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11th Biennial Conference of the International Society for
Ecological Economics:
ISEE 2010: *Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis*
22 - 25 August 2010, Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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1 Conference Theme
Ecological systems and their services to humans have been exposed to stress,
exploitation and destruction for decades. Biodiversity is being lost at an
almost unprecedented pace. Climate change will bring about rapid and
unpredictable changes in the earth's entire biophysical system. There are
thus massive indications of a crisis of ecosystems caused by human activity.
In 2008 the global financial system collapsed and pushed many economies
towards crisis. A deregulated banking sector acted outside the boundaries of
safe and trustworthy operations resulting in a collapse of confidence in
economic institutions not seen since the 1930s. Economic breakdowns in many
countries have already generated dramatic social problems adding to existing
poverty, hunger and inequality.
But times of crisis are also times of opportunity. The financial meltdown
has led to a renaissance in public responsibility and an avalanche of
stimulus packages that stand against the neo-liberal creed of minimal
government. While many of these measures follow conventional lines of
unsustainable economic practices, there is a growing awareness for the need
for active public policies to create more sustainable economic structures
and processes to combat both economic and ecological crises. Green recovery,
a global Green New Deal, and a green energy revolution are catch phrases
that now find their way into governance and policy making processes.
In 2010 the United Nation's Millennium Development goals will be a decade
old and there will only be five years left to achieve them. Meeting their
challenge requires bold and concerted action on global, national and local
levels and across societal groups and organisations in the global North and
the South. With the entirety of closely connected social, health, economic
and ecological goals the Millennium Development Goals guide an integrated
approach to development and human well-being that goes beyond the usual
polarisation between development and environmental goals.
In this situation, ecological economics is poised to play a leading role in
addressing these global challenges. The rapidly changing patterns of
economic, political, and economic systems necessitate integrated and
innovative analyses, ideas, concepts and solutions. Ecological economics
seems well prepared for this call as a field that has pioneered in
integrating ecological and social concerns into economic analyses and
practical solutions. It has united scientists, practitioners and decision
makers from various disciplinary backgrounds in innovative and participatory
research and decision-making processes. In particular, ecological economists
have argued strongly against concepts of neo-liberalism and unregulated
financial systems. They developed novel approaches to understand economic
processes as inextricably linked and dependent on ecological support systems
as well as the social institutions in which they are embedded. The field has
a long tradition in finding solutions to practical as well as conceptual
problems of social well-being, economic development and ecological
sustainability.
Since the last ISEE conference held in Europe in 1994, the community has
come a long way and evolved tremendously. From the early dichotomy between
environmental economics and ecological economics, more dialogue and
collaboration between the fields has emerged to address problems of
sustainability. Overlapping research interests now common to both ecological
and environmental economics include integrated modelling, agent-based
modelling, valuation of ecosystem services, market based policy instruments,
multi-criteria evaluation, and the economics of adapting to environmental
change. The size the climate change challenge and dire state of the earth's
ecosystems necessitate further exchange and cooperation to gain a unified
voice in the political domain. The 2010 ISEE conference will emphasize this
exchange and debate.
Since the early days, ecological economics has always been a field of
methodological diversity, transdisciplinary work, and it has now
significantly developed its standards for scientific rigour as well as its
social and policy relevance. It has been driven by ideas of fairness and
justice among humans and between humans and the natural world. This thematic
scope reaches out to a great variety of related disciplines such as
conventional economics and ecology, political science, sociology,
management, biology, physics and engineering. The necessary
cross-disciplinary collaboration requires bridging concepts between research
and society in a solutions-oriented manner. While, on the one hand, the
field has grown stronger in its analytical understanding of the interactions
between humans and the ecosystems in which they live, the link to governance
questions and practical application has become ever more challenging and
urgent. This point of interconnections between the various disciplines of
ecological economics and the systems of environmental governance and
practice will therefore form one central focus of the 2010 conference.
We particularly invite contributions to the conference that address the
following main themes:
* Climate Change -- causes, impacts, mitigation, adaptation, and
policy options
* Energy -- renewable energy, energy flows, peak oil, green
stimulus policies, energy and entropy, alternative energy and
energy distribution technology
* *Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services *-- valuation issues and
policy integration
* Land Use -- including coastal zone management, water issues,
ecosystem restoration, bioregionalism
* Ecology -- complex systems, economy-ecology modelling,
theoretical ecology
* Dematerialization and De-Growth -- industrial ecology,
eco-efficiency, sustainable consumption and production
* Sustainable Development - environment and industrial
development, inequalities between rich and poor, indigenous rights
and wisdoms, environmental colonialism and debt, environmental GDP
of the poor, sustainability and self-actualization
* Environmental Ethics and Values -- norms, ethical concepts,
environmental values and decision-making
* Governance and Public Policy -- green macroeconomics,
recapturing the public space in an age of neo-liberalism, Green
New Deal, green recovery, politics and public participation in
decision making
* Knowledge and social learning -- knowledge systems, dynamics and
mechanisms of social learning and change in economic and policy
processes
* *Green Business* -- corporate social responsibility, ecological
economics of the firm, industrial ecology, trade and taxation,
incentives and entrepreneurship
* Heterodox Economics -- opportunities after the crisis for
institutional, evolutionary, post-keynesian, post-autistic
economics, synergies with ecological economics
* Transdisciplinarity -- post normal science, sustainability
science, transdisciplinary research designs, participatory
methods, methodological and theoretical challenges
* Teaching Ecological Economics -- curriculum development,
practical experiences, learning as sustainability
2 Abstract Submission
There will be five tracks for abstract submissions:
* Long presentation (approx. 15 min. presentation on the basis of a
full paper)
* Short presentation (approx. 5 min. presentation within a
discussion session)
* Poster presentation
* Special sessions (on the basis of full papers with up to four 15
min. presentations organised by a session chair)
* Discussion sessions (thematically focused session with about four
short presentations organised by a session chair).
All of them require an online abstract submission of max. 400 words via the
conference website at: www.isee2010.org. Online submission will be open
starting 15 September 2009. Deadline is *31 October 2009*. Submissions will
be reviewed by an international review panel before being accepted.
For full paper presentations, the paper has to be submitted no later than 1
July 2010. Full papers can also be submitted before 31 October 2009. Session
proposals must include an abstract introducing the rationale of the session,
the name of the session chair(s), and the abstracts of the individual
contributions (can be submitted individually if relevance to the session is
mentioned). Alternative innovative formats are welcome in coordination with
the conference organisers.
Conference organisers are undertaking all efforts to ensure funding to
reimburse travel costs and participation fees of presenters coming from
non-OECD countries and of young researchers.
3 Conference Website
www.isee2010.org
4 Conference Venue
The 11th ISEE Conference will be organised in the adjacent cities of
Oldenburg and Bremen in Northwestern Germany. Both hosts, Bremen and
Oldenburg University have a strong record in ecological economic research
and teaching and are centres of interdisciplinary environmental and
sustainability research with a strong focus on social science and economic
dimensions of sustainability problems.
The conference will have different formats including full plenaries for all
participants, semi-plenaries with keynote speeches held in parallel and
different formats of parallel sessions, including a discussion session for
innovative ideas or short project outlines. In addition, a poster session
will be organised with short presentations of poster presenters.
Prior to the conference, a number of pre-conference events like workshops,
regional chapter meetings, book authors meetings and alike will be scheduled
on Friday and Saturday 20 -21 August 2010. The official conference will
start on Sunday 22 August in the afternoon with an inauguration ceremony and
a reception. It will continue with the scientific sessions on Monday to
Wednesday (23 -- 25 August 2010). The conference dinner is scheduled for 24
August 2010 to be held in Bremen.
5 Executive Committee
* Professor Klaus Eisenack, Oldenburg University
* Dr. Katharine Farrell, Autonomous University of Barcelona
* Professor Michael Flitner, Bremen University
* Professor John Gowdy, Rennselear Polytechnic Institute, ISEE
President elect
* Dr. Pushpam Kumar, University of Liverpool
* Dr. Felix Rauschmayer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Leipzig
* Professor Peter May, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro,
ISEE President
* Dr. Inge Røpke, Technical University of Denmark
* Professor Bernd Siebenhüner, Oldenburg University (Chair)
6 Partners & Sponsors (preliminary)
* European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE)
* Earth System Governance Project, a Core Project of the
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental
Change (IHDP)
* German Association for Ecological-Economic Research (Vereinigung
für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung, VÖW)
* German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
* German Association for Ecological Economics (Vereinigung für
Ökologische Ökonomie, VÖÖ)
* German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
* The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Programme
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- www.isee2010.org -
Kevin Grecksch
Researcher
Ecological Economics
School of Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics and Law
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
26111 Oldenburg
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 441 / 798 4088
fax: +49 (0) 441 / 798 4379
E-mail: kevin.grecksch (at) uni-oldenburg.de
URL: http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/ecoeco
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