1st Global Conference (2002)

Thursday 14th February 2002 – Saturday 16th February 2002
Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference Programme and Abstracts
The draft 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 for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Programme Draft 2 (29/01/02)

Thursday 14th February 2002

Keynote Address: ‘The Triple Bottom Line as a Business Basic?’
Professor David Birch, Director, Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin University, Melbourne

Tea

Session 1: Communities, Sustainability and Land Preservation
Beth Henning – ‘Sustainability and the Idea of an Eco-Community’
Indira van’t Klooster – ‘Contrast is a Must! The Architect as ‘Environmentalist’.’
Bruce Weaver – ‘Land Preservation, National Parks, and the Human-Land Relationship’

Wine Reception

Session 2: Environmental Justice and Nuclear Waste
Zada Lipman – ‘Globalisation, Environmental Justice and the Hazardous Waste Trade’
Jouni Ponnikas – ‘The Role of Local Inhabitants in Decision-making : a Case of Nuclear Waste Disposal’

Friday 15th February

Session 3: Justice, Conflict and Environmental Needs
Judith Morrison – ‘Practical Applications of Conflict Theory’
Su-ming Khoo – ‘Global & Local Justice: Environmental Activism & the Democratisation of Development on Malaysia’
Bonnie VandeSteeg – ‘Conservation, Land and Power: The Need for Environmental Justice’

Coffee

Session 4: Fair Trade and Corporate Reporting
Gavin Fridell – ‘Fair Trade and the International Moral Economy: Within and Against the Market’
Leigh Holland – ‘Environmental Disclosures in Corporate Environmental Reports in the UK’

Lunch

Session 5: Biotechnology, Human Rights, and Global Markets
Philipp Aerni – ‘Stakeholder Attitudes on Agricultural Bio-Technology in Developing Countries’
Kristen Hessler – ‘Human Rights and Biotechnology’
David Smith – ‘Dysfunctional Technology Transfer: The Challenge of Global Markets’

Afternoon Tea

Session 6: Education & Environmental Justice
Andrew Brown – ‘Sustainable Earth: Deep Ecology and Public Health – A Case Study in Educational Design’
John Robinson & Tony Shallcross – ‘To Become a Nobody One Must First Become a Somebody: Education as Environmental Justice’
Tony Shallcross & John Robisnon – ‘Being as the Becoming of the Possible; The Goldilocks dilemma the problem of appropriate scale for decision-making. A theory of action for achieving environmentally just education.’

Session Ends

Saturday 16th February

Session 7: Ethics and Environmental Justice
Asghar Ali – A Conceptual Framework for Environmental Justice based on Shared but Differentiated Responsibilities
John Callewaert – ‘The Multiple and Competing Conceptions of Environmental Justice’
Anders Melin – ‘The Method of Effective Equilibrium as a Means for Bridging the Gap between Environmental Politics and Environmental Ethics’

Coffee

Session 8: Law and Environment
John Mubangizi – ‘International Environmental Law and the South African Legal System’
Paul Street – ‘Law, Civil Society, and Transnational Environmental Advocacy Networks’
Rosalind Malcom – ‘The new Integrated Product Policy paradigm and the Achievement of the Objectives of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development’

Lunch

Session 9: Issues in Citizenship
Kersty Hobson – ‘Environmental Citizenship and Public ‘Environmental’ Concerns’
Stuart Shulman – ‘Digital Citizenship: A Pathway to Environmental Justice’
Afternoon Tea
Session 10: Workshop
Courtney Barrick, Jonah Katz, Cassie Kerner, Izaak Knox, Paritosh Srivastava, Cary Waxler
Business Meeting
a) e-mail discussion group
b) publication process
c) e-journal
d) next conference

Conference Closes