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Conference Announcement: Environmental Jusitce at Oxford

By Lawrence Solum

8th Global Conference
Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship
Friday 10th July - Sunday 12th July 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Education

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore the role of ecology and environmental thinking in the context of contemporary society and international affairs, and assess the implications for our understandings of fairness, justice and global 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.

The 8th Global Conference on Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship will explicitly explore environmental ethics and sustainability.  We are looking for papers which investigate and question the relationships of power and equity in the environmental context.  Among these relationships, our environmental ethic has a central role, not only in terms of explaining current attitudes towards the environment, nature and natural resource use, but also the potential role it may play in shaping the future and enabling us to live more sustainably.  In particular papers are sought which explore the role of education in shaping a modern environmental ethic, and the inherent challenges which accompany that role.

Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on any of the following indicative themes:

    * Environmental ethics
          o New and emerging thinkers and trends of thought on environmental ethics
          o The role and place of environmental protest in shaping our ethic
          o Indigenous environmental ethics: relations between humans and 'nature'
          o Property rights and private interests vs. pooling of human and ecological resources
          o The need for greater multi- and trans-disciplinary collaboration
    * Sustainability
          o Engaging citizens in the processes of achieving increased sustainability
          o The role of civil society: communities taking responsibility for the local environment
          o Corporate Social Responsibility: transparency and accountability
          o Achieving responsible consumption and production
          o The role of NGOs in environmental and sustainability awareness raising
    * Environmental education
          o Teaching citizenship, identity and ethics
          o Designing the ecological curriculum
          o Integrating the concept of 'sustainability' and environmental awareness and education in the primary, secondary and higher education sectors
          o The integration of distinct disciplines: The role of behavioural science in environmental education

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 6th February 2009. If your paper is accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper should be submitted by Friday 5th June 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to all Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract

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:

Erika Techera
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Environmental Law
Macquarie Law School
Macquarie University NSW 2109
Australia
E-mail: erika.techera@law.mq.edu.au

S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business
Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, NT 0909,
Australia
E-mail: ram.vemuri@cdu.edu.au

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: ejgc8@inter-disciplinary.net

Perspectives are sought from

    * people engaged in actor network theory, agriculture and agricultural economics, the built environment disciplines, conflict resolution and mediation, critical geography, environmental studies, human development and ecology, industrial relations and design, law and the legal professions, philosophy and ethics, political science and international affairs, public policy and advising, social sciences, sociology of science, theology, urban studies and western European studies
    * 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

All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed ISBN hard copy volume. Multiple themed volumes are in print and/or in press from previous meetings of the project.

The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net as part of the 'Probing the Boundaries' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/ejgc/ejgc.htm
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/ejgc/ejgc8/cfp.htm

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).