CALL FOR PAPERS – International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management ( 30th March 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS – International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Trevor Hedberg

The multidisciplinary International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management is currently assessing papers for inclusion in the special issue on Lay Rationalities of Climate Change, to be launched in 2013.

Climate change is now widely recognized as the major environmental problem facing the globe (UNEP – Climate Change). Lay rationalities focus on lay knowledge that integrates individual understandings, explanations, life experiences, perceptions and intervention on climate change. This subject garnered the interest of research and policy but also of populations facing this global environmental threat.

For this special issue, IJCCSM welcomes submissions on the following topics:

• How local populations explain, interpret and deal with climate change?
• Learning about Climate Change
• Individual and collective action in response to climate change
• Climate Change Adaptation and adjustment to threatening events (adapting to climate change: socio-ecological resilience)
• Climate Change Mitigation (risk perception and risk-mitigating)
• Climate Change Risk and Impact Perception
• Traditional Knowledge about Climate Change
• Social Inequalities and Climate Change
• Intercultural Relations and Climate Change

You are kindly requested to submit your paper before the 30th March 2013

to the following email address: fatimaa@uab.pt or ulisses@uab.pt

Guest Editors: Fatima Alves, Sandra Caeiro, and Ulisses M. Azeiteiro

Editor: Professor Walter Leal Filho

Expressions of interest should be sent to Dr. Maria de Fatima Pereira Alves atfatimaa@uab.pt

For more information: 

http://enviroethics.org/2012/10/31/call-for-papers-international-journal-of-climate-change/

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CALL FOR PAPERS – Values in the Environment: Relations and Conflicts (15th Feb 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS – Values in the Environment: Relations and Conflicts

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Aline M. Ramos

Call for papers

“Values in the Environment – Relations and Conflicts”
The X IIAA International Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics
Lahti, Finland, 1.8.-3.8.2013.

The International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) will arrange the X Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland, 1.8.-3.8.2013. The theme of the conference is “Values in the  Environment – Relations and Conflicts “

Environments are arenas for different sorts of values. Environments are valued for their beauty and aesthetic experiences they afford, but there are also moral and ecological values that need to be taken into consideration, for example, in decision-making concerning particular areas both in human and in natural environments. Different values can also come into conflict with one another. The ecologically best environment is not necessarily the most valuable environment from an aesthetic point of view. How should the weight of the different values present in environments be assessed? Is aesthetic value in some ways inferior to other sorts of values or could aesthetic value perhaps serve as a reason for preserving parts of the environment?

There is also an interesting question about the possibility of aesthetically appreciating damaged environments. How does the morally questionable background of an environment affect its aesthetic value? Can a mine or a quarry, for example, be considered beautiful?

The value of natural environments and green spaces in urban environments on promoting human well-being has also been increasingly recognized. How should these results be taken into account in urban planning? One increasing challenge faced by urban planning is the development of more environmentally sustainable cities. Could aesthetics in some ways aid in achieving this goal?

We invite researchers from different fields of the humanities, social and environmental sciences to discuss these questions. People interested in exploring them are asked to send an abstract of about 400 words to iiaa-info@helsinki.fi by the 15th of February 2013. The time allotted to each paper is 40 minutes (30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion).

Keynote Speakers
Nathalie Blanc (CNRS, Paris)
Yrjö Haila (University of Tampere, Finland)
Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston, USA)

Conference fee: 100€ and 50€ graduate students

Contact person: Kalle Puolakka, kalle.puolakka[at]helsinki.fi

For more information: 

http://enviroethics.org/2012/11/01/call-for-papers-values-in-the-environment-relations-and-conflicts/

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CALL FOR PAPERS – 12th Global Conference: Environmental Justice and Citizenship (8th Feb 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS – Environmental Justice and Citizenship

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Aline M. Ramos

12th Global Conference: Environmental Justice and Citizenship

Wednesday 10th July – Friday 12th July 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Presentations

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore the role of environmental thinking in the context of contemporary society and international affairs, and assess the implications for our understandings of fairness, justice and citizenship. “Environmental justice” is conceived broadly as reflecting not only justice in the context of human communities but also towards other species, ecosystems, habitats, landscapes, succeeding generations and the environment as a whole. “Citizenship” is understood as an awareness of individual’s relative responsibilities in the global context.

Within this framework the 12th Conference of Environmental Justice and Citizenship will explore models, approaches and context necessary to solve the problems impeding environmental justice and living justly. We request contributions which explore technological, political or economic solutions to these problems, or those antecedents, agents, processes and institutions that support development of such solutions. The conference provides opportunities for scholars and practitioners in different disciplines to share examples and proposals for reducing the barriers to environmental justice and citizenship.

Presentations, papers, performances, reports and workshops are invited on any of the following indicative themes:

- Boundaries: reach and limitations of judicial and political systems in contributing to solving problems of environmental justice and citizenship
- Media and knowledge: generating, vetting and disseminating information related to environmental justice and citizenship; sources and channels
- Education: approaches to environmental education
- Hegemony and diversity: resolving problems involving differences in moral and legal frameworks
- Sustainable communities: lessons to be learned from communities that have implemented standards for environmental justice
- Hope: the roles of emotions in shaping behavior and practices; how hope for environmental justice and citizenship develops and is sustained
- Critical thinking: skills, assumptions, perspectives and habits of mind essential to environmental justice and citizenship

Perspectives are sought from all disciplines including:

- The natural and social sciences, and those engaged in actor network theory, agriculture and agricultural economics, the built environment and urban studies, conflict and dispute resolution, critical geography, environmental studies, human and sustainable development, industrial relations, law, philosophy and ethics, political science and international affairs, public policy and politics, sociology and communication of science, theology, cultural studies and anthropology.
- People in the public and private sectors who are involved in planning and project development, policy-making and implementation, and negotiation and mediation at national and international levels
- People in Governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations, voluntary sector bodies, environmental charities and groups, business and professional associations

The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 8th February 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th May 2013.

300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to all Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: EJGC12 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

Ram Vemuri and Rob Fisher: ejgc12@inter-disciplinary.net
Karen Druffel: kdruffel@framingham.edu

The conference is part of the Critical Issues series of research projects run by Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/environmental-justice-and-global-citizenship/call-for-papers/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

For more information:

http://enviroethics.org/2012/11/09/call-for-papers-environmental-justice-and-citizenship/

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CALL FOR PAPERS – Climate Change Governance: Law, Risk Management, and Decision Making

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Aline M. Ramos

Call for Submissions
Law and Social Science Program
National Science Foundation Workshop

Climate Change Governance: Law, Risk Management, and Decision Making
Hosted by University of California, Davis
Tahoe Environmental Research Center
Incline Village, Nevada
June 20-21, 2013

There may be no greater risk facing human societies than that posed by climate change. And yet, our understanding of how to collectively best respond is limited, and knowledge is fragmented across disciplinary boundaries. Our workshop will seek to initiate deeper discussion of climate change around the concept of governance by bridging across a diverse group of scholars. Our goal is to share different disciplinary perspectives and to work on common problems. The broader impacts of this workshop will include the creation of an ongoing community of scholars, possibly in the form of a collaborative research network, to carry on dialogue about how to align scholarship across disciplines, levels, and across the academic and policy/practical/public realms.

Given that climate change crosses many conventional boundaries and jurisdictions of law, regulation, and government and challenges the expectations that many hold regarding proper modes of “governance” we have planned the workshop around three themes. The first will consider how to construct and align modes of governance across differing societal levels or “scales” from individual to community, community to region, region to nation, and nations to global institutions. The second theme concerns fragmentation of contemporary “expert knowledge” on climate change, law, regulation, and governance and the associated lack of interaction across disciplines. We will consider how social scientific theory, methods, and empirical research might be brought into a more productive dialogue across
disciplinary and scholarly boundaries. Third, we plan to devote attention the problem of social science’s role in addressing and planning for climate change in public and policy settings. This is a problem of practice.

Workshop Format and Submission Process

We are soliciting those scholars interested in participating in a forward-looking conversation reaching across disciplinary boundaries to further our advancing our understanding of governance and climate change.

Interested applicants should provide a 300 word abstract describing a related research concept that they are currently developing or considering. These research concept statements should be linked to at least one of the three problem areas: scale, expert knowledge, and theory/practice. Research concept statements must be submitted to the workshop organizers by December 15, 2012.

Organizers

Ryken Grattet, Sociology, UC Davis and the Public Policy Institute of California (rtgrattet@ucdavis.edu)
Debbie Niemeier, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
(dniemeier@ucdavis.edu)
Thomas Beamish, Sociology, UC Davis (tdbeamish@ucdavis.edu)
URL:
https://sites.google.com/a/ucdavis.edu/climate-change-and-governance-workshop

For more information:

http://enviroethics.org/2012/11/21/call-for-papers-climate-change-governance-law-risk-management-and-decision-making/

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Publication: Does Adaptive Policies Mean Effective Policies? Implications For Climate Change Adaptation And Disaster Risk Reduction

Adaptive Policies Does Adaptive Policies Mean Effective Policies? Implications For Climate Change Adaptation And Disaster Risk Reduction

Author: Prabhakar, SVRK and Misa Aoki|2012/11|In International Workshop on Natural Disasters and Climate Change in Asia, 5-7 November 2012, Equatorial Bangi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 49.|Publisher: SEADPRI(Bangi, Malaysia)

Language: English|Publication Type: Proceedings|Copyright: SEADPRI and APAN

It has been widely regarded that policies that are adaptive in nature are better able to deal with dynamic and uncertain issues such as environmental degradation and climate change adaptation. However, verifying the veracity of this hypothesis is difficult in the field of climate change often due to absence of long experience of policy making for climate change adaptation in most countries in general. Hence, this study, which is based on a country study of natural resource management policies in Japan, looks into how various natural resource management and disaster risk reduction related policies have evolved over the years along with the evolving issues that they have designed to address and tries to answer questions such as how adaptive policies are in Japan, does adaptive policies relate to the effectiveness of policies and problem solving and what are the political, institutional, economic and social factors that will lead to adaptive but effective policies. This paper is derived from a set of consultations and questionnaire surveys conducted in Japan. While addressing the above research questions, this study aims to draw lessons for developing countries which often look up towards developed countries for solutions including those in policy success. One of the interesting outcome of this study has been that indicators such as 'timeliness' of introduction of policies and 'regular updating' of policies may not necessarily translate into effective policies since other factors such as how different stakeholders understand the issue that policy intends to address, understanding on the part of the governments and institutions on how a policy works on the ground after it is designed and implemented, and most importantly the driving forces that are behind policy formulation and implementation determines the effectiveness of any policy.

Keywords:

ADAPTIVE POLICIES, ADAPTATION, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Geographic area:

Asia, Japan

URL:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7st81yczlhbj930/Paper%207%20Prabhakar-Adaptative%20Policies.pdf

For more information: 

http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=4177

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Publications: Classification Of MRV Of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions/Reduction: For The Discussions On NAMAs And MRV by Ninomiya, Yasushi Dec, 2012

Policy Brief Classification Of MRV Of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions/Reduction: For The Discussions On NAMAs And MRV

Author: Ninomiya, Yasushi|2012/12|Number 25. p.10.|Publisher: IGES(Hayama, Japan)

Language: English|Publication Type: Policy Brief|Copyright: IGES

This brief aims to classify the MRV (Measuring or Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) system of GHG emissions/reduction according to its object, aim, methodology and implementation body to demonstrate that there are significant differences between each type of MRV system. It also suggests the need to develop of new type of MRV system for quantitative evaluation of NAMAs (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) which can be substantially different from other MRV types.

Keywords:

MRV

Geographic area:

Asia

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PB_25_E_final_rev.pdf

For more information: 

http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=4169

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