Book: Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics (29 Jan 2014)

Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics

By Severine Deneulin

Routledge – 2014 – 12 pages

Series: The Routledge Human Development and Capability Debates

The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either socialism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a history of movements for social justice - the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and promising ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people’s wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world.

Comprehensive, practical and nuanced in its treatment of the capability approach, this highly original volume gives students, researchers and professionals in the field of development an innovative framing of the capability approach as a 'language' for action and provides specific examples of how it has made a difference.

for more information :http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415720243/

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Conference: Transport Oriented Development Asia Conference 2013 organized by facility media on 10-11 Sep 2013

Transport Oriented Development Asia Conference 2013

Event Date: 10 Sep - 11 Sep 2013
Contact: Facility Media
Email: enquiry@facilitymedia.com
Website: www.todasia.com

Business Environment Council is pleased to be a supporting organisation of Transport Oriented Development Asia Conference 2013.

About the Conference

New development and financing models will be examined at Transport Oriented Development (TOD) Asia Conference 2013.

Sweeping across Asia is a new trend that promises to meet these challenges by bringing infrastructure, property and commercial development in both new and existing cities. TOD had its origins in the ‘rail + property’ model pioneered in cities such as Hong Kong, where the sales of real estate development properties around metropolitan railway stations financed the building of the railway. Slowly the concept has grown until, with tweaks in the model and a flexible approach by both governments and private sector, it has exploded into a truly integrated win-win real estate model. Now the property developments cover not just rail and road interchanges but are centered around sea and air transportation options. In addition these property developments can cover the public transportation running costs.

For enquiry, please contact Mr. Majid Jimenez at (T: 2851 9923 E: enquiry@facilitymedia.com)

For more information: http://bec.org.hk/events-current/transport-oriented-development-asia-conference-2013

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New Books: Development, Power, and the Environment Neoliberal Paradox in the Age of Vulnerability By Md Saidul Islam (7 May 2013)

Development, Power, and the Environment

Neoliberal Paradox in the Age of Vulnerability

By Md Saidul Islam

Published 7th May 2013 by Routledge – 262 pages

Description: 

Unmasking the neoliberal paradox, this book provides a robust conceptual and theoretical synthesis of development, power and the environment. With seven case studies on global challenges such as under-development, food regime, climate change, dam building, identity politics, and security vulnerability, the book offers a new framework of a "double-risk" society for the Global South.

With apparent ecological and social limits to neoliberal globalization and development, the current levels of consumption are unsustainable, inequitable, and inaccessible to the majority of humans. Power has a great role to play in this global trajectory. Though power is one of most pervasive phenomena of human society, it is probably one of the least understood concepts. The growth of transnational corporations, the dominance of world-wide financial and political institutions, and the extensive influence of media that are nearly monopolized by corporate interests are key factors shaping our global society today. In the growing concentration of power in few hands, what is apparent is a non-apparent nature of power. Understanding the interplay of power in the discourse of development is a crucial matter at a time when our planet is in peril — both environmentally and socially. This book addresses this current crucial need.

Contents:

Part I: Concepts and Theories 1. Challenges of Our Time: Environmental and Social Vulnerabilities with Quek Ri An
2. Understanding Power in Social Organization
3. Paradigms of Development and Their Power Dynamics
4. Theorizing Nature-Society Relationships
5. Neoliberal Paradox: Connection Through Disconnection 

Part II: Case Studies 6. Development Dynamics in the Global South: From Colonization to Globalization
7. Green Revolution: Transformation, Optimism and Reality
8. Food and Power: The Mirage of the Food Aid Regime
9. Climate Politics: Power and Development in Mortgaging the Planet
10. Tipaimukh Dam: Triumph of Development over the Environment and Popular Voice
11. Labelling Tribal: State-Power in Forming and Transforming Identities
12. A Neoliberal Knowledge/Power/Security Regime After 9/11: The Case of “Muslim Patient” 

Part III: Sustainable Earth Amid Vulnerabilities 13. Third World Vulnerabilities: Towards a Double Risk Society
14. Towards a Sustainable Earth?

Source: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415540025/

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New Book: Learning From China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries Edited by Bernhard Glaeser (12 Apr 2013)

Learning From China?

Development and Environment in Third World Countries

Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

Published 12th April 2013 by Routledge – 308 pages

Description:

First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples’ Republic of China. It covers industrialisation, food production, energy use and landscape and settlement planning.

The Chinese "autocentred" strategy is assessed from both the developmental and the environmental viewpoints. Decision-making processes and the opportunities to implement environmental policy in other parts of the developing world are analysed and the volume concludes with the view that benefits to other countries are likely to arise out of increased co-operation and exchange with China, although the Chinese model is by no means a panacea.

All students and researchers interested in either environmental or developmental issues will find this book to be a substantial and enlightening contribution to literature.

Contents:

Part I: Chinese Philosophies and Strategies for Development
1. On the Reactions of Chinese Culture Against the Western Challenge: The Other Side of Modernization
2. The Chinese Path to Development
3. An Essay on Reproduction: The Example of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
4. Shortage of Land Resources as a Factor in Development: The Example of the People’s Republic of China 

Part II: Environmental Policy and Planning 5. The Origins of Environmental Management in China
6. Economic Reform and its Impact on the Environment in China
7. Agriculture and Environmental Protection in China
8. Rural Ecodevelopment Policy in China and the Origins of Economic Adjustment
9. Agriculture as a component of China’s Modernisation Strategy
10. Energy and Environment in China
11. The Operational contexts between Developmental, Environmental and Settlement Policies 

Part III: The Possibilities and Constraints of Policy Implementation: Learning From China
12. The Implementation of National Environmental Policies in Developing Countries
13. The Natural Resources Programme of the United Nations University
14. Large-Scale Biogas Technology in China
15. Biogas in Iran: Learning from China?
16. From Central Provision to Local Enablement: New Directions for Housing Policies
17. The Rural Habitat: main Focus of Appropriate Technologies for Rural Development
18. The Environment: what the Powers That Be care two hoots about

For more information: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415852463/

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New Book: Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals) Conventional and Alternative Views By Edward B Barbier (1 Apr 2013)

Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals)

Conventional and Alternative Views

By Edward B Barbier

Published 1st April 2013 by Routledge – 224 pages

Description:

Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded. Using insights provided by environmentalism, ecology and thermo-dynamics, this book – first published in 1989 – outlines an economic approach to the use of natural resources and particularly to the problem of environmental degradation. Edward Barbier reviews and critiques the long past of environmental and resource economics and then goes on to elaborate an economics which allows us to develop alternative strategies for dealing with the problems faced. With examples drawn from Latin America and Indonesia, he not only develops a major theoretical advance but shows how it can be applied. Barbier’s work is an important and relevant contribution to the discussion surrounding the economics of environmental sustainability.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction;
1. Historical Approaches to Natural-Resource Scarcity
2. Non-Economic Influences
3. Conventional Theory: Optimal Rates of Depletion
4. Conventional Theory: Pollution and Natural Environments
5. An Alternative View of Natural-Resource Scarcity
6. Two Examples: Deforestation in Amazonia and the Global Greenhouse Effect
7. Upper Watershed Degradation in Java
8. Conclusion: An Economics of Sustainable Development; Index

For more information: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415837644/

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Events: Earth Day 2013 - Film Show and Forum organized by CUHK, Civic Exchange, Face to face media and 開創綠家園 on 22 Apr 2013

Earth Day 2013 - Film Show and Forum

Film: Waking the Green Tiger (78 min.)

Date: Earth Day 22 April 2013 (Monday)

Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 p.m. (for the film show and forum)

Venue: Lecture Theatre 6, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK [Map]

Language: English VO (with Chinese subtitles)

Free shuttle bus service will be available from University MTR to the venue.

For registration and more information: 

http://www.grm.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/news/confnews/filmshow20130422/index.html

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Events: A Property-led Approach to Cluster Development: "Creative Industry Clusters" and Creative Industry Networks in Shanghai (21-02-2013) organized by CUHK Geography Resource Management

 

CUHK Geography Resource Management
Departmental Seminars

A Property-led Approach to Cluster Development: "Creative Industry Clusters" and Creative Industry Networks in Shanghai (21-02-2013)

 

Language: English
Date: 21 Feb 2013
Time: 1630-1800
Venue: Room 233, Woo Foo Yuan Building, Chung Chi College


Link to the poster: 
http://www.grm.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/news/deptseminar/Seminar20130221.pdf

Source: http://www.grm.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/news/deptseminar.html

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2012 4th Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 4th), 24-25 November 2012, Thailand

2012 4th Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 4th) 24th to 25th November 2012 Bangkok, Thailand

General Information

2012 4th Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 4th) aims to provide a forum for researchers, pactitioners, and professinals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in environmental science and development. JCESD 2012 4th will be held in Bangkok, Thailand During December 24-25, 2012. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of environmental science and development. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving environmental science and development related techniques.  All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. Submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program.   All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical, and will be peer-reviewed. Articles submitted to the conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the journal and are subject to both review and editing.

All the registered papers will be published into International Journal of Environmental Science and Development. (IJESD, ISSN: 2010-0264, available at: http://www.ijesd.org/content.htm) by IACSIT Publishing, and distributed at the conference. The journal will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library.

Important Dates

Paper Submission (Full Paper) Before September 12, 2012
Notification of Acceptance On October 5, 2012
Authors' Registration Before October 25, 2012
Final Paper Submission Before October 25, 2012
JCESD 2012 3rd Conference Dates November 24-25, 2012

Submission Methods

Formatting Instructions (DOC)

Email: jcesd04@stpress.net ( .pdf and .doc)

For more information:http://www.ijesd.org/jcesd/4th/index.htm

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2012 2nd Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 2nd), 2 to 3 June 2012

Date: 2 to 3 June 2012
Venue: Hong Kong
Website: http://www.ijesd.org/jcesd/2nd/
Contact name: Journal Secretary
Organized by: CBEES
















General Information
2012 2nd Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 2nd) aims to provide a forum for researchers, pactitioners, and professinals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in environmental science and development. JCESD 2012 1st will be held in Hong Kong During June 2-3, 2012. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of environmental science and development. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving environmental science and development related techniques.

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2012 1st Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development from 7-8 April

Date:  April 7-8, 2012
Venue: Bangkok, Thailand

2012 1st Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 1st) aims to provide a forum for researchers,  pactitioners, and professinals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in  environmental science and development. JCESD 2012 1st  will be held in Bangkok, Thailand During April 7-8, 2012. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of environmental science and development. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving environmental science and development related techniques.

All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. Submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program. 

For more information: http://www.ijesd.org/jcesd/1st/

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New Book: Poverty, Environment and Millennium Development Goals by Arjun Dhakal

Poverty, Environment and Millennium Development Goals by Arjun Dhakal

Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co Kg
Published: 08 December 2011
Format: Paperback 116 pages
ISBN 13: 9783847307419 ISBN 10: 384730741X

Description
Both issues, poverty reduction and environmental degradation, are considered as the greatest global challenges of twenty-first century. Developing countries, which are the primary sufferers, are formulating and implementing different policies and programmes to address these problems. Most of the developing countries have signed for achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ambitious global development agenda, designed by the United Nations in 2000, in national level by 2015. This analyses the progress of Nepal towards MDGs, particularly, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability, and reviews the policies, programmes and activities. The analysis highlights the challenges and opportunities to achieve environment and poverty related to MDGs. The study also identifies how its goals are internalized into other policies and programmes, formulation and their implementation and activities, and what the causal relationships between poverty and environment in rural and urban areas of Nepal are. The analysis also highlights the situation of synergic efforts made by Nepal's government to address these challenges in cost effective manner.

For more information : http://www.bookdepository.com/Poverty-Environment-Millennium-Development-Goals-MDGs-Arjun-Dhakal/9783847307419?b=-3&t=-20#Fulldescription-20

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Call for papers: 2012 International Conference on Product Development and Renewable Energy Resources

Date: February 18-19, 2012
Venue: Coimbatore, India

The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Product Development and Renewable Energy Resources. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working in India and abroad.

All papers for the ICPDRE 2012 will be published in the IPCSIT (ISSN: 2010-460X) as one volume, and will be indexed by WorldCat, Google Scholar, Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings.


Round III
Paper Submission (Full Paper)                 Before December 10, 2011
Notification of Acceptance                        On December 25, 2011
Final Paper Submission                           Before January 10, 2012
Authors' Registration                               Before January 10, 2012
ICPDRE 2012 Conference Dates               February 18 - 19, 2012

For more information:  http://www.iacsit.org/icpdre/

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2012 3rd International Conference on Environmental Science and Development (ICESD 2012)

Date:05 to 07 January 2012
Venue: Hong Kong, China

The aim of the ICESD conference series is to provide a forum for laying the foundations of a new principled approach to Environmental Science and Development. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between different research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications.

The ICESD 2012 is sponsored by Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering
Society (APCBEES).

Enquiries: icesd@cbees.org
Web address: http://www.icesd.org/

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Lecture on "Advances in Science and Technology Boost Green Development"

Speaker:
Professor Xu Kuangdi
Honorary Chairman of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Date: 
7 November 2011 (Monday)

Time:
9:45 am

Venue: 
Connie Fan Multi-media Conference Room
4/F Cheng Yick-chi Building (Lift 12)
City University of Hong Kong

Abstract
1. China is undergoing a phase of development featuring industrialization coupled with rapid urbanization. With its heavy reliance on coal as a major source of energy, China has become the world's biggest CO2  emitter. Yet, in terms of per capita emission, China still lies far behind the developed countries. So, it is fair that China should bear a common but differentiated responsibility for reducing global carbon emissions;
2. Saving energy in traditional industries while developing cyclic economy is the first step towards green development; developing advanced manufacturing technologies and employing the Internet of Things will make a breakthrough in achieving green development;
3. Readjusting the energy structure while advancing nuclear and renewable energy sources will lay a solid foundation for a low-carbon economy for green development;
4. Promoting low-carbon, energy-saving lifestyle is a sure guarantee of achieving green development.

Biographical Sketch: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/vprt/events/cityu/bibliography/xukuangdi_eng.html
Poster: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/vprt/events/cityu/posters/20111107_xukuangdi.pdf

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