10th Global Conference (2011)

10th Global Conference

Friday 8th July 2011 – Sunday 10th July 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Friday 8th July 2011
From 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ram Vemuri

14.00
Session 1: Effective Engagement
Chair: Steven Gans

Market Driven Spaces versus Democratic Spaces for access, use and distribution of resources: changing contours of citizenship under globalization: A study of Special Economic Zones in India
Neha Vaddiparti

Global Environmental Citizenship – The Polish Approach
Rafal Wonicki

Systematic Stakeholder Engagement a Key for assessing and managing changes in the global societal environment
Barbara Dubach

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Competing Tensions between Tradition and Conventions
Chair: William Lynch

The Dark Matter of traditional knowledge and complementary medicine in law; prospects and challenges in developing countries
Al Hanisham Mohd Khalid

The Environmental Justice of water (re) Distribution: An institutional analysis of the inter-basin transfer of the Sao Francisco River in Brazil
Philippe Roman

Why should we obey the rules of climate change regimes?
Dong Il Kim

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Saturday 9th July 2011
09.00
Session 3: Patterns of Thought
Chair: Chiara Perucca

Sustainability and the Hegemony of Technique: Towards a new approach to cultural sustainability
M. Reza Shirazi

Environmental conceptions in public policies and local perspectives for spatial justice in France
Guillaume Faburel

Sustainability the Global Question
Mohandas Kalipurayath

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Transition Dynamics
Chair: Barbara Dubach

Genetically Modified Soybeans in Brazil
Kelly Archambeault

Integrating social and cultural perspectives in natural systems understanding water social management among Indigenous Munda people living in the Sundarban Forest, Bangladesh
Chiara Perucca

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Environmental Synergies
Chair: Philippe Roman

Multifarious networks in climate change research: scientists, policy makers and the public
Ana Delicado

The Community Power Sector and Environmental Justice in Ontario, Canada
Cheryl Teelucksingh

The emerging environmental protest in China and its impacts on the growth of Chinese civil society
Zhou Qian

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Responses to Climate Change
Chair: Rafal Wonicki

British Climate Change Act 2008 as a legislative Stimulus towards more sustainable economies in EU member states – legal challenges and opportunities
Kristina Sabova

Think Locally and act globally: changing the climate change from local authorities
Susana Borras Pentinat

Climate Change and Fuel Poverty: Local Government Responses in Scotland
William Lynch

17.30
Sessions End

Sunday 10 July 2011
09.00
Session 7(a): Systemizing Justice and Participation
Chair: Ana Delicado

Climate Change Score Card – A participatory tool to promote citizen centred environmental governance
Suresh Raghavan

Inter specific, Intergenerational justice in African Thought: Implications for Policy
Kevin Behrens

A strategy for Sustainable Nicosia
Kurt Sevinc

Session 7(b): Back to the basics
Chair: Dong Il kim

Rethinking Things: A call to let things speak in the new political ecology
Steven Gans

The role of decentralised energy in delivering ‘just sustainability’ in Northern European Cities – a review of theory and practice
Elaine Morrison

Copenhagen failure and North-South dynamics
Teea Kortetmaki

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8(a): Changes to Fundamentals
Chair: Suresh Raghavan

Global environmental justice and global income policy: how recent developments affect the political-economic support basis for a global income policy.
Ton Bührs

Decentralisation and the Cultural Politics of Natural Resource Management in Kerala, India
Tamara Nair

Environmental Justice and Divisions of labour in the Australian Low Pay Sector
Helen Masterman-Smith

Session 8(b): Urbanising and Globalising Justice
Chair: Laurent Beduneau – Wang

Trade and Environmental Citizenship?
Sherrie Baver

Govern mentality and Environmental justice in the city
Jeffrey Masuda

Negotiating green urbanism in imagined communities
Thor Kerr

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Transformations
Chair: Kevin Behrens

Women and Sustainable Ecosystem: A Case study in India
Indira Sinha

Complementary Currencies Associated with to Improve Local Financing of Sustainable Cities and Communities
Laurent Beduneau – Wang

Civil Society Empower Communities to Demand for Environmental Justice
Harriet Nalukenge

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: Regroupings
Chair: S. Ram Vemuri

Presentations by Chairs of simultaneous sessions 5 to 9 inclusive

17.30
Development meeting and closing remarks

18.00
Conference Ends