
Abstracts can be submitted
online, until 15 March 2013.
Registration can be done online, no later than 1 May 2013.
Registration can be done online, no later than 1 May 2013.
Key note speakers:
Professor Elizabeth Shove, University of Lancaster
Professor Maarten Hajer, University of Amsterdam
Professor Nicholas A. Robinson, Pace University
and Pace Law School
Professor John Renner Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Pre-conference event 10 June, speakers:
Professor Steve Rayner, University of Oxford
Professor Neil Adger, University of Exeter
Professor Harriet Bulkeley, University of Durham
Professor Katherine Richardson, University of Copenhagen
and more… See the full
programme and all speakers here.
Host:
Department of Geosciences & Natural
Resources
Department of Food & Resource Economics
Department of Food & Resource Economics
The pre-conference event is hosted by
Department of Political Science and Sustainability Science Centre at University of Copenhagen
Organizing committee:
Anja Byg, Helle Tegner Anker, Karina
Sehested, Dorthe H. Lund, Tove
Enggrob Boon
Further information:
Read more at www.NESS2013.ku.dk, or
contact tb@life.ku.dk.
The 2014
Sustainability Conference will be held at the University
of Split in Split , Croatia
Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability in Economic, Social &
Cultural Context
Sustainability Policy & Practice
Sustainability Education
The upcoming deadline for proposal
submissions is 21 March 2013.
Please visit our website for more
information on submitting your proposal, future deadlines, and registering for
the conference.
Presenters have the option to submit
completed papers to The
Sustainability Collection of Journals. If you are unable to
attend the conference in person, virtual registrations include the option to
submit a video presentation, and/or submission to the one of the journals for
peer review and possible publication, as well as subscriber access to the
journals.
Entering its tenth year, the Sustainability
Conference meets annually to discuss the four fundamentals of sustainability in
today’s changing world. The Sustainability Conference serves as an open
forum for exploring sustainability from many perspectives. Being one of
the most popular Croatian tourist destinations, Split, is ideally suited to
examine this year’s theme ‘World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development.’
http://enviroethics.org/2013/03/05/call-for-papers-2014-sustainability-conference/
III. TÜRKİYE İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ KONGRESİ - TİKDEK 2013
İTÜ - Süleyman
Demirel Kültür Merkezi
3 - 5 Haziran,
2013, İSTANBUL
Kongrenin Hedefi:
Küresel ısınma, iklim değişikliği ve sera etkisi terimlerinin birbirleri ile ilişkili olduğu bilinmesine karşılık, bugün için ezici bir çoğunlukla iklim değişikliği terimi ağırlıklı olarak gündemde kalmaktadır. İnsanın çevre ve özellikle atmosferik çevre ile olan karşılıklı ilişkilerinin ayrıntıları, son 30-40 yılda daha iyi anlaşılır hale gelmiştir. Bu ayrıntılar arasında gelecekte ortaya çıkabilecek kuraklık ve düşük akımlar, sulaklık ve yüksek (taşkın) akımlar, küresel soğuma ve ısınmanın nedenleri bulunmaktadır. İklim değişikliğinin akılcı ve katılımcı çözümlerinin neler olabileceği hakkında yapılan değişik ulusal ve uluslararası toplantılarda, iklim değişikliğinin bilimsel, politik, sosyal, ekonomik ve sürdürülebilirlik açılarından da ele alınarak incelemesinde her toplum, ülke ve bölge için sayısız yararlar bulunmaktadır. Bir ülkenin gelecekteki gelişmelerine hız vermesi için atmosferi kirletmesine karşılık uluslararası sınırlamaların getirilmesi de gündem başlıkları arasında bulunmaktadır. Yapılan uluslararası çalışmaların verdiği yön ve bilgilerin yerel olarak uygulamaya konulması ve iklim değişikliğine karşı ortak bir tavır sergilenmesi için karşılıklı tartışma ve eleştirilerde bulunularak en iyi çözümlerin o yer ve yöre için bulunmasına çalışılmalıdır. Ayrıca içinde iklim değişikliğinin değişik konuları ile ilgili derleme, çalışma ve projeler ile araştırma yapan kişi, kurum, birim ve merkezlerin bir araya getirilmesi için toplantılar yapılmalı ve bunlar arasında en iyi eşgüdüm sağlanmalıdır. Yapılan görüşmeler sonunda bir ortak bildirinin yayınlanması ile bir sonraki toplantıya kadar daha iyi çalışma ve geliştirmelerin yapılmasına gayret edilmelidir. Bu tür toplantılar değişik birimler tarafından yapılan çalışmaların en iyi biçimde bir araya getirilmesine ve gereksiz benzer çalışmaların en aza indirilmesine yarayacaktır. Bu tür toplantıların Türkiye içindeki türlerinden bir tanesi de Su Vakfı’nın önderliğinde yapılan Türkiye İklim Değişikliği Kongresi (TİKDEK)’dir. Üçüncüsü yapılacak olan bu kongrenin öncekilerden daha kapsamlı ve katılımlı olarak yürütülmesi için ülkemizde uzaktan veya yakından konu ile ilgili çalışma yapanların yazacakları tebliğler ile kongre sonrasında oluşturulacak zabıtların okuyacaklara sayısız faydası bulunacaktır.
Küresel ısınma, iklim değişikliği ve sera etkisi terimlerinin birbirleri ile ilişkili olduğu bilinmesine karşılık, bugün için ezici bir çoğunlukla iklim değişikliği terimi ağırlıklı olarak gündemde kalmaktadır. İnsanın çevre ve özellikle atmosferik çevre ile olan karşılıklı ilişkilerinin ayrıntıları, son 30-40 yılda daha iyi anlaşılır hale gelmiştir. Bu ayrıntılar arasında gelecekte ortaya çıkabilecek kuraklık ve düşük akımlar, sulaklık ve yüksek (taşkın) akımlar, küresel soğuma ve ısınmanın nedenleri bulunmaktadır. İklim değişikliğinin akılcı ve katılımcı çözümlerinin neler olabileceği hakkında yapılan değişik ulusal ve uluslararası toplantılarda, iklim değişikliğinin bilimsel, politik, sosyal, ekonomik ve sürdürülebilirlik açılarından da ele alınarak incelemesinde her toplum, ülke ve bölge için sayısız yararlar bulunmaktadır. Bir ülkenin gelecekteki gelişmelerine hız vermesi için atmosferi kirletmesine karşılık uluslararası sınırlamaların getirilmesi de gündem başlıkları arasında bulunmaktadır. Yapılan uluslararası çalışmaların verdiği yön ve bilgilerin yerel olarak uygulamaya konulması ve iklim değişikliğine karşı ortak bir tavır sergilenmesi için karşılıklı tartışma ve eleştirilerde bulunularak en iyi çözümlerin o yer ve yöre için bulunmasına çalışılmalıdır. Ayrıca içinde iklim değişikliğinin değişik konuları ile ilgili derleme, çalışma ve projeler ile araştırma yapan kişi, kurum, birim ve merkezlerin bir araya getirilmesi için toplantılar yapılmalı ve bunlar arasında en iyi eşgüdüm sağlanmalıdır. Yapılan görüşmeler sonunda bir ortak bildirinin yayınlanması ile bir sonraki toplantıya kadar daha iyi çalışma ve geliştirmelerin yapılmasına gayret edilmelidir. Bu tür toplantılar değişik birimler tarafından yapılan çalışmaların en iyi biçimde bir araya getirilmesine ve gereksiz benzer çalışmaların en aza indirilmesine yarayacaktır. Bu tür toplantıların Türkiye içindeki türlerinden bir tanesi de Su Vakfı’nın önderliğinde yapılan Türkiye İklim Değişikliği Kongresi (TİKDEK)’dir. Üçüncüsü yapılacak olan bu kongrenin öncekilerden daha kapsamlı ve katılımlı olarak yürütülmesi için ülkemizde uzaktan veya yakından konu ile ilgili çalışma yapanların yazacakları tebliğler ile kongre sonrasında oluşturulacak zabıtların okuyacaklara sayısız faydası bulunacaktır.
Konular:
• İklim değişikliğinin nedenleri
• İklim değişikliği ve Türkiye’ye etkileri
• İklim değişikliği ve ekstrem olaylar
• İklim değişikliği ve su
• İklim değişikliği ve ekolojik sistem
• İklim değişikliği ve sağlık
• İklim değişikliği ve çevre
• İklim değişikliği ve turizm
• İklim değişikliği ve toplum
• İklim değişikliği ve tarım
• İklim değişikliği ve enerji kaynakları
• İklim değişikliği ve sivil toplum kuruluşları
• İklim değişikliği ve basın
• İklim değişikliği ve sanayi
• İklim değişikliği ve ekonomi
• İklim değişikliği ve ulusal güvenlik
• İklim değişikliğine uyum
• İklim değişikliği senaryoları
• Hidro-İklim modelleri
• Su ve iklim riskleri
• İklim değişikliği ve doğal afetler
• İklim değişikliği modellemeleri
• Su, enerji yönetiminin adaptasyonu
• İklim değişikliği, geçmiş iklimler ve paleoiklimler
• İklim değişikliği ve sürdürülebilir kalkınma
• İklim değişikliği ile başa çıkmada mevcut stratejiler
Kongreye bu konular dışında ama kongrenin genel başlığına ait olabilecek diğer konular ile de katılabilinir.
Kongrede sunulan bildirilerden özgün ve kaliteli olanlar Su Vakfı tarafından yayınlanan “İklim Değişikliği ve Çevre”, “Su Kaynakları” ve “Yenilenebilir Enerji Kaynakları“ isimli hakemli bilimsel dergilerde basılacaktır.
• İklim değişikliğinin nedenleri
• İklim değişikliği ve Türkiye’ye etkileri
• İklim değişikliği ve ekstrem olaylar
• İklim değişikliği ve su
• İklim değişikliği ve ekolojik sistem
• İklim değişikliği ve sağlık
• İklim değişikliği ve çevre
• İklim değişikliği ve turizm
• İklim değişikliği ve toplum
• İklim değişikliği ve tarım
• İklim değişikliği ve enerji kaynakları
• İklim değişikliği ve sivil toplum kuruluşları
• İklim değişikliği ve basın
• İklim değişikliği ve sanayi
• İklim değişikliği ve ekonomi
• İklim değişikliği ve ulusal güvenlik
• İklim değişikliğine uyum
• İklim değişikliği senaryoları
• Hidro-İklim modelleri
• Su ve iklim riskleri
• İklim değişikliği ve doğal afetler
• İklim değişikliği modellemeleri
• Su, enerji yönetiminin adaptasyonu
• İklim değişikliği, geçmiş iklimler ve paleoiklimler
• İklim değişikliği ve sürdürülebilir kalkınma
• İklim değişikliği ile başa çıkmada mevcut stratejiler
Kongreye bu konular dışında ama kongrenin genel başlığına ait olabilecek diğer konular ile de katılabilinir.
Kongrede sunulan bildirilerden özgün ve kaliteli olanlar Su Vakfı tarafından yayınlanan “İklim Değişikliği ve Çevre”, “Su Kaynakları” ve “Yenilenebilir Enerji Kaynakları“ isimli hakemli bilimsel dergilerde basılacaktır.
Başvuru:
Kongrenin dili Türkçe olacaktır. Kongreye bildirili veya
bildirisiz katılmak mümkündür. Bildiri sunmak isteyen
katılımcıların kongre web sayfasından temin edecekleri
örnek metne uygun olarak bildiri tam metinlerini 15
Nisan 2013 tarihine kadar göndermeleri gerekmektedir.
Kongrenin dili Türkçe olacaktır. Kongreye bildirili veya
bildirisiz katılmak mümkündür. Bildiri sunmak isteyen
katılımcıların kongre web sayfasından temin edecekleri
örnek metne uygun olarak bildiri tam metinlerini 15
Nisan 2013 tarihine kadar göndermeleri gerekmektedir.
Önemli tarihler:
Tam metinlerin gönderilmesi: 15 Nisan 2013
Değerlendirme sonuçlarının açıklanması: 30 Nisan
2013
Tam metinlerin gönderilmesi: 15 Nisan 2013
Değerlendirme sonuçlarının açıklanması: 30 Nisan
2013
Kongreye sunulan bildiriler değişik oturum başlıkları
altında kümelenecektir. Her bir oturumda bildirilerin
sunulabilmeleri için katılımcılara 15’er dakikalık süre
verilecektir. Her bir oturumun başında çağrılı bildirilere
yer verilmesi de düşünülmektedir. Bu konularda
geniş kapsamlı sunum yapmak isteyenler de durum ve
görüşlerini kongre yürütme kuruluna sunabilirler.
Kayıt:
Kongreye katılma ücreti delege 150 TL ve öğrenci 75
TL olup bu ücrete kongre bildiri kitabı ile II. duyuruda
belirtilecek çeşitli sosyal etkinlikler dâhildir. Kayıt ücreti
yatırmayan katılımcıların bildirileri kongre kitabında basılmayacaktır.
Hesap Bilgileri: Su Vakfı İktisadi İşletmesi
Vakıf Bank, Valide Sultan Şubesi
TR49 0001 5001 5800 7268 6658 33
Kongreye katılma ücreti delege 150 TL ve öğrenci 75
TL olup bu ücrete kongre bildiri kitabı ile II. duyuruda
belirtilecek çeşitli sosyal etkinlikler dâhildir. Kayıt ücreti
yatırmayan katılımcıların bildirileri kongre kitabında basılmayacaktır.
Hesap Bilgileri: Su Vakfı İktisadi İşletmesi
Vakıf Bank, Valide Sultan Şubesi
TR49 0001 5001 5800 7268 6658 33
Call For Papers- Green Thought
Dear Author(s),
Green Thought, a scholarly and refereed
journal, provides an authoritative source of information for scholars,
academicians, students and professionals in the fields of current environmental
problems, environmental theories, Green political, social and economic thought,
eco culture and environmental education.
The journal is oriented to theoretical
studies of environmental policy and its implementation in practice, both in
Serbian and other national ecological policies, and especially international
environmental policy.
It is the main research platform for Center
for environmental policy and sustainable development of Faculty of political
Sciences, University of Belgrade , Republic
of Serbia
Journal is published twice a year (June and
December) and is peer reviewed. All papers are reviewed according to the
Journal's criterion.
Final submission deadline: 15th May 2013 for the first issue and 15th November for the second issue.
Final submission deadline: 15th May 2013 for the first issue and 15th November for the second issue.
Visit our website: http://cepor.fpn.bg.ac.rs/
For further information please call: Prof.
Dr Darko Nadic +381637799546
Or write him at: darko.nadic@fpn.bg.ac.rs or cepor.fpn@gmail.com
Or write him at: darko.nadic@fpn.bg.ac.rs or cepor.fpn@gmail.com
Best regards,
Darko Nadic
Editor in Chief of the journal Green Thought
Center for environmental policy and
sustainable development
Faculty of Political Sciences
Jove Ilica 165
11000Belgrade
SERBIA
Faculty of Political Sciences
Jove Ilica 165
11000
- See more at:
http://cepor.fpn.bg.ac.rs/en/call-for-papers.html#sthash.9B6PLLXa.dpuf
CALL
FOR PAPERS – Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future
Climate Change, Sustainability and
an Ethics of an Open Future
Societas Ethica Annual Conference
August 22/25, 2013
Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg, Netherlands
Societas Ethica Annual Conference
August 22/25, 2013
Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg, Netherlands
Call for
Papers
This will be the 50th Societas Ethica
Annual Conference. It is realized in cooperation with the ESF Network “Rights
to a Green Future” and the Ethics Institute in Utrecht. Climate change,
dwindling resources, and growth of the global population have emerged as
challenges for all areas of political action in modern societies. These
challenges have been on the political agenda since the “Limits to Growth”
report was released in 1972.
While the challenges are well known, and while there appears to be some form of consensus that sustainability is a goal worth striving for, there is little discussion of how the changes necessary to achieve this goal will affect our political institutions, our social relationships, our moral responsibilities, and our self‐understanding in general. The more far‐reaching the necessary changes are, the more pressing the following questions will become: To what extent are political and economic institutions – national as well as global ‐ capable of realizing sustainable politics and what is its ethical basis? To what extent will personal liberties, such as freedom of movement, property rights, and reproductive autonomy, need to be limited in order to realize sustainable politics? How could we extend the current system of human rights to incorporate the rights of future generations? Can we expect human beings to take responsibility for the living conditions of future generations, and how do such responsibilities affect philosophical and eschatological theories? An ethics of an open future must develop criteria for moral action under conditions of uncertainty. A developed theory of the principle of precaution in ethics and law is, however, lacking.
Confirmed
speakers
§
Docent Jeroen van de Sluis (GeoSciences, Utrecht
§
Professor Stephen Gardiner (Cornell University
§
Professor Michael Northcott (Edinburgh University
§
Professor Hille Haker (Loyola
University Chicago
§
Professor Marcus Düwell (Utrecht University
Paper channels
1. Climate change and scarcity of resources as
ethical challenges
2. Sustainability, future generations and human rights
3. Democracy, global governance and political ethics
4. An open future; philosophical and theological responses
5. Reflections from different cultural and religious perspectives
6. Open channel
2. Sustainability, future generations and human rights
3. Democracy, global governance and political ethics
4. An open future; philosophical and theological responses
5. Reflections from different cultural and religious perspectives
6. Open channel
Authors are invited to submit an abstract
accompanied by a bibliography of max. 10 references. The maximum length of the
abstract is 4,000 characters excluding bibliography. Abstracts should be
suitable for blind review. We do not accept full papers.
Please send in the following two documents as
Word attachments tojohanna.romare@liu.se:
Document 1: Your name, first name, email
address, institutional address, the title of your abstract, the topic under
which your abstract falls, and, if eligible, your application to participate in
the Young Scholars’ Award competition (see information below).
Document 2: Your abstract including
bibliography and title with all identifying references removed.
Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2013.
Call for papers: http://www.societasethica.info/annual-conference-2013/annual-conference-start/1.441145/call-for-papers-se-2013-english.pdf
Programme: http://www.societasethica.info/annual-conference-2013/programme?l=en
Programme: http://www.societasethica.info/annual-conference-2013/programme?l=en
Cologne
The Cologne International Energy Summer (CIES) aims at
bringing distinguished scholars and young researchers in the field of
energy and environmental economics together in order to discuss
current and future research topics and the most relevant policy issues. The
CIES is a Summer School with emphasis on scientific interaction and exchange of
thoughts. In particular it provides a platform for graduate students to
present and discuss their work with senior researchers and other graduate
students. Young researchers are given the opportunity to develop a network and
are exposed to current issues in their research field.
Schedule
The CIES consists of two parts complementing each other. First, there
will be lectures by Prof. Richard Green (Imperial College,
London, on The economics of integrating wind energy) and Prof.
Matti Liski (School of Economics, Helsinki, on Climate Change
Economics). Second, participants will be presenting their own work. Young
researchers are expected to actively participate in the lectures while the
senior researchers will have ample opportunity to discuss and provide feedback
on the research topics raised by the students.
Applicants
Applicants must be at least in his/her second year of PhD studies, has
already conducted independent research, and has written at least a first paper.
All students in the fields of industrial organization and public economics with
strong interest in energy and environmental economics are encouraged to apply.
Submission
Ph.D. students interested in participating in the workshop are to submit
their completed paper/full draft and CV by March 31, 2013, to energy-summer@ewi.uni-koeln.de.
Notice of acceptance will be by April 30, 2013.
Registration and financial support
The registration is free of charge. A limited number of grants covering
travel expenditures up to € 500 are available. Please indicate in your
application whether you wish to apply for a grant.
Organization
Prof. Felix Höffler (University of Cologne), Prof. Van Anh Vuong
(University of Cologne)
For more information: http://www.inomics.com/economics/courses/2013/1/31/cologne-international-energy-summer-cies-energy-and-environmental-econ-0?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
21. YÜZYILDA SU
YÖNETİMİ
Bütünleşik Su Yönetimi Çerçevesinde Türkiye’de ve Dünya’da Su
Yaz Okulu
Hollanda – Türkiye Yüksek Öğretim ve Meslek
Eğitimi Vakfı (NIHA Vakfı) olarak Ankara Üniversitesi Su Yönetimi Enstitüsü,
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi ve Hacettepe Üniversiteleri Çevre Mühendisliği
Bölümleri ve Türkiye Tabiatını Koruma Derneği ile birlikte 3-7 Haziran arası su
yönetimi üzerine geniş içerikli bir yaz okulu düzenlemeyi planlıyoruz. Söz
konusu yaz okulumuzun, TÜBİTAK’ın 2217 Lisansüstü Yaz Okulu Destekleme Programı
tarafından fonlanması ve bu kapsamda organize edilmesi düşünülmektedir.
Yaz
okulunun amacı
Başta
konu üzerine çalışmalar yürütmüş araştırmacılara, lisansüstü öğrencilere, kamu
kurum ve kuruluşları çalışanlarına ve ilgili alanlarda görev yapan ve deneyim
kazanmış profesyonellere konuya ilişkin farklı bakış açıları sağlamak, son
gelişmeleri ve yenilikleri aktarmak ve yoğun tartışmalar ve interaktif sunumlar
ile karşılıklı bilgi alışverişinin sağlanmasıdır.
Konu başlıkları
“21.Yüzyılda Su Yönetimi: Bütünleşik Su Yönetimi
Çerçevesinde Türkiye’de ve Dünyada Su” şeklinde başlıklandırdığımız projemiz
kapsamında aşağıda belirtilen konu başlıklarını işlemeyi öngörmekteyiz:
·
Su ve Toplum
·
Suyun Sektörel Kullanımı
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Su ve Kirlilik
·
Atıksu Yönetimi
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Su ve Sağlık
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Su Kaynakları Yönetimi
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Su ve Gelecek: Suyun Sürdürülebilir
Kullanımı
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Su Hukuku
·
Su Politikaları
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Su Yönetimi Perspektifinden Türkiye ve
Avrupa Birliği
·
İklim Değişikliğinin Su Kaynaklarına
Etkisi
·
Suya Dair Projeler ve Teşvik Mekanizmaları
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Ülkemizde Su ile İlgili Yasal Mevzuat
Projemiz,
3 – 7 Haziran 2013 tarihleri arasında Ankara – Gaziosmanpaşa’da bulunan NIHA
Vakfı Merkez binası toplantı salonunda gerçekleşecek olup; eğitim dili Türkçe
olacaktır. Söz konusu yaz okuluna katılım, projenin TÜBİTAK tarafından
desteklenmesi halinde, “tamamen” ücretiz olacaktır ve eğitimler – konunun niteliğine
bağlı olarak – seminer, çalıştay ve teknik gezi şeklinde yapılanacaktır. Beş
gün sürecek eğitimleri müteakip katılımcılara birer katılım sertifikası
verilecektir.
Kaynak: http://www.nihankara.org/etkinlikler/yaz-okulu-2013/?lang=tr
Landscapes
of Conflict
7-8th
June 2013
The
Centre for Environmental History and Policy
Conflict, physical or intellectual,
constructed or natural, has for millennia shaped human experience and
perception of and interactions with land. From military, political or legal
struggles over real property and the resources in, on and below the land, to
antithetical perceptions such as agrarian utility versus wasteland or aesthetic
beauty versus horror; landscapes have driven human conflict from the individual
to international scale throughout history.
The two day ‘town hall’ meeting, to be
opened by Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs,
is designed to bring academics and a wider public audience together to explore
facets of such conflict on different scales, at different times through the
lens of environmental history. Many contemporary conflicts over space and place
have deep historical roots. These can be witnessed at many levels and across
many perceptions. It is possible to consider many facets of conflict, from
local to global, from individual to common culture, from hedgerows to national
boundaries within a common historical framework in order to work towards
resolutions of contemporary conflict.
The meeting comprises of a series of three
themed interdisciplinary sessions opened by a keynote speaker; Access and
Resources, Heritage, Identity and Place and Military Spaces, each followed by
round table discussion. A corresponding series of printed works (cyanotype
images) by Orkney-based artist Alistair Peebles and collaborator Alec Finlay
entitled 'Tags/Tags' will be exhibited by Stirling Art Collection.
If you would like further information or
would like to present a paper/attend the event could you please register your
interest (places are limited) by contacting Paul Adderley,
w.p.adderley@stir.ac.uk or Catherine Mills, c.j.mills@stir.ac.uk. Post-graduate
participation and contributions from outwith the academe are particularly
welcome.
Two PhD studentships in Sustainability and Wellbeing
The University of Southampton, Social Sciences, is keen to appoint two full-time PhD students in Sustainability and Wellbeing to join a multidisciplinary research team working on the new £6.8M EPSRC Liveable Cities programme grant and the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (Energy, Environment and Resilience Pathway). One studentship will be for four years, the other for three years. The successful candidates will carry out research analysing relationships between sustainability and wellbeing as well as potential wellbeing implications of low carbon city futures. This will involve close collaboration with the social sciences and engineering team at Southampton with opportunities to contribute to wellbeing aspects of the whole Programme Grant at partner sites.
Applications are invited from candidates with degree qualifications (2:1 or higher) in relevant disciplines such as social policy, sustainability/environmental sciences, environmental engineering, ecological economics, demography or human geography. Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience and competence in applying quantitative and/or mixed research methods. Excellent team work and oral/written communication skills will also be essential.
These two studentships are co-funded by the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment / EPSRC Liveable Cities project) and the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre at Southampton (Energy, Environment and Resilience pathway). The Liveable Cities project (Transforming the Engineering of Cities for Global and Societal Wellbeing) is an ambitious, five-year programme of research to develop a method of designing and engineering low carbon, resource secure, wellbeing-maximised UK cities. This will be achieved by developing a unique City Analysis Methodology (CAM) to measure how cities currently perform and to establish future pathways of low carbon, resource secure, liveable UK cities. It involves case studies in three UK cities: Birmingham, Lancaster and Southampton. For more information seehttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/liveable_cities/.
Anticipated start date: 1 October 2013.
To apply online and submit your research proposal please visithttp://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/dtc/esrcdtc_energy_environment_resilience.html
Application deadline: 6 February 2013
Interview date tba
If you have any questions about this advert please contact Dr Milena Buchs on m.buechs@soton.ac.uk.
Call for papers
Sámi Customary Rights in Modern Landscapes
Indigenous People and Nature Conservation
The conference Sámi Customary Rights in Modern Landscapes will be held in Luleå, Sweden, 28-29 August 2013, with an optional excursion on the 30th of August. The conference aims to explore how culturally defined values, ideologies and policies have formed, and continue to form, the basis of Indigenous rights and management models of nature conservation areas in Sápmi. Comparisons with, or cases of, the situations of other Indigenous Peoples are welcome. The conference seeks to bring together different disciplines such as history, political science, law, cultural geography, sociology and anthropology.The purpose is to combine different scientific disciplines such a history, political sciences and law. Some specific issues include:
• How the cultural imagination of nature and landscape among different Indigenous groups has influenced the establishment of nature conservation areas and the design of governance models for natural resources.
• How the contemporary governance of protected areas has been influenced by the principles of equality and positive discrimination, affecting the possibilities to establish adaptive co-management arrangements of specific areas.
• How the legal situation of the Sámi and other Indigenous Peoples has been recognised, especially concerning longstanding customary territorial rights.
Keynote speakers
Professor Karl Jacoby, Department of History and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER), Columbia University, New York, USA.
Associate Professor Michael Adams, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences & Indigenous Studies Unit, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Senior Lecturer Jacinta Ruru, Faculty of Law, University of Otago Otepoti, Dunedin, New Zeeland.
The conference is part of the research project Indigenous Rights and Nature Conservation in Fennoscandinavia, financed by Formas, Sweden. For information about the research project Indigenous Rights and Nature Conservation in Fennoscandinavia, see our website:
www.indigenous-nature.eu/ .
The conference
The conference language will be English. Registration will be during the morning of Wednesday the 28th of August. The conference will begin after lunch on the 28th and continue until Friday afternoon the 29th of August. The conference will be held in Luleå in northern Sweden. Luleå is the regional centre of the county of Norrbotten, a nice harbor town with a large archipelago for tourism and recreation.
Optional excursion
On Friday the 30th a scientific and cultural excursion will be arranged to parts of Sápmi. We will visit cultural heritage sites of local Sámi people and also travel out into nature to see how reindeer herding and other interests are reconciled in conservation areas. The excursion is optional and will be self-financed by the participants. It is estimated to cost a maximum of 1000 SEK, including transportation and food.
Call for abstracts
Abstracts for papers can address either one of the three specific issues outlined above or the complex issue of indigenous rights and nature conservation more generally. Abstracts should be 500 words or less.
Abstracts can be sent to Assoc. prof. Camilla Sandström, University of Umeå.
E-mail: camilla.sandstrom@pol.umu.se
Phone: +46-90-7866450
Last date for abstracts: 1 April 2013
Our date for confirmation of accepted abstracts: 20 April 2013
Presentation of papers
Presenters will be given 20-30 minutes for paper presentations at the conference.
Publication
The conference aims to publish a selection of conference papers as a special issue for a high ranked academic journal. Further information will be provided at a later date.
Registration
In order to plan for the conference we need your registration. You can register even if you do not have any paper for presentation. The conference fee is 1500 SEK, including meals and conference dinner.
First date for registration: 1 April 2013
Last date of registration: 5 August 2013
You may register and pay the conference fee on the website: www.ltu.se/samilandscapes .
More detailed information will be sent out later. For accommodation, restaurants, events, etc. see www.visitlulea.se . For your convenience there is also rooms reserved at Elite Hotel.
We look forward to seeing you at our exciting conference!
Prof. Lars Elenius
For information concerning practical arrangements, please contact:
Conference manager Meit Levin, Luleå University of Technology.
E-mail: meit.levin@ltu.se
Phone: +46-920-491622
For information concerning the content of the conference, please contact:
Prof. Lars Elenius, Senior lecturer at Luleå University of Technology.
E-mail: lars.elenius@ltu.se
Phone: +46-70-3131259
Call for Papers:
Green budgeting: integrating sustainability for governance?
8th May 2013, UEA London
ERSC Research Seminar Series on the Green Economy
Context
Building the green economy is one of the critical challenges for proving sustainability. Integrating environmental and social wellbeing into economic policy has assumed greater urgency due to growing pressures from climate change, overconsumption including excessive natural resources use, and biodiversity loss. In addition, the credibility of the current capitalist economic model has been brought into serious question with the near meltdown of public finances in western countries following the ‘credit crunch’ crisis and on going chaos in financial markets. These issues combined suggest that current economic models are sub-optimal and a new ‘paradigm’ is required to restructure growth patterns within more ecologically sustainable and socially equitable parameters. In response, the concept of the green economy is beginning to emerge more forcefully in political discourses at national, EU and global levels.
However, many commentators remain cautious of current responses, since they seemingly downplay existing political commitments to sustainability while promoting an underlying business as usual economic agenda. One significant criticism is the failure to place green economic futures within planetary limits.
This problem is evident in the integration of environmental objectives into government fiscal cycles or green budgeting. Although not a new concept, some governments such as the UK have consciously targeted environmental expenditure as a means of stimulating green economies in the current age of austerity. Moreover, using national budgets to help develop the green economy has been heavily promoted worldwide through United Nations initiatives and at the regional level by the European Union. Yet, the effects of green budgeting in practice arguably remain questionable (Russel and Benson 2013). Some governments such as those in the UK and the USA made strong commitments to environmental expenditures as part of their fiscal stimuli only to backtrack on them in recent times (ibid.). However, there is a lack of empirical research from elsewhere into how government budgeting is integrating environmental objectives and what the outcomes are for sustainable development.
Aims of the seminar
The research, sponsored by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will undertake a series of seminars on the green economy. Critical overarching research questions are how far have sustainability principles been integrated into political responses, and what measures will be required to build the green economy of the future? The first workshop will examine green budgeting and aims to:
· Better understand how environmental objectives are being integrated into government fiscal cycles through the generation of nationally comparative data;
· Better understand the facilitators and constraints on integration in different national contexts;
· Assess the degree to which budgeting is contributing to both the green economy and the wider goal of sustainable development;
· To assess the scope for learning and policy lesson drawing between national contexts.
The findings of the seminar will be fed back to a final stakeholder seminar, held in late 2013, and included in a briefing note for policy makers.
Call for papers
We welcome the submission of papers which address the aims outlined above from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of green budgeting from different national contexts including comparative studies, critiques of the green budgeting agenda, and theorisation of the green budgeting process are particularly welcome. The best papers will be selected for inclusion in an application for an academic journal special issue. Papers should not exceed 8,000 words in total, including references.
Seminar format
The one-day seminar, held at UEA London. Selected paper givers will be given 15-20 minutes to present an overview of key findings. Presentations will be followed by a group discussion of the paper, allowing time for ideas to develop.
Critical research questions
Although authors have flexibility in research content, papers should address two or more of the following questions in relation to their paper:
· How is the green economy being defined in this context?
· How are environmental objectives being integrated into government fiscal cycles in this context? What policy instruments have been employed?
· What facilitators and constraints exist for green budgeting in practice? How might these factors be explained?
· To what extent is green budgeting contributing to constructing the green economy and the wider goal of sustainable development?
· What lessons can be drawn from this national context on integration?
Travel and Accommodation Expenses
A contribution towards travel expenses, of up to £150 per person, will be met for paper presenters. Overnight accommodation in London will also be provided for the 7th May.
Submitting an abstract
To propose a paper for the seminar, submit an abstract of approximately 500 words by the 1st February 2013 to David Benson (d.benson@uea.ac.uk) and Duncan Russel (d.j.russel@ex.ac.uk) carefully explaining how it fits in with the aims of the seminar and how you would address the key questions. Authors of successful abstracts will be contacted by mid February 2013.
Call for Papers:
7th ECPR General Conference
Sciences Po, Bordeaux
4th - 7th September 2013
Panel: Green Parties After the Financial Crisis
Abstract: The financial crisis and subsequent economic turbulence have posed some potentially existential challenges to the Green party family. The common understanding of these parties as 'postmaterialist' might lead one to imagine a drop in support for parties which have consistently championed supposedly 'quality of life' issues – such as the environment, cleaner energy creation and more direct forms of political participation – at a time when problems such as sluggish growth and sovereign debt occupy the heart of public discourse.
However, there has been no apparent Green existential crisis. To offer just a few examples, Green parties performed relatively and in some cases unusually well in the European parliamentary elections in mid-2009; the French party has refounded itself and expanded its membership significantly on the basis of recent electoral success, and now finds itself once more in government; and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen would appear to be continuing undisturbed on its forward march as a key force in German politics. Furthermore, across Europe, Green parties have developed national permutations of the 'Green New Deal' policy to effectively demonstrate the relevance of a distinctly Green voice through periods of economic crisis.
This panel seeks contributions which will further the understanding of Green parties operating within the latest economic context. We would particularly encourage papers which address shifts in Green economic policy, or the significance of an anti-growth politics at a point where the future of growth is all but certain. More broadly, we would welcome papers which address recent institutional, policy and ideological developments in Green parties in Europe and beyond and which in general terms might yield an insight into the state of Green parties today.
If you're interested, paper abstracts (up to 300 words) can be submitted at http://new.ecprnet.eu/Events/PanelList.aspx?EventID=5&SectionID=2
Deadline: 1st February
Call for Papers:
7th ECPR General
Conference 2013
Sciences Po Bordeaux, 4th - 7th
September 2013
Panel title: The Governance of
Unsustainability
Section Title: Environmental Politics
Panel Chair: Dr. Daniel Hausknost (University of Innsbruck and University of
Klagenfurt)
Panel Co-Chair: Dr. IngolfurBlühdorn
(University of Bath)
“Innovative,
inclusive, consensus-seeking and often informal modes of “environmental
governance” have widely been praised as the most effective, efficient and
legitimate strategy for promoting and eventually achieving
the objective of a “sustainable society”. These modes of governance engage a
wide range of stakeholders including state agencies, international
organisations, scientific research institutions, businesses, civil society
organisations and so forth. However, with most global indicators of
environmental degradation, resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions
still alarmingly on the rise, recent research (e.g. Swyngedouw 2005; Blühdorn
2011, 2013, Hausknost 2011) has begun to critically challenge the prevalent
narratives of “environmental governance”.
Aiming to
further develop the research agenda set out in this work, this panel invites
contributions that critically assess the (mal-)functioning of “environmental
governance” and offer suggestions for a theoretically-informed critique of the
governance-paradigm. The organisers particularly welcome contributions that
further our understanding of environmental governance as a practice of
strategic government and, in particular, as a device to sustain the
“unsustainable” order of advanced capitalist consumer democracies. We are
interested both in analyses that focus on a theoretical reconceptualization of
the practices of governance as well as in critical analyses of empirical
examples of environmental governance.
The focus
of this panel can be further defined by the guiding questions: What is the
relationship between environmental governance and practices of
de-politicisation? To what extent may innovative forms of
governance-beyond-the-state be understood as post-democratic? How does environmental
governance relate to visions of a ‘green economy’ and to existing structures of
capitalism? What forms and modes of agency does environmental governance
employ? How do practices of environmental governance change (or reproduce)
established power relations?”
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of no
more than 300 words directly to the ECPR Bordeaux conference website: http://new.ecprnet.eu/Events/SectionList.aspx?EventID=5. To do so, go to the section “Environmental Politics”, select the panel
“The Governance of Unsustainability” and upload your abstract. Please also send
your abstract to the convenors Daniel Hausknost (daniel.hausknost@aau.at) and IngolfurBluehdorn (I.Bluehdorn@bath.ac.uk). The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2013.
The 4th
International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development
The International Society of Environmental and Rural Development is pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 19-20 January 2013. The main objective of this conference is to discuss and develop the suitable and effective processes and strategies for sustainable rural development taking into account of agricultural and environmental aspects in developing countries. Scientists and facilitators of all disciplines belonging to international, governmental or non-governmental organizations are invited to participate and submit contributions. The official language of the conference is English.
For more information:
http://int-erd.org/images/ICERD/4th/4thicerd-p2.pdf
Call for Applications
EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School
in Resource and Environmental Economics
Uncertainty, Innovation and Climate Change
June 30th- July 6th, 2013 - Venice, Italy www.feem.it/ess/ Deadline for applications: February 1st, 2013
The European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists (EAERE), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and
Venice
International University (VIU) are pleased to announce their
annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for
postgraduate students.Uncertainty, Innovation and Climate Change
June 30th- July 6th, 2013 - Venice, Italy www.feem.it/ess/ Deadline for applications: February 1st, 2013
The 2013 Summer School will take place from June 30th to July 6th, at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark’s Square. The theme of this Summer School is Uncertainty, Innovation and Climate Change.
Uncertainty is a key component of climate change policy making. Although the anthropogenic warming of the planet is unquestioned, there still exist large uncertainties affecting several dimensions of the problem. From the severity and rapidity of changes, to effectiveness of innovation, the future is crucially characterised by uncertainty.
The Summer School will be of interest for students who have a thorough understanding of climate change economics and would like to contribute with original work focusing on the stochastic dimension of the problem.
The lectures will broadly cover:
- modelling tools to deal with uncertainty;
- expert elicitation of uncertain processes (with a specific focus on innovation process);
- risk perception and behavioral responses to risk and uncertainty related to climate change;
- integrated assessment modelling of climate change under uncertainty.
Erin BAKER, Associate Professor, Director, Wind Energy IGERT and University of Massachusetts Amherst (School Coordinator)
Uncertain innovation and climate change
Valentina BOSETTI, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - FEEM (School Coordinator)
Modelling uncertain technical change
David V. BUDESCU, Anne Anastasi Professor of Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology and Fordham University
Risk perception and behavioural responses to risk and uncertainty
William NORDHAUS, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University
Uncertainty and climate change
Thomas F. RUTHERFORD, Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin Maddison
Modelling uncertainty, an overview
The Summer School is targeted to PhD and postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation of each student's doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter, but not to have necessarily completely finished their thesis.
Application is restricted to 2013 EAERE members, both European and non-European citizens. Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the number of participants is limited to 20.
There is no participation fee. All applicants can apply for a scholarship.
For further information on application and funding please access the Summer School Website at www.feem.it/ess/ or contact the Summer School Secretariat.
Chiara Zanandrea
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
ess@feem.it
www.feem.it/ess/
TWO PhD studentships in Sustainability and Wellbeing
The University of Southampton, Social Sciences, is keen to appoint two full-time PhD students in Sustainability and Wellbeing to join a multidisciplinary research team working on the new £6.8M EPSRC Liveable Cities programme grant and the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (Energy, Environment and Resilience Pathway). One studentship will be for four years, the other for three years. The successful candidates will carry out research analysing relationships between sustainability and wellbeing as well as potential wellbeing implications of low carbon city futures. This will involve close collaboration with the social sciences and engineering team at Southampton with opportunities to contribute to wellbeing aspects of the whole Programme Grant at partner sites.
Applications are invited from candidates with degree qualifications (2:1 or higher) in relevant disciplines such as social policy, sustainability/environmental sciences, environmental engineering, ecological economics, demography or human geography. Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience and competence in applying quantitative and/or mixed research methods. Excellent team work and oral/written communication skills will also be essential.
These two studentships are co-funded by the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment / EPSRC Liveable Cities project) and the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre at Southampton (Energy, Environment and Resilience pathway). The Liveable Cities project (Transforming the Engineering of Cities for Global and Societal Wellbeing) is an ambitious, five-year programme of research to develop a method of designing and engineering low carbon, resource secure, wellbeing-maximised UK cities. This will be achieved by developing a unique City Analysis Methodology (CAM) to measure how cities currently perform and to establish future pathways of low carbon, resource secure, liveable UK cities. It involves case studies in three UK cities: Birmingham, Lancaster and Southampton. For more information seehttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/liveable_cities/.
Anticipated start date: 1 October 2013.
To apply online please visit http://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/dtc/esrcdtc_energy_environment_resilience.html
Application deadline: 6 February 2013
Interviews will take place later in February 2013, date tbc
If you have any questions about this advert please contact Dr Milena Buchs on m.buechs@soton.ac.uk.
Call for Papers: “Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future”
Societas Ethica Annual Conference, August 22-25, 2013 Kontakt der Kontinente, Soesterberg, Netherlands. This will be the 50th Societas Ethica conference. It is realized in cooperation with the ESF Network “A Right to a Green Future”.
Climate change, dwindling resources, and growth of the global population have emerged as challenges for all areas of political action in modern societies. These challenges have been on the political agenda since the “Limits to Growth” report was released in 1972. While the challenges are well known, and while there appears to be some form of consensus that sustainability is a goal worth striving for, there is little discussion of how the changes necessary to achieve this goal will affect our political institutions, our social relationships, our moral responsibilities, and our self-understanding in general. The more far-reaching the necessary changes are, the more pressing the following questions will become: To what extent are political and economic institutions – national as well as global – capable of realizing sustainable politics and what is its ethical basis? To what extent will personal liberties, such as freedom of movement, property rights, and reproductive autonomy, need to be limited in order to realize sustainable politics? How could we extend the current system of human rights to incorporate the rights of future generations? Can we expect human beings to take responsibility for the living conditions of future generations, and how do such responsibilities affect philosophical and eschatological theories? An ethics of an open future must develop criteria for moral action under conditions of uncertainty. A developed theory of the principle of precaution in ethics and law is, however, lacking.
Paper channels:
1. Climate change and scarcity of resources as ethical challenges 2. Sustainability, future generations and human rights 3. Democracy, global governance and political ethics 4. An open future; philosophical and theological responses 5. Reflections from different cultural and religious perspectives 6. Open channel
Authors are invited to submit an abstract of max. 4,000 characters. Abstracts should be suitable for blind review.
Please send in the following two documents as Word attachments tojohanna.romare@liu.se:
Document 1: Your name, first name, email address, institutional address, the title of your abstract, the topic under which your abstract falls, and, if eligible, your application to participate in the Young Scholars’ Award competition (see information below).
Document 2: Your abstract and title (max. 4,000 chars; we do not accept full papers) with all identifying references removed.
Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2013.
Societas Ethica Young Scholars’ Award:
The Young Scholars’ Award is awarded to the best presentation by a young scholar at the Societas Ethica Annual conference.
Young scholars for the purpose of this competition are PhD student and PhDs who earned their degree less than two years ago and do not have a tenure-track academic position. If you wish to be considered for the YSA, please indicate this in the file with the personal information accompanying your abstract.
For more information about Societas Ethica Young Scholars’ Award, please visit the website at www.societasethica.info.
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Call For Papers The Tenth Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy
The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE)
Presents the Tenth Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy,
to be held 12-14th of June 2013 at the University of East Anglia, UK.
“Thinking and Acting Ecologically”
The ISEE invites submissions on any topic in environmental philosophy / ecophilosophy broadly conceived. The focus of the tenth annual meeting will be on developing ideas and concepts that are not only thematically concerned with the environment but are themselves contributions to ecological action.
Topics might include:
- Methods and principles that make for specifically ecological ways of thinking and acting
- The relation of style to content in ecological thought and practice
- Connections between philosophy and green politics / art practice/ science policy
- The significance that specific environments have for ecological thought and action
- The connections between ecological practices (e.g. walking, observing, gardening, direct action etc.) and ecological thought
- Theory and practice of environmental justice and our relationship with future generations
- Ecosophy/ ecophenomenology and/or ecologism
- Problems and opportunities facing interdisciplinary environmental studies
Instructions for Submissions:
- Submit 250 word abstracts for 20 minute papers to Tom Greaves
- Please anonymize all abstracts (inc. PDF submissions)
- Deadline: January 31st, 2013
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Call For Papers– Philosophy and Nature, 7th Duquesne Graduate Conference
The relation between nomos and physis has occupied a central place in the history of philosophy, from Aristotelian Physics to contemporary analytic debates on the philosophy of mind. Moreover, nature, as both an object of knowledge and a public resource, has taken on increasingly urgent social and political import: the distribution of resources and the impact of climate change have become central issues in public policy; and, as in the cases of race, sexual difference, and sexual orientation, legal and social status is often determined in accordance with an appeal to their supposedly biological bases, or, that is, to a commonplace conception of “the natural.” Thus the very identity of the human itself is intimately connected to the ways in which nature operates either on or for us. This conference invites submissions from all areas of philosophy that are concerned to investigate the ontological, ethical, political, and epistemological status of nature.
To help facilitate this discussion, possible topics include, but are not limited to: nomos & physis in Ancient philosophy; the relation between God & nature; human freedom & natural determinism; consciousness & cognitive science; the social construction of nature; chaos & vitalism; the necessity or impossibility of causation; the constitutive relationship between humans and nature (realist, idealist, materialist, and/or hybrid positions); phenomenology of/and nature; social constructivist vs. essentialist figurations of identity; politics & the state of nature; the ethical status of animals & the environment; and the biological or social origins of race, sexual difference, and/or sexual orientation.
Submission ProcedurePlease prepare submissions for blind review and send toduquesnegradconference@gmail.com by Saturday, December 15, 2012. Submissions should not exceed 3000 words. Cover sheets should include name, submission title, email address, and institutional affiliation.
Date: February 23, 2013
Keynote: Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico & Emory Psychoanalytic Institute
Web: http://enviroethics.org/2012/11/30/call-for-papers-philosophy-and-nature-7th-duquesne-graduate-conference/
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A Call for Papers for the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference on Nature/Society
CFP:
Mapping the Potential for Landscape Political Ecology Studies
"Mapping
the Potential for Landscape Political Ecology Studies"
February 28 -
March 3, 2013
Organizers:
Sophie Strosberg
(University of Kentucky
Laura Sharp (University of Kentucky
Of all areal concepts landscape has been the most
consistently debated over the last century, during which a plethora of
methodological and theoretical permutations developed. Some of today’s
landscape research has clear roots in the materialist approaches of the early twentieth
century, meandering down branches of cultural metaphors and making forays in
art history. Other landscape research seems to be hanging on by a oppositional
thread, overturning notions that landscape is inherently visual and instead
recognizing landscape as purely experiential or as alive, as nodes or strands
in a network of human and non-human relations. While landscape scholarship
continues to carve a niche for itself in contemporary research, there have been
few contributions on how this diverse body of scholarship relates to one of the
fastest growing fields of inquiry – political ecology.
In our view there
is no necessary reason for the gap that has evolved between these two
sub-disciplines. Political ecology pervades all landscapes; from parks to
parking lots, biotic processes are regularly marshaled according to political,
economic or ethical desires across landscapes at every scale. Landscape
studies, on the other hand, have long focused on the processes by which these
values are infused within and interpreted from the landscape, and the
implications that this politicization and commodification of the natural
landscape has on society. In light of this ongoing fissure, we are interested
in mapping the potential for landscape political ecology studies. Is there a
reason that political ecologists have been less likely to pick up the term? If
they were to use it, what approach would they take? How can landscape scholars
incorporate the ideas of political ecologists? Is there a future or unwritten past
of landscape political ecology?
In this call for
papers and presentations, we invite contributions from any and all theoretical,
methodological and disciplinary backgrounds that give insight into the
relationship between landscape studies and political ecology. Although
contributions can be as open as your interests, suggestions for topics include:
Textual and visual
methods in political ecology
Landscapes of
concealment
Urban forests and
community gardens
Nature and
technology in landscapes of modernity
Historical analysis
of an ecological landscape
Everyday ecology
“Green” aesthetics
and desire
Remote mapping as
landscape narrative
Mobile landscapes
Modern primitive
accumulation
Commodification of
natural landscapes
Natural landscapes
through a viewing screen
Political ecology
and landscape in actor-network theory
Landscape
architecture and planning
Soundscapes
Landscapes of
distraction and deception
Landscapes of light
and dark
Please submit an
abstract of no more than 250 words by December 1 to Sophie Strosberg
(sophia.strosberg@uky.edu) and Laura Sharp (laura.sharp@uky.edu). Participants
will still need to register at www.politicalecology.org.
The third annual Dimensions
of Political Ecology Conference will be held at the University of Kentucky
Call for Sessions
including Workshops, Symposia, Panels, and Roundtables
The 2013 annual meeting of the Association
for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) will be held on 19-22 June 2013
in Pittsburgh , PA.
Our call for conference presentations
occurs in two parts:
1.
Call for sessions (Deadline: 1 December 2012)
2. Call for
individual papers/presentations (Deadline: 1 March 2013)
In this first call we are soliciting proposals for
pre-organized workshops, symposia, panels, and roundtables in which all (or a
substantial number of) scholars have already agreed to participate.
Session
proposal deadline: 1
December 2012.
The second call is for individual abstracts for all
forms of oral and poster presentations. This call will follow the close of the
call for sessions. AESS will make every effort to group individual
papers/presentations together as thematic sessions, and may assign individual
proposals to unfilled sessions developed from the first call. Presenters
involved in a pre-organized symposium, panel or roundtable must submit their
abstracts at this time. For pre-organized workshops, the organizer must
submit an abstract for the workshop as a whole at this time, although abstracts
are not required of individual presenters in such workshops.
Individual proposal deadline: 1 March 2013.
CONFERENCE
THEME
We are pleased to announce that
the 2013 conference will be held at Duquesne
University in Pittsburgh ,
co-hosted by Chatham
University Pittsburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS
Grabbing 'Green': Questioning the Green Economy.17 May - 19 May 2013, CanadaExtended Abstract deadline: Nov 21, 2012 Papers due: March 1,University of Toronto
Description:Over the past two decades 'the market' has increasingly been represented as the solution to issues of sustainability and conservation, leading to a reimagining of 'nature'. Market forces are now deeply embedded in the policy, planning and practice, of environmental management and conservation leading to constructs such as ecosystems services (and payments for them), biodiversity derivatives and new conservation finance mechanisms like REDD, REDD+, species banking, and carbon trading. These changes reflect a larger transformation in
international environmental governance--one in which the discourse of global ecology has accommodated an ontology of natural capital, culminating in the production of what is taking shape as "The Green Economy." This "Green Economy" is not a natural or coincidental development, but is contingent upon, and to varying degrees coordinated by, actors drawn together around familiar (UNEP, States, World Bank, etc) and emergentinstitutions of environmental governance (TEEB, WBCSB, investment companies, etc). While case studies have begun to reveal the social and ecological marginalization associated with the implementation of market mechanisms inparticular sites, this conference seeks to explore the more systemic dimensions involved in the production, circulation and consumption of "The Green Economy," and the neoliberal 'logics' within environmental policy, conservation, development, aand business that are mobilizing it.
We seek papers focused on the formation of associations, articulations, alignments, and mechanisms of circulation and implementation thatproduce the social relations and metrics that markets require to function. We also seek papers that identify the 'frictions' that inhibit the productionof these social relations. This is not meant to avoid the empirical value of case studies but is an effort to link particular cases to the scalarconfigurations of power that mobilize and give them shape.Format: This conference builds on 'Nature(tm) Inc.' held at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague from 30 June - 2 July, 2011 and a number of earlier workshops and conferences that have addressed market engagement with environmental policy andconservation in the context of neoliberal capitalism. In this meeting we want to build dialogue around substantive papers. However, rather than host a conference based only on short presentations, we are encouraging moderated discussion sessions with panels of authors, whose papers have been circulated in advance of the meeting. Panels will consist of 4-5 authors. Half of each session will be dedicated to discussion among the authors, and the remainder will consist of engagement with the audience. There will also be round-table discussions and a poster-session to compliment the panels.Paper Workshops: panels that will focus on a moderated dialogue around 4 full papers. Papers will be circulated to authors and audience in advance of the sessions so that the session will take the form of a moderated discussion among the authors, opening into a dialogue among the authors and audience. Proposals for complete panels are encouraged.Presentation Sessions: 90 minutes sessions of four papers. Each presentation will be 15 minutes leaving 30 minutes for audience discussion and dialogue. Proposals for complete panels are welcome, but individual submissions will be accepted, reviewed and organized into sessions.
Round-table Sessions: 90 minutes. Round-table sessions can involve a groups of panelists and are best-suited to address issues that do not necessarily lend themselves well to standard paper or presentation session - e.g., dialogue over innovative methodological practice required to study transnational governance.
Posters: poster sessions will be best suited to the presentation of case study research. Posters will be allotted a regular conference session allowing authors to engage with the audience.
Topics include but are not limited to:
Accumulation by dispossession, property regimes, and "new" enclosures
The role of institutions in the production of
"The Green Economy"Alignment and articulation in environmental governanceSpatial variations in market relations Scales of governance and biodiversity conservation
Configurations of Transnational Institutional Space
The green economy and spectacular consumptionPoints of friction in the circulation and implementation of market mechanismsStrategies and practices of organizational alignmentonceptualizations ofPractices of institutional enrollment and captureNew c
property and waste
Financialization and performativity in producing markets for nature.
The production of metrological regimes for 'natural capital'.
Information:The conferencewebsite will be available soon, with more information on registration and onlinesubmission of abstracts.
Abstract and panel proposals are due by November 7, 2012. Abstracts can be submitted online athttp://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/CDTS/GrabbingGreen under the "Call for Papers" section. Click on 'Log In' in the menu bar. This will prompt you to create an account. After you create an account you will be able to log in, submit abstracts, register, view accepted abstracts, and access the conference program.
Abstract submission will open Sept. 16, 2012. To help us in planning pleasepreregister at: http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/CDTS/GrabbingGreenConference language is English. Authors will be notified of acceptance by Dec. 7Complete papers are due by March 1st.More information can be found on the conferenceblog and on the Facebook page:http://grabbinggreen.wordpress.com/conference is sponsored by:Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto, ScarboroughTheCentre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of TorontoDepartment ofGeography, University of TorontoDepartment of Human Geography, University oftt PrudhamMatt HoffmanThembela KepeMarney IsaacRyan IsaksonNeera SinghZach AndeToronto, Scarborough.Conference Organizing Committee:Ken MacDonald (Chair)Sc orson Advisory Committee Jun Borras (ISS, Erasmus University) Bram Buscher (ISS, Erasmus University) Noel Castree (SERG, Manchester University)) Tania Li (University of Toronto) JaCatherine Corson (Mt Holyoke College) Ashley Dawson (CUNY Graduate Centre) Jim Igoe (Dartmouth College) Melissa Leach (IDS, University of Susse xson W. Moore (Umeå University) Alejandro Nadal (El Colegio de Mexico) Nancy Peluso (University of California, Berkeley) Robin Roth (York University)ilshusen (Bucknell College) AnnaSian Sullivan (Birkbeck College) Erik Swyngedouw (SERG, Manchester University) Sudha Vasan (Delhi University) Paige West (Columbia University) Peter W Zalik (York University)
Call for Abstracts
for a workshop on
EU External Environmental Governance Beyond its Neighbourhood
19 &20 April 2013
Berlin
This workshop adopts a wide angle on a broad variety of different external governance efforts in which the EU engages, including international negotiations, policy promotion and the use of market power. It strives to analyse the effectiveness of different EU external environmental governance efforts, to identify different patterns EU external environmental governance and to explore the conditions in non-EU countries and internationally that enable or impede effective EU external governance.
The slow progress of international climate negotiations and the 'failed' leadership of the European Union at the Copenhagen conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change attracted significant scholarly attention. Finding consensus on a suitable post-Kyoto Protocol agreement poses major challenges. The difficulties with the 'traditional' multilateral way of governing global environmental problems through treaties gave rise to a search for solutions that complement and support these efforts. The EU has set ambitious domestic climate targets and strives for similar commitments of other major polluters. In other environmental policy areas such as chemicals policy, the EU also leads by adopting and promoting ambitious regulation. Apart from multilateral negotiations, the EU's toolbox comprises bilateral agreements, cooperation efforts with non-EU jurisdictions at different levels of governance, coercion and incentives, and external effects of EU pioneering policy through learning, competition and emulation.
Studies show that the further remote from the EU's neighbourhood a jurisdiction is located, the more important become domestic conditions in non-EU countries because the EU's leverage diminishes. The workshop stresses this aspect and strives to investigate the interplay between non-EU domestic factors and the EU's external governance activities. EU scholars recently have paid increasing attention to the external effects of EU policies and institutions on countries beyond the EU's neighbourhood. They propose conceptualisations of EU external governance and Europeanisation beyond Europe. This workshop aims at contributing to this emerging field by focusing on the area of environmental policy.
We invite paper proposals that cover, in particular, the following aspects and questions. Ideally, papers will cover a number of these elements. Both individual case studies and comparative studies are invited.
- Different EU activities and mechanisms: What kind of external governance tools and activities (international negotiations, policy promotion, capacity building, conditionality etc.) does the EU engage in with what result? Conditionality figures highly in the EU's neighbourhood and accession policy. However, it becomes less salient in EU external governance beyond its neighbourhood. What mechanisms prevail in external environmental governance?
- Different domestic factors in third countries: The success of EU external governance efforts depends on certain scope conditions. Which domestic factors foster the effectiveness of or constitute a barrier to EU external environmental governance?
- Different levels of governance: Not only nation states, also subnational entities and international organisations can be subject to external effects of EU environmental policy. How can we characterise the EU's external environmental governance in a multilevel context?
- Different regions and countries: How can we characterise EU external environmental governance in different countries and regions of the world? Are there differences with regard to the EU's approach and its effectiveness?
- Different institutional embeddedness: To what extent is a non-EU jurisdiction embedded in regional networks that are not directed towards Europe (Asia, Latin America, Africa etc.)
- Different policy subfields: How can we characterise EU external governance in different areas of environmental policy? Are there differences between policy types (for example product- vs. process-related) and policy areas (for example climate change vs. biodiversity)?
Interested authors are invited to send an abstract (max. 500 words) to Katja Biedenkopf (k.biedenkopf@uva.nl) and Diarmuid Torney (diarmuidtorney@gmail.com) by 31 December 2012. Invited paper givers will be asked to submit their final paper by 5 April 2012.The workshop is funded by the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) "The Transformative Power of Europe" of the Freie Universität Berlin. Accommodation and travel expenses will be covered for invited paper givers.
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