ISEE- July 2014 Water Footprint Network News July 16, 2014Welcome to the Water Footprint Network’s July newsletter. I’m pleased to let you know that the new, improved version 1.1 of our Water Footprint Assessment Tool is now live and available for everyone to use on www.waterfootprint.org/tool. This upgraded version … Continue reading →
- GrowthBusters July Update – World Population Day July 15, 2014Friday is World Population Day, so the GrowthBusters team (which is down to me right now while Lynsey is on what I hope will be a temporary leave of absence) has been very focused on the overpopulation issue. I’ll share … Continue reading →
- BES & LSE Annual Symposium July 14, 2014British Ecological Society & London School of Economics Joint Annual Symposium Eco2: Ecology x Economics=Eco2 BMA House, London 8 – 10 September 2014 In September we will be holding our Annual Symposium. The organising committee includes Drew Purves and Matthew … Continue reading →
- ANZSEE 2013 Conference – Free Access July 10, 2014It is with great pleasure that I can announce the 2013 ANZSEE Conference proceedings are now available for FREE. These referred conference proceedings are a collation of both academic papers and practitioner insights based on the hugely successful ANZSEE 2013 … Continue reading →
- CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014 July 8, 2014CROP in cooperation with Zed Books, requests entries for the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014. Deadline: August 31, 2014 We seek original, high-quality, alternative and critical academic manuscripts. Works challenging the dominant thinking and knowledge about poverty and … Continue reading →
- CFP: Workshop on Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics July 8, 2014Climate Ethics and Economics Department of Political and Economic StudiesUniversity of Helsinki Call for Papers Workshop: Ethical underpinnings of climate economics Helsinki; 11-13 November 2014 Confirmed Speakers John Broome (University of Oxford) John O’Neill (University of Manchester) The debates around … Continue reading →
- Networked Urban Mobilities July 8, 2014Networked Urban Mobilities – Register Now 5-7th of November 2014 Venue: Aalborg University Campus in Copenhagen, DK Joint hosts: Aalborg University & Roskilde University REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Keynote Speakers Announced! John Urry – Professor of Sociology & director … Continue reading →
- Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2014 July 3, 2014Breaking News The Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2014 will be opened by Prof. Peter Söderbaum http://goo.gl/wEotfU and will feature will feature guest lectures by the European Environment Agency (http://www.eea.europa.eu/), Prof. Herbert Girardet and Prof. Dave Elliott.
- Response to David Barkin posting by Roy Morrison July 2, 2014Original Morrison posting. Response by David Barkin. It is precisely the enormous second law advantages posed, for example, by a global efficient renewable energy transformation to replace high entropy and ecologically ruinous fossil fuels and nuclear energy is at the … Continue reading →
- Transdisciplinary Sustainability Studies: A Heuristic Approach July 1, 2014Edited by Katri Huutoniemi, Petri TapioRoutledge – 2014 – 216 pagesSeries: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions. This book offers a fresh approach to practical and methodological concerns in … Continue reading →
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Category Archives: Research
CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014
CROP in cooperation with Zed Books, requests entries for the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014. Deadline: August 31, 2014 We seek original, high-quality, alternative and critical academic manuscripts. Works challenging the dominant thinking and knowledge about poverty and … Continue reading
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Response to Roy Morrison Article by David Barkin
Original Morrison posting. The note by Roy Morrison in a recent issue of the ISEE weekly bulletin (12 June 2014) poses serious questions for our Society. His affirmation that the way to achieve sustainability and end (sic!) poverty, is to … Continue reading
Population Growth: A Multiplier of All Problems
Population Growth: A Multiplier of All ProblemsSummary Conclusions of Recent Research by Population Matters Conclusion and Recommendations Stable or reducing populations are an essential pre-condition for economic, social and biophysical sustainability – population growth makes all UK and global problems … Continue reading
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Centre for Science and Environment
The Centre for Science and Environment is one of India’s leading environmental NGOs with a deep interest in sustainable natural resource management. CSE’s strategy of “knowledge based activism” has won it wide respect and admiration for the quality of its … Continue reading
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Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to advocating a sustainable economy with stabilized population and consumption. This economy is called a “steady state economy.” The purposes of CASSE are to: … Continue reading
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Database on Pesticides and the Environment
The Database on Pesticides and the Environment is the result of information compiled from 1992 to 1996. It constitutes a unique source of information on pesticides used in Asia. For the first time, to our knowledge, pesticides widely used in … Continue reading
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Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)
The Research Database on Water Conservation is run in conjunction with the Environment Agency’s National Water Demand Management Centre. The Aims of the research database are to: collect and maintain information from organisations and individuals carrying out research, trials or … Continue reading
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The Geography Site
An excellent resource aimed for use by teachers, students and anyone with an interest in geography and how our planet works. It covers a wide range of environmental problems in detail and provides numerous links to other useful sites.
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Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
ENTRI is a fast, convenient, comprehensive online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators. The ENTRI system is unique in allowing you to construct queries that integrate these different types of data.
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EU Center
EU Center is a non-profit initiative for organisations who wish to contribute to the establishment of an open civil society and democratic discourse throughout Europe. It maintains a website whose aim is to provide practical assistance to institutions of higher … Continue reading
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European Environment Agency
The EEA aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public.
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FiscallyGreen.ca, Pembina Institute
FiscallyGreen.ca provides a one-stop shop for information on ecological fiscal reform (EFR) in Canada and around the world. This Web site provides a forum for highlighting the work of groups, organizations and bodies working on EFR in Canada. The site … Continue reading
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Green Indian States Trust (GIST)
Green Indian States Trust (GIST) is committed to help India achieve a better and sustainable future. We propose, through our “Green Accounting for Indian States & Union Territories Project” (“GAISP”), to build a framework of national accounts that presents genuine … Continue reading
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