This call is to request information to be published in the next edition (Winter 2010) of the Environmental Studies Section electronic newsletter.
We welcome submissions about section news, publications, websites, job and funding opportunities, announcements and upcoming conferences and meetings.
Please send your items by email to cusa [at] uci.edu by Monday, January 25, 2010.
Nominations for Section Offices Sought
The Nominations Committee of the Environmental Studies Section invites nominations for a number of Section Offices. Self-nominations are welcome. Please ensure that the person you are nominating is willing to stand for election and do provide us with her/his professional affiliation and full contact information. The Committee will contact the nominated colleagues to request short biographical sketches (100-150 words). Send nominations to any of the current members of the Nominations Committee by February 1, 2010: Erika Weinthal (weinthal [at] duke.edu); Frank Biermann (frank.biermann [at] ivm.vu.nl); David Downid (ddownie [at] fairfield.edu); and Hans Bruyninckx (hans.bruyninckx [at] soc.kuleuven.be).
Rules for Dwarfs – Risk Regulation of Nanotechnology and its International Context
International Conference, Loccum, Germany, 30 November – 2 December 2009
Further details are available at http://www.loccum.de/english/p0973ae.html.
The Protestant Academy Loccum invites you to a conference on risk regulation of nanotechnology from a transatlantic perspective. We convene actors from Germany, Europe, the United States, and beyond to link previously separated regulatory debates.
Nanotechnology can only unfold its full economic potential, if rules for its use in Europe and elsewhere do not result in new barriers to trade. The political task, therefore, is the development of mutually compatible regulatory approaches in Europe and the United States. Participants will develop regulatory recommendations for German and European politics in frank and open discussions. This includes the prioritization of regulatory approaches and principles to guide the development of compatible regulatory systems on both sides of the Atlantic.
ESS Newsletter – Fall 2009
Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association, Newsletter, October 2009
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Editors: Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald, University of California, Irvine
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The ESS Newsletter can also be found at: http://environmental-studies.org. The next edition will be January 2010. We tend to follow a Winter, Spring and Fall schedule.
The ESS newsletter is based at the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California, Irvine (www.cusa.uci.edu) and co-edited by Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald. Please send publication information, announcements, calls for papers, job announcements, job and address changes, email information, queries, etc. for inclusion in the next newsletter to cusa @ uci.edu.
Call for Submissions for ESS Newsletter
This call is to request information to be published in the next edition (Fall 2009) of the Environmental Studies Section electronic newsletter.
We welcome submissions about section news, publications, websites, job and funding opportunities, announcements and upcoming conferences and meetings.
Please send your items by email to cusa [AT] uci.edu by Friday, September 25, 2009.
DISCCRS V – Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium
13-20 March 2010
Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ
Application Deadline
31 August 2009
Participation limited to thirty-four early career scholars
Airfare and on-site expenses supported by the National Science Foundation
http://disccrs.org/
The Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS, pronounced discourse), connects natural and social scientists engaged in research related to climate change, impacts and solutions. The goal is to broaden perspectives and establish a collegial peer network to address climate challenges at the interface of science and society. A report and list of participants from the most recent symposium is available at http://disccrs.org/reports/DISCCRS_IV_Symposium_Report.pdf