Collective Action & Property Rights News: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis (ISEE 2010)

Thursday, October 01, 2009

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis (ISEE 2010)

Abstracts for the 11th biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, "Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis," to be held in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany (22 - 25 August 2010) can now be submitted online. The Conference invites contributions that address the following main themes:

Climate Change – causes, impacts, mitigation, adaptation, and policy options
Energy – renewable energy, energy flows, peak oil, green stimulus policies, energy
and entropy, alternative energy and energy distribution technology
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – valuation issues and policy integration
Land Use – including coastal zone management, water issues, ecosystem restoration,
bioregionalism
Ecology – complex systems, economy-ecology modelling, theoretical ecology
Dematerialization and De-Growth – industrial ecology, eco-efficiency, sustainable
consumption and production
Sustainable Development - environment and industrial development, inequalities
between rich and poor, indigenous rights and wisdoms, environmental colonialism
and debt, environmental GDP of the poor, sustainability and self-actualization
Environmental Ethics and Values – norms, ethical concepts, environmental values and
decision-making
Governance and Public Policy – green macroeconomics, recapturing the public space
in an age of neo-liberalism, Green New Deal, green recovery, politics and public
participation in decision making
Knowledge and social learning – knowledge systems, dynamics and mechanisms of
social learning and change in economic and policy processes
Green Business – corporate social responsibility, ecological economics of the firm,
industrial ecology, trade and taxation, incentives and entrepreneurship
Heterodox Economics – opportunities after the crisis for institutional, evolutionary,
post-keynesian, post-autistic economics, synergies with ecological economics
Transdisciplinarity – post normal science, sustainability science, transdisciplinary
research designs, participatory methods, methodological and theoretical challenges
Teaching Ecological Economics – curriculum development, practical experiences,
learning as sustainability