5th Global Conference (2006)

Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

Monday 3rd July – Thursday 6th July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford

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 (v.1.8)

Monday 3rd July 2006
from 10.00

Registration

11.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri

11.15
Session 1: Targets, Laws and Global Warming
Chair: Ram Vemuri

The Mobilisation of Norms for Legitimacy in the Global Warming Debate
Cassandra Star

How many Koalas are there on Kangaroo Island?
Sarah Wilks

The Final Frontier: International Environmental Law and Multinational Corporations
Kristy Buckley

12:45
Lunch

14.00
Session 2: Footprints, Society and Ethnic Communities
Chair: Janet Brewer

A Road to Sustainability? Ecological Footprints in the Himalayas
Jonathan Demenge

Search for a Theory Linking Environment and Society
Doriana Dariot

Corporation and Ethnic Communities – A Need for Introspection
Abir Roy & Anil Raj

15:30
Afternoon Tea

16.00
Session 3: Citizens, Communities and Participation
Chair: Sarah Wilks

Environmental Justice: Bridging the Gap Between Experts and Laymen
Kim Loyens

Knowledge Production and citizen’s participation in the implementation of the EU water framework directive in Finland.
Timo Peuhkuri

Promoting Environmental Citizenship? A Critique of the Moral Persuasiveness of Direct Action Environmental Protest
Bindi Daly

17.30
Notices/Announcements

17:45
Wine Reception

18:30
Dinner

Tuesday 4th July 2006
09.00
Session 4: Paradigms, Sustainability and Development
Chair: Kriss Kevorkian

The Convergence of Three Environmental Paradigms in Major Transportation Project
Melita Elmore

Empowerment of Professionals as a Strategy for Effective Sustainability of the Built Environment
Joseph Akin Fadamiro

Sustainable Development, Bioethics and ‘Vulnerable’ Human Subjects: Ethics of Sustainable Economic Enrichment of Diverse traditional Cultures Participating in Pharmaceutical Research
Janet Brewer

10:30
Coffee and Morning musings

11.00
Session 5: Public Debate, Participation and Employment
Chair: Melita Elmore

The Public Debate on Genetic Modification (GM) – Varieties of Understanding
Linda Hadfield

Going Local? Public Participation and Future Mobility in Ireland
Henrike Rau and John McDonagh

Globalization and the Global Commons: The Environmental Impact of outsourcing US jobs to Developing Nations.
Shankara Babu

12:30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 6(a): Rights, Justice and Regulation
Chair: Stephen Woolpert

Carbon Justice? The Case Against Equal per capita Emissions
Derek Bell

Using more Effective Conflict Management Processes to Achieve Sustainable Outcomes
Tania Sourdin

Global Environmental Governance: Mapping Unequal and Contested Terrain
Andrew Deak

Session 6(b): Rights, Property and Social Sustainability
Chair: Kristy Buckley

Examining the Social Approach to Environmentally Sustainable Architecture in India
Deepika Mathur

Water Rights are Human Rights
Maria Baldwin

Owning Nature: The Case if Hegel
Simon Hailwood

15:30
Afternoon Tea

16.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7(a): Regulation, Dimensions and Impediments
Chair: Judith Andre

The Regulation of Genetically Modified Plant Resources in India: Epistemological Frameworks and Assumptions
Janak Rana Ghose

Ethical, Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Genetic Modification
Alastair S. Gunn

Legal Impediments to the Survival of Organic Production?
Martin Phillipson

Session 7(b): Conservation, Targets and Community Based Management
Chair: Maie Kiisel

Utilisation of Voluntary Conservation Agreements in Australia: A Perspective on Queensland
Jo Kehoe

Getting the Message: Audience Resonance with Australian Climate Change Campaigns
Nina Hall and Cassandra Star

In the Same Boat? Fisheries Privatization, Community-Based Management and First Nation/non-First Nation Alliances in Nova Scotia
Martha Stiegman

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 5th July 2006
09.00
Session 8: Environmental Education and Forward Thinking
Chair: Doriana Dariot

‘Environment’ and ‘Sustainable Development’: Investigating the Content and Social Dimension of Two Central Environmental Education Concepts among University Students
Athanasia Chatzifotiou

Environmental Education in a Course on Ethics and International Development
Judith Andre

Forward Thinking: A Teaching Project
David Hunter

10:30
Morning Coffee

11.00
Session 9: Indicators, Factors and Assessment
Chair: Derek Bell

Action Research on Sustainable Development Indicators: Stakeholder Participation and Indicator Selection
Paul Kearney

Factor Analysis of Factors Influencing on Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture Among Wheat Farmers of LORESTAN Province.
Farhad Lashgarara

A Critical Review of the Adequacy of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports – Evidence from Pakistan
Obaidullah Nadeem

12:30
Lunch

14.00
Session 10: Sustainable Development and Environmental Impacts
Chair: Kim Loyens

The Sustainability Analysis Framework: A Whole of Government Model
Kendal Hodgman

What does REPS tell us about Ireland’s Attitude to, and Understanding of, Sustainability?
John McDonagh

Sustainable Development Aims of the Clean Development Mechanism
Karen Olsen

15:30
Afternoon Tea

16.00
Session 11: Public Participation, Fiscal Systems and Environmental Justice
Chair: Martha Steigman

Public Participation in a Transition Country: The Case of Oil Shale Mining in North-Eastern Estonia
Maie Kiisel

Fiscal Systems for Environmental Justice
Devendra Kumar

Environmental Justice and Hazardous Waste Controversies in Taiwan
Mei-Fang Fan

17.30
Sessions End

Thursday 6th July 2006
09.00
Session 12: Strategies and Corporate Agriculture
Chair: Nina Hall

Reports from session Chair of 7(a)
Judith Andre

Discursive Strategies on GM Policy: Theoretical Assessment and European Comparative Aspects
Eszter Kollar

The Impact of Green Revolution and Corporate Agriculture on Environment and Livelihood in the Context of Sindh, Pakistan
Wali Haider

10:30
Coffee

11.00
Session 13: Environmental Citizenship and Healing
Chair: Tania Sourdin

Reports from Session Chairs of 7(b) and 11(b)
Maie Kiisel and Martha Steigman

Environmental Grief®: Hope and Healing
Kriss Kevorkian

Serena Anderlini D’Onofrio
Gaia: The Politics of Love and the Globe’s Future

12:30
Development Meeting

13:00
Lunch and Conference Close