RGS-IBG Post-Socialist Geographies (Working Party)/Oxford Environment
Conference
I have been asked by one of the organisers of the Oxford Environment
Conference to put out a call for papers on the broad theme of ‘the
environment in post-socialist areas’. The papers would either be
integrated with the conference programme, or form part of a separate
session.
If you would like to submit a paper on any aspect of this theme,
please return to me: a title, an abstract of up to 300 words, a 50
word biography and your contact details (my address is at the end of
this email) by 15th February 1999.
Details of the conference are given below. If there are any other
queries please contact Dr Paul Anand (OU) ([log in to unmask]).
Craig Young.
The Environment: Risks and Opportunities
3rd Annual International Public Policy and Social Science Conference
St Catherine's College, Oxford
28th to 30th June 1999
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference Committee
Professor Gordon Clark, Oxford University (Chair), Dr Paul Anand, The
Open University and Risk Decision and Policy (Conference Secretary),
Ian Duncan (Oxford), Elizabeth Howard (Said Business School, Oxford),
Dr I Langford (University of East Anglia), Professor L Sjoberg
(Stockholm School of Economics), Dr Clive Splash (Director Cambridge
University Environment Research), Dr Andy Stirling (SPRU Sussex), Dr
Mark v Vugt (Southampton)
Confirmed speakers include:
** Rt Hon Sir John Gummer, MP ** Tim Murphy, Director Environmental
Assessment Unit, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development **
Professor David Canter, Psychology, University of Liverpool, ** Dr Kim
Polgreen, UNIPART ** Professor Andrew Blowers, The Open University **
Andy Hughs, University of Bradford
The turn of the millenium provides a useful opportunity to take stock
of the crucial relations between man and the environment.
Decision-making in this area of policy is characterised by all the
facets that make consensus difficult and conflict likely.
Uncertainties about future needs and technologies, benefits and costs
are highly uncertain. These issues are fundamental to risk assessment
though risk management needs to acknowledge a wider set of issues.
Stakeholders typically come from a variety of backgrounds each with
different and sometimes incommensurable value systems that shape and
confound basic risk assessment and communication processes. Not only
are environmental risks multi-faceted but their regulation and control
is fundamentally the result of strategically interacting players.
Drawing together academics from a wide range of disciplines including
behavioural geography, economics, psychology, decision and risk
analysis, management and political sciences, with representatives from
government, business and NGOs, the conference will explore, inter
alia:
•some of the problems and their relative importance in objective and
perceptual terms, •what has been achieved by business and government
agencies trying to establish products or capacities that deal with key
problems and, finally, •what remains to be done and the likely
development of policy and process over the next 10 years and beyond
The event will compromise keynote speakers invited from public and
private sectors, panel debate, a large number of contributed current
research papers, a welcome reception and a conference dinner at St
Catherine's College. 300 word abstracts with 50 word bios should be
sent to [log in to unmask]: second call due by 15th February.
Submissions particularly welcome in the following areas: Environment
Risk, Global Environmental Change, Decision-Making and Consensus
Seeking, Institutional Strengthening, Issues for and contributions
from Business, Green Accounting, Medical Geography, Environmental
Economics, Environmental Psychology, Environmental Politics and
Applied Philosophy. A selection of conference papers will appear in a
special issue of Risk Decision and Policy on Environmental Decision
Making and Risk Taking (http://journals.routledge.com/rdp.html).
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Dr. Craig Young
Senior Lecturer in Geography,
Manchester Metropolitan University,
Department of Environmental and
Geographical Sciences,
John Dalton Building,
Chester Street,
Manchester,
M1 5GD.
Ph: 0161-247-6198/1602.
Fax: 0161-247-6318.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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