9th Global Conference
Sunday 11th July 2010 – Tuesday 13th July 2010
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
Sunday 11th July 2010
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Ram Vemuri and Erika Techera
14.00
Session 1: Perspectives on Science and Climate Change
Chair: Erika Techera
Nature and Agency: Climate as a Facilitator of Posthumanist Assemblage Making
Vanessa Burns
Promise and Shortcomings of Efficient, Low-carbon Economies in the Pursuit of Global Environmental Justice
Olivia Bina and Francesco La Camera
Climate Change and Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science
Ruth Irwin
The Climate Change Debate: Where do we Go from Here?
Linda Hadfield
16.00
Tea
16.30
Session 2: Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change
Chair: Ram Vemuri
Environmental Justice: The Ecofeminist Perspective
Irene Hoetzer
Vulnerability of a Climate Change Affected Region in Bangladesh: Focus on Environmental Justice
Neelopal Adri
The Cultural and Spiritual Impacts of Climate Change
Erika Techera
Climate Contracts
Eric Orts
18.30
Notices and Announcements
18.40
Wine Reception
19.00
Dinner
Monday 12th July 2009
09.00
Session 3: Education for Sustainability
Chair: Linda Hadfield
Environmental Justice and Education: Transformative Perspectives
Sylvia Pierosara
Achieving Envionmental Literacy through Educational Outreach in an Undergraduate Environmental Science Program
Janet Paladino
The Historical Homeland of Environmental Justice Studies
Anastasia Nikolopoulou
Exploring the Impact of Higher Education Experiences on Student’s Ecological Worldviews
Kerry Shephard
11.00
Coffee
11.30
Workshop: Kerry Shephard
Exploring the Roles of Higher Education as Critic and Conscience of Society
12.00
Session 4: Legal Governance Issues
Chair: Lisa Palframan
Rural Landholders in Queensland Australia: Legislation, Litigation and Litigants
Jo Kehoe
Hunting Laws and the Animals
Christos Tsaitouridis
13.00
Lunch
14.15
Session 5: Perspectives on Energy and Water
Chair: Jo Kehoe
Environmental Justice and the Impact of Uncertainty
Chris Groves
Sharing and Shaping Perceptions: Dialogues with Expertise in Participatory Design of Renewable Energy Technologies
Carla Alvial Palavicino
Eradicating the Water and Sanitation Crises via Unification
Phillip Thompson
The Justice of Water Conservation: NGOs and Civil Society
Lexine Hansen and John Kerr
16.15
Tea
16.45
Session 6: Empowering Communities through Public Participation
Chair: Phillip Thompson
NGOs’ Involvement in Developing the Aarhus Convention: A Case of a UNECE Conference
Radoslaw Stech
Public Participation and Environmental Justice Legislation in the UK: The Aarhus Convention and the Planning Act 2008
Matthew Cotton
The Community’s Right to Know about Toxic Spills in the American Legislation
Bernado Motta
18.15
Sessions End
Tuesday 13th July 2009
09.00
Session 7: Environmental Justice and Sustainable Societies
Chair: Kerry Shephard
A Role for Corporate Sustainability Strategy in the Garden City
Lisa Palframan and Xiaoqiang Zhang
Architecture as a Public Device for Socio-spatial Justice
Maria Prieto
Succeed through Science? Science, Technology and Innovation as a Central Theme in a Scenarios Exercise to Guide a Societally-centred Approach to Environmental Management
Gary Kass
A Study of Sustainable Social Progress in the Kingdom of Tonga
Tim Taylor
11.00
Coffee
11.30
Session 8: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production
Chair: Janet Paladino
Inequality, Exclusion and Discrimination: The Mexican Biosafety Law
Wendy Cano
A Bio-integrated Model of Food Production Using Scientific and Traditional knowledge in Ciudad de Carmen, Mexico
Miguel René Morales Garza, Luis Domínguez-Trejo and Wendy Cano Domínguez
“Il Faut Réculer Pour Mieux Sauter.” (You Have to Step Back to Jump Further): Agriculture, Sustainability and Community Empowerment & Resiliency in Urban Environments
Joshua Edward
13.00
Lunch
14.15
Session 9: Community Attitudes and Responsibilities
Chair: Bernard Motta
Practising Citizenship and Advocacy within Contemporary Environmentalist Organizations and Movements
Yulia Maleta
Agent Orange Victims: A Neglected Warning
Chi Le Thao Vu
Exploring the Relationship between Remittances and Sustainability through the Lens of Attitudes towards Waste in the Kingdom of Tonga
Nina Srot
The Role of Citizenship Responsibility for the Environment within Individualised Societies
Lukas Kala
16.15
Tea
16.45
Thematic Reflections and Publications Workshop
17.30
Development Meeting
18.00
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