Call for Papers

WATER POLICY DYNAMICS IN STATE-CENTRIC REGIMES

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), defined by the Global Water Partnership as “a process which promotes the co-ordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems,” (GWP TAC 2000) is a concept that has gained international attention since water experts and advocates worldwide convened and agreed upon the Dublin Principles in preparation for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio deJaneiro.

The Dublin Principles promote awareness-raising among policy makers and the general public, taking decisions at the lowest appropriate level, full public consultation and involvement of users in planning and implementation of projects, empowering women to participate in water resources programs in self-defined ways, and recognizing the basic right of human beings to have affordable access to clean water and sanitation. The concept of IWRM that came forward from these principles has been understood as having normative and strategic value for providing a framework to achieve sustainable resource management, which in turn can be operationalized through different types of approaches. Nonetheless, at the center of IWRM’s strongly normative global discourse is an emphasis upon distinctly society-centric assumptions of how governance is carried out within a nation-state (Mollinga 2008).

Society-centric theories of the state rely on a number of assumptions: liberal individual-rights and the protection of those rights; the competition of individuals maximizing their self-interest as a driving economic and social force; and the neutral role of the state in regulating the free market to coordinate the allocation of resources, and in arbitrating between competing forces in society to achieve the common good. Given these assumptions concerning the relationship between government and society, any given policy can be traced back to demands placed upon the government by competing interest groups within the national political system – the source of authority for policy formulation inherently comes from within society.

The society-centric assumptions upon which IWRM policies tend to be based can serve as a methodological challenge within states where there is an empirical reality of state-centric processes. In such polities, the state has some level of autonomy from social and economic forces, and it is assumed to not be neutral in its relationships with organized interests. As such, any given policy can be traced to the active role of government officials seeking to maximize their individual economic welfare and power or to the constraining role of the state’s organizational structure. State-centric theories of the state see the state as an independent variable in explaining political and social events.

Since the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, there has been a push for all countries to adopt policies promoting IWRM. Authoritarian countries are obviously state-centric in their approach. A number of new democracies that have arisen since the end of the Cold War to satisfy domestic and donor pressure have established political hybrids, which Ottoway (2003) calls semi-authoritarian states. These regimes have deliberately combined the rhetoric of liberal democracy while allowing for little real political competition for power. Bell et al (1995) also discuss the phenomenon of Asian democratization as being “illiberal” in that these countries have promoted a non-neutral understanding of the state, with a technocracy managing the developing state as a corporate enterprise, while maintaining control over public space and civil society. Zakaria (1997, 2003) built upon this discussion, broadening its application outside of the Asian context by differentiating constitutional liberty (the protection of individual rights through a legal system that cannot be arbitrarily manipulated by government) from democracy (open, free, and fair elections). Many new democracies, he points out, have promoted the latter without developing the former, defining them as “illiberal democracies.”

A number of authoritarian and semi-authoritarian/illiberal-democratic nations have adopted institutional reforms within their water resources sectors. Such countries as China, Cuba, Egypt, Kyrgistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Uganda have been recognized for instituting national policies, strategies, and laws for water resources development and management, but are nonetheless resistant to fully embracing the society-centric aspects of IWRM reforms. In this Call for Papers, we are seeking to make sense of processes involved in authoritarian regimes with respect to water reforms, drawing from a broad set of cases. As such, we seek not to solve the issue, but rather to open up discussion and explore findings to-date for further analytic development. We are interested in historically and geographically contextualized case studies employing the following types of analysis:

• Actor-oriented analyses (Long and Van der Ploeg 1994) exploring the processes of state-centric regimes in adopting and/or implementing water (including IWRM) policies. This can involve an analysis of bureaucracy or leadership to understand how policy ideas are distilled and how decisions are made in a closed policy regime, bringing light to the policy process and structure-agency issues embedded in decision-making. Such an account of how the normative ideas of IWRM arrive, translate, and are carried out in the technocratic engineering-oriented water bureaucracies of closed regimes greatly informs the discussion.

• Given that the state is not a distinctive actor nor an entity in itself, but rather can be considered to be an ideological project (Abrams 1988), accounting for the resources, strategies, and limitations of non-state actors actively interested in promoting society-centric water policy processes (including IWRM), and their respective experiences and responses to the state-centric structures of governance aids in understanding the dynamics of the relationship between state and society in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes.

In discussing a set of such cases and the questions they present, we would like embark on developing a new vocabulary as well as an innovative set of ideas concerning how the analysis of water policy dynamics can be undertaken in state-centric water policy regimes, as frameworks incorporating society-centric assumptions seem to have clear limits.

The timeline for this Call for Papers is as follows:

Timeline

January 20, 2009: Deadline for submission of abstracts of papers. Abstracts should be submitted to Anjali Bhat at abhat@uni-bonn.de.

February 1, 2009: Selected authors invited to submit papers

March 24-25, 2009: Workshop on Water Policy, IWRM and Authoritarian Regimes
For enquiries or further details, please contact the Workshop organizers.
Peter P. Mollinga, pmollinga@uni-bonn.de
Anjali Bhat, abhat@uni-bonn.de
ZEF (Center for Development Research)
University of Bonn, Germany

References

Abrams, Philip. 1988. “Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977)” Journal of Historical Sociology, 1(1): 58-89.

Belll, Daniel A., David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya, and David M. Jones. 1995. Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Grindle, Merilee S. 1989. “The New Political Economy: Positive Economics and Negative Politics. Policy, Planning and Research Working Papers. WPS 304. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

GWP TAC. 2000. “Integrated Water Resources Management.” Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Background Papers No. 4. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership.

Long, Norman and Jan Douwe van der Ploeg. 1994. “Heterogeneity, Actor and Structure: Towards a Reconstitution of the Concept of Structure”, in David Booth, (ed). Rethinking Social Development: Theory, Research and Practice. Harlow, Essex: Longman Scientific and Technical.

Mollinga, Peter P. 2008. “Water Policy – Water Politics.” In Waltina Scheumann, Susanne Neubert, and Martin Kipping (eds), Water Politics and Development Cooperation: Local Power Plays and Global Governance. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Pp. 1-29.

Ottoway, Marina. Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment ofr International Peace. 2003

Zakaria, Fareed. 1997. “The Rise of Illiberal Democracy.” Foreign Affiars. November.

Zakaria, Fareed. 2003. Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

Policy Forum:

Scaling Up Conservation Practices for

Natural Resource Commons in Africa

A Regional Meeting of the

International Association for the Study of Commons

The President Hotel, Bantry Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

Tuesday, 20 January 2009	Wednesday, 21 January 2009	Thursday, 22 January 2009
Welcoming Keynote Address: Dr. Monde Mayekiso Deputy Director General, Marine and Coastal Management South Africa	Keynote Address: Mrs. Portia Segomelo Deputy Director, Department of Environmental Affairs, Botswana	IASC Presidential Address: Dr. Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Parallel Panel Sessions	Parallel Panel Sessions	Parallel Panel Sessions
Evening Event: Launch of the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Case	Afternoon Plenary Panel: Addressing Historical Discrimination through Commons Policy Discussant: Prof. Lungisile Ntsebeza, University of Cape Town	Afternoon Workshop: Getting our Message to Policy Makers, Community Members and Activists

The objective of this Policy Forum is to share existing research and experiences in the governance of large scale natural resource commons across different ecosystem types in Africa. These include among others: coastal zones; arid grasslands; forests; savannas and forest patches; and floodplain ecosystems. The Policy Forum brings together researchers and policy makers to examine existing research on commons governance. The Policy Forum takes as its starting point the insight that addressing natural resource degradation in Africa means finding ways to identify reproduce and encourage positive practices of commons management across wide scales.

Contacts

Dr. Lapologang Magole, Programme Committee Chair,
Harry Oppenheimer Okavanga Research Centre, University of Botswana
magolel@orc.ub.bw

Dr. Mafaniso Hara, Organizing Committee Chair,
PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
mhara@uwc.ac.za

http://www.plaas.org.za/newsevents/iasc/reg/

Early Registration, before 1 December 2008, USD 180
Late Registration, USD 210
South African Student Registration, USD 25 (bring student card)
On Site Registration available from 08:30 on the 20th January 2009
Lunch is not included in the student registration fee

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
FIRST NOTICE

Property Rights and Sustainability: the evolution of property rights to meet the challenges of sustainability

Thursday 16 - Saturday 18, April 2009 at the University of Auckland.

Theme:

This conference aims to stimulate debate about property rights and the objectives of sustainability. The intention is to provide a forum to discuss how property rights and responsibilities may be applied or adapted in a way that addresses ecological problems in a more coherent and sustainable way.

The conference will consider the nature and function of property rights within the context of contemporary policy, law and ethical discourse. In particular, it will provide a basis for specific examination of how New Zealand can better respond to current problems including:

• land use planning and land use change;
• coastal and marine management;
• water management;
• forestry;
• biodiversity;
• climate change;
• cultural heritage; and
• corporate responsibility.

The target audience for this conference includes academics, law practitioners, judges, politicians, central and local government officers, planners, resource management professionals, members of NGOs, iwi authorities and students.

Programme:

The conference will commence with a public address by Judge Christopher Weeramantry (former Vice President of the International Court of Justice) on the evening of 16 April. The two full days of the conference will begin with keynote and theme papers before the lunch break. Parallel sessions will be held in the afternoons following specific session topics developing the theme of the conference. The Programme will be available on the conference website once finalised.

Confirmed Keynote Conference Speakers:

Judge Christopher Weeramantry (Sri Lanka), Professor Eric Freyfogle (USA), Professor Ron Engel (USA), Professor Sharon Beder (Aust.), Professor Tony Arnold (USA).

Conference website: www.nzcel-conf.auckland.ac.nz.

Call for Papers:

The conference organisers welcome papers on the conference theme. Papers need not have a specific New Zealand focus. Key topics include (but are not limited) to the following:

• Concepts of property rights and responsibilities;
• Property rights in land and natural resources;
• Managing of 'free' resources;
• Land use;
• Water management;
• Climate change responses;
• Marine environment;
• Maori and indigenous concepts of property;
• Heritage protection;
• Coastal management;
• Forestry;
• Public access; and
• Corporate responsibility.

Submission Process:

1. Abstracts should be received by 1 December 2008.
2. Abstracts must be of 250-300 words and contain the following information; a. Name, affiliation, postal address and email address;
   b. Title of paper;
   c. List of key words that best describe the paper; and
   d. For collaborative papers, the name of the presenter of the paper
3. Please submit your proposal by email to k.j.kilgour@paradise.net.nz in MSWord
4. You will be notified of acceptance of your paper via email early January 2009.

Further Information

For conference information, contact the Conference Organiser - Jane Kilgour at k.j.kilgour@paradise.net.nz. For queries relating to the theme and content of the conference papers, please contact David Grinlinton (d.grinlinton@quckland.ac.nz) or Prue Taylor (prue.taylor@auckland.ac.nz).

Please note: Presenters will be responsible for their own conference expenses.
Registration details will be available on the conference website at:
www.nzcel-conf.auckland.ac.nz

NEW MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY JOURNAL LAUNCH

Coriolis: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies is seeking English language scholarly manuscripts for publication in a new on-line, fully indexed journal published in conjunction with the National Maritime Digital Library, hosted at Mystic Seaport with support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation.

Named after the physical forces that drive global ocean currents and human activities on the seas, Coriolis welcomes studies in history, literature, art, music, archaeology, and environmental studies from researchers all over the world. The journal particularly seeks anglophonic manuscripts from scholars working outside the North Atlantic/North American regions, including Africa, the Indian Ocean basin, Australia, the Pacific basin, and South America. Papers that explore interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Submitted manuscripts will be fully peer-reviewed by university faculty and researchers active in the manuscript's relevant field.

Coriolis will launch in February of 2009 and can be found at http://ijms.nmdl.org.

For more information, contact:
Paul O'Pecko (paul.opecko@mysticseaport.org) or Andrew German (andy.german@mysticseaport.org)
Editors
Mystic Seaport Museum

Section Editors:

History:
Joshua Smith, Associate Professor of Humanities, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Arts (Literature, Art, Music):
Daniel Brayton, Assistant Professor of English and American Literatures, Middlebury College

Environmental Studies:
Matthew McKenzie, Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut

IASC Conference Discount Form

From Earthscan

Many thanks to everyone who came to visit our stand at the IASC 2008 conference earlier this month. We hope you found the event as enjoyable and productive as we did. A number of you who came to our stand expressed an interest in our books and took away a discount order form, but for those who didn't get the chance I thought I would upload a downloadable version of it to our website so you can still take advantage of our 20% conference discount until the 18th August expiry date.

Earthscan Title Information Flyer:
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Earthscan 20% Discount Order Form
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The easiest way to get your discount is to check the prices on the order forms above and then order your book/s through our website using the 20% discount voucher code: IASC08. Alternatively you can print and fill out the order form and post it back to us using the FREEPOST address specified on the form.

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Marketing Assistant
Earthscan
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World Resources Institute’s Release of the World Resources Report

The World Resources Report has long been a source of data and inspiration for researchers and practitioners focused on environmental management for local livelihoods and sustainability. IASC members have dedicated their attention to bettering the livelihoods of resource dependent populations engaged in the collective management and use of the commons around them. This year’s WRR report is dedicated improving the livelihoods of the most marginal.

Below is World Resources Institute’s announcement for the new 2008 report.

Strengthening the Poor’s Roots of Resilience

The newly-released World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience report charts a path for how sustainable, nature-based enterprise can help the world’s 2 billion rural poor escape the cycle of poverty.

Today, 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 a day. 75 percent of people at the bottom of the economic pyramid live in rural areas and are dependent on natural resources for some or all of their subsistence. The rural poor face even tougher challenges ahead, as climate change threatens to destroy the ecosystems and natural resources on which they depend.

But World Resources 2008 finds that well-designed, community-based sustainable enterprises can improve the way the rural poor draw from their area’s natural resources. Ultimately, these programs can make their communities more resilient against climate change and the other economic, social, environmental challenges they will face.

World Resources 2008 was produced by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank.

The publication (PDF) is available online at:
http://www.wri.org/publication/world-resources-2008-roots-of-resilience.

Hardcopies can be purchased at:
http://www.wristore.com/wore20unweof.html

CONFERENCE PHOTOS ON FLICKR

As announced at the closing session of the conference last week, we now have a Flickr group to share photos from conferences and of commons issues. If you are already using Flickr, join the group at http://flickr.com/groups/777619@N25/ and contribute your photos.

If you are not using Flickr (http://flickr.com/) yet, but are interested in joining the group, you can sign in though Yahoo. If you do not have a Yahoo account, you can create one here. Once your account is created you can upload your photos to your own site and connect with other users to see their photos. To join the IASC group and to add your photos to the group photo pool, go to http://flickr.com/groups/777619@N25/ and click on “Join this group”.

The site is very self-explanatory, but if you do need help, you can take a tour that explains how the site works (http://flickr.com/tour/). To make uploading of photos easier there are a number of software tools you can use.

Lastly, if you are concerned about copyright, note, that you can determine what level of rights you want to grant viewers for each photo from “all rights reserved” to a fairly open creative commons license. You can also keep photos private, so they are visible only to you or your friends or family).

I am looking forward to seeing many of your conference photos.

Best,

Stephan

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bangalore, Darjeeling and New Delhi

www.atree.org

Faculty positions in social sciences

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), India, invites nominations and applications for two faculty positions in social sciences.


1. Conservation Governance and Policy: Candidates must have strong social science research experience in environment and conservation, with interests in policy analysis.
2. Social Sciences: Candidates must have strong social science research experience in environment and conservation, preferably with degrees in sociology, anthropology, political science, history or geography.


The appointments will be made at the level of Fellows or Senior Fellows, depending upon qualifications and experience. Short term visiting appointments of 3-6 months duration each are also feasible. Fellows and Senior Fellows are expected to build and lead independent research programmes, contribute to interdisciplinary research and teach in ATREE’s doctoral programme.


While applicants with a PhD in the social sciences are preferred, candidates with a masters’ degree and substantial research experience will also be considered.


These positions are endowed with grants from the Arghyam Foundation and The Ford Foundation and will be based in Bangalore.


ATREE, established in 1996, is a young, fast growing, dynamic organization that seeks to address pressing environmental challenges through interdisciplinary research and engagement with civil society, and policy makers. ATREE fosters autonomy, professional growth, diversity and gender equity at the work place. Thus women and persons from underprivileged groups are especially encouraged to apply. Salaries at ATREE are competitive and at par with other academic institutions in India. Salary for the advertised positions will depend upon qualifications and experience of the candidates.


Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Applicants should write to the address below, enclosing their CVs, names of three referees, and a letter describing their professional goals over the next 5 years and how these goals fit with ATREE’s mission. Electronic submission of applications is preferred.


Director,
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
659, 5th 'A' Main Road
Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
Email: director@atree.org

University of Maine
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture
School of Marine Sciences Job Opening

The School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine will hire a social scientist for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level to start in fall 2008 in its marine policy and dual-degree programs (http://www.umaine.edu/marine/programs/graduate-programs.php). We seek applications from social scientists with strong experience and interests in institutional approaches to the social sciences and the interface between the social and natural sciences. A Ph.D. or equivalent education is required. We expect the successful candidate to have an active research program in marine or coastal-zone issues and to direct at least part of his/her research program towards issues of concern to the state and its localities.

The successful applicant will teach in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, undertake a research program concerned with local, state, national and international marine policy issues, participate in policy issues of concern to localities, the state and broader areas, advise and direct graduate students in the marine policy and dual-degree programs, and develop active professional collaborations with faculty in the School of Marine Sciences and other relevant departments.

Applications should be comprised of a full CV, a selection of up to five (p)reprints, a list of four references and statements of research, service and teaching goals that demonstrate capacity to perform the above functions. Address queries and send application materials in .pdf format to susanne.thibodeau@umit.maine.edu. If this format presents difficulties, mail hard copy to:

Sue Thibodeau
5706 Aubert Hall, Rm 360
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5706.

Review will begin on 3 January 2008.
Applications will be accepted until March 1, 2008.
The University of Maine is an EO/AA employer.

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT:

CHIEF OF PARTY, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND RESOURCE GOVERNANCE - BURLINGTON, VERMONT

ARD, Inc. (http://www.ardinc.com) has become leader in the land tenure and property rights (LTPR) “practice area” for the United States Government. Our land tenure and property rights work includes land policy, land tenure legal reform, conflict and disputes resolution, broadening land access including land reform and resettlement, land administration, land markets, land use planning and natural resource property rights. This practice area continues to grow, and to meet immediate programming and technical needs, ARD seeks a highly qualified, home office-based Chief of Party with:

-- Excellent personnel and team participation, management and coordination skills;
-- Significant USAID programming experience and support to USAID operating units - this includes work plan development, SOW development, results-based reporting, and financial/budget management;
-- Broad general knowledge of international development programming work, particularly in natural resources management, agricultural development, rural finance, land use planning, and natural resource management;
-- Specific knowledge of the role of property rights in development programming in at least one specific technical subject, and in at least one or two USAID programming regions;
-- Field level experience with residence in developing countries, as well as short-term technical assignments;
-- Excellent public relations, communication, and client management skills; and
-- The necessary skills to ensure the coherence and consistency of product and performance of technical and support personnel under tight deadlines.

The successful candidate will meet at least the following minimum qualifications in addition to those above:

-- Minimum Masters Degree in a field directly related to property rights (natural/land resources, anthropology; rural sociology, agriculture economics, and/or law).
-- Ten years or more of progressively responsible work in managing and implementing land tenure, land reform, and/or natural resource governance programs;
-- Five years of progressively responsible supervisory work including direct supervision of professional and support staff; and assembling teams of natural resource management, land tenure, property rights, gender and/or resource governance professionals to respond to complex assignments;
-- At least four years of substantial managerial and technical experience in natural resource management sector issues (water, forestry, wildlife, watersheds, land use planning, pastures, etc.), with broad geographic experience;
-- At least one foreign language, preferably French/Spanish/Arabic;
-- Proposal development, proposal management and MCC programming experience are a plus.

To apply:
Please email current curriculum vitae (CV) in reverse chronological format to homeofficejobs@ardinc.com. Please refer to COP-PRRG in the subject line.
Applicants must complete the U.S. Department of Labor’s Equal Employment Opportunity form (available at http://www.ardinc.com/careers/eeform.php) using Job Code: COP-PRRG.
Applications that do not meet the minimum requirements listed above will not be considered. No phone calls will be accepted.
ARD, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Closing Date: Open

On October 15th - Blog Action Day - bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind. In its inaugural year, Blog Action Day will be co-ordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment. For our part we will be providing just a few links to commons related/environmental websites, but there are many more, so please visit and do your part. Thanks.

http://www.ifpri.org/
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/
http://sca21.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.wecanlivegreen.com/
www.greenpeace.org/international/
www.nwf.org
www.sierraclub.org/foundation
www.conservationfund.org

ESF/ESA/ESPI Conference
Humans in Outer Space – Interdisciplinary Odysseys
Vienna, Konzerthaus
11‐12 October 2007

The space‐faring nations are heading for the human exploration of the Moon, Mars and Near‐Earth Objects. They might be soon prepared with regards technology development. But they also need to benefit from the humanities (history, philosophy, anthropology), the arts as well as the social sciences (political science, economics, law).

This conference, co‐organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) will be the first comprehensive trans‐disciplinary dialogue on humans in outer space. It will go further than regarding humans as mere tools for exploration, or better robots, and will investigate the human quest for odysseys beyond the atmosphere and reflect on the possibilities to find extraterrestrial life.

The conference shall open up new perspectives in assessing humankind’s present and future outside the Earth and document this in a “Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space”.

Conference web site
http://www.esf.org/research‐areas/space/activities/inif‐activities.html

Draft Programme

Thursday, 11 October
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome by the Chairmen of the Programme Committee -- BMVIT, Codignola, Schrogl
Introduction of the ESF project -- van Donzel, Worms

10.15 – 11.45 Setting the scene ‐ Keynotes -- Moderator: Codignola
Encounters -- TBA
Are we alone? Searching for life in the universe and its creation -- Haerendel
Space and religion -- Tanzella‐Nitti TBA

11.45 – 12.15 Space and the movies -- Ballhausen

12.15 – 12.30 Next Generation Visions for the Next 50 Years in Space -- Lukaszczyk

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Can we compare? -- Moderator: van Donzel
Exploration in the 16th century -- Muldoon
Exploration inside the human being -- Palsson
Better drop analogies -- TBA

15.15 – 15.30 Break

15.30 – 17.00 Spatiality ‐ Space as a source of inspiration -- Moderator: Francis
How we talk and write about space -- Landfester
Marketing and branding space -- Keck
Inspiration through international cooperation -- Peter

19.00 Dinner at Heurigen

Friday, 12 October
09.00 – 10.30 First Odyssey: Humans around the Earth ‐ what effect does it have? -- Moderator: Egli
With the eyes of an astronaut -- Nicollier
Human spaceflight, technology development and innovation -- Tremayne‐Smith
Human‐machine cooperation in space environments -- Cortellessa
Space law in the age of ISS -- von der Dunk
The view we get from outer space -- TBA

10.30 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12.30 Second Odyssey: Humans in exploration ‐ what effects will it have? -- Moderator: Swings
Humans – more than the better robots for exploration -- Baumjohann
Philosophy of humans leaving the Earth -- Arnould
Human spaceflight as a matter of culture and national vision -- Lingner
In need of a legal framework for exploration -- Bohlmann

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.00 Third Odyssey: Humans leaving the Earth ‐ why we should think! -- Moderator: Worms
Mars as a place to live? -- Horneck
Religion and the question: what happens, if we meet somebody out there? -- Musso
E.T. Culture -- Battaglia
SETI: social effects of a confirmed positive detection -- Wason TBA

15.00 – 16.00 Reports by session moderators – Conclusions:
The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space -- Moderator: Schrogl

« Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI, France) » University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL, Belgium)

and

University of Paris X (France)

Refgov project

Two Post-doctoral or Research fellow positions on the “biodiversity governance and global public goods” program

Partner institutions of the Refgov network offer two post-doctoral or research fellows for working in an international project on biodiversity governance and global public goods (1 year, extendible contingent on funding).

The project is part of a European project of 29 universities on reflexive governance (FP6, REFGOV, http://refgov.cpdr.ucl.ac.be/). The objective of the research on biodiversity in this network is to analyse and build institutional support for collective action in the field of sustainable management of natural resources.

DESCRIPTION

The researcher will work in a European network of research institutions on governance, develop background research for the project and prepare background documents for an international workshop. The working language is English.

The candidate should have obtained a doctorate (or show equivalent level of competence) in a field related to environmental governance with one of the following specialisations:

(1) institutional economics of environmental goods provision

(2) socio-economic and / or legal analysis of forest biodiversity and/or agro-environmental policies

(3) environmental impact assessment of biodiversity related policies, including the use of sustainability indicators

The first fellow will work at IDDRI Montpellier and/or IDDRI Paris. He will do field work on the implementation of European environmental policies in one of the Balkan countries, upon best convenience for accomplishing the research. Practical experience in one the Balkan countries is a plus.

The second fellow will work at EconomiX/Paris X (France) or at the BIOGOV Unit/Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium) and will be more generally in charge of economic and/or legal analysis in one of the three above mentioned fields of specialisation.

START DATE : as soon as possible (from 15^th of March), but no later than 1^st of October 2007 for the IDDRI position; October to December 2007 for the EconomiX/UCL position

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please send CV, a letter explaining research interests and plans for writing during your fellowship and at least one paper or other suitable evidence of scholarship, as e-mail attachment, to Selim Louafi at louafi@iddri.org, Tom Dedeurwaerdere at dedeurwaerdere@cpdr.ucl.ac.be and Eric Brousseau at eric@brousseau.info

Final deadline for applications is March 10th, 2007.

Additional information about the general context of the research can be found at

http://biogov.cpdr.ucl.ac.be/communication/refgovIDDRI.html

http://biogov.cpdr.ucl.ac.be/.

Strategic Project Director

The Penobscot East Resource Center seeks an experienced Project Director to lead the Downeast Initiative, a groundbreaking pilot program in community-based management to rebuild the groundfishery in the eastern Gulf of Maine. The project director will secure federal regulatory policy support. Responsibilities include developing and implementing a campaign strategy that will result in the approval of the program by the New England Fisheries Management Council. This job position will be located in Stonington, Maine.

A master’s degree in fisheries or environmental policy, a law degree, or comparable experience required. Candidates should send a letter of interest and a detailed resume to Robin Alden, Penobscot East Resource Center, PO Box 27, Stonington, ME 04681, or to robin@penobscoteast.org. Job description posted at www.penobscoteast.org

Journées d’études

La "mise en patrimoine" de l’eau :

une perspective interdisciplinaire

organisées par le GDR « rés-eau-ville » (GDR 2524 du CNRS) et le Centre EREIA (EA 4026, Université d’Artois)

Arras, Université d’Artois, Bâtiment des Arts

Vendredi 9 et Samedi 10 mars 2007

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Nadine Hubert : + 33 (0)3 21 60 37 62 ou nadine.hubert@univ-artois.fr

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La « mise en patrimoine de l’eau »: une perspective interdisciplinaire

Vendredi 9 et Samedi 10 mars 2007,

Arras, Université d’Artois

Exposé de la thématique et présentation du programme:

Depuis quelques années on assiste, parallèlement à la diffusion du concept de développement durable, à une patrimonialisation de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles dans les discours comme dans les textes juridiques de portée nationale et internationale. L’eau n’échappe pas à cette tendance lourde et la loi française sur l’eau de 1992, tout comme la directive cadre européenne sur l’eau de 2000 reconnaissent à cette ressource un caractère patrimonial. Toutefois, la directive cadre stipule que « L’eau n’est pas un bien marchand comme les autres mais un patrimoine qu’il faut protéger et gérer », soulignant que l’eau est à la fois un bien marchand (certes différent des autres) et un patrimoine…

L’objectif de ces journées d’études est de fournir un lieu pour confronter la manière dont cette patrimonialisation des ressources en eau a été analysée par les disciplines de sciences humaines, sociales et juridiques. Que recouvre précisément la notion de patrimoine dans le domaine de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles ? Quelles sont les implications du passage de la notion de patrimoine à celle de patrimoine commun ? Peut-on étudier le patrimoine indépendamment de toute référence au cadre marchand ? Quelles sont les implications de la patrimonialisation des ressources en eau pour la gestion des ressources, mais aussi des réseaux d’eau ?

D’un point de vue opérationnel, de nombreux travaux ont été menés sur le thème de la gestion patrimoniale des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement dans les pays développés, comme dans les pays en développement. Cependant, dans quelle mesure peut-on qualifier la gestion des ressources en eau de gestion patrimoniale ? Dans quelles configurations ? Comment la gestion patrimoniale s’articule-t-elle à la gestion intégrée des ressources en eau ? Sur quels territoires cette patrimonialisation opère-t-elle ?

Toutes ces questions seront abordées à l’occasion des quatre sessions organisées lors de la première journée. D’abord, nous effectuerons un cadrage sémantique et épistémologique de la notion de patrimoine dans le domaine de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles. Puis, en resserrant progressivement notre champ d’étude, nous analyserons les implications de la qualification de l’eau comme patrimoine. Enfin, les deux dernières sessions examineront, à partir d’études de cas, la manière dont la gestion patrimoniale des ressources en eau est conduite dans plusieurs pays en développement et dans des pays occidentaux avec une démarche comparative.

La seconde journée sera l’occasion d’une visite de terrain, comme lors des précédents rendez-vous scientifiques du GDR rés-eau-ville. La visite projetée est une visite du territoire des wateringues du Nord-Pas-de-Calais (situés dans la plaine maritime des Flandres, c’est-à-dire dans le triangle St Omer, Calais, Dunkerque). Le territoire des wateringues révèle une configuration spatiale et institutionnelle singulière orientée depuis plusieurs siècles sur la gestion des risques liés à l’eau. Envahi à l’origine par la mer, le territoire des wateringues fut mis hors d’eau par différents travaux à partir du 12^ème siècle. Il s’agit aujourd’hui d’une vaste plaine maritime dont le

niveau moyen des terres est inférieur au niveau moyen des plus hautes mers. Un ensemble complexe de fossés, de watergangs, de canaux, d’écluses, de portes à la mer et de pompes permet l’évacuation de l’eau de surface face à la mer. L’ensemble du dispositif, constitué et amélioré au fil des siècles, est destiné à évacuer les eaux à la mer, faire barrage aux entrées d’eau marine à marée haute et lors de surcotes exceptionnelles, maintenir le plan d’eau à un niveau constant dans les terres en périodes humides et retenir l’eau douce en périodes sèches.

Présentation du comité d’organisation :

Coordinateur : Olivier Petit, économiste, Centre EREIA, Université d’Artois, Arras.

Comité d’organisation scientifique

Catherine Baron, socio-économiste, Lereps-Gres, Universités Toulouse I et II, Toulouse

Nadia Belaïdi, juriste, CNRS PRODIG, Paris

Iratxe Calvo-Mendieta, économiste, IMN, ULCO, Dunkerque

Catherine Carré, géographe, LADYSS, Université Paris I, Paris

Agathe Euzen, anthropologue, CNRS PRODIG, Paris

Jean Paul Haghe, géographe, PRODIG, IUFM de Caen

Graciela Schneier-Madanes, architecte-géographe, CNRS CREDAL, Paris

Comité scientifique d’évaluation

Federico Aguilera-Klink, Professeur d’économie à l’Université de la Laguna , Tenerife, Espagne.

Pierre Bauby, Chercheur en économie-gestion au Laboratoire d’Economie Dyonisien (LED), Université de Paris VIII.

Stéphane Callens, Professeur d’économie, Directeur du Centre EREIA, Université d’Artois, Arras.

Henri Coing, Professeur émérite de sociologie à l’université Paris XII - Val-de-Marne.

Hubert Gérardin, Maître de Conférences en économie, Rédacteur en chef de la revue Mondes en développement, Laboratoire Beta, Université de Nancy II.

Corinne Larrue, Professeur d’aménagement, Centre de recherches Ville Société Territoire, Université de Tours.

Patrice Mélé, Maître de Conférences en géographe, Centre de recherches Ville Société Territoire, Université de Tours.

Bruno Villalba, Maître de Conférences en sciences politiques, Laboratoire CERAPS-Lille II, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille.

Franck Dominique Vivien, Maître de Conférences en économie, Laboratoire HERMES, Université de Reims.

Programme prévisionnel :

Vendredi 9 mars 2007 (Université d’Artois, Arras)

9 heures : Ouverture (Président de l’Université d’Artois, Directrice du GDR rés-eau-ville, les organisateurs)

9 h 15 : 1^ère session : Cadrage sémantique et épistémologique de la notion de patrimoine dans le domaine de l’environnement

- Franck-Dominique Vivien (Maître de Conférences en économie, Université de Reims, Laboratoire HERMES, Reims) : « Pour une économie patrimoniale appliquée à l’environnement et aux ressources naturelles ».

- Olivier Barrière (Chargé de recherches en anthropologie juridique à l’IRD, US "Espace", Montpellier) : « Une approche patrimoniale appliquée aux questions foncières et environnementales dans les pays en développement ».

10 h 45 : Pause-café

11 h 00 : 2^ème session : La qualification de l’eau comme patrimoine : entre patrimoine conçu et patrimoine construit

- Catherine Baron (socio-économiste, Professeur d’aménagement,

Universités de Toulouse 1 et 2), Nadia Belaïdi (Chargée de recherches en droit international au CNRS, Laboratoire PRODIG, Paris), Agathe Euzen (Chargée de recherches en anthropologie au CNRS, Laboratoire PRODIG, Paris) : « Le statut de la "ressource" à travers la réglementation de l'accès à l'eau ».

- Jean-Pierre Le Bourhis (Chargé de recherchs en sciences politiques au CNRS, CURAPP, UMR 6054, Amiens) : « De la loi sur l'eau à la gestion territoriale de la ressource. L'expérience française des SAGE après 15 ans de

mise en œuvre ».

12 h 30 : Déjeuner

14 h 00 : 3^ème session : Les territoires de la patrimonialisation de l’eau

- Mohamed El Faïz (Professeur d'histoire économique, Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Maroc) : « La gestion patrimoniale des ressources en eau : dimension historique et défis contemporains au Maroc ».

- Bruno Romagny (Chargé de recherches en économie à l’IRD, Laboratoire "Population-Environnement-Développement", UMR 151 IRD-Université d’Aix-Marseille) : « La gestion patrimoniale de l’eau au Maghreb : regards croisés Tunisie/Maroc ».

- Ioan Radu, Dorian Vladeanu, Minodora Ursăcescu, Mihai Cioc (Academia de Studii Economice Université de Bucarest, Roumanie) : « Contraintes et options stratégiques pour la gestion des ressources en eau : une perspective roumaine ».

16 h 15 : Pause-café

16 h 30 : 3^ème session (suite) : Les territoires de la patrimonialisation de l’eau

- Stéphane Ghiotti (Chargé de recherches en géographie au CNRS, Laboratoire Mutations des Territoires en Europe, UMR CNRS, Université de Montpellier II) : « La patrimonialisation des fleuves et rivières : une comparaison France-Liban ».

- Henry Ollagnon (Professeur en gestion du vivant et stratégies patrimoniales à l’INA-PG, Paris) : « La gestion de la qualité de l'eau : quelles stratégies patrimoniales ? »

18 h 00 : Conclusion de la journée

Samedi 10 mars 2007 : Visite de terrain – Les wateringues du Nord-Pas-de-Calais : un patrimoine à gérer

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Olivier PETIT
Centre EREIA (EA 4026, Université d'Artois) et IFRESI-CNRS

Membre du GDR Res-Eau-Ville (GDR 2524, CNRS)

Maître de Conférences en Sciences Economiques
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