EJOLT is the co-sponsor of an international seminar on environmental justice and water justice in Colombia, October 2013. Here is the call for papers:
Objective
To analyse, within the conceptual framework of Environmental Justice (including Water Justice), the main debates and academic and empirical developments on environmental conflicts, emphazising water conflicts
Thematic Sessions
1. Environmental Justice: conceptual foundations
- Environmental and water justice
- Ecological economics
- Political ecology
- Power discourses
- Valuation languages
- Water justice or Hydric justice
2. Research methods and tools for analysing environmental conflicts
- Participatory Action Research
- Actors and social movements analysis
- Environmental conflicts inventory
- Valuation of environmental liailities
- Social metabolism, water footprint
3. Case studies on environmental conflicts: the researchers´ and the activists’ point of view
- Water
- Mining
- Agriculture
- Fishing
- Infrastructure development
4. Case studies on environmental conflicts: the social movements´ and communities´ point of view. Latinamerican networks for environmental and water justice
Guidelines for abstracts and posters presentation
Abstracts and posters will be accepted in Spanish, English or Portuguese. If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please send it to the seminar coordinator to the email address below. Accepted papers will be sent to oral presentation or poster sessions. Abstracts must follow the format:
Title
Author(s)
Authors Institutional filiation
Email, telephone and postal address
Abstracts must have between 1000 and 2000 words, Times New Roman 12 point and single space
Abstracts must have introduction, methodology and results (it is possible to include graphs and tables)
5 key words
Seminar session to which the abstract is being sent
Key dates:
Deadline for abstracts submission: May 31/2013
International Conference: October 15/2013
Seminar: October 16-18/2013
Information:
Seminar Coordinator: Professor Mario Alejandro Pérez
email: mario.perez (at) correounivalle.edu.co
Seminar administrator: Paola Tamayo paola.tamayo (at) correounivalle.edu.co
Co-sponsored by EJOLT www.envjustice.org
Event email: agua.2013 (at) correounivalle.edu.co
Web page: http://cinara.univalle.edu.co or
http://cinara.univalle.edu.co/imagenes/tira-imagen/pdf/archivo.pdf
The project ENVJUSTICE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695446)