2nd Global Conference (2003)

2nd Global Conference:
Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship

Thursday 13th February – Saturday 15th February 2003
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 (23/01/03)

Thursday 13th February

Keynote Address
Professor Andrew Dobson
Ecological Citizenship and Global Justice: Two Paths Converging?

Tea

Session 1: Consumption, Renewal and Communities

Judith Bush
Quality of Life, Neighbourhood Renewal and Environmental Justice: Examining Community Responses to Environmental Degradation

Wicaksono Sarosa
Infrastructure-Based Community Development. Participant-Observation of Three Cases in Rural Villages of Java, Indonesia.

Anne Haugestad
Norwegians as Global Neighbours: A Presentation of the Fair Share Approach to Globally Responsible Consumption

Wine Reception & Dinner

Session 2: Buildings, Land and Efficiency

Andrew Brown
Building Design and Ecological Citizenship

Maxwell Chiazor
Developing Land Information Systems in Nigeria: The Lagos Experience

Roselle Miko
Making the Canadian National Building Code Go Further: Managing Perceptions Surrounding Energy Efficient Building Processes and Technologies
Friday 14th February

Session 3: Technocracy, Rights and Sustainable Innovation

Lucy Ford
The Power of Technocracy: A Critical Analysis of the Global Political Economy of Sustainable Development

Bob Fowles
Meeting Human and Ecological Rights in Creating the Sustainable Built Environment

Damian White
A Critical Sociology of Sustainable Technological Innovation

Coffee

Session 4: Insurance, Law and Sustainable Technology

Michael Huber
Insurance as Technology. The Example of Flood Insurance in the UK

Paul Toyne
Law, Technology and the Environment in Natural Resource Management: Forestry & Illegal Logging

Paul Street
Foreign Direct Investment, Sustainable Development and Technology Transfer

Lunch

Session 5: Technology, Justice & Democracy

Andrew Brown
Technology and Deep Ecology

On-Kwok Lai
Hyper-Linking Ecological Justice and Global Netizenship beyond Cyberspace? Transational Ecological Activism in/beyond Asia.

Robert Woog
Globalisation – Democracy in Decline

Afternoon Tea

Session 6: Development, Health & Disorders

Christa Foley
Defining the Impacts of Development on Cultural Health of Aboriginal Communities

Ivan Ivanov
Public Concerns, Attitudes and Behaviour Related to Environment and Health in the Post-Communist Societies

Shirley Thompson
Environmental Justice in a Toxic Community: Community Struggles with Environmtnal Health Disorders in Nova Scotia

Dinner

Session 7: Sustainable Transport Systems

Mark Keppens, Evy Crals & Lode Vereeck
Tradable Fuel Permits: Towards a Sustainable Road Transport System

Imran Muhammad
Time to Change the Old Paradigm; Promoting Sustainable Urban Transport in Lahore, Pakistan
Saturday 15th February

Session 8: Polution, Energy and Global Warming

George Gonzales
The Politics of Air Pollution: Local Growth, Ecological Modernization & Symbolic Inclusion

Beth Henning
Wind Energy: Legal Stumbling Blocks to Implementation in the US

Lilia Pnjoyan & Valerik Hakobyan
Technology, Global Warming and Energy

Coffee

Session 9: Waste, Injustice and Economics

Patricia Bell
Living with Pollution – How Household Dirt and Waste are Dealt with in a Culturally Mixed Industrial Town in Germany

Ruby Pap
Solid Waste Management in Jamaica: Household and Institutional Behaviours

J Wulfhorst
Tribal Sovereignty, Injustice & America’s Nuclear Waste

Lunch

Session 10: Politics, Ethics and Risk

Virginie Maris
Question of Environmental Ethics: From Risk Management to Environmental Consciousness

Mary Richardson
Ethical and Equity Issues in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Trees in Canada

Peter Robbins & Elisa Pieri
GM Scientists and the Politics of the Risk Society

Achim Schlueter
Public Perceptions, Technology and the Distribution of Environmental Risks: Views from a Producer Town

Afternoon Tea

Development Meeting

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