International Symposium 'Living with Biodiversity: People, Knowledge, Politics
22-23 September 2010, The Dutch Natural History Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands
This conference brings together international academics on the topic "living with biodiversity". By focusing on interactions between knowledge, people,
politics and biodiversity, this symposium hopes to generate new ways of understanding public involvement with nature and biodiversity and new perspectives
on how to live with biodiversity.
For more informations click here.
The Sixth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG-6) Science, Policy and Integration
2-4 November 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From November 2 to November 4, 2011, the Air Quality and Climate Change Section of the Netherlands Association of Environmental Professionals (VVM) organizes the
Sixth International Symposium on science, implementation and policy aspects of non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGG-6). NCGG-6 will be held in Amsterdam in
The Netherlands and will address both the role of non-CO2 greenhouse gases and aerosol in human-induced climate forcing and options for reduction in industry
and society. The symposium aims to remove barriers between policy, industry and science and fosters the dialogue between scientists, engineers and officials in
industry and government working in this field from different perspectives. This multidisciplinary approach is expected to yield realistic and achievable
mitigation solutions that significantly lower NCGG emissions.
For more information click here.
Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in Asia
9-11 January 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This conference will focus on the nature and role of sustainable system innovation in transforming Asian development pathways in field such as energy, mobility,
sanitation, nutrition and housing in urban and rural areas. The conference will take stock of what has been learned in the International Human Dimensions
Programme Core Project on Industrial Transformation (IHDP-IT) over the last ten years, as well as move forward a new research agenda supported by the APN
(Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research) and the Research Council of Norway. We welcome an international network of researchers, practitioners,
policy makers and other actors who are interested in innovation and in exploring how it influences alternative, more sustainable development pathways.
Call for Papers
Conference website
International BaCaTeC Summer School 2010
11-15 October 2010, Thurnau, Germany
Assessing and Communicating the Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
-> with Remote Sensing, Web Mapping, regional Planning Tools and Life Cycle Assessment for Better Decision Support
Global change of land use and land cover has severe impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems and the services they provide. The summer school's goal is to learn
about innovations in information technologies to generate information on changes of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The participating students will learn
about the assessment of biodiversity loss and ecosystem services with remote sensing and how decision support tools communicate this information to
decision-makers.
Summer school homepage: www.global-change-ecology.de
Invitation and programme: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/gce/de/intern/fm/docs/84397/BaCaTeC2010.pdf
For more information contact summerschool@global-change-ecology.de
Green Growth, De-growth and Sustainability, PhD Course
October 27-29, 2010, Oslo University College, Oslo
The programme, description and other informations can be found here.
Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges'
17-20 May 2011, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
Hosted by the Earth System Governance Project, the Environmental Governance Working Group (at CSU) and the School of Global Environmental
Sustainability (at CSU)
More information: www.earthsystemgovernance.org.
Law for Social-Ecological Resilience Conference
17-19 November 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
The conference is co-arranged by Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, at the Faculty of Law, and Stockholm Resilience Centre, both at Stockholm
University. Endorsed by the Earth System Governance Project.
Conference website: resilience.juridicum.su.se.
Scaling and Governance Conference 2010
10-12 November 2010, Wageningen, the Netherlands
The aim of conference is to discuss different perspectives on scaling and governance issues. The starting point is that scaling and governance deserve more
attention as a combination, not just in separate studies. We look at this integration as a major challenge for both the social, economic and the natural sciences.
In order to get to transdisciplinarity, that is to say, cooperation between scientists from different disciplines as well as policy makers and citizens, vigorous
communication between scientists from the natural science and the humanities is needed.
There are two distinct vocabularies: one with regard to scaling and one with regard to governance. With regard to scaling there has been a shift towards including
the human factor as integral part of the system, which materialized into theories related to social ecological systems, and new methodologies that emphasized
stakeholder participation, transdisciplinarity, and cross-scale interactions. With regard to governance there has been a paradigm shift from thinking in terms
of state steering and governmental practices towards the analysis of multi-actor, multi-level and multi-sector governance. Also from economics there is increasing
interest in governance and institutional issues. These shifts have a number of commonalities. They acknowledge the growing importance of multi-level interactions;
they stress the need for enlarged transdisciplinarity, and address the need for increased stakeholder participation.
We invite participants of the conference to discuss integrative concepts, methodologies, and case studies related to scaling and governance issues in complex
land systems. Anticipated outcomes of the conference include an international research agenda and recommendations for scale-sensitive governance approaches.
More information at: www.scalinggovernance.wur.nl/UK/Conference
2nd ECOCHANGE Summer School on "Predictive Habitat Suitability Modelling"
September 20-24th 2010, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
The summer school will take place in Birmensdorf, Switzerland September 20-24th 2010. The main course instructores (like last year) are Antoine Guisan,
Wilfried Thuiller, and Niklaus E. Zimmermann. Additionally, Miguel Araujo, Mar Cabeza and Nigel Yoccoz will teach guest lectures and guest tutorials,
and there will be likely 1-2 more guest lecturers. The course will be taught exclusively in R, and participants will additionally get familiar with the BIOMOD
ensemble modelling environment.
Who should apply: It is helpful to have a sound basic understanding of the R syntax. Without this knowledge, you will not be able to follow easily the practicals.
Additionally, it is definitely helpful to have a good basic understanding of and interest in ecology. There will not simply be taught a statistics class,
but a class on how to use statistics to solve ecological questions, and therefore design, spatial analysis, autecology, functional ecology, global change
research or species conservation are topics that are driving our analyses all the time including the implications that come from these tasks.
If you are interested in applying then please send your application to sibylle.hauser@wsl.ch no later than by May 25th. An application should include a CV,
and a short (max half page) letter of motivation. Please add the SUBJECT: "Ecochange Summerschool 2010" to the email application and send all documents as PDF.
For more details please click here.
EASY-ECO Conference - Sustainable Development Evaluation in Europe: From a Decade of Practices, Politics and Science to Emerging Demands
17-19 November 2010, Brussels
The 2010 EASY-ECO conference develops on the European perspective of evaluation of sustainable development (SD). The conference will be the final event in the
EASY-ECO series of conferences and trainings started in 2002 by a network of twelve research centers. It will take stock of almost a decade of the EASY-ECO
programme and SD evaluation practice at EU and national levels in order to – together with important European actors – identify the challenges ahead.
You will find attached the call for papers and the provisional programme of the three days conference, as well as some practical details (venues,
submission procedure, EU grants for young researcher, …). Complementary information will be made available on the EASY-ECO website:
www.sustainability.at/easy/?k=conferences&s=brussels.
Important dates:
15 June 2010 : deadline call for papers
30 August 2010 : notification for acceptation
15 October 2010 : deadline for accepted papers
3rd International Wuppertal Colloquium (Call for papers)
September 4 – 6, 2010 at Brussels, Belgium
The 3rd International Wuppertal Colloquium on "Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity – Harnessing Industry and Policy Towards Eco-Innovation" will be held on
September 4 – 6, 2010 at Brussels, Belgium.
It will bring together top experts and aims to analyze the contribution of increasing resource productivity to sustainability. Having a focus on economics and
sustainability, the international Colloquium shall also cover the technological, environmental and international dimensions. The Colloquium 2010 will have a
focus on innovation and sustainable industrial policy and will also analyze synergies with climate change.
The Call for papers can be downloaded here.
Ester Boserup Conference 2010 - A Centennial Tribute
November 15 - 17, 2010 in Vienna, Austria
Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial of her
birth. The Ester Boserup Conference 2010 "Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment" wishes to pay tribute to her
work and to her intellectual heritage.
Keynote presentations structure the conference. They highlight Boserup's theoretical work, intellectual legacy and relevance to policy institutions.
Preliminary topics include:
- Billie Lee Turner II: Agriculture and Land Use
- Ramon Lopez: Development Issues
- Marina Fischer-Kowalski: Long-Term Socio-Ecological Change
- Wolfgang Lutz: Population, Education and Economy (tbc)
- Melissa Leach: Sustainable Livelihoods (tbc)
The call for contributions can be downloaded here. For further information please visit the
conference website.
Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC)
January 10-14, 2011 Hyderabad, India
The conference takes place from January 10-14, 2011 in Hyderabad, India. It will be hosted by the Foundation for Ecological Security and chaired by
Mr. Nitin Desai, Co-Chair: Jagdeesh Puppala.
Theme: Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future
The Conference will provide opportunities for academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, knowledge and experience. Multiple forms of
participation are envisaged at this global meeting. These include: Paper presentations, Thematic panels, Poster presentations, Video presentations,
Pre-Conference workshops, Practitioners’ Colloquium, Young researcher sessions and Exhibitions.
Important dates:
- March 31st 2010: Deadline for submission of paper, panel and poster proposals
- September 30th 2010: Deadline for submission of papers
- August 1st 2010: Early registration deadline (tentative)
For more details please visit the conference website http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/.
EASY-ECO Conference on Sustainable Development Evaluations in Europe: From a Decade of Practices, Politics and Science to Emerging Demands
17-19 November 2010, Brussels
The 2010 EASY-ECO conference in Brussels will firmly focus on the European perspective of evaluation of sustainable development (SD), taking stock of almost
a decade of the EASY-ECO programme and SD evaluation practice at EU- and national levels in order to identify – with important European actors – the
challenges ahead.
The conference is organised by Tom Bauler at the Free University Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), and will take place in Brussels in the
European Parliament, the Palais des Sciences, and the ULB, Campus Solbosch, on 17-19 November 2010. The call for papers has been published at the EASY-ECO
website: www.sustainability.eu/easy/?k=conferences&s=brussels.
Applications for EU Grants to cover the costs of participation are open until 15 May, 2010.
Key topics include: SD evaluation in the policy-making process; tools and instruments for the European Commission's Impact Assessment (CEC-IA); SD and the
evaluation of external dimensions of EU policies; SD evaluation and monitoring processes of the EU strategies; supporting vertical integration for
multi-level governance through evaluation; horizontal collaboration in SD evaluation; role of municipalities and regions in advancing SD evaluation
practice; diffusion of SD evaluation standards across international institutions; contribution of SD evaluation to good governance.
ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Conference
25-29 October 2010, Delft, the Netherlands
The conference on sustainable consumption and innovation is organised in Delft fortcoming October (25-29). Besides sustainable innovation and sustainable
education, sustainable consumption is one of the key pillars.
More information can also be found on the website www.erscp-emsu2010.org.
Land Systems, Global Change and Sustainability: GLP Open Science Meeting 2010
17-19th October 2010, Arizona, USA
The Global Land Project (GLP) is pleased to announce the GLP 2010 Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM), to be held 17-19th October 2010 at Arizona
State University. This Meeting is organized in close cooperation with IHDP's Urbanization and Global Environmental Change project (UGEC).
Registration and abstract submission are welcome.
For more details please visit www.glp2010.org.
International Workshop: ADVANCES IN ENERGY STUDIES 2010 - Call for papers
19-21 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain
The International Workshop ADVANCES IN ENERGY STUDIES 2010 - Breaking the Addiction to Fossil Energy - will be held in Barcelona (Spain),
19-21 October 2010. This is the seventh in an ongoing series of biennial meetings dedicated to advances, innovation and visions in energy and
energy-related environmental and socio-economic issues. Addiction to fossil energy is one of the most obvious and least discussed sources of
environmental destruction in present times. With this conference the Advances in Energy Studies community puts the issue centre stage and
challenges participants to come up with clear descriptions and practical solutions for the problem.
The call for papers is now open and proposals for contributions can be submitted through the website:
www.societalmetabolism.org/aes2010.html.
The organisers look forward to seeing you at what promises to be an exciting event!
International Conference "Deltas in Times of Climate Change" (Call for abstracts)
September 29 – October 1, 2010, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The two official Dutch research programmes on climate change and spatial planning (Climate changes Spatial Planning and Knowledge for Climate), the City
of Rotterdam and the C40 (a group of the world’s largest cities committed to tackling climate change) invite scientists, politicians, policy-makers and
practitioners to share their knowledge and experience in a major international conference on climate adaptation.
The conference pursues three main goals:
- exchanging up-to-date top science on climate change and delta planning
- strengthening international cooperation between deltas and delta cities
- exploring and strengthening the links between science, policy and practitioners
Authors who wish to present a paper or poster related to the scientific programme are invited to submit an abstract.
The abstracts have to be submitted before 15 February 2010, and will be expected to fit within one of the themes:
- Regional climate, sea level rise, storm surges, river run-off and coastal flooding
- Fresh water availability under sea level rise and climate change
- Climate change and estuarine ecosystems
- Climate change and climate proofing in urban areas
- Competing claims and land use in deltas under climate change
- Governance and economics of climate adaptation
- Decision support instruments for climate adaptation policy
- Climate and health in delta areas
- Managing extreme weather risks
More information is available at the conference website and the
brochure of the conference.
ISEE 2010 (2nd Call for Papers)
22 - 25 August 2010, Bremen, Germany
The online abstract submission for the ISEE 2010 Conference "Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis" to be held in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany
(22 - 25 August 2010) is now possible.
For further information related to the conference and access to the online abstract submisssion system please visit:
www.isee2010.org.
The Call for Papers can be downloaded here: www.isee2010.org/files/ISEE_2010_2nd_Call_for_Papers.pdf.
Littoral 2010 – "Adapting to global change at the coast: Leadership, Innovation, and Investment"
21st to 23rd September 2010, Royal Geographical Society, London
The Littoral 2010 is an international conference for researchers and practitioners. It is organised by CoastNet and Eurocoast, and is to be held at
the Royal Geographical Society, London.
Further information about this first announcement is available from:
www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010.
Please follow these links for more specific information:
EXIOPOL SUMMER SCHOOL on Environmental Accounting: Externality Valuation and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis
July 11th - 17th, 2010, Venice, Italy
The 2010 Exiopol Summer School will take place from the 11th to the 17th of July at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front
of St. Mark' Square. The theme of this Summer School is "Environmental accounting: externality valuation and Input-Output tools for policy analysis".
Policy makers are increasingly searching for tools that allow them to address economic, social and environmental problems in an integrated framework,
consistent with a sustainable development framework which is driving much of the thinking of public policy. At the micro level researchers employ
valuation methods to develop estimates of the value of environmental goods and services, so that decisions in this domain can be informed by the costs
and benefits of environmental changes. But many policy decisions need to be taken not at the micro level of the plant or local community, but at the level
of the state, region or even the Union. While there are many tools for making such decisions in the economic sphere, including the use of input-output
matrices, the same is not true for the environmental sphere. The 'scaling up' from the micro to the macro is being addressed by the FP6 EXIOPOL Integrated
Project. Taking advantage of the research experience of this IP, the Summer School, presents and discusses the up-to-date bottom-up externality valuation
methods and top-down Environmentally Extended Input Output tools.
For further information on application and funding please access the EXIOPOL Summer School Website at:
www.feem-project.net/exiopol/scheda.php?ids=45 or contact the
Summer School Secretariat.
9th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Crises, Corruption, Character and Change (Call for papers)
14th - 16th July, 2010, Amsterdam
Conference Theme
Contemporary organizing is confronted by seemingly endless 'crises' which are routinely projected through apocalyptic metaphor. Over coffee, we can skip-read
through today's 'ecological catastrophe', the 'global financial meltdown' and 'the collapse of capitalism' before 'getting down to work'. All of which suggests
that the distance between our discursive projections of the future and our inability to confront those possibilities has, perhaps, never been greater. In
the post-whatever world we now inhabit, all appears to be simultaneously terminal and – bizarrely – transient.
Hence, the theme for the 9th Conference has a narrative focus on the discursive construction and re-construction of crises, character, corruption and change.
At the meta-level, the conference theme is intended to elicit papers which address the discursive construction and re-construction of 'crises'. In our view,
linguistic framing is a fundamental aspect of how ‘crises’ are being manufactured, constituted, projected, perceived and addressed (or finessed) at all levels
of organization. Perhaps most problematic is how we have depicted the character of these various crises for their technical and global complexity invariably
engenders over-simplified description. In parallel, we appear to be experiencing a persistent growth in corruption as manifest in the prevalence of institutional
practices which directly undermined the presumed core processes of organizations and in our accounts of such seemingly corrupt behaviour which privilege
rhetorical dissimulation. These issues raise further questions regarding the problems of continuity and the scope for change. What is the role for, and status of,
discourse(s) in relation to change (or non-change). How does discourse shape 'character-formation' and possible responses to crises and corruption?
The submission date is 15th January 2010. Notification of acceptance of papers will be given by 5th March 2010.
Abstracts (1000 words max) should be sent as an email attachment (saved as a Word document or a text file) to Tom Keenoy and Cliff Oswick at:
Discourse09(at)cardiff.ac.uk
For full details see conference web page: www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/conferences/icod10.
12th annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
7th-10th July, Bordeaux
The conference includes seven peer-reviewed themes. Keynote speakers so far include Diane Elson, Arild Vatn and André Orléan and a screening of the acclaimed
new documentary film on Iceland's bank crisis "Maybe I should have: a tale from the economic wonder Iceland" presented by producer Lilja Skaftadottir and
director Gunnar Sigurdsson, a founder of the Iceland Civic Forum.
The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to April 11th 2010 to allow time to respond to the themes so far accepted. Abstracts received by
the previous deadline of 7th March will be processed as previously stated by March 22nd.
To submit proposals and find out more, visit the AHE's new conference website at www.hetecon.org or
www.hetecon.net, or contact the conference organiser Ali Douai at Ali.douai@u-bordeaux4.fr, or the AHE
coordinator Alan Freeman at afreeman@iwgvt.org.
The call for papers can be downloaded here.
2010 EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics (Call for applications)
4-10 July 2010, Venice, Italy
The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Venice International University (VIU)
are pleased to announce their annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students.
The 2010 Summer School will take place from the 4th to the 10th of July, 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 Climate Change Negotiations.
Pollution does not respect political boundaries. Classic examples of transboundary pollution include acid deposition, climate change, pollution of the North Sea
or the Black Sea, and damage to the stratospheric ozone layer. Transboundary pollution can have regional effects on local ecosystems (e.g., acid deposition in
a particular country) or worldwide impacts on global public goods (e.g., biodiversity loss due to climate change). Countries should work together to address
these pollution problems – the responsibility for reducing the risks to local or global goods should be shared among the nations that benefit from the reduction.
While countries do have a common interest to protect themselves, they may or may not be individually interested in abating pollution voluntarily at a socially
optimal level. A country may thus free ride off the abatement efforts of other nations, because no one country can be prevented from enjoying the benefits
of pollution risk reduction, regardless of whether or not it contributed to the abatement effort.
The purpose of the Summer School is to investigate some of the key issues emerging from the economic analysis of transboundary pollution, global public good
problems, and environmental conflict. The focus will be on climate change as an important example of a worldwide environmental problem requiring global
solutions.
The School will be divided in two parts. The first part will be devoted to the theoretical models on international environmental agreements based on game
theory. The review of the basic models will be extended to include dynamic models and the analysis of uncertainty on the scope of cooperation. The second
part will focus on some of the climate-economy integrated assessment models elaborated to evaluate the effects of different climate policies.
ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The Summer School is targeted to postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation by each student of his/her 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 completely finished
their thesis.
Application is restricted to 2010 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.
Summer school in ICTA on environmental conflicts
27 June to 10 July
It's mostly oriented to those students who are finishing their master degree or starting their PhD. They are going to have students from Univ Lund,
Budapest and Manchester and professors of these universities and IFF-Vienna.
Deadline for applications: 30th March.
For more details please click here.
IPA 2010 - Call for papers
Following successful conferences in Birmingham (2006), Amsterdam (2007), Essex (2008) and Kassel (2009), the 5th Conference on Interpretive Policy
Analysis in Grenoble will extend the complex investigation of meaning and politics by exploring, in particular, current challenges for discursive
politics and policy practices. Interpretive Policy Analysis entails diverse methodological paths aiming to explain current challenges of politics. IPA 2010
stresses in particular the relationship among policy, legitimacy and power. Current worries about democratic deficits highlight the question of
legitimacy and power and invite reconsiderations of the very core of policy practice as an analytic category through which policy analysts and policy
planners inspect the nature of politics that is at stake.
Each paper submission should include: (1) 300 - 500 words abstract, (2) paper title (3) name of paper giver, (4) institutional affiliation and (5) email
address.
The call is open until January 31 2010.
Please follow the exact list of the panels at: www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr/call-for-papers.
2010 International Energy Workshop (Call for papers)
June 21-23, Stockholm, Sweden
The 2010 International Energy Workshop is being organised in cooperation with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and will be held
from June 21 to 23, 2010.
Researchers and practitioners in developed and developing countries are invited to submit original papers with new and innovative results on scientific or
practical experiences that focus on the following main topics:
- Climate change - mitigation and adaptation
- Energy and transport modelling
- Economics of Low Carbon Technologies
Selected papers will be presented and discussed in thematic sessions, circulated during the meeting and also posted in the meeting website.
Full papers or long abstracts (minimum 1000 words) in .pdf version should be submitted by e-mail to info@internationalenergyworkshop.org before
February 15 together with the following information in the mail text:
- title of the work;
- specify if it is a paper or a long abstract;
- JEL classification code;
- presenting author (name and surname) if the paper is selected;
- presenting author's personal data (affiliation, country, e-mail);
- co-authors (names and surnames).
Please note that each person can present only one selected paper. If you want to submit more than one paper we kindly ask you to give us the above information
for each paper.
Final papers will be due 1 month before the meeting for being posted on the meeting website.
For further information on the 2010 IEW Meeting please visit the IEW website at
www.internationalenergyworkshop.org or
contact info@internationalenergyworkshop.org.
UEP 2010 - Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life
June 20-23, 2010, Boston, USA
YOUNG RESEARCH SCIENTIST AWARDS
Up to three Young Research Scientists will be invited to give funded lectures at UEP2010.
Awardees, who must be a young scientist in early career stage and actively engaged in research, will each receive up to three nights' accommodation at the
conference hotel, free registration and reasonable reimbursement for travel expenses.
To apply, please send details of original, innovative results/findings from your research which add significant new knowledge in the area of urban
environmental pollution to the conference secretariat by January 22, 2010. Additional criteria for selection are detailed on the
Award pages.
CALL FOR PAPERS
UEP 2010 will provide a forum for knowledge exchange and discussion regarding the latest information about the unique nature of urban environments,
assessment of urban environmental pollutants and their effects, and measures that can be taken to overcome obstacles to sustainability, ecological
integrity and life quality.
Please submit abstracts for oral
and poster presentations by February 1, 2010 on the following topics:
- Nature of urban environments
- Air pollutants, heat islands, climate change
- Soil and water pollution, storm water retention
- Ecology, biodiversity, invasive species
For more details please visit www.uep2010.com.
The Steady State Economy Conference
June 19th in Leeds, UK
Endless economic growth remains the primary policy goal of national governments in most countries, including the UK. However, there is a fundamental
conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. In addition, whilst economic growth has meant that real UK incomes have more than tripled
since 1950, well-being has not increased. It is time to consider another approach, especially in high-income countries like the UK.
This conference, to be held at Leeds Metropolitan University on Saturday 19th June from 10 AM to 6 PM, will explore the steady state economy as an alternative
to economic growth. It offers a rare opportunity to hear a range of key progressive thinkers and participate in detailed workshop discussions to identify
innovative policies for improving the economy.
Demand for the 200 places is high, so we encourage you to register early. Tickets are £30 for registration by 31st May 2010, or £50 after this date.
For more information and to register, please visit the conference website: http://steadystate.org/leeds2010/.
15th Coalition Theory Network Workshop
17-18 June 2010, Marseille, France
The Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) will be organizing
the 15th Coalition Theory Network Workshop in Marseille, France, on June 17-18, 2010.
The Workshop will present the state of the art of theoretical and empirical research in:
- Coalition formation
- Network formation
- Matching.
The scientific coordinators of the event will be Sebastian Bervoets, Francis Bloch and Frédéric Deroïan. The scientific committee will be composed by
representatives of the Coalition Theory Network: Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne (CES) -
Université Paris 1, Center for the study of the Organisations and Decisions in Economics (CODE) - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Center for Operation
Research and Econometrics (CORE) - Université Catholique de Louvain, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative
d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) - Université de Marseille, Department of Economics - Universiteit Maastricht, Department of Economics - University of Warwick,
Vanderbilt University.
More information about the Workshop is available at www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/~ctn2010.
EASY-ECO Training on Sustainability Assessment in a Transboundary Context
14-18 June 2010, Tallinn (Estonia)
The training focuses on the theory and practice of evaluation of sustainable development, with a special focus on sustainability assessment in a transboundary
context.
The online phase of the training, hosted by Research Institute for Managing Sustainability of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, will be held
online from mid-March 2010 to ear ly June 2010. The on-site phase of the training, hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre (SEI Tallinn),
will be held on 14-18 June, 2010, in Tallinn, Estonia. Both the online and on-site phase will be supported by leading evaluation thinkers and
experienced trainers (Frans Leeuw, Thomas Widmer, Clive George, Wolfgang Meyer, Kaja Peterson, Wiecher Schrage and others).
EASY-ECO Trainings explore key elements in evaluation of sustainable development such as roles of evaluation in the policy cycle, approaches to
evaluation, stages of evaluation, methods and techniques to conduct evaluation, and evaluation markets. After attending one of the trainings, participants
will be able to conduct actual evaluation projects as full-fledged members of an evaluation team. In addition, the trainees will be embedded in a
thematic network of leading scientists and practitioners.
The training is intended for young researchers and practitioners active in evaluation research or sustainable development. The cost of the training fee for
the online phase is EUR 200 and for the on-site training EUR 250 (excluding travel and subsistence). EU-Grants are available for young researchers (with
less than ten years research experience) to cover all costs (travel expenses, training fees, accommodation and living allowance). Details on the content
and organization of this training and other upcoming events as well as on the application procedure can be found at
www.easy-eco.eu, or you can also contact the scientist-in-charge, Michal Sedlacko
(michal.sedlacko@wu.ac.at).
Resilient Cities 2010 (Call for contributions)
28-30 May 2010, Bonn, Germany
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Bonn are pleased to announce the congress Resilient Cities 2010, the Annual Global Forum on
Urban Resiliency and Adaptation to Climate Change.
A great opportunity that shouldn't be missed for partners from all sectors to share experiences and research outcomes, to overcome knowledge gaps
and to discuss and identify jointly solutions and impulses for innovation.
The call for contributions is now officially opened and panel proposals and paper submissions are welcomed! Share your experience and background and submit your
contribution through the online form available on the congress website www.iclei.org/bonn2010. The deadline is 31 December 2009.
More information can be found here and on the congress website
www.iclei.org/bonn2010.
To register your interest, please write to bonn2010@iclei.org.
Hallsworth Conference on Financialisation and Environment: The Implications for Environmental Governance of the Global Financial Crisis
15-16 April, 2010, University of Manchester
More details about this conference can be found here.
Energy and Environment Week (Call for Papers)
April 12 - 16, 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Submit your abstract for the ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT WEEK (EEW), co-located with "Energy from Biomass and Waste" and "Hydrogen Expo".
Present your latest project, case study, or R&D activities at the most exciting event for clean energy technologies and waste management.
Become an exhibitor or sponsor to maximize your impact. If you sign up by October 30, 2010 you can take advantage of the Early Bird Rate.
For delegates, EEW 2010 is affordable like never before. This brings more prospective customers to your presentation and to your booth.
TOPIC AREAS:
- biomass heat and power, anaerobic digestion
- biofuels
- energy from waste
- materials recovery from waste
- hydrogen, fuel cells
- energy efficiency
For a complete list of topics and to view the submission guidelines please visit: www.ee-week.com.
Abstracts should be no longer than 1,000 words and clearly state the intention and key issues of the presentation. Please make sure to include full
contact details!
The number of speaking opportunities is limited. Please send your abstract at your earliest convenience to: abstract(at)ee-week.com.
Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (Call for abstracts)
25-28 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain
The second international conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity is planned towards the end of March 2010 in Barcelona,
Spain. It is organised by the Institute of Science and Environmental Technology (ICTA), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (icta.uab.es), and the
organization Research & Degrowth (www.degrowth.net). The conference follows the one held in Paris in April 2008 (proceedings available at
events.it-sudparis.eu/degrowthconference/en/).
It is invited to submit abstracts of 400 words to the email barcelona2010@degrowth.net by 30 November 2009.
The conference focuses on "socially sustainable economic degrowth", and links economic, environmental and social perspectives, with an emphasis on practical
policies and concrete proposals. Papers accepted will be presented as posters at the conference and included in the published conference proceedings.
A list of the best papers will be selected by the scientific committee and included in special issues to be published in scientific journals. A
special issue with papers from the 1st conference is under publication at the Journal of Cleaner Production.
The Barcelona conference will have a special set-up, the focus being on intensive workshops where groups of participants will discuss specific policy
proposals and research priorities. Selected speakers will also give plenary speeches. The conference will mainly take place in English, and translation
will be limited. More information about the conference is available at www.degrowth.net/-Barcelona2010.
More precise information on venue and program will soon be available.
Please send abstracts with title, author(s), affiliation and address in word or open office without formatting or tabulation, named in the following way:
nameofauthor_titleofpaper__degrowthconference.
International Workshop on "Reconciling Domestic Energy Needs and Global Climate Policy: Challenges and Opportunities for China and India."
March 15th, 2010, Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
The purpose of this Workshop is to discuss ongoing work for the Special Issue "Reconciling Domestic Energy Needs and Global Climate Policy: Challenges and
Opportunities for China and India", edited by Carlo Carraro and Emanuele Massetti for International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and
Economics (INEA). A first set of papers will introduce present energy sector dynamics in China and India. A set of scenarios built using global and
regional models will be presented to show the necessary transformations that China and India have to undertake were they part of a global agreement
on climate with an active role. The challenges and opportunities of these required transformations will be then assessed by two papers, one on China and
the other on India. A final set of three papers will discuss how to build a new international climate policy framework in which China and India will
play an active role.
Invited authors are major world experts of energy and climate policy in China and India. There are the premises to make the Workshop and the Special Issue
a valuable reference for those who are studying how China and India could contribute to climate change control.
Further information, including the programme, is here available.
Eco-economic Challenges of the 21st Century
5-6 March 2010, Iasi, Romania
The conference Eco-economic Challenges of the 21st Century will take place on 5-6 March 2010, at 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University, Iasi, Romania.
Abstracts may be sent until 8th of February 2010. For further details, please contact Dr. Mioara Borza, eco_economie(at)yahoo.com, or Dr. Costica Mihai
ticu(at)uaic.ro, or check the online announcements section of
the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration,
www.feaa.uaic.ro/ro/Cercetare - Conferinte/219.
Sussex Energy Group Conference (Conference Call)
25th - 26th February 2010, University of Sussex
The conference will be held at the University of Sussex on the 25th and 26th February 2010 and is open to academics, policy makers, industry and non-governmental
organisations working in the field of energy transitions. Abstracts are welcome, that outline theoretically robust and empirically informed contributions to one or more of
the following:
- Low carbon energy innovation
- Secure and resilient energy systems
- The politics of sustainable energy transitions
The complete conference call can be downloaded here.
For more details about the conference visit www.sussex.ac.uk/sussexenergygroup/conference.
International Workshop on "The Social Dimension of Adaptation to Climate Change"
February 18-19, 2010, Venice, Italy
The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) - a joint initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (FGC) -
and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) are pleased to announce their International Workshop on "The Social Dimension of Adaptation to
Climate Change" to be held in Venice, at Palazzo Querini Stampalia, on February 18-19, 2010.
Three main topics will be considered:
- The social and behavioural dimension as key factors to adapt to climate change;
- The flexibility of social systems in adapting to climate (institutional and social capability, multistakeholder engagement, including governments, Ngos,
the private sector, communities, and individuals.)
- The learning capacity as a means to overcome behavioural and social constraints to changing technologies (development and adoption of new technologies).
The workshop is structured around three main sessions, each composed by at most four papers in order to provide enough time for a in depth presentation of each
participant's research.
Further information, including the programme, is available here.
International conference: Geothermal Energy and CO2 Storage: Synergy or competition?
10-11 February 2010, Potsdam, Germany
The International Centre for Geothermal Research and the Centre for CO2 Storage at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
would like to announce the International Conference on
"Geothermal Energy and CO2 Storage: Synergy or Competition?", 10 - 11 February 2010, hosted by the GFZ in Potsdam.
The aim of the conference is an objectification of the ongoing discussions in connection with the synergetic and competitive use of the underground. It will
present the state-of-the-art of geothermal and CO2 technologies and identify the interactions and requirements for reliable reservoir management and monitoring.
During 2 days, the conference will feature keynote lectures and panel discussions with international experts including
Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Dr. Jan Diederik van Wees, TNO-NITG, Netherlands
Dr. Subir K. Sanyal, GeothermEx, Inc., USA
Dr. Rick Chalaturnyk, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Tore A. Torp, StatoilHydro, Norway
The conference will represent an outstanding forum for the exchange of information and experience between experts from academia, industry and politics.
In addition to technological and scientific questions the conference will highlight the challenges and impacts facing legal and political frameworks and
strategies for an environment-friendly use of both technologies.
For more information please visit the conference website www.gfz-potsdam.de/GECO2S where
general information and an outline of the conference agenda can be found.
Conference on "Governance of Natural Resources in a Multi-Level Context"
19 - 22 January 2010, Leipzig, Germany
GoverNat invites the research community, administrators and NGO representatives to discuss the project's results and present own approaches and experiences in
natural resource governance in an attempt to bridge the present distance between abstract theoretical formulations and specific but isolated case descriptions.
The call for papers can be downloaded here.
International conference on "Energy, Water & Climate Change in the Mediterranean & Middle East"
11-15 January 2010, Hilton Cyprus Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus
The Energy, Environment and Water Research Center of the Cyprus Institute (www.cyi.ac.cy) is organizing and international conference on "Energy, Water &
Climate Change in the Mediterranean & Middle East".
This conference will bring together distinguished scientists, primary stakeholders, policy makers and high-level officials to discuss the present and the
emerging challenges posed by climate change in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. In particular, the conference aims to stimulate the discussion on
adaptation strategies through new technologies and management methods to minimize adverse climate change impacts. There is a need for cooperative
management and publically acceptable strategies in order to address the economical and societal consequences of climate change. The conference
will contribute to these efforts by:
- discussing the state-of-knowledge of climate change and its challenges
- setting the stage for cooperative strategies to cope with climate change impacts
- discussing energy and water policies and evaluating new concepts
- considering sustainable strategies and effective decision making
Agenda:
Monday, 11 January 2010
Opening Ceremony
Reception
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Climate change: are we facing a crisis?
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Technological options and possible strategies
Conference dinner
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Policy options and international initiatives
Friday, 15 January 2010
Discussion, synthesis and conclusions
Excursion
More informations can be found here.
Open Science Meeting 2009 (OSM09)
The motto of the meeting is 'Science, Innovation and Valorisation: Bridging the Gap between Science, Market and Society'.
The OSM offers lectures on how to perform research, societal responsibilities of the researchers and valorisation of knowledge. Besides the plenary seminars
affiliated master classes are organised on infectious diseases/biomedical sciences, healthy living, Agriculture beyond Food, water research and management, and
rule of law. In the area of Agriculture beyond Food a matchmaking event is offered to explore possibilities for new forms of scientific and economic cooperation
between Indonesian and Netherlands private enterprises and knowledge institutions.
Those interested to register as participant, please submit your registration before 7 September 2009.
The final announcement and the registration forms can be downloaded here.
Further information is available from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Department of International Relations and Quality Assessment,
Ms M van Driel, Dr J Stapel or Ms N Jaski, Tel +31 20 5510 788, www.knaw.nl/indonesia.
Marie Curie 2009 PhD Winter School
24th November - 4th December 2009
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam, in collaboration with the SENSE Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural
Sciences of the Environment welcomes applications for the 2009 European PhD Winter School on Earth System Governance: The Challenge of Adaptive Governance
(SENSE Course S460).
The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an
integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the national and
global levels, with a particular focus on questions of adaptation and adaptiveness. It brings together insights from the modeling, integrated assessment,
and sustainability science communities and from the social science, governance-oriented research communities. The Winter School is open for PhD students
with a social science background.
The 2009 European PhD Winter School is supported by the European Union Marie Curie Action and endorsed by the international Global Governance Project
(www.glogov.org).
The Winter School covers the basic costs for all participants, including a travel subsidy for non-Dutch participants (maximum of 250 EUR), accommodation,
lunch, tea and coffee, the teaching materials and a number of social events. In addition, the 2009 European PhD Winter School also includes participation
in the 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Earth System Governance (2-4 December 2009). For more details on
the conference, visit: www.earthsystemgovernance.org/ac2009.
The participation fee is EUR 250 for European participants and EUR 200 for non-European participants.
In addition to participating in the lectures and class discussions, a number of students have the opportunity to present their current research to a
group of distinguished experts for intense discussion. If you want your work to be discussed in a PhD Masterclass, please attach an abstract of your paper
to the application material. Papers should address the adaptiveness of earth system governance, a theme that includes here related concepts such as adaptation,
adaptive management, resilience, or vulnerability. What are the politics of adaptiveness? Which governance processes foster it? What attributes of governance
systems enhance capacities to adapt? How, when and why does adaptiveness influence earth system governance? Students are encouraged to also submit their papers
to the 2009 Amsterdam Conference.
To apply, please send a letter of motivation and a recent CV to: Hilko.Blok@ivm.vu.nl before the 15th of May 2009.
To be included in the Masterclass section, please attach a research paper that addresses the challenge of adaptive governance.
For more information and a more detailed program (coming soon), please click here.
Planet Earth Lisbon 2009
20-22 November 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
Hosted by the Government of Portugal, a major Planet Earth Event will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 20-22nd of November 2009. This Event (PELE2009) will
both review the results of the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) during its operational period and highlight new initiatives built on the IYPE legacy.
The International Year of Planet Earth is a joint initiative by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and UNESCO and was proclaimed by the UN
General Assembly as a UN International Year for Planet Earth. The IYPE addresses the decision-makers and the general public, through a large number of national
and international events throughout the triennium (2007-2009), on geoscientific knowledge at large and how that knowledge could better help in the realization
of a safer, healthier and more prosperous global society. This ambition is succinctly expressed in the IYPE’s subtitle: Earth Science for Society.
The IYPE science and outreach plans are being realized by the IYPE Secretariat in close cooperation with the 80 established IYPE National and Regional
Committees who are actively employing all efforts to make this endeavor a success
(see: www.yearofplanetearth.org).
Apart from ceremonial and cultural elements of the program, the PEL2009 will address issues such as Renewable Energy, Sustainable Land & Water management,
and Oceans. Political leaders, captains of industry and renowned scientists will discuss on how to cope with these issues and the role that the Earth sciences
could and should play. Please check the Programme on this website.
Invitations to participate have been extended to several Heads of States, Ministers and United Nations' Heads. The Event will be attended by the leaders of
all 80 National Committees for IYPE and some 160 students from around the world (2 per National Committee) to assure the IYPE legacy be shared with new
generations.
More Informations at www.planetearthlisbon2009.org.
Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conference 2009
November 15-18, 2009
This conference is co-convened by the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE), University of California Office of the President; the Precourt
Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC), Stanford University; and the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
It will be held in Washington, D.C. from November 15-18, 2009 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
For more details click here.
GDC09: Responsibility Climate Change as Challenge for Intercultural Inquiry on Values
3-6 November 2009, Aarhus, Denmark
Climate change requires globally concerted initiatives that cannot be motivated by direct practical self-interest and economic incentives alone. The aim of
this conference is to compare conceptions of ecological responsibility across cultures (and religions), and to explore the role of intercultural value studies
for the development, communication, and practical implementation of new models of future-oriented and collective responsibility.
GDC09 is the first of a series of five biannual international interdisciplinary conferences presenting and promoting intercultural dialogue on values, as a
means of proactive conflict mitigation and social innovation. The conference will conclude with the bestowal of the Global Dialogue Prize
(www.globaldialogueprize.org).
GDC09 is an integrated four-track meeting for researchers, journalists, educators, and business representatives.
We invite submissions of research contributions from the areas of philosophy, political science, psychology, anthropology, theology/religious studies, sociology,
conflict research, education, journalism and media science, management, organization, and finance theory.
Please submit full papers (5000 words) by May 31st, for papers to be included in pre-conference publications available at the conference.
Please submit abstracts (500 words) by June 15th, (full papers due November 30th for inclusion in post-conference publications in special issues).
Please see conference webpage for timeline and guidelines of submisssion and publication venues.
For more details visit www.globaldialogueconference.org
ANZSEE 2009 Conference
27-30 October 2009, Darwin Convention Centre
The overall theme will be "Green Mileage in the Global Meltdown: An Ecological Economics Way Forward" and the keynote speakers will be Prof. Bob
Costanza, Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont, and Prof. Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics
at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
The flyer can be downloaded here.
International Workshop on "Fairness and the Commons: Socio-economic Strategies and Resource Dynamics"
October 19-20, 2009, Venice, Italy
The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) - a joint initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (FGC) -
and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), in cooperation with Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, are pleased to
announce their International Workshop on "Fairness and the Commons: Socio-economic Strategies and Resource Dynamics" to be held in Venice, Island of San Giorgio
Maggiore, on October 19-20, 2009.
The workshop is structured around three main sessions. On the first morning, the emphasis will be placed on establishing the role of fairness motives and spatial
patterns in affecting the conservation and utilization of the commons. The afternoon session will provide an opportunity to explore the resilience of coupled
systems, that is of systems characterized by interactions between the environmental and the socio-economic dynamics, to endogenous (i.e. behavioral) as well as
exogenous (i.e. climate change) pressures exacerbating the resource scarcity. The second day’s session aims at drawing some conclusions and identifying research
directions. Particular attention will be given to the integration of behavioral experiments and environmental investigations, leading to a general discussion
aimed at setting a common future research agenda.
Further information, including the final agenda, is available at www.iccgov.org.
11th Annual BIOECON Conference
September 21st-22nd, 2009, Venice, Italy
The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei announces the Eleventh International BIOECON Conference on "Economic Instruments to Enhance the Conservation and
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity". The Conference will be held at the Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, in Venice, Italy, on
September 21st-22nd, 2009.
The Conference is targeted to researchers, environmental professionals, international organizations and policy makers who are interested in working
in the management and conservation of biodiversity. The Conference is focused on identifying the most effective and efficient instruments for biodiversity
conservation, such as auctions of biodiversity conservation contracts, payment-for-services contracts, taxes, tradable permits, voluntary mechanisms and
straightforward command and control. Special emphasis will be given to policy reforms aimed at increasing the commercial rewards for conserving
biodiversity, increasing the penalties for biodiversity loss and circulating information on the biodiversity performance requirements of firms.
An increasing number of businesses, which were responsible for biodiversity loss in the past, are now supporters of biodiversity conservation.
Markets for organic agriculture and sustainably-harvested timber are developing at double-digit rates, while rapid growth is observed in the demand
for climate mitigation services, such as the protection of forests and wetlands to absorb carbon dioxide. Bio-prospecting, the search for new compounds,
genes and organisms in the wild, is another biodiversity business on the rise.
For more details please click here.
2nd International Wuppertal Colloquium on Sustainable Growth
10-12 September 2009 at Wuppertal, Germany
The international colloquium shall bring together top experts on sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. It aims to analyse the contribution
of increasing resource productivity to sustainability. Having a focus on economics, the international colloquium shall also cover the technological,
the environmental and the international dimensions. The number of participants and presentations is strictly limited in order to facilitate high-level academic
discussion.
It is organised by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy and Environment in conjunction with the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
at the University of Wuppertal. It is chaired by Professor Dr. Raimund Bleischwitz, in cooperation with Professor Dr. Paul J. J. Welfens.
Download the Call for papers here.
ECOCHANGE Modelling summer school
7-10 September 2009, Lausanne
As scheduled in the DoW, ECOCHANGE is organising a modelling summer school this year. It will take place in Lausanne next September 7-10, right after the
Conservation Biology symposium in Prague.
Click here to read the flyer. Registration is now open.
IRN World Forum
23th to 28th August, 2009
Close to 1bn of the World's people today are hungry, and about 80% of the poor and hungry live in rural areas, around half being small farmers,
and over 20% landless labourers. About one fifth live in sub-Saharan Africa and the same proportion in India. Over 25 000 people, of whom at least
10,000 are children under 5, die each day of hunger and hunger-related causes. These are very stark figures. Whatever it is we have done or sought
to do to end poverty and hunger since the promises of the 1974 World Food Conference has evidently not yet worked. There is a clear need for new
thinking and new approaches if we are to deal with these vital issues which touch the heart of human rights, indeed humanity itself.
The International Rural Network (IRN) is a small non-profit organization currently involving members in about 47 countries of Europe, Africa,
Asia, Oceanea, and N and S America. It is organizing a World Forum on key rural issues in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, from 23-28 August 2009 with
the help of our South Asia group and a fine local NGO called Seva Mandir.
The IRNs core business concerns rural health, education, environment, equality and development. Our aim is self-help learning about innovative and
'joined up' solutions to problems of rural health, education, environment, equality and development in the context of globalization, the rapid
growth of cities, resource limitations, rural-urban migration, and climate change. We do this through exchange of knowledge and identification of
knowledge gaps. We bring together people working at the "coal face" with rural NGOs, villages, etc, the private sector, researchers engaged
in applied research, and policy makers, and also seek to improve dialogue between these groups.
We firmly believe that poverty, hunger and malnutrition, health, farming, water, waste, and environmental care and deeply interconnected, and need to
be tackled together, in connected and imaginative ways. We think that we attract many of those who know about such new methods, as well as many who
would like to know about them, to our Fora. In several important cases, such as water, sanitation, health and recycling of nutrients ecological
methods are of great future importance, and we are particularly interested in encouraging participation in these areas.
More information is available at www.international-rural-network.org or
from irnforum09@gmail.com.
The official flyer can be found here.
6th International Summer Academy "Energy and the Environment"
20 to 24 July 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
For the sixth time since its inception, the interdisciplinary Summer Academy "Energy and the Environment": Bridging the Divide in Global Climate Policy 2.0
will convene young experts from all regions of the world for an intense educational experience and exchange of ideas on the overarching theme of energy
and the environment. Past Summer Academies have seen the participation of highly qualified and motivated participants from more than thirty countries
in all five continents, joining an equally diverse faculty of internationally recognised academics, practitioners and officials from ministries and
supranational organisations.
This year, the Summer Academy will be hosted by the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Free University of Amsterdam
(www.ivm.falw.vu.nl). In 2007, the 4th Summer Academy 'Energy and the Environment' addressed the
need to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which integrates both leading industrialised nations - including the United States - and developing
countries. Later that year, in Bali, parties to the international climate regime agreed on a roadmap for negotiations, the 'Bali Action Plan'. The academic
programme of the Summer Academy covers five days and has been structured to address the most salient issues raised in the context of this negotiation
roadmap, focusing on the four pillars of a new agreement to be reached in Copenhagen later this year: mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer,
and financing.
As in previous years, the academic programme will be complemented by a highly diverse social programme in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, known for its
rich history and cultural life. Aside from a guided tour of the city, participants will also have the opportunity to visit one of the countless museums,
markets and other attractions. After a day’s coursework, participants can also explore the vibrant social life of Amsterdam. A farewell dinner will
conclude the social programme.
Participation is open to all young researchers and practitioners with a first university degree or significant working experience and a clear focus
on climate and energy policies. Please visit the website of the Summer Academy at www.uni-greifswald.de/summeracademy
for further information on the application process and a detailed programme. Applications are due by April 30th, 2009; Late applications will only be
considered subject to availability of places.
1st International conference on Landscape Economics (Call for papers)
The CEEP (European consortium on landscape economics) would like to announce the 1st International conference on Landscape Economics. It will
take place in Vienna (Austria) on July 2-4, 2009. Deadline for paper submission is March 2, 2009. Download the call for papers
here.
Additionnaly, we would like to inform on a call for papers
for a special issue of the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management on Landscape Planning and Valuation. Deadline for paper submission
is March 21, 2009.
Event 4 of THEMES summer school series (Emerging Theories and Methods in Sustainability Research)
June 15th to 26th, 2009
Event 4 of the THEMES summer school series (Emerging Theories and Methods in Sustainability Research) will be arranged June 15-26, 2009.
The title of this school is: Integrated Analysis of Complex Adaptive Systems. It will be arranged at the Science and Technology Policy Research
(SPRU), University of Sussex (Brighton, UK).
Deadline for applications is January 31 (2009).
For further information visit www.umb.no/research/themes.
9th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference (NESS)
10th - 12th June 2009, London, UK
NESS 2009 - Knowledge, learning and action for sustainability, provides a multi-disciplinary platform for the elaboration and discussion of research on
environmental social science. Being held in London for the first time, the Conference provides a special opportunity for Nordic and British scholars
working in the field of environmental social science to meet and talk.
For more details please visit the official homepage www.environment.fi/ness2009.
Great Places, Great Cities 2009
4th & 5th June 2009, Glasgow
This two-day conference will bring together an international audience to discuss the role of public space and green networks in creating truly
sustainable cities – cities which have a reduced impact on the environment, which cope better with the consequences of global climate change
and where people want to live and work.
An action-packed programme includes presentations, study tours and workshops – confirmed keynote speakers include:
- David Sim from Gehl Architects on international work to develop people-centred spaces and cities
- Howard Frumkin MD from the US on international action to create health promoting environments
- Miquela Craytor from Sustainable South Bronx – a community-led organisation working to regenerate the South Bronx through local
environmental and greenspace action
For more information and to book visit www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/GreatPlacesGreatCities.
Early bird rate of £295 before 23 March.
The call for abstracts is now open – opportunities to present research findings and greenspace project outcomes relating to the conference themes,
through speed presentations and poster displays.
USSEE 2009 Conference - Science and policy for a sustainable future
May 31st to June 3rd 2009
The US Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE) Conference Committee cordially invites you to submit a paper or complete session proposal to our
5th biennial conference, to be held in Washington DC from May 31st to June 3rd 2009.
Proposals for complete sessions, panels, and symposia are encouraged. A session proposal should include names, affiliations, and topics of presenters
(generally 3 presenters), chair (who can also be a presenter) and discussant(s). Session organizers’ e-mail and phone number should be provided;
session organizers are responsible for making sure that all abstracts are submitted by the due date (session proposals due Dec 15; abstracts due Dec 31).
A panel should include a chairperson and 3-5 panelists who will comment on an issue and lead discussion, without presenting a formal paper. A symposium
can include several sessions on a specific theme, with varied format, including paper presentations, audience participation, training sessions and
practical exercises, etc.
SESSION, PANEL, AND SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS ARE DUE BY DECEMBER 15: email to conference@ussee.org or mail to the USSEE at P.O. Box 44326 West Allis,
WI 53214. Include the subject category in the header of your email.
INDIVIDUAL PAPER ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY DECEMBER 31. You can also submit a proposal for a poster and/or brief presentation. Posters
will be prominently displayed and an opportunity will be provided for poster authors to give a brief (5 minute) "speed talk" describing their topic,
followed by a period when conference participants can gather to discuss the topic with the author. This provides a setting for a more informal discussion.
Abstracts (300 words maximum, including title and abstract, but not author affiliations) should be submitted online at
www.ussee.org/conference09/callforpapers.php.
If you do not have internet access, then please print out your abstract clearly and mail to: USSEE Conference P.O. Box 44326 West Allis, WI 53214
On acceptance, to be announced by Feb 15, 2009, abstracts will be published to the Conference Proceedings and available for viewing on-line once the
presenting author has duly registered for the conference.
International scientific conference in Kyiv, Ukraine
9 and 10 April 2009
In Ukraine, the School of Physic Economics has intensively developed. On behalf of the Ukrainian Scientific Community of Sergiy Podolynskyj,
an international conference is held for the second time.
The International scientific conference "Physic Economics: Methodology of Research and Global Mission of Ukraine" will take place on 9 and 10
April 2009 in Kyiv National Economic University of Vadym Hetman.
The conference was proposed by the President of the Ukraine and is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science.
Topics include:
- Physic Economics in the context of the civilization paradigm of economic science
- Sergiy Podolynskyj – founder of the National School of Physic Economics
- Development of ideas of Sergiy Podolynskyj in works of V. Vernadskyj, M. Rudenko, Ukrainian and foreign scientists
- Physic Economics and the innovative development of science
- the methodological potential of Physic Economics in solving problems of sustainable development
- the Heritage of the Ukrainian School of Physic Economics and the global mission of Ukraine
Audience: national and international scientists - economists and specialists from scientific research institutes and from higher schools who
focus on problems of Physic Economics
Official languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English.
EU Funded Course on "Sustainable Innovation"
Malta, 19th - 23rd January 2009
You may wish to kindly note that an EU funded, training course is being organized on the island of Malta about the topic of "Sustainable Innovation"
that explores innovation from a sustainability and indeed, European perspective. This course, being organized by MECB Ltd. also provides participants
with an insight of how the knowledge acquired can be taught to others and thus includes a section on pedagogic training, using e-Learning technology.
In addition, attendance at this course will allow you to network with other stakeholders from across Europe, practice speaking in English and,
indeed, enjoy a bit of Mediterranean culture on the island of Malta.
How To Obtain an EU Grant to Attend The Course
You may also wish to note that European adult citizens, involved in some form or full-time or part-time training, mentoring, curriculum development
and/or training quality assurance (but you do not need to be a teacher/professor - see web page for examples), are eligible to apply for an EU grant
of 1,500 Euros to cover expenses incurred with attending this one week training course being held on the Mediterranean Island of Malta.
Full course details are available at: www.mecb.com.mt/G3
If you are seriously interested in attending this course and learning about the topic of "Sustainable Innovation", please note that applications
need to reach your National Agency of your country by not later than 30th September 2008. Details of how to actually register (one page only)
for a "provisional letter of acceptance" from our end (needed to submit with your application for an EU grant) for this Jan 2009 course are
available in our web page above.
EPBRS e-conference entitled "Biodiversity and Industry"
6th - 24th October 2008
This e-conference deals with two cross cutting themes: ecology and economics. The e-conference welcomes scientists, people from industry and NGO's
to take part. The aim is to get a broad and deep exchange between different cultures and backgrounds on a question which is of importance for the
whole of society.
For more details click here.
"Complex Systems and Changes: Water and Life" Conference
29-31 October 2008, Taormina, Sicily (Italy)
It is jointly organised by the Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences (LESC, www.esf.org/lesc)
unit of the European Science Foundation (ESF) and by the intergovernmental initiative for European COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical
Research (COST, www.cost.esf.org).
Life on Earth is based, in its most simple form, on a few key chemical components, and the main one is Water. Water plays a pivotal role in many
complex systems studied in the natural sciences. But at the present time, water is also a threatened resource that creates socio-economic and
strategic challenges for the near future.
This joint ESF-COST event is dedicated to the link between water and life in all its diversity and complexity. The following topics will be covered:
- origin of life
- water & life in extreme environments
- changes in the anthropocene
- future challenges
A limited number of TRAVEL GRANTS are still available from the ESF Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences. They are principally
aimed at European young researchers to support their active participation in this event. The LESC Travel Grants will be up to 500 EUR each.
Please note that board and lodging will be covered for all participants.
You are warmly encouraged to disseminate widely the attached flyer that includes all essential information on the Conference topics and speakers,
and the Invitation for Applications for LESC Travel Grants. Applications should be submitted to waterlife@esf.org before 25th September 2008, 12:00 (CET).
More information is available at: www.esf.org/waterlife.
Conference: Chasing Eden: Nature, Health and the Politics of Environment
at Exeter University and the Eden Project, 4th-5th September
This conference considers new perspectives on the history of environmental politics in the western world since the nineteenth
century. Speakers include Harriet Ritvo, Gregg Mitmann, Chris Sellars, Alan MacEachern, Karl Ditt and Thomas Lekan. First deadline for
registration, 30 June 2008.
For more details contact
Dr. Tim Cooper
University of Exeter
Cornwall Campus
Penryn
Cornwall
UK
TR10 9EZ
T.Cooper@ex.ac.uk
or visit www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~eden2008/.
Summer School on Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecological Metabolism (MuSIASEM) for Participatory Assessment
of Sustainability Issues
Organizers: The Scientific Society LIPHE4 and the Research Group of Integrated Assessment of the Institute of Environmental Science
and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
The summer-school: The 5-day Summer School will take place in the campus of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona,
from Monday 14th to Friday 18th of July 2008.
The purpose of this summer-school: to provide an introduction to the theory, the methodological approach and practical applications
of MuSIASEM to young researchers, advanced students, experienced practitioners. Several conceptual concepts derived from complex systems
thinking: "holons", "multipurpose grammars", "sudoku effect", "multi-level matrices", "the fund/flow model of analysis for metabolic systems"
(proposed by Georgescu-Roegen) will be presented since they are the building blocks of the MuSIASEM approach. Then the school with discuss
the possible use of the MuSIASEM approach in the fields of:
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Participatory Integrated Assessment - the choice, development and use of integrated packages of indicators across dimensions
and scales of analysis when using science for governance;
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Social Multicriteria Evaluation - how to handle the unavoidable presence of uncertainty (genuine ignorance) and the existence
of legitimate but contrasting perspectives about what should be considered as an "improvement" in a process of decision making;
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Spatial Analysis - how to deal with the ecological dimension of sustainability by analysing the interference that the
characteristics of societal metabolism entail on the metabolism of natural ecosystems.
Participants: Participants are expected to be able to communicate professionally in both written and spoken English, and to have
an interest in learning about innovative approaches and ideas related to sustainable development, integrated assessment, resource use,
science for governance. For logistic reasons (formation of working groups), the number of participants will not exceed 40 units.
Participation to the classes is free of charge, although we are not able to provide any financial help for accommodation or logistics.
We will provide information about possible accommodations but participants are expected to cover by themselves accommodation and food.
How to apply: Applicants have to fill the application form explaining
their current interests and projects (1 page) and their CV (1 page). We will make a selection in case the number of applications
will exceed the limit of 40 participants.
Deadline for applications is on the 6th of June.
Applications must be sent to: Tarik Serrano through e-mail to: kirate@gmail.com
Selected applicants will be informed on the 10th of June. Reading material will be provided to the participants before the school.
Participants are expected to have read the material before attending the sessions.
For more informations visit the official website or
download the program here.
International Conference: Sustainable development twenty years on: new theoretical interpretations, methodological innovations,
and fields of further exploration.
The conference will take place from 20-22 November 2008 in Villeneuve d'Ascq (France) and is organised by Clersé (CNRS and University of Lille 1).
For more informations please visit the official
Webpage.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Young Researchers
International Wuppertal Colloquium on
Sustainable Growth, Resource Productivity and Sustainable Industrial Policy - Recent Findings, new Approaches for Strategies and Policies
held September 17 - 19, 2008 at Wuppertal University (Germany) in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute
The international colloquium shall bring together top experts on sustainable growth and sustainable resource management.
It aims to analyse the contribution of increasing resource productivity to sustainability. Having a focus on economics, the international
colloquium shall also cover the technological, the environmental and the international dimensions. The number of participants and
presentations is strictly limited in order to facilitate discussion.
The deadline for submission of the full paper as PDF-file is May 7. Only papers in English are considered. Authors
will be notified about the decision on the acceptance of their paper in June 2008.
For more informations click
here.
HIGRADE Summer School - Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation
7-13 September 2008 in Bad Schandau, Germany
this summer, there will again be a summer school on Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation.
The summer school is organized by the Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Environmental Research (HIGRADE) and takes
place 7-13 September 2008 in Bad Schandau, Germany.
The target group are PhD-students and young PostDocs.
For more informations click here.
Advances in Energy Studies - Towards a holistic approach based on science and humanity
6th Biennial International Workshop,
Invitation and Call for Papers
June 29 to July 2, 2008 - Graz University of Technology, Austria
This series of workshops – now at its 6th edition - aims at bringing together experts from different disciplines for the discussion of the latest
results in research regarding energy technologies, energy systems and their political, social and economical impacts. We aim at sharpening the
scientific focus and building a critical mass and collaborative network among scientists researching energy issues. We will discuss the question
of future energy scenarios and their implications in a circle of open minded people representing different approaches in order to gain new momentum
in these years as societal attention once again shifts toward policy debates and decisions concerning sustainable use of energy and resources and their
relationship to the economics of humanity and the future of the plant as a convenient habitat.
Main topics will be:
- New, energy efficient strategies for energy services
- Design and evaluation of sustainable energy systems
- Interaction of various energy sources in networks
- Social and environmental aspects and assessments
- Future potentials of energy sources
- Energy, international relations and global economic developments
- Research and innovation strategies
- Global competition of food, energy and biodiversity for land areas
- Innovative technologies
More workshop themes will be included if proposed by participants or if appropriate because oft the papers submitted. The organisers of the
workshop will do their best to concentrate the discussion on needs and energy services for medium and long term developments within the framework
of a sustainable regional scale economic and social development. The workshop will be a platform for those who take the energy issue as a serious
challenge to our and the next generations and we are aware that a great number of scenarios have to be discussed. This is why we invite acknowledged experts for
presentation of papers but also anyone who is interested to contribute to the workshops. The event will be complemented with excursions to installation of
energy efficiency and renewable energy in the region in order to learn from the day-to-day business. The workshop is substantially sponsored by the
Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. In order to be in consistency with the workshop idea, the workshop will be organized as “Zero
Emissions Event”.
Details on previous Workshop editions can be found at
www.chim.unisi.it/portovenere.
Looking forward to your participation. Please register and submit your abstract and/or proposal for a workshop theme through
www.aes08.tugraz.at
For the organization:
Sibylle Braunegg
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Institute for Process Engineering
Phone: +43 316 873 7465
E-mail: aes08@tugraz.at
3rd Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics
CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AFTER 2012
A Toxa (Spain), 4-5 July 2008
The Research Group in Economics, Business and the Environment (rede) of the University of Vigo
(Spain) announces the 3rd Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics. The workshop will be held on
the island of A Toxa (near Vigo, in Galicia) on the 4-5 of July 2008 and will be appealing to researchers, policy makers
and other agents interested in the economic aspects of climate change policies.
This year the guiding research subject of the workshop is Climate Change Policies after 2012. The workshop will
combine long lectures from prestigious researchers, invited papers by a leading group of international academics,
and submitted papers subject to previous acceptance by the scientific committee.
Deadline for submission of theoretical or applied papers is May 5, 2008. Complete papers should be sent by email
(as pdf format) to rede@uvigo.es, including: name, affiliation,
email address, abstract of less than 100 words,
JEL codes and no more than 5 keywords. Acceptance of papers will be notified by May 20, 2008. After this date,
registration will be open (with a fee of 200 Euro), and information on accommodation on the Island of A Toxa will
be posted in rede's web page (http://rede.uvigo.es).
Organizers: Xavier Labandeira and José M. Martín-Moreno, rede and University of Vigo.
The scientific committee includes the organizers and other members of rede: Carlos De Miguel, María Loureiro,
Baltasar Manzano, Miguel Rodríguez and Julia Touza.
Further information can be also found at the workshop website: rede.uvigo.es/toxa
erscp2008 - 12th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production
23 - 25 September 2008, Berlin
From 23 - 25 September 2008, the 5th BMBF-Forum for Sustainability will present the 12th European Roundtable
on Sustainable Consumption and Production (erscp2008) in parallel to the traditional fora of the BMBF-Framework
programme "Research for Sustainability". www.fona.de/erscp2008
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS 06/02/2008 - 28/04/2008
The 12th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (erscp2008) is a three-day conference at the interface
of science, industry, public authorities and politics. The overall goals of the international meeting are to facilitate
innovations and to promote sustainable consumption and production by challenging participants’ projects, ideas and approaches
and by stimulating debate regarding their contribution to sustainable development. Best-practice examples are shared,
solution-driven opportunities are explored and joint projects are initiated.
The conference will be part of the 5th BMBF-Forum for Sustainability held in Berlin in September 2008 and will
provide time and space for an exchange of ideas between actors from politics, science, and industry and services.
The presentations and the results of the sessions will be published on the website to all participants, but will also
be distributed to European and international organisations, like the European Commission, the United Nations Environment
Programme and others.
The main issues of erscp2008 are:
I Sustainable Housing and Construction in Europe
II Sustainable Supply Chain Management
III Sustainable Production and Resource Efficiency
IV Sustainable Energy Supply and Consumption
The conference is expected to attract approx. 300 international participants, including:
- SMEs (small and medium enterprises)
- Scientists and researchers from research organisations, universities and industry
- Decision makers from UN Organisations, i.e. UNEP, UNIDO
- Decision makers from EU Commission and related agencies
- Decision makers from national and regional ministries and administrations
- Private and public funding institutions
- Press and media
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 April 2008
Download erscp2008-Call
ALTER-Net Summer School 2008 "Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services"
2-14 September 2008, Peyresq, France
The summer school will be held at Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence,
France and is organized by the ALTER-Net Summer School Secretariat
at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany.
The ALTER-Net 2008 summer school is open to young graduate
and postgraduate scientists from the network partners and 2-3 participants
from developing countries. Adequate English skills are required. All
participants
are asked to present a poster on their own research. The summer school
is limited to 32 participants, who will be selected with the goal
of achieving an optimal mix among regions, disciplines and gender.
Deadline for applications: 15 April, 2008.
Successful applicants will be notified by 15 June 2008.
More information and the application form at: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/alter-net
ISEE 2008: 1st Call for Papers
Nairobi, Aug. 7-11,2008
The
conference will highlight the vision, methods and policy adjustments
needed to enable ecological
economics principles be applied to the design and management of environmentally
and socially sustainable development processes in the face of increasing
global change and interdependence.
Contributed papers are welcome, according to the following thematic
areas. Expanded abstracts must be submitted by March 31, 2008 through
the conference website, in Word or PDF format.
Abstracts must include:
1) Paper title
2) Thematic area number and title (see below listing)
3) Author, institutional affiliation, country of origin
4) E-mail
5) Abstract (from 500 to 1000 words, including conceptual and methodological
approach and a summary of results and implications for ecological
economics).
On acceptance, to be announced by April 30, 2008, full
papers must be submitted by June 15, 2008 to be included in the conference
Proceedings. Contributed paper authors are encouraged to join ISEE
as part of the paper submission process, for which they will receive
a conference discount.
For more information please visit: www.ecoeco.org/conferences.php
THEMES: Emerging Theories and Methods in Sustainability
Research (Marie Curie Summer Schools 2006 - 2009)
Event 3: Methods and Tools for Environmental Appraisal and Policy
Forumlation
Lisbon, May 26 - June 6, 2008
In May 26 -June 6, 2008, the Ecological Economics and
Environmental Management Centre of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology
New University of Lisbon will be hosting the 3rd Summer School
of the Series Emerging Theories and Methods of Sustainability Research
(THEMES), titled "Methodsand Tools for Environmental Appraisal
and Policy Formulation". This is the third summer school in a
series of four funded by Marie Curie.
Applications for this summer School are now open: see
www.umb.no/research/themes
This link will also offer you more detailed information
about the school. When selecting participants, priority will be given
to young researchers.
IASC 2008: Governing shared resources: connecting local experience
to global challenges
The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for
the Study of Commons. July 14-18, 2008
The IASC 2008 global conference will take place in Cheltenham
, England . The conference will be hosted by the University of Gloucestershire
, with logistical support to be provided by the University's Countryside
and Community Research Unit (CCRU).
The emphasis of the conference is the exchange of knowledge
on shared resources or ‘commons’: between developing and developed
world, between practitioners and researchers, and between old and
‘new’ commons. The overarching theme of governing shared resources
aims to encourage discussion on new ways of using, managing, protecting
and creating what many understand as ‘commons’. The themes recognise
the wide variety of understanding over the term ‘commons’ and the
need to link practical experience at the local level with larger global
commons issues.
For detailed information visit: www.iascp.org/iasc08/iasc08.html
EURECO-GFOE
2008 conference
15.-19. September 2008) in Leipzig
The EURECO-GFOE 2008 is a joint meeting of the EEF - European
Ecological Federation, the umbrella organisation of the national ecological
societies in Europe, and the GFOE - the Ecological Society of Germany,
Austria and Switzerland. The deadline for submission of proposals
for sessions is extended to 31. January 2008 and we kindly ask you
to spread this announcement and encourage your colleagues to submit
a session proposal (see http://www.eureco-gfoe2008.ufz.de/index.php?en=15593)
For detailed information please visit: www.eureco-gfoe2008.ufz.de
Call for Applications: EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer
School in Resource and Environmental Economics: Space in Unified Models
of Economy and Ecology
Venice, July 6th - 12th, 2008
Deadline for application: February 1st, 2008
The European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the
Venice International University (VIU) are pleased to announce their
annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics
for postgraduate students.
The 2008 Summer School will take place from the 6th to
the 12th of July, 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 Space in Unified Models of Economy and Ecology.
The purpose of this Summer School is to review and present methods
of modeling spatial problems in ecological economics, and to show
how these methods can be used in environmental and resource management.
In this context the Summer Schools is expected to cover
issues associated with: - the use of diffusion processes to model
evolution in time and space; - the implications of "the Turing mechanism"
for diffusive instability, and the emergence of steady state spatial
patterns; - the control of diffusion processes in ecological/economic
models which evolve in time and space; - applications of spatial methods
to environmental and resource management and regulation problems,
where space is important as in cases of patchy environments, species
movements, pollution diffusion. These problems could include harvesting
of renewable resources, management of pollution diffused in space,
bioinvasions, elements of spatial econometrics and GIS.
For further information on application and funding please
access the Summer School Website at www.feem.it/ess
III AERNA Conference Spanish-Portuguese Association
of Natural Resources and Environmental Economics
Palma de Mallorca from 4 to 6 June 2008
The Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural Resources
and Environmental Economics (AERNA) is organizing its third congress,
which will be held in June 2008 and is directed to researchers in
the field in order to foster interactions among them. Past editions
of the congress have brought together more than a hundred researchers
from different Universities and Research Centres in Spain and Portugal
whose interest is focused on issues related to the study of the interconnectedness
between economic and ecological systems, as well as European researchers
that seek to come together to exchange scientific knowledge.
For more information and the call for papers visit: www.uibcongres.org/congresos/ficha.en.html?cc=146&
International Input-Output Meeting on Managing the
Environment
Seville (SPAIN), July 9 - 11, 2008
The International Input-Output Association (IIOA) and
the Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History
of University Pablo de Olavide (UPO), announce that the International
Input-Output Meeting on Managing the Environment will be held on 9-11
July, 2008, at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain.
The goal of the conference is to promote and stimulate
the worldwide exchange of ideas among
economists and between them and government officials, engineers and
managers with interests in
interindustry analysis and related methods. Thus, we invite thematic
topics related to any aspect of
input-output analysis and modelling related with environment.
Important Deadlines:
-
Abstracts: Before January 15th, 2008
- Abstracts
Acceptance: Before March 15th, 2008
- Early
Registration: Before April 15th, 2008
- Full
Paper: Before May 15th, 2008
More
information: http://www.upo.es/econ/IIOMME08/idates.php
Sustainable Consumption and Alternative Agri-Food Systems
An International Working Conference for Social Scientists
27-30 May 2008 Liège University, Dept. of Environmental
Science and Management www.suscons.ulg.ac.be
Arlon Campus (Belgium)
This second working conference will focus on agri-food
issues and examine in which way the practices of Alternative Food
Initiatives contribute to sustainable consumption.
For more Information click here.
THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON "ECONOMIC DEGROWTH FOR SOCIAL EQUITY AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY",
in Paris on April 18-19, has established a foundation for international scientific cooperation.
The encounter was widely viewed as a great success, with 140 researchers from 30 countries both from the
industrialised west and the south. Prestigious institutions in the realms of economics, social sciences
and environmental studies were represented.
Economic growth is being increasingly called into question. Public movements are developing in France and
Italy and elsewhere promoting sustainable, fair, convivial "degrowth". The so-called "decoupling" of ecological
and social degradation and economic growth appears insufficient after years of major eco-efficiency improvements. This opens a new
field of research: What are the social and institutional conditions required for a fair and sustainable economic degrowth
process? What would be the scenarios for degrowth...?
Among the themes discussed were: new indicators, the rebound effect, perspectives from the south, degrowth versus steady
state, degrowth of consumption, degrowth of production, relocalization, redistribution of wealth, status of the economic
players, social change and change of economic institution; all within the framework of how to make degrowth a contributor
to equity, sustainability and improved quality of live. Various round table and forums and workshops took place to develop
solutions and common understanding on the issues involved.
Thus, "degrowth" has become an international concept and this word has been established as the translation of the original
"décroissance" and "decrescita". Other translations of the term are emerging in numerous languages. This encounter has opened
the door to new solutions and a true change of paradigm in the context of today's economic, social and environmental crises around the world.
For further information have a look at the web site of the conference:
http://events.it-sudparis.eu/degrowthconference/en
or contact: contact@degrowth.net
Cost IC0602 International Doctoral School "Algorithmic
Decision Theory: MCDA, Data Mining and Rough Sets"
Session 2008 : April 11-16, 2008, Troina, Italy
This programme is an activity of the COST Action IC0602
“Algorithmic Decision Theory” (www.algodec.org).
It is also supported by the Faculty of Economics of University of
Catania and the Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods of
University of Catania. It is the second doctoral school organised
by the COST Action IC0602 (the first took place in Han sur Lesse (BE),
in September 2007; see more in www.algodec.org).
Goals:
* Promote recent research results obtained in the field
of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), Data Mining and Rough
Set Reasoning about Data,
* Train students in applications of new tools based on the above results,
* Develop contacts and collaboration among young researchers in this
field.
Target participants: doctoral students engaged in decision
theory or decision support, understood in a broad sense (i.e. MCDA,
Data Mining and Rough Set Analysis, Multiple Objective Optimisation,
Decision under Risk and Uncertainty, Algorithmic Decision Theory,
Preference Elicitation and Modelling, etc.)
Organisation: during their stay, up to 25 selected doctoral
students will receive intensive training in three selected topics
dispensed by three prominent scholars; the participants will be given
an opportunity to present their own work and receive a feedback. Additional
senior researchers will stay for one or two days and give a talk.
All presentations and discussions will be in English.
Practical issues: the participants will be accommodated in the congress
centre "La Cittadella dell'Oasi" located in Troina, a small
city 70 kilometers far from Catania (Eastern Sicily). The working
sessions will take place in the Centre, as well as the meals. The
Centre can be reached by bus from Catania. A special bus will be organized
for the participants.
Fee: the School is supported by the COST Action IC0602 “Algorithmic
Decision Theory”. The fee for students is 150 for the entire
stay (full pension). Travel expenses are not covered by the organizers.
Application: doctoral students, especially those in early stages of
their research, are invited to apply for participation to the School
by sending a short CV that mentions their background and their research
interests and/or achievements. Applications must be sent before February
20, 2007 to Salvatore Greco (salgreco@unict.it).
The scientific committee will select the participants on the basis
of their research interests and record. Priority will be given to
students from countries involved in the COST Action. Students who
already participated to the School organised in September 2007 can
apply again although priority will be given to new applications. Applicants
will be informed of the decision of the committee by March 10, 2007.
For further details look at www.algodec.org.
Conference on the Ecological Dimensions of Biofuels
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Washington, D.C. March 10, 2008
On March 10, 2008, The Ecological Society of America will host a one-day
conference on the Ecological Dimensions of Biofuels. 500 attendees
will have the opportunity to hear invited presentations by leading
scientists on: - sustainable development and use of biofuels; - social,
biogeographic, land use, and biodiversity considerations; and, - ecological
dimensions of alternatives for crop selection and production, harvest
and transport of product to refinery, and refining of liquid fuels
and other co-products.
A keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jose Goldemberg,
Co-President of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA) Council and Professor
at the Universidade de Sao Paulo. Goldemberg recently served as Secretary
for the Environment of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and was a lead
author of the World Energy Assessment. The conference will conclude
with an evening social featuring additional poster pr esentations
and opportunities for attendees to network with presenters and others
working in this important field. Registration will be limited to 500
attendees and will open in early December.
Please plan to register early! Full details, including
an agenda, confirmed speakers, and sponsorship opportunities, are
available at www.esa.org/biofuels.
ECOSUD 2007: Sixth International Conference on Ecosystems
and Sustainable Development
5 - 7 September, 2007 Coimbra, Portugal
More information: www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2007/eco07/index.html
ALTER-Net Training Course “An Introduction to Ecological-economic
Modelling for Designing and Evaluating Biodiversity Conservation Policies
and Strategies”
16-22 September 2007, Bad Schandau (Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz,
Germany)
Ecological-economic modelling is a helpful way of
combining social and natural science knowledge to achieve better results
for biodiversity conservation policies. The importance of this methodology
is being documented by an increasing number of research articles in
leading economic as well as ecological journals.
The course addresses young scientists (PhD students and young post-docs)
from ecology, economics or modelling. It offers an introduction into
the main ecological and economic concepts of conservation as well
as ecological-economic modelling. Emphasis is placed on both lectures
and active teamwork on given manageable projects. For more information
visit: http://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=3488.
We invite abstracts for papers that discuss the governance
of radical socio-technical change for sustainable development with a
special focus on issues of A) power & agency, B) participation & legitimacy
and C) institutions & change. A starting point for the discussion will
be recent governance recommendations put forward under the literature
on 'transition management'. The objective is to generate new insights
into the complexities of governing sustainable socio-technical transitions.
More details are provided here.
The 7th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for
Ecological Economics (CANSEE) will reflect the focus of CANSEE in fostering
transdisciplinary research activities and dialogue among natural and
social scientists, government, the private sector and civil society,
to deepen our understanding of the interactions between humans and nature,
and to inform the sustainable stewardship of our natural resources and
the environment.
Conference sessions, papers and posters will directly address
how an ecological economic approach can help society meet these challenges.
Government, academics, NGOs, the private sector and the public are encouraged
to attend.
All participants are invited to submit abstracts for presentation
of papers or posters on any of the conference themes, or for workshop
discussion sessions. The combined length of the abstract body may not
exceed 350 words. Include the name, title and affiliation of each author
in addition to the mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and email
of the primary contact. Abstracts and proposals for special topic sessions
must be received no later than March 1, 2007. Abstract must be submitted
via e-mail to cansee2007@cansee.org
, or on-line at www.cansee.org/2007/.
Abstracts will be evaluated, and confirmation of acceptance
will be communicated to the author by March 31, 2007.
The International Input-Output Association (IIOA) and the
Department of Management, Istanbul Technical University announce that
the Sixteenth International Input-Output Conference will be held on
2-6 July, 2007, at the Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey.
The goal of the conference is to promote and stimulate the worldwide
exchange of ideas among economists and between them and government officials,
engineers and managers with interests in input-output analysis and related
methods. Thus, we invite thematic topics related to any aspect of input-output
analysis and modeling. We hope attendees will also develop a number
of sessions relating to Turkey.
Call for Organized Sessions
To submit a session or set of sessions, provide a description of the
theme and objectives for the session and identify the organizer, session
chair(s), and paper presenters by: name, title, affiliation, and proposed
titles and abstract.
Please submit sessions by January 15, 2007 to the Chair
of the Scientific Committee (Klaus Hubacek, io2007@see.leeds.ac.uk).
The Postgraduate school of Industrial Ecology (PSIE) is
a series of seven research training courses for early stage researchers
in environmental systems analysis and environmental management. PSIE
targets Ph.D. candidates, young researchers and faculty members who
work on life-cycle assessment, energy analysis, value-chain modelling,
eco-design and sustainable consumption and production. PSIE is organized
by a consortium of 12 European universities and funded by the EU Marie
Curie programme . It is supported by the International Society of Industrial
Ecology (ISIE) .
Application deadline is 1 November 2006
For more information visit http://www.indecol.ntnu.no/psie.php
The European Society for Ecological Economics
(ESEE), in co-operation with the German associations for ecological
economics VÖÖ and VÖW, invite you to meet in Leipzig
for the 7th international conference.
The conference will explore contemporary scientific approaches for putting
the concept of Sustainable Development into research and into practice,
and it will focus on bridging natural and social sciences. It will address
sustainability topics such as loss of biodiversity, human vulnerability
to global change and water problems on all geographical and institutional
levels. The conference aims to contribute to a better understanding
of societal and natural processes and their interaction by integrating
scientific methodologies to overcome the shortcomings of disciplinary
and multi-disciplinary approaches. Impediments to inter- and transdisciplinary
research will be examined and new research concepts for sustainability
identified.
Ninth Biennual Conference of International Society
for Ecological Economics on "Ecological Sustainability and Human
Well-Being"
15-18 December, 2006, New Delhi.
Important dates:
- submission of abstracts: July 31, 2006
- intimation of acceptance: August 31, 2006
- submission of full paper: October 31, 2006
For more information visit http://www.isee2006.com/index.htm
The call for papers to the eceee 2007 Summer Study can be
downloaded from
www.eceee.org/summer_study/call_for_papers.
With nine panels (from previously seven) the 2007 Summer Study promises
to be the most comprehensive and cross-cutting Summer Study ever. The
web site pages also contain longer descriptions of all the nine
panels.
ESEE 2000: Transitions Towards a Sustainable
Europe. Ecology - Economy - Policy
3rd Biennial Conference of the European Society for
Ecological Economics
Vienna, 3. - 6. May 2000
Visit the conference
website.
ConAccount meeting 2006 "dematerialization across scales:
measurement, empirical evidence, future options" September 13-14, 2006,
Vienna Austria
Back to back with a policy dialogue "dematerialization why and how?"
September 15, 2006
For further information: http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/conaccount2006
SRPU - 40th anniversary conference: The Future
of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy - Linking Research And
Practice
11-13 September, 2006, Brighton, United Kingdom
SPRU celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2006 with a
conference taking place on the 11-13 of September which invites participants
to engage in a critical evaluation of the present and future research
agenda of the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) field. This conference
will explore empirical, theoretical and applied policy approaches to
enable us to conceptualise the contradictory nature of modern science,
technology and innovation, and thus provide practical policy guidance.
We are particularly interested in contributions that address the intersections
of science, technology and innovation and adopt forward-looking approaches
in investigating their impacts on society. For further information please
visit the Conference website at www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/conf2006.
The course will be taught by Leigh Tesfatsion, Iowa State
University and Robert Axtell, The Brookings Institution. Guest lecturers
include Professor John Duffy, University of Pittsburgh, Professor Dan
Friedman, University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor Mauro Gallegati,
University of Ancona, Professor Herbert Gintis, Central European University
and Santa Fe Institute, Peter Howitt, Brown University, and Axel Leijonhufvud
of UCLA and the University of Trento.
For more information visit: http://www-ceel.economia.unitn.it
