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Final Call for papers
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
4th - 8th March 2003, New Orleans
Scales of Environmental Governance
Organisers: James Evans (University of Birmingham, UK), Tom MacMillan
(University of Manchester, UK)
These sessions aim to explore the interplay between scales of environmental
governance and scales of environmental science. Critiques of scale are
well-worn in both human and physical geography, and neither scales of
governance nor scales of environmental processes are assumed to be
ontologically given. So far, however, little has been done to tease out the
imprint of each upon the other.
In these sessions we take it as axiomatic that scientific and political
legitimacy are produced in conjunction, rather than one preceding the other.
Policy decisions are routinely deployed in scientific controversies to
differentiate ‘good’ from ‘bad’ science, and vice versa. We call for papers
that focus on how the scales associated with these nominally separate realms
of activity are mixed up, and on why or how this matters.
For example, is the ‘universal’ scientific knowledge that underpins the
international harmonisation of environmental governance only ‘determined’ by
the decisions of the regulatory bodies created in its name? Do the
institutions for international environmental governance (e.g. via GATT SPS
Agreement or the IPCC) cling to the myth of value-free science because no
political institutions currently exist to make legitimate value-judgements
at such scales? When is science that appears certain at one scale made
uncertain at another, due to different procedures for regulatory
decision-making?
Indicative themes include:
· The unruly scales of environmental processes
· Scale and the purification of environmental knowledges
· Governing imperial environments
· Territory and scientific legitimacy
· Localizing environmental policy
· State socialism and international environmental agreements
· The scaled cultures of environmental governance
· Trade regulation and environmental certainty
· The environmental parameters of political norms
· Scales of environmental risk regulation
· Gerrymandering environmental justice
· Analytical scale and timeframes of regulation
· Scale as a shared/contested territory in environmental geography
We hope that these sessions will interest those who are involved in
environmental governance, broadly conceived, and those who have studied it,
stimulating debate on its social and scientific dimensions.
Please send expressions of interest to either of the organisers by 6th
September 2002. Titles and full abstracts (up to 250 words) will be required
by 20th September 2002.
James Evans ([log in to unmask]; +44 7957 206122)
Tom MacMillan ([log in to unmask]; +44 161 2753674)
James Evans
Research Student
Geography, Environmental and Earth Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Tel. 0121 4714358
07957 206122
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