3rd Global Conference (2004)

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.

Thursday 12th February 2004

From 12.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Dr Rob Fisher

2.15pm
Session 1: Transformation, Education, and Allegiances
Chair: Rob Fisher

Hans Peter Hansen & Laura Tolnov Clausen
The Democratic Transformation of Nature Conservation and Public Planning.

S. Ram Vemuri
Implications for Environmental Education from Wildlife Valuations

John Cumbler
Toward a World to Which Both Environmentalist and Labor Activists Can Hold Allegiance

3.45pm
Tea

4.15pm
Session 2: The Future & Affordability of Sustainable Development
Chair: J.D. Wulfhorst

David Preston
The Future of Sustainability – Dutch Shit or Fcuk?

Ralf Brand
Co-Evolution Toward Sustainable Development

10 minutes of questions to the first 2 presenters

Evy Crals & Lode Vereeck
Sustainable entrepreneurship in SMEs. Theory and Practice

Alison Jordan
The California Wine Community’s Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices –From Ground to Bottle

10 minutes of discussion to the second 2 presenters

20 minutes general discussion

6.15pm
Wine Reception

7.00pm
Dinner

Friday 13th February 2004
9.00am
Session 3: Changing Our Models and Ways of Thinking
Chair: Makere Stewart-Harawira

Andrew Brown
Ecology and Intellectual Health

David Levick
Fractality: a Key to Global Citizenship and Ecological Justice

Lawrence Harvey
Resounding Cities: acoustic ecology and virtual technologies in design education

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 4: GM: Precautions, Risks & Decision-Making
Chair: Hugo Alrøe

Meira Hanson
Making sense of the precautionary principle: GM as a case in point

Sarah Hartley
A Comparison of Policy Responses to Environmental Risk: The case of GM crops in Canada and the UK

Elisa Pieri
The GM Nation Debate: Participatory decision-making?’

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Nature, the Natural and Education
Chair: S Ram Vemuri

Helena Motoh
Remaking of Nature: Early Modern Alternatives

Durojaye Soewu
Conservation Awareness Education: A Panacea for our Ailing Environment

Belgin Gocmen
An Investigation on the Environmental Awareness of Primary School Students in Turkey

Session 5b: GM, Biotechnology and Alternatives
Chair: Lawrence Harvey

Jobst Conrad
Differentiation in Innovation Strategies: Plant Biotechnology R&D Projects of a Regional Research Network

Catherine Phillips
Conserving and Growing Alternatives: Theorizing Seed Saving and Exchange Networks

Dean Lauer
Phenomenology and Genetic Engineering

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 6a: Organic Agriculture, Ecology and Sustainability
Chair: David Preston

Kuo-Hsien Chen
Knowledge-based Economy, Urban Planning, and Sustainable Development

Feliu Lopez-i-Gelats
A Discursive Approach to Agricultural and Rural Policy in Europe

Hugo Alrøe
Organic Agriculture in a Global Perspective

Session 6b: Land, Regions and Public Spaces
Chair: Anne Haugestad

Chella Rajan
Public Avenues to Private Spaces: Regulating the Car

Makere Stewart-Harawira
The Political Economy of Freshwater Rivers and the Commodification of the Sacred in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Ilmars Skards
Characteristics of land regions of Latvia, which in the referendum of 20th of October gave less or more votes for entry into EU

Muammer Tuna
Public Environmental Attitudes in Turkey

6.00pm
Sessions End

7.00pm
Dinner

Saturday 14th February 2004
9.00am
Session 7: Contamination, E-waste and Secrecy
Chair: Andrew Brown

Hakima Althalb
Soil Contamination with Some Petroleum Products and Lead

Sharon Manalac
Electronic Wastes: A Threat in the Future

J D Wulfhorst
Shadows of Secrecy and the Nuclear Power Renaissance

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 8: Markets, Economies and Change
Chair: John Cumbler

Jon Bryan
Job Losses with A Rising GDP: An Unsustainable Mix for the U.S. Economy

Anne K. Haugestad
Decent Competition: The Norms of Football and other Schemes of Cooperation

Ilmars Skards, Ilga Karlsone
Stress situation of residents of Latvia in transition period of planned to market economy

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 9: Societies, Boundaries and Equity
Chair: Catherine Phillips

Hanneke Kruize
Efficiency Versus Equity: Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy in the Netherlands

Amanda Roberts
The Role of Transboundary Natural Resource Management In Peace Building Across International Borders

Ella Skorcova
Social Globalization in Latvia

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Development Meeting

4.30pm
Conference Close