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Call For Abstracts: Gender and Climate Change – Prato, Tuscany September 2011

esacintern — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:10:08 +0000

Gender and Climate Change is an international conference that will seek to bring together

the latest research in key areas of gender and climate change, to highlight impacts of climate

change on women, and to draw together a body of knowledge for input into the 2011 United

Nations Framework Convention (COP 17) and the Earth Summit 2012.

http://www.med.monash.edu/glass/conference-2011

The Conference Organisers – Gender Leadership and Social Sustainability (GLASS) Research Unit at Monash University, Australia, in collaboration with Worldwide Universities Network, Gender Justice and Global Climate Change (G2C2) – aim to bring together researchers, advocates, and policy makers, to form a coherent picture of the differential impacts of climate change and to convey that knowledge in formats that assist in policy development. The 2011 conference will highlight links to global poverty, sustainability, policy, and change.

The complex couplings between human and natural systems that must be understood to respond to climate change, demands a robustly multi- and interdisciplinary approach to research. Furthermore, attention to the differential gendered impacts and opportunities of climate change requires a deeply intersectional approach in which the relevance of factors such as class and race are considered alongside gender. For this reason, the theme of this conference, recognizes the importance of engaging experts from multiple disciplines and engaging local and indigenous knowledges to address critical gender and climate change issues. Strong partnerships among researchers, policy-makers, and community stakeholders are essential for identifying and implementing promising, sustainable solutions that are relevant to the people who are most affected.

Key Dates

1 September, 2010

Call for abstracts announced

30 November, 2010

Submission deadline

28 February, 2011

Notification of acceptance

15-16 September, 2011

Conference

17 September, 2011

Network Workshop

http://www.med.monash.edu/glass/conference-2011

Photos from the ESAC 2010 Conference

esacintern — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:35:53 +0000

Join us in revisiting the wonderful time had by all at the ESAC 2010 conference at Concordia University in Montreal. Feel free to share your experiences and impressions of the conference in the comments section. A special thank you to the photographer Shirley Thompson, the Communications Director of ESAC for sharing these pictures.

Call for Papers – Nature™ Inc? Questioning the Market Panacea in Environmental Policy and Conservation

esacintern — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:45:52 +0000

Nature™ Inc? Questioning the Market Panacea in Environmental Policy and Conservation

International Conference

30 June – 2 July 2011

ISS, The Hague, The Netherlands

Nature is dead. Long live Nature™ Inc.! This adagio inspires many environmental policies today. In order to respond to the many environmental problems the world is facing, new and innovative methods are necessary, or so it is argued, and markets are posited as the ideal vehicle to supply these. Indeed, market forces have been finding their way into environmental policy and conservation to a degree that seemed unimaginable only a decade ago. Payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity derivatives and new conservation finance mechanisms, species banking, carbon trade, geoengineering and conservation 2.0 are just some of the market mechanisms that have taken a massive flight in popularity in recent years, despite, or perhaps because of the recent ‘Great Financial Crisis’.

The conference seeks to critically engage with the market panacea in environmental policy and conservation in the context of histories and recent developments in neoliberal capitalism. The conference is steeped in traditions of political economy and political ecology, in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of where environmental policies and conservation in an age of late capitalism come from, are going and what effects they have on natures and peoples. ‘Nature™ Inc’ follows a successful recent conference in Lund, Sweden, in May 2010 and several earlier similar initiatives that have shown the topic to be of great interest to academics, policy-makers and civil society. The present conference is thus meant not only to deepen and share critical knowledge on market-based environmental policies and practices and nature-society relations more generally, but also to strengthen and widen the networks enabling this objective.

Topics include but are not limited to:

General trends in market-based environmental policies and instruments
New forms of neoliberal conservation (including web 2.0, species banking, etc)
Agro-food systems, the meat-industrial complex, and aquaculture
Agro-fuels, energy and climate change
The relation between conservation and land (including protected areas, etc.)
Financialisation of the environment
New social, environmental and peasant movements and left alternatives
Accumulation by dispossession, property regimes, and the “new” enclosures
Ecological imperialisms, including the recent ‘land grabs’ Urban and rural political ecologies and the links between them
Theoretical advancements in nature-society relations

Paper proposals are due 15 December 2010. Please send a 250-300 word proposal, with title, contact information, and three keywords as a Word attachment to: nature2011@iss.nl. Proposals for complete panels are welcome. Conference language is English. Authors will be notified by 15 January 2011. Complete papers are due by 1 April, 2011.

More information soon on: www.iss.nl/nature2011 and www.worldecologyresearch.org.

Organization

The conference will be organized by the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, together with the University of Manchester, UK, and University of Queensland, Australia.

Conference organizing committee (OC):

Bram Büscher, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Max Spoor (ISS, Erasmus University, the Netherlands)

Wolfram Dressler (University of Queensland, Australia)

Dan Brockington (Manchester University, UK)

Conference advisory committee (AC):

Ben White (ISS, Erasmus University)

Jason W. Moore (Umeå University)

Eric Swyngedouw (Manchester University)

Noel Castree (Manchester University)

Rosaleen Duffy (Manchester University)

Scott Prudham (University of Toronto)

Dean Bavington (Nipissing University)

Mark Hudson (University of Manitoba)

Sian Sullivan (Birkbeck College)

Jim Igoe (Dartmouth college)

Dhoya Snijders (VU University Amsterdam)

Caroline Seagle (VU University Amsterdam)

Diana C. Gildea (Lund University)

Holly Buck (Lund University)

Christian Alarcon Ferrari (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

Katja Neves (Concordia University)

Environments of Mobility in Canadian History – Call for Expressions of Interest

esacintern — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:26:47 +0000

The environment has played a profoundly important role in shaping the
movement of people, objects, and ideas in Canadian history. In turn,
mobility (travel, transport, and traffic) has had significant impacts
on the environment, both in materially tangible ways and in terms of
how people have perceived and experienced Canada´s varied landscapes.

Canadian scholars have a long tradition of examining mobility and the
environment in the context of moving hinterland resources to
metropolitan markets. However, there are many other aspects of the
complex relationship between environments and mobility that deserve
closer scrutiny. This is a timely moment to broaden and build on the
existing Canadian literature in this area, for in addition to
environmental history´s emergence as a field of study in this country,
recent international developments in sociology, geography, and
technology studies have argued that mobility should be brought to the
foreground of the humanities and social sciences. We therefore invite
scholars from all fields and all parts of the country to contribute
papers to an edited collection that will explore natural and built
environments of mobility in Canada´s past. The goal of the collection
is to interrogate how the connections between mobility and the
environment have shaped Canada´s diverse regions and peoples.

We invite papers on a wide spectrum of historical topics, such as:

- the environmental consequences of specific modes of mobility
(including
walking, canoes, ships, bicycles, railways, automobiles, urban transit,
air travel)
- the impact of mobility on plant and animal life, soils, and bodies
of water
- mobility and the seasons
- recreational mobility´s impact on the environment
- mobility´s uneven environmental effects on different social groups
- how mobility, landscape, and the environment have been bound up with
local, regional, and social identities
- travel, tourism, and landscape experience
- the culture of commodity flows
- mobility, environment, and state formation
- mobility´s role in shaping Canadian social, scientific, and
environmental thought
- the challenges of moving through `dangerous´ environments
- mobility and (sub)urban environments

A workshop will be held in Toronto at York University´s Glendon campus
in early May 2011. Participants will be asked to write a rough draft of
their paper for pre-circulation in order to facilitate useful
commentary on each paper. The ultimate aim of the workshop is to create
a series of papers for publication in an edited collection on
environments of mobility in Canadian history. Please contact us with
expressions of interest by July 15, 2010. For more information, send
queries to ben.bradley@queensu.ca.

Workshop organizers:

Colin Coates
Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes
Department of History
Glendon College
York University

Jay Young
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
York University

Ben Bradley
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
Queen´s University

ESAC CONFERENCE 2010 A HUGE SUCCESS!

esacintern — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:34:18 +0000

Thanks to our keynote speaker Elizabeth May, panelists, delegate presenters, poster contest contributors, and special thanks to our book publishers for their kind book donations that were distributed as prizes, and thank you to all contributors of the ESAC conference 2010: Sustainability in a Changing World.

To look at the final schedule at a glance click here.

To get a full picture of the event see the abstracts here.

Read coverage of the event at greenlivingonline.com.

ESAC Conference 2010 Revised Program

esacintern — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:01:53 +0000

Dear Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) members and conference delegates:

Please find attached a revised ESAC Congress 2010 Conference program with abstracts, map and final schedule. This copy includes a new keynote speaker, Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader, Lawyer and author of seven books. She will be speaking on Post-Copenhagen Climate Change negotiations on May 31st from 2:00 to 3:00 in EV1-605. Some panels on May 31st have shifted times as a result of this change.

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NOTE: If you have pre-registered for the conference, you may pick up your delegate’s kit at the “Registered Delegates” counter located in the J.W.McConnell LibraryBuilding (LB) at Concordia at 1400 De Maisonneuve West. You can also register at this same location if you weren’t able to do so on-line. The registration centre opens at 7:30 every morning.

You can find a map of Concordia University by going to <http://concordia.ca/about/whereweare/maps/?referID=hp_footer> > .

2010 ESAC Conference Schedule Released

esacintern — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:22:58 +0000

Please note that the official agenda for the 2010 ESAC Conference has been released. There will be fascinating panel on a wide range of topics, from: ‘Food Policy and Sustainability’ to ‘Gender and Environment’ to ‘Climate Change in Bangladesh’, plus our outstanding Keynote Speakers Camilla Toulmin, Bina Agarwal and Desiree McGraw. The conference schedule is available for download here.

View the Full Schedule.

Panels include:
“Good Science and/or a Darn Good Read”

Widely accused of scientific dishonesty, Bjorn Lomborg, is nonetheless the author of an award-winning, best-selling, money-making book. The Skeptical Environmentalist, as Lomborg and his infamous book are known, may represent the extreme, but journalists, authors, TV and radio commentators are regularly faced with the dilemma of not bogging down a good story in scientific facts. For, as Stephen Bocking writes in Alternatives Journal, “While scientists can tell us about the extinction of species and the loss of Arctic sea ice, we need stories to help us make sense of these events.

This panel of three environmental communicators will discuss the tricks of the trade when it comes to good environmental story-telling and news reporting. They will highlight the best of environmental writing and point out the blunders. Nicola Ross, executive editor of Alternatives Journal, will lead the panel in a highly energetic thought-provoking discussion before inviting the audience to join in.

Panel Moderator:

Nicola Ross, editor-in-chief of Alternatives Journal, will lead a panel of talented environmental writers and some of Canada’s brightest eco-intellects in an energetic discussion of good environmental writing. Come prepared to be entertained and informed. And don’t forget to bring along a few questions about how to get your environmental stories into the news.

Panelists include:

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and author of seven books including How to Save the World in Your Spare Time, is an outspoken advocate for the environment. If anyone knows how to spin a story, it’s Elizabeth.

Wayne Roberts manages the Toronto Food Policy Council, has written three books and writes a weekly column in NOW Magazine. He is a member of Alternatives’ editorial board and one of Canada’s most original thinkers on food policy. He’s also very funny.

Monique Beaudin is an environmental writer with the Montreal Gazette. She is also an active blogger who is comfortable sending out tweets.

For more information on the 2010 ESAC Conference: ‘Sustainability in a Changing World’, which is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from May 31st to June 1st, please click here.

Space and Flows: An International Conference on Urban and Extraurban Studies

esacintern — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:29:23 +0000

SPACE AND FLOWS: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AND EXTRAURBAN STUDIES
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, USA
4-5 December 2010
http://www.spacesandflows.com/conference-2010/

This conference aims to critically engage contemporary spatial, social, ideological, and political transformations in a transitional world. In a process-oriented world of movement, the global north and global south now simultaneously converge and diverge in a dialectic that shapes and transforms cities, suburbs , and rural areas. This conference addresses the nature and mapping of these forces and the dynamics that propel these changes. The conference also examines and defines the myriad of different spaces that make up our contemporary world, including urban, edgeurban, de-urban, micro-urban, greenfield, and off-the-grid.

In addition to plenary presentations, the Spaces and Flows Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers, and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may submit their written papers for publication in the peer reviewed ‘Spaces and Flows: An International Journal on Urban and Extraurban Studies’. If you are unable to attend the conference in person virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for referring and possible publication. You also have the ability to upload your presentation to the Space and Flows YouTube channel.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 May 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: http://www.spacesandflows.com/conference-2010/ .

ESAC Conference 2010 ‘Sustainability in a Changing World’

esacintern — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:51:21 +0000

Theme: Sustainability in a Changing World
Location: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
May 31 – June 1, 2010

We invite you to participate in the 2010 ESAC conference. It’s part of the 2010 Congress for the broad range of bodies that fall under the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

People from community groups, NGOs, practitioners, policy makers, (and of course the drivers of the conference: academics and students) are welcome to attend and actively participate. If you are interested in issues that involve climate change, food security, natural resources, millennium development goals, environmental health, environmental literacy and journalism tips that encompass all of the above, then this conference is for you.

View the Full Schedule.

In the spirit of passion for the planet and networking with your environment community, please join us at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec – May 31 to June 1, 2010

Cost of Attendance:
Member: $60
Non-Member: $90
Retired Member: $40
Retired Non-Member: $50
Student/Unwaged Member: $30
Student/Unwaged Non-Member: $40
Banquet: $35

Click here to complete your registration.

When registering for Congress 2010, one of the drop-down options will be to attend our banquet at the Spanish Club, scheduled for the evening of June 1st, that includes tapas and the choice of paella, lamb or a vegetarian option with a band and late night party with Canadian Association of Studies in International Development (CASID) for a cost of $35. This is an excellent opportunity for you to network and/or socialize with student and faculty colleagues.

Any questions please contact:
Dr. Shirley Thompson,
Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba,
70 Dysart Rd.,
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
phone: (204) 474-7170 fax: 204-261-0038
e-mail: s_thompson@umanitoba.ca
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~thompso4/

ESAC ACEE call for proposals

ESAC ACEE 2010 Paper Proposal Form

ESAC-ACEE-2010-Panel-proposal-form

Accommodation Information

Informational Poster Contest

Travel Grant Application

Enter the ESAC Informational Poster Contest!

esacintern — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:13:53 +0000

Give your hard hours of research, classroom, or extra curricular work new life in an Informational Poster.

Send us your poster ideas – to be presented at the ESAC “Sustainability in a Changing World” Conference. The ESAC Conference, will be hosted by Congress 2010 in Montreal at Concordia University from Monday, May 31 to Tuesday, June 1, 2010.

Posters and presented information should reflect this years ESAC Conference theme of “Sustainability in a Changing World”. Posters will be unveiled at the ESAC Conference Gala where you will have a chance to discuss and present your work to other ESAC members and Conference Attendees.

What’s in it for me?
Benefits of submitting Your Informational Poster and attending ESAC’s “Sustainability in a Changing World” Conference:

a chance to showcase your special project, thesis, or studies
networking opportunities with like minded professionals in the education and environment industries
learn from fascinating panels with distinguished experts on various topics of Sustainability and Environment – See schedule for details
take part in discussions that will stimulate a critical and constructive dialogue
travel grants for all ESAC members
Cash prizes & gift certificates to be won!

Poster Eligibility:

All poster submitters must attend ESAC’s “Sustainability in a Changing World” Conference*. Sign up now!
Submit a 300 word abstract (summary) of your poster or poster idea, including your intended poster dimensions* to: Shirley Thompson – thompso4@cc.umanitoba.ca
Deadline for submissions: May 20, 2010
*Contestants are responsible for printing of their posters and submitting them at time of arrival to Congress 2010 to the ESAC Committee
Contestants will be required to prepare a brief 5 minute summary to introduce their posters to the ESAC committee
We encourage undergrad students, graduate students, PHD students and students of the world to apply!

Subsidies:

Coming from out of town? Travel grants will be given to all ESAC members. Join ESAC today!
Check with your faculty and/or student organizations for other bursaries, funding, and possible conference subsidies.

Spread the word about this great opportunity -

Click here to print a flyer promoting the Conference and ESAC’s Information Poster Contest.

About the ESAC Conference:
We invite you to participate in the 2010 ESAC conference. It’s part of the 2010 Congress for the broad range of bodies that fall under the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

In the spirit of passion for the planet and networking with your environment community, please join us at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
May 31 to June 1, 2010

Click here for conference costs, subsidies, accommodation and other details.

Join Canada’s professional environmental association. Join ESAC today!

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ESAC gratefully acknowledges contributions from:

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Brick Books

Emond Montgomery Publications