Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
International Conference
25.-27.4.2000, Helsinki, Finland
You are invited to participate in an International
Conference on Ecological Modernization in Russia,
organized by the Aleksanteri Institute (The Finnish
Centre for Russian and East European Studies) in
co-operation with the Department of Social Policy,
University of Helsinki, and the Finnish Society for
Environmental Social Science.
The workshops are organised around such questions as
the following:
 Is the new Russian economy inevitably caught
on a treadmill, which drives it towards collapse, or
is an ecologically sustainable modern society a
feasible option?
 Can we open up and revitalise the social
sciences in order to find innovative approaches for
diagnosing environmental predicaments in Russia?
 Can we overcome the Russian environmental
crises by making use of the potentialities of
modernity or should we have to leave the path of
enlightenment modernity for something else?
 To what extent are local, national or
international policies able to develop strategies for
ecological modernisation in Russia?
The conference organizers welcomes papers on any of
these themes.
Abstract Submission
Abstracts not exceeding 200 words should be submitted
no later than 31.1.2000 1999.
E-mail proposals are preferred, directed to
Information Officer Paivi Paloposki
([log in to unmask], telefax: 191 23822)
Final date for submitting papers (10-15 pages) is
30.3. 2000.
All abstracts and papers should be written in English.
Venue
The conference will take place at the University of
Helsinki in the centre of the city.
Registration
The registration fee is 800 FIM (146 USD, 133 Euro).
The registration fee includes
admission to all plenary and parallel sessions,
opening party with dinner, refreshments during the
workshop, a reception and conference materials.
Your registration will be confirmed after receiving
the conference fee.
The closing day for registration to conference is 15th
March, 2000.
Conference contact details
Information Officer Paivi Paloposki
Ecological Modernization in Russia
Aleksanteri Institute
P.O.Box 4
00014 University of Helsinki
tel. +358-9- 191 24186, 191 24175
fax +358-9-191 23822
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.halvi.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conferences/conference1.html
Steering Committee
Prof. Joan DeBardeleben, Prof. Yrj÷ Haila, Dir. Markku
Kivinen, Prof. Vladimir Kotov, Dr. Ilmari Susiluoto,
Dr. Pekka Sutela, Academician Alexey Yablokov, Prof.
Oleg Yanitsky
Organizing Committee
Information Officer Paivi Paloposki (Chair,
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)
Director Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute,
University of Helsinki)
Dr. Ilmo Massa (Department of Social Policy,
University of Helsinki)
Prof. Janne Hukkinen (Helsinki University of
Technology)
Lic.Soc.Sci Rauno Sairinen (Centre for Urban and
Regional Studies, University of Helsinki)
M.Sc. Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen (Department of Geography,
University of Helsinki)
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Tomi Pylvänäinen
Aleksanteri Institute
(Yliopistonkatu 5)
P.O.Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki
tel. +358-9-191 23295
fax. +358-9-191 23822
email [log in to unmask]
http://www.halvi.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/
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