CALL FOR PAPERS:
Dear Colleagues,
As a follow-up of the July 2006 conference in Louvain-la-neuve "Institutions for providing global environmental goods", the RefGov network organizes a second call for paper, hosted as one of the streams of a major International Conference that will take place in Amsterdam
24-26 May 2007.
The Refgov Stream is stream number 7 which is called :
*The Reflexive Governance of Global Public Goods*/, that is, papers on the institutional analysis of participatory decision-making, deliberative policy-making and capacity building in the governance of global public goods, including global biodiversity, climate, health, security and fair trade issues.
The papers of the July 2006 conference and the Amsterdam 2007 conference will be published in one of the 2 publication projects that will be prepared next year : a collective volume at MIT on Environmental Governance and A special issue in a Journal, most probably Ecological Economics ; both on the basis of an independent review process.
The conference website is
www.2007amsterdamconference.org
All the information on the call is on the conference website. We expect an abstract of no longer than 300 words for the 1st of october. Please do not forget to tick the "refgov" stream in the submission form on the website
For any supplementary information you can contact the organizers or come back to me,
Looking forward to meeting you in Amsterdam
Best
Tom Dedeurwaerdere (dedeurwaerdere@cpdr.ucl.ac.be)
Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy
Director of research at the Centre for the Philosophy of Law (CPDR)
Université catholique de Louvain
September 18, 2006
September 14, 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 IASC North American Regional Conference
We would like to invite researchers, students, civil society practitioners, and managers from the public and private sectors with interests in North American public goods, common pool resources, and common property to participate in the IASC 2007 North American Regional Meeting. The meeting is being hosted by Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, from July 31 to August 3, 2007.
Deadlines for Abstract Submission:
http://www.iascp.org/Canada/NorthAmerica.html
2007 IASC North American Regional Conference
We would like to invite researchers, students, civil society practitioners, and managers from the public and private sectors with interests in North American public goods, common pool resources, and common property to participate in the IASC 2007 North American Regional Meeting. The meeting is being hosted by Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, from July 31 to August 3, 2007.
Deadlines for Abstract Submission:
- Panels, Workshops, Directed Discussions - February 16, 2007
- Individual Papers - March 23, 2007
- Posters - June 22, 2007
Submission of Abstracts:
All abstracts must be submitted electronically in Word, text, or pdf format. Abstracts should be submitted to the Conference Chair, Murray Rudd, via email ( mrudd@swgc.mun.ca )
For more information, please see the conference announcement at:http://www.iascp.org/Canada/NorthAmerica.html
September 8, 2006
Call for Papers, AAG 2007, San Francisco , CA
Community Natural Resource Management in Comparative Perspective
Community natural resource management or CNRM has become a prominent approach to restructuring social relations, governance, and resource use practices in a wide variety of local and regional contexts around the world. For many, it has become a mainstay representing a way to navigate the extremes of laissez-faire exploitation on the one hand, and top-down, state-centred resource management on the other. Yet CNRM is not without its critics, many of whom see forms of devolution entirely consistent with neoliberalism, and others who see the transfer of significant power from states to local elites, promising little or no progressive social or environmental outcomes. Despite both widespread and official enthusiasm for CNRM oriented reforms, and the existence of a growing critical literature, there remains considerable room for critically informed, empirical analyses of specific CNRM projects and cases.
One of the pressing needs for research on CNRM is to address particularities in the design, implementation, representation and actual practices characterizing CNRM programs in different geographical and institutional settings at local, regional, national and international scales. One reason for this is simply that what might be generically referred to as CNRM encompasses a wide variety of projects and programs, from small-scale experiments in community scale forest management in British Columbia, Canada to post-Socialist restitutions of communal property regimes in Eastern and Central Europe, and from the resurgence of customary authority across Africa to the re-working of state-society relations in the context of political reforms in Indonesia and Mexico and the creation of co-management regimes in India.
This collection of papers is aimed at bringing into conversation critical, theoretically informed analyses of specific instantiations of CNRM that can attend to their specificities, and at the same time analyze and contextualize them in contributing to an understanding of how and why particular programs have been designed and implemented, how and why differences between programs matter, and how these particular programs articulate with the now familiar discursive tropes of CNRM. In this context, key questions include the ostensibly simple issue of exactly how the notion of “community” is translated and enacted in actual practice (i.e. who are the individual and group actors prominent in these programs and how do they relate to one another?). What specific sets of property rights and obligations attend the development of CNRM, and why? What are the implications of CNRM for governance, and for the development and reform of resource use practices? Also, what regional, national, and international political economic and discursive conditions explain the emergence and shaped the design of particular programs and projects. How is evidence about the social, economic, and ecological outcomes of CNRM being mobilized in support of or opposition to them?
We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplinary and geographical origins and from scholars interested in building an international, substantive, and critically informed basis of understanding and comparing cases of CNRM in action. Please convey expressions of interest, questions, and abstracts to one or both organizers.
Organizers: Scott Prudham, Department of Geography and Centre for Environment, University of Toronto (scott.prudham@utoronto.ca); Thomas Sikor, Junior Research Group on Postsocialist Land Relations, Humboldt University, Berlin (thomas.sikor@rz.hu-berlin.de)
Community Natural Resource Management in Comparative Perspective
Community natural resource management or CNRM has become a prominent approach to restructuring social relations, governance, and resource use practices in a wide variety of local and regional contexts around the world. For many, it has become a mainstay representing a way to navigate the extremes of laissez-faire exploitation on the one hand, and top-down, state-centred resource management on the other. Yet CNRM is not without its critics, many of whom see forms of devolution entirely consistent with neoliberalism, and others who see the transfer of significant power from states to local elites, promising little or no progressive social or environmental outcomes. Despite both widespread and official enthusiasm for CNRM oriented reforms, and the existence of a growing critical literature, there remains considerable room for critically informed, empirical analyses of specific CNRM projects and cases.
One of the pressing needs for research on CNRM is to address particularities in the design, implementation, representation and actual practices characterizing CNRM programs in different geographical and institutional settings at local, regional, national and international scales. One reason for this is simply that what might be generically referred to as CNRM encompasses a wide variety of projects and programs, from small-scale experiments in community scale forest management in British Columbia, Canada to post-Socialist restitutions of communal property regimes in Eastern and Central Europe, and from the resurgence of customary authority across Africa to the re-working of state-society relations in the context of political reforms in Indonesia and Mexico and the creation of co-management regimes in India.
This collection of papers is aimed at bringing into conversation critical, theoretically informed analyses of specific instantiations of CNRM that can attend to their specificities, and at the same time analyze and contextualize them in contributing to an understanding of how and why particular programs have been designed and implemented, how and why differences between programs matter, and how these particular programs articulate with the now familiar discursive tropes of CNRM. In this context, key questions include the ostensibly simple issue of exactly how the notion of “community” is translated and enacted in actual practice (i.e. who are the individual and group actors prominent in these programs and how do they relate to one another?). What specific sets of property rights and obligations attend the development of CNRM, and why? What are the implications of CNRM for governance, and for the development and reform of resource use practices? Also, what regional, national, and international political economic and discursive conditions explain the emergence and shaped the design of particular programs and projects. How is evidence about the social, economic, and ecological outcomes of CNRM being mobilized in support of or opposition to them?
We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplinary and geographical origins and from scholars interested in building an international, substantive, and critically informed basis of understanding and comparing cases of CNRM in action. Please convey expressions of interest, questions, and abstracts to one or both organizers.
Organizers: Scott Prudham, Department of Geography and Centre for Environment, University of Toronto (scott.prudham@utoronto.ca); Thomas Sikor, Junior Research Group on Postsocialist Land Relations, Humboldt University, Berlin (thomas.sikor@rz.hu-berlin.de)
August 29, 2006
RESEARCH SCIENTIST – FISHERIES INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY
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See full details on the posted position announcement .
August 14, 2006
Job Posting - University of Amsterdam
The Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies has a vacancy for a
Researcher (Post-doc) Geography and/or Planning
full-time (1,0 fte)
for co-ordination and development of a new research theme “Geographies of Coastal Lowlands”.
Coastal regions all around the world constitute the location of economic and demographic development. Simultaneously they are vulnerable to environmental degradation and the future consequences of climate change. This research theme aims to promote the resilience of coastal lowland societies and takes a governance perspective. Multiple-use conflicts, water-related issues, and North-South comparisons are key topics.
The research theme “Geographies of Coastal Lowlands” builds upon expertise available within the department with regard to the history of water management as well as coastal and marine affairs.
Tasks
- To make an inventory of scientific developments in the field of coastal lowlands in the Netherlands and Europe, and to identify appropriate niches.
- To explore options for funding projects that establish a research programme.
- To elaborate, in cooperation with senior researchers, selected concepts and topics and prepare a review publication.
- To explore and elaborate application of spatial information and analysis techniques (e.g. GIS) in governance issues concerning coastal lowlands.
- To coordinate the formulation of a research proposal(s) on these topics.
- To organize (including the acquisition of funding) of an international workshop on the proposed programme.
- To explore possibilities of input from the programme to education in Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies
- To contribute to the department’s teaching programme in the studies of environment, governance, and international development studies (bachelor and master-level).
Requirements
- Knowledge and experience within two or more of the topics of our preliminary focus is required. These concern the exploration of the following concepts and sub-themes:
- governance of water related issues, in particular water and space;
- resilience, in particular social resilience;
- issues of application of spatial information techniques within the sub-themes;
- the elaboration of the connection between the North and South regarding these sub-themes. - PhD in relevant social and/or environmental science
- Team worker (organization and communication skills)
- Affinity with the research theme
- Affinity with spatial information techniques
- Fluent English (oral and written), with skills to teach in English
- Experience in writing research proposals will be considered to be an advantage.
Information
A short programme description is available.
For further information, please contact:
Prof. dr Guus J Borger, (+31 20 5254092; G.J.Borger@uva.nl)
(after 20th august) Dr. Maarten Wolsink (+31 20 5256229; M.P.Wolsink@uva.nl)
(till 3 August) Dr. Karin Pfeffer (+31 20 5254003; K.Pfeffer@uva.nl)
Appointment
This is a full-time appointment (1.0 fte, 38 h/w, optionally an arrangement of 0.8 is possible) initially for a period of one year. Subject to generated financial support for new research, the appointment can be extended. The salary is depending upon qualifications and experience (0-4 years after PhD).
Applications
The official call for written applications will be published and sent to you personally on request. Our schedule aims at an official reaction period that ends on September 15, 2006.
July 29, 2006
Call for Articles
LEISA : Magazine on Low External Input & Sustainable Agriculture
Issue 22/4 December 2006:
Making the most of ecological processes
Deadline for submission of articles: 1 September 2006
E-mail: ileia@ileia.nl
www.iied.org
Trying to develop sustainable agriculture which builds on ecological processes is an ongoing challenge. Though some of the basic ecological principles are well known (for example, nutrient cycles or nitrogen fixation), we know very little about how these processes work in detail and about how the different ecological processes interact with each other. Most of the knowledge about ecological agriculture therefore builds on practical experiences and trial and error – or success. Examples where farmers are managing ecological processes include intercropping, plant density and arrangement, use of shade, and seed treatment. The system of rice intensification (SRI) is one example of an integrated ecological approach that has been very successful in increasing rice yields of small scale farmers while reducing the need for commercial inputs and saving on natural resources like water (see also earlier articles on LEISA Magazine, volumes 15.3, 15.4 and 18.3). First described in the early 1990s, this approach is now spreading all over the world, mostly through inform exchanges. Farmers try it out in different contexts and with different levels of input and management. But how are these experiences developed? How have farmers and communities reacted to this rather revolutionary approach? When has it been successful and when hasn’t it? What adaptations have been made to the system? Could a similar approach be used for other crops?
LEISA : Magazine on Low External Input & Sustainable Agriculture
Issue 22/4 December 2006:
Making the most of ecological processes
Deadline for submission of articles: 1 September 2006
E-mail: ileia@ileia.nl
www.iied.org
Trying to develop sustainable agriculture which builds on ecological processes is an ongoing challenge. Though some of the basic ecological principles are well known (for example, nutrient cycles or nitrogen fixation), we know very little about how these processes work in detail and about how the different ecological processes interact with each other. Most of the knowledge about ecological agriculture therefore builds on practical experiences and trial and error – or success. Examples where farmers are managing ecological processes include intercropping, plant density and arrangement, use of shade, and seed treatment. The system of rice intensification (SRI) is one example of an integrated ecological approach that has been very successful in increasing rice yields of small scale farmers while reducing the need for commercial inputs and saving on natural resources like water (see also earlier articles on LEISA Magazine, volumes 15.3, 15.4 and 18.3). First described in the early 1990s, this approach is now spreading all over the world, mostly through inform exchanges. Farmers try it out in different contexts and with different levels of input and management. But how are these experiences developed? How have farmers and communities reacted to this rather revolutionary approach? When has it been successful and when hasn’t it? What adaptations have been made to the system? Could a similar approach be used for other crops?
July 21, 2006
June 7, 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
REMOTE REGIONS/ NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS
WESTERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETINGS
The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association will be held in Newport Beach, California at the Hyatt-Regency Newport Beach. The conference will begin on Wednesday afternoon February 21 with a special Opening Session and Reception. Paper sessions will be scheduled Thursday through Saturday, February 22-24, 2007.
For information, see http://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eplane/NewportCall.pdf
REMOTE REGIONS/ NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS
WESTERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETINGS
The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association will be held in Newport Beach, California at the Hyatt-Regency Newport Beach. The conference will begin on Wednesday afternoon February 21 with a special Opening Session and Reception. Paper sessions will be scheduled Thursday through Saturday, February 22-24, 2007.
For information, see http://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eplane/NewportCall.pdf
May 18, 2006
IASCP Discussion Forum
As part of the redesign of the IASCP website, we have implemented an online message board for IASCP members. Registration is free, and after registering members may discuss IASCP conferences, new publications, commons research, or any other topic related to the study of the commons. This would be an excellent forum for authors to post information about new and upcoming publications. The forum may be accessed by clicking on the Discussion Forum link in the navigation bar on the left of this page.
As part of the redesign of the IASCP website, we have implemented an online message board for IASCP members. Registration is free, and after registering members may discuss IASCP conferences, new publications, commons research, or any other topic related to the study of the commons. This would be an excellent forum for authors to post information about new and upcoming publications. The forum may be accessed by clicking on the Discussion Forum link in the navigation bar on the left of this page.
May 12, 2006
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities January 12 - 15, 2007 Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA - Submission Deadline: August 23, 2006
Sponsored by:
Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org
The 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 12 (Friday) to January 15 (Monday), 2007 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Performing artists (live dance, theater, and music) interested in displaying their talents will be accommodated whenever possible.
5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities January 12 - 15, 2007 Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA - Submission Deadline: August 23, 2006
Sponsored by:
Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org
The 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 12 (Friday) to January 15 (Monday), 2007 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Performing artists (live dance, theater, and music) interested in displaying their talents will be accommodated whenever possible.
May 11, 2006
Call for Outline Proposals
Funding initiative for multidisciplinary research - TECT: The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading - DEADLINE Thursday 8 June
Following agreement with funding bodies in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France (CNRS, IRD), Germany (MPIs) , Hungary (OTKA), Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States (NSF), the European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Outline Proposals for collaborative research projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES program “TECT”.
The Programme will run for three to four years (2007-2010/11), depending on regulations of the participating funding bodies. It includes national research funding, as well as support for networking and dissemination activities currently provided by the ESF. The Programme aims to support high quality multidisciplinary research.
More information is available here
Funding initiative for multidisciplinary research - TECT: The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading - DEADLINE Thursday 8 June
Following agreement with funding bodies in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France (CNRS, IRD), Germany (MPIs) , Hungary (OTKA), Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States (NSF), the European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Outline Proposals for collaborative research projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES program “TECT”.
The Programme will run for three to four years (2007-2010/11), depending on regulations of the participating funding bodies. It includes national research funding, as well as support for networking and dissemination activities currently provided by the ESF. The Programme aims to support high quality multidisciplinary research.
More information is available here
April 10, 2006
New Publications:
- Managing the Commons, IASCP 2004 Post-Conference Publications, edited by L. Merino and J. Robson.
- Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design edited by B. Bruns, C. Ringler, and R. Meinzen-Dick.
- Renegotiating the Commons by Graham Marshall.
- The book of abstracts from the 10th Biennial IASCP Conference in Oaxaca Mexico is available for purchase. Contact Michelle Curtain at iascp.indiana.edu for ordering information.
Positions Available:
- University of Victoria, Chair in Culture & Ecosystems at Risk
Other Announcements:
- Ecology & Society Award, Deadline July 2006
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