6th Global Conference
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Monday 2nd July - Thursday 5th
July 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford
Conference Programme, Abstracts and 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.1.9b)
Monday 2nd July
from 10:00
Registration
11.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri
11:30
Session 1: Values, Technology and Justice
Chair: S. Ram Vemuri
Environmental Ethics: Core Concepts and Values
Mark Dixon
Advanced Technology Paths to Intergenerational Justice
Rasmus Karlsson
12.30
Lunch
14:00
Session 2: Identity, Adaptation and Land Tenure
Chair: Linda Hadfield
Authentic Places, Local Identity and Environmental Discourses
Chiara Certomà
Adaptations to Environmental Sustainability: The Story of the Delta
Farmland and Wildlife Trust
Elaine Anderson
The Legacy of Land Tenure in Queensland Australia: The Search for a
Cooperative Approach
Jo Kehoe
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 3: Pedagogy, Citizenship and Conflict
Chair: Mark Dixon
Ecocomposition Pedagogy: The Environmental Imperative for L’écriture
Féminine
Mary Stroud
Building Citizenship on Environmental Local Problems in Mexico
Medardo Tapia Uribe
Understanding Rural Community Conflict Using Network Analysis: A
Case Study of a Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in the Southwestern United
States
Susan E. Dawson and Gary E. Madsen
17:30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
16.45
Dinner
Tuesday 3rd July 2007
09:00
Session 4: Law, Politics and Environmental Policy
Chair: Rasmus Karlson
Customary Law and Community Based Conservation of Marine Areas in the
South Pacific
Erika Techera
Cape Wind: A Case Study in the Politics of Technology Choice
John C. Berg
Environmental Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post–socialism
Development and Local Governance.
Vanesa Castán Broto and Claudia Carter
10:30
Morning coffee
11:00
Session 5: Climate Change, Psychology and Adversarial Attitudes
Chair: Susan Dawson
Compensation, Climate Change, and Duties Between States
Joanna Burch Brown
The Role of Psychology in our Response to Global Warming
Jo Thakker
Science vs. Society? Adversarial Attitudes in the Understanding of GM
Linda Hadfield
12:30
Lunch
14:00
No formal programme this afternoon. Time may be used for sight-seeing.
There will also be an organised tour.
Wednesday July 4, 2007
09:00
Session 6: Morals, GM and Market Growth
Chair: Joanna Burch Brown
Dianoetic Virtues in Addressing a Morally Correct Treatment of GM
Rafaela Hillerbrand
Can the Peasantry Decide? : A Sociological Study of the Adoption and
Impact of Genetically Modified Seeds in Warangal, India
Ashok Kumbamu
The Market of GM between Economic Growth and Ecological Development
Nicoleta Dospinescu
10:30
Morning cofee
11:00
Session 7: Audits, Ethics and Social Responsibility
Chair: Jo Thakker
Reporting Sustainable Development in the Service of Social Responsibility
for a Business School
Fabrice Mauleon
Sustainability in Higher Education: Engaging Students in Campus Environmental
Audits
Stephen Woolpert
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Ethics: The Indian
Context
Vikramaditya Singh Malik and Roshan Santhalia
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 8: Children, Communities and Environmental Awareness
Chair: Nicoleta Dospinescu
Exacerbation of Childhood Asthma among Children Living in Highly – Trafficked
Areas: An Unintended Public Health Consequence of Diesel-Emission Control
Technology
Martha E. Richmond
Community for Sustainability: Some Initial Findings on the Influence
of Community-based Organizations on Individuals
Lucie Middlemiss
Environmental Awareness Education at Ritsumeikan's Primary, Secondary
and Tertiary Institutions in Japan
Subana Shanmuganathan
15:30
Afternoon Tea
16.00
Reflection Panel
A session where there is an opportunity to revisit and engage with the
themes emerging from the day’s discussions.
Thursday 5th July 2007
09:30
Session 9: Rights, Movements and Cooperative Approaches
Chair: Vikramaditya Singh Malik
Fundamental Environmental Rights in EU Law
Sofia de Abreu Ferreira
India’s Environmental Movements – The Case of NBA
Shulan Zhang
10:30
Morning Coffee
11:00
Session 10: Knowledge, Development and the Struggle for Justice
Chair: Stephen Woolpert
Valuating
Traditional Knowledge in Economic Development
Melisande Middleton
Challenges of Using Traditional Knowledge for Environmental Justice
S. Ram Vemuri
Knowledge and Valuation in Environmental Justice Struggles
Eurig Scandrett
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 11: Common Property and Pro-Poor Environmental Citizenship
Chair: Jo Kehoe
Management of Common Property Resources and Institutional Frame-works
Gajavelli V. S.
Developing a Pro-poor Environmental Citizenship Framework: Re-linking
Subjectivity, Institutions and Structure in Sustainable Water Management
Sam Wong
University Town: The University of British Columbia's Commitment to Sustainability
Dennis Pavlich
15:30
Tea
16.00
Development Meeting
Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri
16.30
Conference Close