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ConAccount 2008 - Postponed deadline The deadline for sending abstracts for the ConAccount 2008 Conference has been postponed till the 15th of April.
The Conference will take place this September in Prague. Minutes of ESEE Board Meeting 2007 The minutes of the ESEE Board Meeting, held in Leibzig (June 2007) are now available at the ESEE webpage. Click here to read the minutes. International Cooperation within the New Research Framework
Programme of the EU Free internet access for ESEE members to the journal Environmental Values. All ESEE members will be informed per email how to get free internet access to the journal Environmental Values. This is a very generous offer made by the journal. They certainly hope it will increase ESEE members' interests in the journal and hopefully some of you will consider to submit articles too. Announcement of Joan Martinez-Alier: As President of the International Society for Ecological Economics I am very pleased to announce that Professor Richard B. Norgaard (University of California, Berkeley) is the recipient of the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Award for 2006. This is a prize given every two years. Professor David Rapport, chair of the Kenneth Boulding Award committee (whose other members have been Professors Kanchan Chopra, "Buzz" Holling, C. Tisdell, Brian Walker, Kerry Turner) has written to me that there was "unanimous and enthusiastic support of Dick Norgaard as this year's recipient of the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Award... there is no question that his contributions have been entirely in the spirit of the open and inquisitive mind that was the hallmark of Boulding's work". As President of ISEE and on behalf of the Board and all the members I congratulate Dick Norgaard. The presentation ceremony will take place at the Ninth Biennial Conference of ISEE in New Delhi, between 15th and 18th December 2006. The Award will be presented by Professor David Rapport. I thank Professor David Rapport for his leadership on the Kenneth Boulding Award throughout many years and I am very grateful to the committee. At the ISEE Board meeting in New Delhi, and in complete agreement with Professor David Rapport, we shall be considering a renewed process for future awards that will continue to ensure the quality, the transparency and the undoubted prestige that this Award from ISEE has always carried with it. Prof. Dr. Joan Martinez-Alier, President of the International Society for Ecological Economics Delhi, 7 September 2006 Note from the President: ESEE is 10 YEARS! 10 years has elapsed since ESEE was established at an exciting conference in Versailles in 1996. It was a very engaging meeting from which I especially remember three issues: The strong spirit of collective engagement into something new; the discussions over the focus of ecological economics (EE) in general and what the European society should emphasize; and finally, the elections of Sylvie Faucheux as president and the (almost unbelievable) tied vote between Jan van der Straaten and Clive Spash as standing for the post of vice president, leading to a change in the constitution allowing for two vice presidents. For me this was the second time I went to an EE meeting (the first was the ISEE meeting in Stockholm in 1992) and the spirit of it had a very strong influence of my future choices of research. It also opened the door to contacts with a lot of people that I new about, but had never met before. I believe it played similar roles for most others at the conference. The discussions about the ‘soul’ of EE were certainly the most distinct and important ones at the Versailles meeting. From the very beginning a strong element of European EE was the emphasis on including socio-economics perspectives. Certainly, EE was from its roots in the 1960s and 70s more focussed on material flow aspects of the economy-ecology interactions, the question of material substitution and the issue of growth etc. Hence, EE was formed on a critique of the conceptualization of the relationships between the economy and its material base as envisioned in neoclassical/environmental economics. What the European ‘version’ of EE already from the beginning added to this, was a focus on socio-economic aspects – not least emphasizing the plurality of values and the importance of social processes in forming preferences and values. The broad acceptance of this was very clearly demonstrated by the quite strong reactions against David Pearce, when he in his appearance at Versailles claimed EE to be a sub discipline of environmental economics. At that moment I felt the big auditorium of the conference was almost on fire! Since then ESEE has managed to develop itself as a quite distinct ‘flower’ within the ISEE bouquet. This is the result of many peoples’ effort. Mentioning some will always be felt unfair to all the others. Still, the role of the past presidents – Sylvie Faucheux and Clive Spash (two periods) – and the secretaries Martin O’Connor, Claudia Carter and Wendy Kenyon must be emphasized. I would also like to mention Ben Davies running the newsletter for a substantial part of the period. They have all put tremendous efforts into building ESEE. In the same vain one must mention the teams standing behind the various biannual congresses ESEE has arranged: In 1996 at the University of Versailles with the team headed by Faucheux and O’Connor; in 1998 at the University of Geneva with the team led by Beat Burgenmeier and Roderick Lawrence; in 2000 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with the team led by Uwe Schubert, Klaus Kubeczko and Sigrid Stagl; in 2005 at the New University of Lisbon with a team chaired by Paula Antunes. In between two Frontiers conferences were also arranged: in 2001 at the University of Cambridge with the team lead by Spash and Carter; in 2003 at the University of La Laguna with the team led by Juan Sanchez and Federico Aguilera Klink. I mention these conferences because they have been crucial in keeping momentum to the organization. The moving of our conferences from even to odd numbered years was motivated by the need to place them in-between years with ISEE conferences. This explains the appearance of the somewhat smaller Frontiers conferences in 2001 and 2003 and the halt in arranging the larger conferences for some years. This also implies that there is no opportunity available for celebrating the 10 years anniversary at a conference. This is a pity. My proposal is that we find a way of doing this at the next conference in Leipzig. While we have challenges ahead, we should be very proud of what is accomplished so far. Congratulations! Arild Vatn Looking for Ecological Economics in Portuguese and Spanish? The Iberoamerican Network for Ecological Economics (REDIBEC) offers a portal with information on ecological economics in both Portuguese and Spanish. Apart of organising the Biennial Iberoamerican Conference on Environment and Development (next in 2007 in Costa Rica), it publishes the Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica, REVIBEC. REVIBEC is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published online with papers in Portuguese and Spanish. The Secretariat is located in FLACSO Ecuador, under the Programme of Economics. REVIBEC promotes and diseminates scientific debate on ecological economics in Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Please be aware that in October 15th, 2006 an issue on Material and Energy flows in Latin America will be published. Papers are free to download at: www.redibec.org/archivos/revibec.htm. New ICM Postgraduate Degree Programme We are glad to announce the new Postgraduate Degree Programme
Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean - Educom @ med. The
course is organised by Ca'Foscari University of Venice (Italy), Cairo
University (Egypt), University Pablo de Olavide (Spain), University
of Split (Croatia) and PAP/RAC of UNEP/MAP. Special Issue Announcement “Perspectives on Environmental
Values: The Princeton Workshop.” Environmental Values Vol.15 No.3 (2006) July edition of ISEE Newsletter Registration for ESEE 2007 www.materialflows.net: the online portal for material
flow data Future ESEE conferences New Research Centre on Steps to Sustainability in Sussex Spanish translation of ecological economics book GoverNAT: New Project coordinated by UFZ (Felix Rauschmeyer) ESRC Research Group on Lifestyles Values and Environment (RESOLVE) Tim Jackson is Director of the newly-awarded
ESRC Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE). Resilience and Sustainability: Integrated Research on Social-Ecological Systems Carl Folke is the scientific leader of the
interdisciplinary research program that has been selected by the Swedish
Research Council Formas as one out of five strong research environments
in Sweden. New web resources for Complex Systems To enhance communication and dialog and create
new resources for the Complex Systems community the NECSI will host
a new web based forum
and wiki
for the complex systems community. There are initial contributions already
there as "starters." These systems are designed to be largely
self-explanatory. Newsletter Read the monthly published electronic news bulletin [more]. |
