We would like to know and connect social researchers interested and involved into the topic of energy.
New book by Les Levidow and Susan Carr is available from Routledge for a 20% Discount.
A new book of Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism Politics and Contested Science has been released. A paperback version is available for course adoption. Order and receive 40% off.
Call for contributions of case studies concerning social inclusion in policies of biodiversity protection, urban agriculture, clean energy and environmental justice. Deadline June 10.
University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (UNIVE, www.unive.it), Interdepartmental Centre IDEAS, is providing support to individual experienced researchers
meeting the requirements of the FP7 People Programme to develop research proposals aimed at carrying out a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship at UNIVE.
The First International Conference of the Society of Sociologists from Romania to be held between 2-4 December in Cluj-Napoca, Romania will host an environmental sociology session.
As the time scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society edited by Constance Lever-Lacy takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisciplinary and global social science research and teaching to address the problem.
Call for applications for the European Sociological Association Summer School 2010 - Academic Journal Writing Workshop for PhD students.
The Environmental Policy Group (in cooperation with the sub-department of Environmental Technology) offers a position for a PhD student.
ISCTE - Institute University Lisbon (www.iscte.pt), in collaboration with CPADA – The Portuguese Confederation for the Environment Protection Associations (www.cpada.pt), is organising a global conference on the theme of Corporate Governance, Innovation and Environmental and Social Responsibility – GIRA© 2010. The global conference aims to convene a broad range of academic researchers, industrialists, policy makers, business leaders, other practitioners and civil society representatives to review the state of policy and practice in the broad field of protection of the environment, sustainable development and the economy, corporate ethics and social responsibility, as we look forward into a potentially turbulent 21st Century.
