Environmental Studies Association of Canada

Call for Participants
“Northern Nations, Northern Natures”
November 8-11, 2013
KTH Royal Institute for Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

We invite applications from graduate students attending Canadian universities to participate in the workshop “Northern Nations, Northern Natures,” which will be held at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden between November 8-11, 2013. The primary goal of the workshop is to explore transnational and comparative approaches to northern environmental history, including the history of boreal, subarctic, arctic, and polar regions. By bringing together graduate and early-career scholars from Canada and Scandinavia, we aim to encourage the building of trans-Atlantic relationships which may lead to future exchanges or collaborations.

Graduate participants will present short individual papers, which will be complemented by presentations from senior scholars from Canada and Scandinavia and opportunities for formal and informal discussion and networking. They will also have the opportunity to write a short blog post prior to the workshop on a subject relevant to their research which links historical and contemporary events in the North. Outcomes of the workshop will include a special edition of a peer-reviewed journal. We encourage applications from students currently working on topics that pertain to the environmental history (broadly construed) or historical geography of the Canadian North in any time period.

Thanks to funding from the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), four stipends of C$500 each are available to successful applicants to defray the cost of travel. Accommodation and other expenses in Stockholm will be covered by the organizers. To apply, please send a write-up of no more than 500 words outlining how your current research relates to the workshop theme and how you would benefit from participation to Peder Roberts (pwrobert[at]kth.se), Tina Adcock (tina.adcock[at]rutgers.edu), and Sverker Sörlin (sorlin[at]kth.se). Please include the name and contact information of one academic reference, along with a one-page CV. Applications must be received by June 7, and successful applicants will be notified by June 21.

For more information, please see the event website (http://niche-canada.org/node/10654) or contact tina.adcock[at]rutgers.edu.

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Register for the educator workshop, Building Nature and Food Connections at FoodShare. Participants will be enjoying the following activities with Carolynne, FoodShare’s educator extraordinaire!

• Soil Exploration with composting and worms 
• Garden Investigation with illustration, mapping and nature sounds
• “Eat Your Weeds” with traditional knowledge and identification of edible & medicinal weeds 
• Harvest Creations with tea and alcohol-free tinctures!

Details:

Friday, May 31 from 10-3pm at FoodShare’s 90 Croatia St, Toronto location (Dufferin and Bloor W)

 

Cost:

$125, price includes a delicious FoodShare lunch

 

To Register:

Simply email me back at brooke[at]foodshare.net – but hurry, spaces are
limited!

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The Anthropology & Environment Society is currently seeking 1-2 editors to curate our Engagement blog. The blog was launched on the revamped AES website in July 2012 as part of the society’s effort to reach broader publics. Edited by Rebecca Garvoille (rgarv001[at]fiu.edu) and Noah Theriault (theriault[at]wisc.edu), Engagement features first-hand accounts by anthropologists and other social scientists whose work engages social/environmental problems — Tom Sheridan’s work on ranchers & conservation in Arizona, Edwin Schmitt’s work on eco-toilets in China, Peggy Barlett’s work on campus sustainability projects, Brandon Nida’s activism on Blair Mountain, and many others. Engagement posts are also featured on the AES Facebook, and the blog has received tens of thousands of hits.

The new editor(s) will ideally be available to work with the outgoing editors over the summer. Experience with editing for broad audiences and/or blogging in WordPress is a plus. Those interested should send a brief CV and letter of interest to Glenn Stone (stone[at]wustl.edu) by 1 June 2013. In the letter, please indicate availability and highlight any relevant skills or experiences. Questions about editorial responsibilities can be directed to current Engagement editors. Rebecca and Noah describe their work as follows:

Basic editorial responsibilities include recruiting blog contributions, editing them in concert with the author, and then preparing them for publication in WordPress. Interviews for the book series were conducted mostly over email, but occasionally required transcription of interviews conducted via Skype. Broader editorial duties include ensuring a consistent thematic and stylistic orientation for the blog as a whole, as well as developing new features like the book interview series. Because there are two of us, the time commitment has been very manageable. For both of us, editing the blog has been a wonderful professional development opportunity. Not only have we gotten to meet and work with a wide variety of scholars who do very compelling work, we have also honed our own editorial skills. It has been especially rewarding to work on a forum that strives to engage a broad audience. We look forward to working closely with our successors to ensure a smooth transition.

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Sunday June 2

2:30 -4:30 Keynote: Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, Green Party of Canada
David Lam Auditorium, A144 McLaurin Building

Monday June 3

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast Reception
Social Sciences/Mathematics – Lower Lobby

9:30 – 10:30 Opening Keynote: Calvin Sandborn, Legal Director, Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria
Preserving Democracy and Protecting the Planet: The Role of Science
Social Sciences/Mathematics – A120

10:30 – 12:00
Sustainable Development (3A)
Cornett – A221

Geo Takach:
Edges and Flows of Identity: Economy, Environment and the Tar Sands

Chad Walker:
“Winds of Change”: Explaining Support for Wind Energy Developments in Ontario, Canada

Matthew Stoutjesdyk:
Sustainable Aquaculture: the Social and Environmental Controversy of British Columbia’s Fish Farming Industry

Food and Agriculture (3B)
MacLaurin – B037

PANEL: Katherine Burnett, Kim Jackson, and Michaela McMahon
(re)Imagined Communities: Constructions/contestations/intersections in an age of global flows

Education Papers (3C)
MacLaurin – D116

Natasha Blanchet-Cohen and Giulietta Di Mambro:
Enhancing multicultural environmental education: implications for practice

Rebecca Houwer:
Education in an ecotone: Sustaining” relational possibilities through community-engaged participatory praxis

Michel Leger:
School-Centred Family Eco-Networks”: A proposed pedagogical strategy for developing environmental action competence in the context of family

Bruce Downie and Karen Clyde:
Making environmental education meaningful: a case study from Saadani National Park, Tanzania

MacLaurin – D110 (3D)

WORKSHOP:  Chaired by Ann Dale. Audrey Dallimore, Leslie King, Matt Dodd, Chris Ling, Mickie Nobel and Rick Kool:
Notes from the Field: From Sea, to Land to Sky, to the Classroom

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break

1:00 – 5:00
Sustainable Development (3E)
Cornett – A221

Christian Bouchard:
Climate change, sea level rise and sustainable development in the South-West Indian Ocean small islands states and territories

Mike Dunn:
Emergence and Transitions of Sustainable Forest Management Institutions in Canada

Berry Hsu:
International Law and Sustainability in Fishery Stocks: The Case of Hong Kong

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Kirsten McIlveen:
Burns Lake Community Forest, 11 years on: The Evolution of a Successful Model

Surono Karti:
Build Environmental Sustainability with Bruhbuh methods in Javanese Society

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PANEL: Chris Ling, Charles Krusekopf, Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell and Susan Kerr:
Understanding the public uptake of a municipal incentive program for energy efficiency

Food and Agriculture (3F)
MacLaurin – B037

Ataharui Chowdhury:
How do Social Media Function for Enabling Sustainable Agricultural Innovations?

Jean Doyon:
A Permaculture Framework for (Food) Economies beyond Sustainability

Lorelei Hanson and Deborah Schrader:
The City of Edmonton’s Food and Agricultural Strategy: A “fresh” start or more of the same?

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Photography Exhibit
Rick Kool:
Lexicon of Sustainability – Food and farming photography exhibit

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Matt Humphrey:
At the two edges of Civilization: a Primitivist reading of the Hebrew Bible as a resource for the food movements of tomorrow

Kelly Bronson:
The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Canadian Crop Biotechnology Disputes

Education (3G)
MacLaurin – D116

PANEL: M.J Barrett, Christie Thomson, Matt Harmin, and Molly Patterson
Encounters with the living world: Teaching and learning in a graduate school of environment and sustainability

[ BREAK ]

Rebecca McNeil:
Canadian University Presidents on Sustainability: Definitions, Roles and Ways Forward

Joanne Moyer:
Environmental Worldviews in Faith-Based Organizations: Exploring the Nexus between Transformative Learning and Action

Christina Thomson:
Lifting the Veil: Teaching and Learning for Spiritual Relations with Nature

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PANEL: Bernard Schissel
RRU Doctoral Students:
Holly Clermont: Decision-Making for At-Risk Ecosystems
Carla Funk: Recipients’ Perspective of Development Aid in Tanzania
Mike Lickers: Aboriginal Youth Leadership
Kent Williams: Neuroscience and Leadership: Neuroleadership

Social Engagement (3H)
MacLaurin – D110

Amelia Clarke and Elaine Ho:
Mapping Youth Engagement: Understanding Roles and Impacts of Youth Engagement in Canada Over the Last 50 Years

Erin Luther:
The limits of compassion in environmental communication

Kazi Abdur Rouf:
Green Microfinance Promoting Green Enterprise Development: Bangladesh and Canada Experience

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Anne Watelet:
From “Junk-tion” Creek to Junction Creek Stewardship Committee: Sudbury’s Cultural Construction of its Urban River in Northern Ontario

Chris Ferguson-Martin:
Raging Rivers: Social Acceptance of IPP Renewable Energy Projects in British Columbia

Karena Shaw, Lindsay Monk, and Claire Beckstead:
Planning Power: Could improved planning frameworks increase social acceptance of renewable energy development in BC?

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PANEL: Chaired by Lenore Newman – Ann Dale, Robert Newell, Dave Adams
Social Media: An exploration in Research Dissemination

Tuesday, June 4

8:30 – 10:00
Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction (PAPR) (4A)
MacLaurin – B037

PANEL: Chairs: Leslie King, RRU and Grant Murray, VIU
PAPR 3. Protected Area Governance

Alex W. Kisingo, Phil Dearden, Rick Rollins and Grant Murray:
Community Evaluation of Protected Area Governance in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania

Andrew Kyei Agyare:
Polycentric Governance and Socio – Ecological Performance of Community Resource Management Areas in Ghana: Assessing structures, effectiveness and outcomes

Abiud L. Kaswamila, Agustino Mwakipesile & Elizabeth Mbwana:
Resident hunting ban in Serengeti district and its implications to people’s livelihood

Aleja Orozco:
Environmental Governance in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve: Institutional Change and Adaptations and the Coupling of Ecological goals with Social Goals.

Community Involvement (4B)
MacLaurin – D010

Natasha Blanchet-Cohen:
Creating Green Active Healthy Neighbhourhoods: Community organizations capacity to be agents of change

Patricia Ballamingie, Stephanie Kittmer, Todd Barr, Blair Cullen:
Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement¬ – Inside the Community Environmental Sustainability hub

Haoze (Hugh) Chen:
Implementation of Collaborative Community Sustainability Plans: Relationship between Structural Features and Plan-Centric Outcomes

Shirley Thompson and Myrle Ballard:
Flooding Lake St. Martin First Nation Community: Impacts to and Future Community Plans for Sustainable Livelihoods

MacLaurin – D116 (4C)

PANEL: Ryan Katz-Rosene, Simon Dalby, Michael Byers
Session 1. Harperian Ecologies: Conservative Transformations in Canadian Environmental Policy

MacLaurin – D016 (4D)

PANEL: Justin Page and Robin Sydneysmith
Session 1. Edges and flows between science, politics and values in environmental impact assessment.

10:30 – 12:00
PAPR (4E)
MacLaurin – B037

PANEL: Chairs: Leslie King, RRU and Grant Murray, VIU
PAPR 3. Protected Area Governance

Lucie Edwards:
“We’re having what they’re having”: Can an Intergovernmental Science Panel alleviate the global crisis of biodiversity?

Leslie King and Grant Murray:
Protected Areas and Governance Innovation in Canada, Tanzania and Ghana

Windekind Buteau-Duitschaever:
Fit, Scale and Interplay: Addressing Institutional Challenges for Park Governance
Community Involvement (4F)
MacLaurin – D010

Brandon Laforest, Julie Hebert, Gregory W Thiemann, Alan Penn, and Martyn E Obbard:
Polar bear status in James Bay; Insights from Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Pat MacDonald:
Capturing Community Values in Marine Resource Management: New Tools for New Times

Shirley Thompson:
Community development and regional planning in First Nation communities in Island Lake

MacLaurin – D116 (4G)

PANEL: Ryan Katz-Rosene, Adele Lay, Raili Lakanen, and Dawn Hoogeveen
Session 2. Harperian Ecologies: Conservative Transformations in Canadian Environmental Policy

MacLaurin – D016 (4H)

PANEL: Annie Booth, Chief Roland Wilson, Bruce Muir
Organized by: Annie Booth, Justin Page and Robin Sydneysmith
Session 2. First Nations Perspectives on Environmental Impact Assessment in British Columbia

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break

2:00 – 4:00

Benefits of Carbon Taxation
Bob Wright Centre A104

Moderator: Thomas F. Pedersen, Professor, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria
James Mack, Director, Climate Action Secretariat, Government of BC
Stewart Elgie, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Jonn Axsen, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University

1:00 – 2:30
Community (4I)
MacLaurin – D010

Veronica Wahl:
UNIBUG: Supporting Biodiversity in the Urban Garden

Maureen G. Reed, Hélène Godmaire, Paivi Abernethy, Marc-André Guertin:
Strengthening a community of practice for learning (and evaluation of best practices) in Canadian biosphere reserves

Tejiri Digun-Aweto:
A forced marriage between conservation and host communities in Okomu national park (ONP), Edo State, Nigeria

Steph Kittmer:
A poststructural political ecology of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

PAPR (4J )
MacLaurin – B037

PANEL: Chairs: Rosaline Canessa, UVic and Rick Rollins VIU
PAPR 1: Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas

Bruce K. Downie, Philip Dearden and Leslie King:
Environmental Sustainability in Household Livelihood Decision-making: A Preliminary Analysis

Baker Masuruli, Phil Dearden, Rick Rollins:
Costs and benefits of the nature-based tourism supply system to communities in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania

Nathan Bennett & Phil Dearden:
The Impacts of Marine Protected Areas on Communities: What Qualitative and Quantitative Perceptions-Based Studies (Do and Do Not) Tell Us About Marine National Park Initiatives in Thailand

Kwame Ampadu Sasu, K. Thomas Djang-Fordjour and Samuel Ankama Obour:
The Costs and Benefits ratios in the Bui National Park communities before and after the construction of the Bui Hydro Project in Ghana

Global Issues (4K)
Social Sciences/Mathematics – A120 (lower level)

Garrett Richards:
Oblique Approaches to Climate Action through the Popular Norm of Evidence-Based Policy

Christopher Lemieux:
Natural resource manager perceptions of agency performance on climate change

Brennan Vogel:
Climate change adaptation and Canadian municipalities

MacLaurin – D016 (4L)

PANEL: Ann Dale, Kevin Hanna, Lucie Edwards, Penny Park
Science, Society and Policy

3:00 – 4:30
Cornett – A125 (4M)

PANEL: Ann Dale, Leslie King, Alison Shaw, Kevin Hanna, Chris Ling
The Potential of Local and National Climate Adaptation and Mitigation for Transforming Development Paths

PAPR (4N)
MacLaurin – B037

PANEL: Chairs: Rosaline Canessa, UVic and Rick Rollins, VIU
PAPR 1: Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas

Pete Parker, Brijesh Thapa, & Aerin Jacob:
Decentralized conservation and poverty reduction in Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal: An assessment of livelihood diversification

Lucy Aku Gyiele:
An assessment of ecotourism potential of Bui National Park

Rick Rollins, Rosaline Canessa, Adam Chafey, Terry Doward, Erin Heeney, Shannon West, Pete Parker:
Perceived impacts of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Nearby Communities

Ladislaus W. Kahana, Obeid Mahenya and Msowelo Lazaro:
Exploring effective methods of disseminating tourism information to local communities adjacent Saadani National Park, Tanzania.

Global Issues (4O)
Social Sciences/Mathematics – A120 (lower level)

Manoj Misra:
The political ecology of globalization, peasant dispossession and ecological rift in Bangladesh

Emily McGriffin:
A participatory approach to ecosystem valuation in the Carood Watershed, Philippines

Archimedes Muzenda:
Perceptions on Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Global Environmental Initiatives in Zaka

Lewis Williams:
Deepening ecological relationality through critical onto-epistemological inquiry: Te Ao Maori (the Maori World) meets sustainable science and education

MacLaurin – D016 (4P)

WORKSHOP: Maureen Jack-La Croix
SLS: Student Leadership in Sustainability

4:30 – 5:00 AGM Biblio Café – McPherson Library

5:00 – 7:00 Wine, Cheese and Posters Biblio Café – McPherson Library

Posters:
Kelly R. Bancroft:
Lake Associations in Central and Northeastern Ontario: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability

Jaylene Bodner; Luis Alves; Katie Schneider; and Ryan Thibault:
Perceived Benefits and Sacrifices of the Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary 2012

Matt Bowes:
Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Long Beach Unit of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve: Understanding Visitor Behaviour

Dani Burrows, Grant Murray and Carleigh Randall:
Exploring the Potential for Tourism Related Payment for Ecosystem Services in Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks

Adam Chafey, Rick Rollins, Rosaline Canessa and Grant Murray:
Impacts of protected areas on adjacent communities: An examination of attitudes and perceptions towards Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Bruce K. Downie and Karen Clyde:
Working for Conservation and Community Development

Carla Funk:
Recipients’ Perceptions of Private Development Aid in Tanzania

Matthew D. Harmin:
Experiencing the Threshold Concepts of Epistemological Pluralism

Erin Heeney and Rick Rollins:
Port Renfrew Resident Perceptions: Living Next to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and Juan de Fuca Provincial Park

Brianne Labute, Ashley Coulter, Llanavis Davis, Cody Harman and Shannon West:
Perceived Benefits and Sacrifices of a Community Resource Management Area in Ghana

Chris Lemieux:
Healthy Outside-Healthy Inside: The Human Health and Well-being Benefits of Alberta’s Parks

Grant Murray & Leslie King:
First Nations Values in Protected Area Governance:
Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks and Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Aleja Orozco-Quintero:
Environmental Change in Coastal Protected Areas: The Role of Knowledge, Institutions and Multi-level Governance in Adaptive Capacity

Carleigh Randall:
Governance for Landscape-Level Ecosystem-Based Management

Nicole Vaugeois:
Community Resilience and Protected Areas: The role of accessibility, proximity and destination status

Shannon West & Terry Dorward:
Living In & Around PRNPR: Esowista First Nations Benefits and Concerns

Wednesday, June 5

8:00- 9:30 Breakfast – MacLaurin – A100

9:30 – 10:30
Politics (5A)
MacLaurin – A169

Jannik Eikenaar:
Laughing Back: Disrupting the Natural Order in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction

Nick Garside:
Green Political Wanderers

PAPR (5B)
MacLaurin – B037
** Starts 9:00 AM **

PANEL: Chair: Phil Dearden, UVic
PAPR 2: Wildlife and Human Interaction

Matthew Bowes, Rick Rollins, Peter Keller, Robert Gifford:
Human-Wildlife Conflict, Visitor Beliefs and Personal and Descriptive Norms: An Elicitation Study Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour

E. Makupa, Rosaline Canessa, and Leslie King:
Assessing Local Livelihood Benefits from Community Wildlife Management Area in Western Serengeti, Tanzania

Emmanuel Acquah, Phil Dearden and Rick Rollins:
The Impacts of Human-wildlife Interactions on Park Adjacent Communities in Northern Ghana

Todd Windle, Dennis E. Jelinski, Christopher T. Darimont:
Improving Management of Human-Carnivore Conflict with Spatial Data: Preliminary Results of A Case Study Looking at 15 Years of Human-Carnivore Conflict Data on the West-Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.

10:30 – 12:00
Politics (5C)
MacLaurin – A169

Sharon Moran:
Comparative Environmental Policy: Transcending the Traps

Ryan Bowie:
Expanding the Praxis of Rights: The Regional Land Use Planning Initiative of the Mushkegowuk Cree

PAPR (5D)
MacLaurin – B037

PANEL: Chair: Ken Hammer, VIU
PAPR 4. Knowledge Mobilization

Carleigh Randall:
Knowledge Mobilization In and Beyond a Protected Area and Poverty Reduction Research Network

Ken Hammer:
Intentionalizing knowledge mobilization in the research process

Rick Rollins, Grant Murray, Carleigh Randall:
University-Protected Area Agency Research Knowledge Mobilization: Insights from an exploratory case study of BC Parks

Rob Ferguson:
I am Here: Mapping the Self Within Knowledge Mobilization

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Cadboro Commons –Main Dining Room

(Congress BIG Thinker 12:15-1:00 McLaurin B125, Philip Young Audit)

2:00 – 4:00
MacLaurin – B125 – Phillip T. Young Theatre

Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction (PAPR) KEYNOTE PANEL:

Moderator: David O’Brien, Senior Program Specialist, Science and Innovation, IDRC, Ottawa

Prof. Abiud Kaswamila, Head of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Dodoma (UDOM) in central Tanzania

Dr. Tory Stevens, Protected Areas Ecologist, Parks and Protected Areas Program, Ministry of Environment, Victoria, B.C.

Dr. Nancy Turner, Distinguished Professor and Hakai Professor in Ethnoecology, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria,

Nadine Crookes, Director, Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat, Parks Canada, Gatineau

3:00 – 5:00
MacLaurin – A169 (5E)

NON SCHEDULED SPACE

5:00 – 7:00 Reception Dinner Cadboro Commons – Village Greens

 

Contact Carla Funk regarding corrections and conflicts: esac.2013[at]gmail.com

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Rising Voices of Indigenous People in Weather and Climate Science Workshop
The challenges of understanding and responding to a changing climate and extreme weather necessitate broad engagement with diverse communities. As climate science has matured, it has moved toward a more inclusive dialogue where scientists and policy makers work together with seasoned indigenous communities to define and carry out research programs that advance science and address community priorities. The National Center for Atmospheric Research is hosting a workshop on the growing engagement of Native American, Alaska Native, and Pacific Island communities in climate and weather science, research, policy, and community response conversations. The workshop will address the question: What are the elements of successful co-production of science and policy in the fields of extreme weather and climate change? The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group (formerly the American Indian/Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group). Participants will be actively involved in cross-cultural scientific engagement with Native American, Alaska Native, and Pacific Island communities and will be from academic institutions, including tribal colleges and universities, as well as government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Travel support is available for a limited number of participants.
WORKSHOP VENUE: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Foothills Laboratory, 3450 Mitchel Lane, Boulder, CO 80307

WORKSHOP DATES: July 1-2, 2013

APPLICATION PROCESS: Applications are due May 10, 2013. If you are interested in participating in the Rising Voices workshop, please send the following information to Kris Marwitz (Email: kmarwitz[at]ucar.edu or Phone: 303-497-8198):

• Name, affiliation, email address, mailing address, phone number
• A paragraph explaining how you have been and are involved in work related to weather or climate issues that engages indigenous communities within the United States.
• If you require financial support to attend the workshop, please include whether you need full or partial support (i.e., if you would be able to pay airfare but not hotel accommodations).

WORKSHOP GOALS:
Identify lessons learned for, or barriers to, achieving successful co-production of science and policy by appraising the first-hand experiences of those involved in cross-cultural efforts to integrate indigenous knowledge and diverse understandings in climate and weather modeling and assessments;
Foster and support collaborations between experts on cross-cultural engagement and NCAR scientists; and
Promote student opportunities to work with NCAR scientists.

For further information, please contact Heather Lazrus (hlazrus[at]ucar.edu) or Bob Gough (gough.bob[at]gmail.com)

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LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE (GA) Training – June 8, 2013 – $200

When: June 8, 2013 – 11:00 AM to 5:00PM

Where: University of Toronto (Galbraith Building – Room 405)

Interested in getting involved in the Green Building Industry? Opportunities are plentiful in the field of sustainable design and LEED® is at its forefront. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is simply a green-rating point system, or a scorecard to certify sustainably designed and constructed buildings.

LeadingGREEN offers the most affordable live LEED Green Associate Training in the world, while still maintaining a 100% pass rate and helping hundreds of students pass their exams. The LEED Green Associate (GA) credential is a great way to enter any green industry and show employers that you are environmentally conscious and knowledgeable.

Cost: $250 ($200 for full time students, request student coupon code)

If you would like to register for the class please sign up at:  www.leadinggreen.ca/products-page   – or -
E-mail us your statement of intent (including contact info) to enroll at info[at]leadingGREEN.ca, including full name, phone number, address and student status.

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June 3, 2013
9:30-10:30am
Sciences/Mathematics Building, Room A120

This year ESAC Opening Keynote “Preserving Democracy and Protecting the Planet: The Role of Science” will be delivered by Calvin Sandborn of the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre. Calvin Sandborn has practiced environmental law in British Columbia for over thirty years, and is Legal Director of the University of Victoria Environmental Law Clinic. Sandborn has been counsel on numerous leading environmental cases, and has published widely on environmental law issues, having written Preventing Toxic Pollution: Towards a British Columbia Strategy;Green Space and Growth: Conserving Natural Areas in BC Communities; A Citizen’s Guide to the Environmental Appeal Board; A Citizen’s Guide to FOI; Re-inventing Rainwater Management; Law Reform for Sustainable Development in BC, and Maintaining SuperNatural BC for Our Children: A Law Reform Agenda. He has published numerous influential newspaper articles calling for environmental reform.

He drafted the first endangered species bill ever presented to federal Parliament, in 1990. Among other things, he has successfully advocated for law reform, including B.C.’s first farm worker health and safety regulations, workers compensation coverage for farm workers, BC Hydro’s Power Smart program, Vancouver’s Integrated Pest Management policy, British Columbia’s progressive climate change legislation, the provincial requirement that producers of paints, solvents and pesticides dispose of the used containers, the provincial government’s shift to a comprehensive pollution prevention policy, laws to facilitate the operations of land trusts, and the banning of falcon harvesting.

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Project: New Directions in Trade and Development

The Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University invites applications for an 7-month SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the field of New Directions in Trade and Development. The successful candidate will be pursuing an innovative research agenda, broadly defined, related to the global political economy of trade, its changing geopolitical dynamics, and the South-South and North-South contours of this process. The candidate will participate as a core member of the organizing committee for an upcoming SSHRC-funded Workshop on New Directions in Trade and Development, organized by Dr. Gavin Fridell, Dr. Henry Veltmeyer, and Dr. Kate Ervine in the International Development Studies Program.

Candidate Profile:
· A recently completed PhD in a related social science discipline (international development studies, political science, geography, sociology, etc.);
· Evidence of publication track record and future capacity;
· Teaching and/or research experience related to the Global South;
· Ability to work in a team and support the organization of an international workshop.

Core Responsibilities:
· Participation in a SSHRC Connection Grant workshop on New Directions in Trade and Development, to be held in October/November 2013;
· Support for the organization of the workshop and the Knowledge Mobilization plan connected to it;
· Publish peer-reviewed research outputs related to trade and development..

Appointment:
This 7-month position will last from September 1, 2013, until March 31, 2014. Salary is $20,000 CAD.

Deadline:
Workshop organizers will begin considering application after May 31, 2013 until the position is filled.

Application packages should include:
a) A cover letter detailing relevant research experience (2 page maximum);
b) A current Curriculum Vitae;
c) The names and contact information for three 3 academic references.

Completed applications should be sent via email to:

Dr. Gavin Fridell
Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies
Associate Professor
International Development Studies Program
Saint Mary’s University
Gavin.fridell[at]smu.ca

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Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism in North American History Editors: Louis Hyman (Cornell University) and Joseph Tohill (York University)

Deadline May 11, 2013

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:

We invite proposals from academics and activists for a collection of essays, Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism in North American History, that will bring together different historical and contemporary perspectives on consumer activism or political consumerism in the United States and Canada between the turn of the twentieth century and the present.

We are seeking between fifteen and twenty original short essays of 4,000–6,000 words each examining historical and contemporary political consumerism. Essays should be written in an accessible tone and style aimed at a readership that will include academics, activist, and the informed public.

Since at least the early twentieth century, North Americans have engaged in individual and collective action as consumers to fight corporate malfeasance, to influence legislators, and to assert consumers’ rights. Yet being a consumer is more often a social practice than a social identity, and forms of consumer activism—from boycotts to buycotts—have been central to some of the most important struggles for social justice, like civil rights, trade unionism, and anti-globalization, anti-child labor, and anti-sweatshop activism.
Our collection seeks to shed light on contemporary debates and questions about the effectiveness of consumer activism in making social change. How effective has political consumerist action been historically? What are the boundaries on and possibilities for political consumerism in bringing about greater social justice? What lessons from the past can we apply to present and future activism?
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• historical and/or theoretical overviews of consumer activism in its many forms
• international boycotts (against Nazism, Nestle, South-African apartheid, etc)
• consumer activism in social justice movements (black civil rights, La causa, gay rights, etc.)
• campaigns for passage of consumer representation and protection legislation (pure food and drug laws, government consumer agencies, product safety and truth-in-advertising regulations)
• buycotts (white label, union label, buy American and buy Canadian campaigns)
• resistance to collective consumer action by corporate and other interests
• contemporary movements (Fair trade, Green Consumerism, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing)
• political consumerism and gender, class, race, and sexuality

Contributions that consider consumer activism in a transnational or comparative context are especially encouraged. Shopping for Change is under contract with Between the Lines Press, and is being considered by leading American academic publishers.

The deadline to submit proposals is May 11, 2013.

Proposals should include a 500 word abstract, one page CV (or resumé), and list of any previous publications. Please direct proposals or inquiries regarding the collection to Dr. Joseph Tohill jtohill[at]yorku.ca. (Accepted authors must submit completed articles by October 15, 2013, and the collection will be published in 2014.)

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The Northeast and Atlantic Environmental History Forum will host its second one-day academic workshop to examine new approaches to the environmental history of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada.

The workshop will take place at the University of Maine in Orono on September 28, 2013.

The aim of the workshop is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The workshop will focus on the social and cultural history of the region as shaped by human interaction with nature as well as a complex natural history of geological upheaval, climatic change, erosion, and renewal.

Papers might consider topics such as land use, waterways, forests, oceans, environmental justice, native peoples, women, men, and governments. Papers should be 3,500-4,000 words in length, and present original research on specific topics on the environmental history of the northeastern US and Atlantic Canada. Accepted papers will be pre-circulated to registered attendees. Presentations will be organized into four themed panels. Presenters will be given approximately ten minutes to summarize the paper’s major goals and conclusions before discussion is opened to workshop participants.

Proposals should consist of a 500-word abstract of the proposed paper and a complete CV. All proposals should be submitted individually to Brian Payne at brian.payne[at]bridgew.edu

Deadline for submission is June 21, 2013.

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