4th Global Conference

Tuesday 5th July - Thursday 7th July 2005
Mansfield College, Oxford

Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

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)

Tuesday 5th July 2005
from 09.15
Registration

10.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher & Ram Vemuri

10.45
Session 1: Conceptualising Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Participation
Chair: Ram Vemuri

Peggy Lobb
Is Sustainability Possible in a World of Poverty and Conflict?

Shankara Babu
Environmental Justice? Is it Another Facet of Societal Inequity? Case Study in Phoenix, Arizona

Jerome Rajnauth
Trinidad and Tobago’s Sustainability Challenges

Mark Starmanns
Conceptualizing the Effectiveness of Corporate Civil Society Relationship

12.45
Lunch

14.00
Session 2: Missing Elements, Imposed challenges and Observations
Chair: Lloyd Steffen

Katherine Royse
Can Sustainable Development be Achieved when Geo-Science Issues are Ignored?

Gabriela Sabau
Moral Knowledge: The Forgotten Dimension of Sustainability.

Heike Köckler
Coping Strategies of Households Exposed to Unequal Environmental Quality in Germany

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 3: The Fixes
Chair: Katherine Royse

Mike Marshall
Technology, Sustainability and Governance

Alex Lautensach
Agenda for Curriculum Reform: Towards Sustainability

Kel Dummett
Corporate Social Responsibility: Is it the Answer?

17.30
Notices/Announcements

17.45
Wine Reception

Wednesday 6th July 2005

09.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 4A: Partnerships
Chair: Lucy Ford

Zafar Zahid
State-Civil Society Marriage: Calculus of Changing Zero Sum to non-zero sum game- Evidence from Pakistan

Monali Ranade
ISO 14001 and Scientific Activism

Kerry Joy Ard
Conventions and Success: E Waste and the Basel convention

Session 4B: Ethics, Rights and Wrongs
Chair: Peggy Lobb

Lloyd Steffen
What Religion Contributes to an Environmental Ethic

Dan Perry
Environmental Wrongs and Animal Rights

Sabina W. Lautensach & Alexander Lautensach
Human Rights, State Sovereignty and the Global Commons

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 5A: Introspections
Chair: Kel Dummett

Mark Beatham
Harmonics: The Emerging Field and its Ecological Promise

Margarita García Notario
Arne Naess’s Concept of the Ecological Self: A Way to achieve Healthier Self

Jutta Nikel
Ascribing Responsibility

Session 5B: Sow and Ye Shall Reap
Chair: Don Perry

Sarah Lieberman
Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Public Participation

Elisabeth Abergel
Sowing the Seeds of New Revolution: China’s Development of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Global Politics.

Sneha Sunder & Clifford Machoka
The Role of Environmental Protest: Forms of Resistance to GM, Their Significance and Impact: the Videsh in India

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 6: Educating Rita
Chair: Sabina Lautensach

Mark Rigstad
Reclaiming Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Urban Environmental Reconstruction

James Hazelton
Incorporating Sustainability into Accounting Education

Michael Tarrant
A Global Studies Abroad Program Sustaining Human Societies and the Natural Environment

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 7: Resistance, Risk and Action
Chair: Kerry Joy Ard

Michael Dorsey
The Promise and Threat of Climate Justice: Geographies of Resistance in the Context of Uneven Development.

Debora Halbert
Resistance is Fertile: The commodification of life and Environmental Protest in the 21st Century

Paul Anderson
What Rights are Eclipsed when Risk is Defined by Corporatism? Governance and GM Food

17.30
Sessions End

Thursday 7th July
09.30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 8A: Regulation and Autonomy
Chair: James Hazelton

Dzvenyslava Kachur
Regulation of Treating with GMO’s in Transition Countries

Lotte Asveld
Autonomy and Risk: Criteria for Proof of Harm in International Trade

Session 8B: Industry, Public Space and Consultation
Chair: Michael Tarrant

Chie Ujita, Liz Sharp & Peter Hopkinson
Action Against Irreversible Risks: The impacts of GM court cases on the UK beekeeping and biotechnology industries

Cheryl Pilliner-Reeves
Urban Regeneration of a Public Space using Environmental Analysis and Public consultation as a Design Guide

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 9: Innovations and Design
Chair: Monali Ranade

Alex Plows
Convergence: 'Nanobiotech' and the Politics of Technology

Lucy Ford
Permacultures of Transistance in a Globalising World? An Examination of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)

12.00
Development Meeting
Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri

12.30
Lunch and Conference Close