The German Sociological Society's Section on Environmental Sociology and the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ are pleased to announce the Second German Environmental Sociology Summit in Leipzig (Germany) from November 5-7, 2009.
The aim of the Coping with Uncertainty conference is to discuss implications of uncertainty at science-policy interfaces connected with environmental, social and economic risks in the Baltic Sea Region.
The new book of Raymond Murphy is about how leaders respond when technological successes create vulnerability and nature ceases to be motherly. It is a major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems, such as global climate change, and a valuable resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn more about how extreme weather disasters can be managed. Disasters occur when hazards of nature strike socio-technological vulnerabilities. While science provides valuable indications of risk, it does not yield certainty, yet leaders must make sense of threats. Raymond Murphy's case study of the management of the 1998 ice storm - the most costly disaster ever in Canada, northern New York state, and Maine - presents rare interviews with key political and emergency management leaders that provide an insider's view of the challenge of responding to extreme weather. They document a generally well managed crisis, but also reveal the slippery slope from transparency to withholding critical information as the crisis deepened, and examine conflict resolution between leaders during a disaster.
The Comparative Education Review invites papers for a special 2010 issue on environmental education entitled Educators and the Environment: World Lessons for a Sustainable World.
The Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology is an award of the Research Committee Environment and Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), established March 17, 2005, and given once every four years. The international award is intended for outstanding contributions of scholars to the study of environment-society relations during the four years since the last call for nominations.
The Action Research Action Learning Interest Group organises a PhD Course in June 1-4 at the Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
International Mini-conference in St. Petersburg, April 18-19, 2009 organised by Centre for Independent Social Research, Russia; University of Umeo, Sweden; University of Joensuu, Finland about globalization and localization of natural resource governance.
The European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) invites papers for its congress in Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009. Deadline for submitting Abstracts is February 28th 2009.
The International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) is pleased to announce its 15th annual conference. The conference takes place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 5-8, 2009. The 15th annual conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society is hosted by the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.Deadline for submitting abstracts is postponed to January 19th, 2009, 12 am
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In addition, an additional theme has been added (Track 0)": ‘Responding to the Financial Crisis: Opportunities for Ecological Transition from/within a Collapsed Economy’. The deadline for submitting abstracts to this new theme is February 16th, 2009, 12 am CET.
