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Call for Poster Presentation Abstracts in Global Change Research
Announcement Special issue on Material Flow Analysis
Call For Papers: First Berlin Forum on Innovation in Governance May 2010
Masterclass Cradle to Cradle in Higher Education
Conference on KNOWLEDGE COLLABORATION & LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
Vacancy - Assistant Professor in Social Metabolism Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna
Conference - Energy transitions in an interdependent world
Publication now available on the Scientific Capacity Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries (CAPaBLE Programme)
Vacancy Programme Fellow for Communications and Development and Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs
Special issue of 'Technological Forecasting and Social Change'
Special issue of JIE on Materials Use Across World Regions
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Call for Poster Presentation Abstracts in Global Change Research
The APN invites you to submit poster presentation abstracts for the Networking Poster Session that will be held on 17 March 2010 on the occasion of the APN 15th Inter-Governmental Meeting (IGM) and Scientific Planning Group (SPG) Meeting, which is officially being hosted by the Ministry of Environment, Government of the Republic of Korea, at the APEC Centre for Climate Change, Busan, Republic of Korea. The Session will provide up to 20 young scientists with an opportunity to display and present their research work to invited esteemed members of the scientific and policy communities from within and outside of the Asia-Pacific region. Winning poster will have the opportunity to present a 20-minute PowerPoint presentation to the 15th IGM/SPG Meeting on Friday, 19 March 2010.
For more information on this Call and to view eligibility criteria and guidelines for abstract submission, additional information can be found here
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Announcement Special issue on Material Flow Analysis
The Journal of Industrial Ecology announces a special issue on applications of MFA. Material flow analysis (MFA), the tracking and analysis of materials through the environment and the economy at various scales, holds out the promise of a unique lens through which to examine environmental challenges, providing a valuable addition to the toolkit available to analysts and decision makers.
This special issue describes a variety of ways in which MFA has addressed real world situations around the globe, particularly relating to problems of resource scarcity, pollution abatement and waste management. Articles in the special issue are available for free download here
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Call For Papers: First Berlin Forum on Innovation in Governance May 2010
The Innovation in Governance Research Group at the Technische
Universität Berlin is pleased to publish a Call for Papers for the
First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance, which will take place in
Berlin on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May, 2010. This Forum is the first
in an initial series of four, which will take place on an annual basis
until 2013. Entitled "Studying the emergence and development of new forms of
governance", the first Forum aims to lay the conceptual and
methodological grounds for studying the genesis, dynamics and politics
of new forms of governance.
We therefore invite you to submit proposals for papers that discuss
and/or probe particular approaches to conceptualise innovation in
governance and trace the development of governance patterns through
time and space. We also invite proposals for poster presentations. A planned poster
session will include a concourse with five minutes for each poster to
highlight questions, approach and findings. We will be able to cover travel expenses for a limited number of
participants. Please therefore indicate your need for travel funds when
submitting your proposal.
The deadline for the submission of all abstracts is Sunday, 14 February 2010.
Additional information can be found here
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Masterclass Cradle to Cradle in Higher Education
As of Thursday, 21 January 2010, Erasmus University Rotterdam offers
for the first time the Masterclass Cradle to Cradle® in Higher
Education. The masterclass consists of four intensive days during which the
inclusion of the principles of Cradle to Cradle® in higher education as
well as the relevant scientific issues regarding C2C will be further discussed.
The masterclass Cradle to Cradle has been especially developed for the
world of education, for example academic staff, PhD-students, lecturers
and professors. Interested parties from municipalities or other public services are of course also welcome to participate. Additional information can be found here.
Conference on KNOWLEDGE COLLABORATION & LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
The Delft knowledge institutes TU Delft, HH, and TNO organise next year
the major European conference on sustainable consumption and
production, the ERSCP, in conjuction with the EMSU. To realize sustainable innovation, innovation networks and systems, as well as knowledge generation and education all need to become sustainable. Innovations are needed that lead to sustainable consumption and production through attractive products and services that are accepted by society and adopted by end-users, which may require behavioural, cultural and structural changes. At the system level the required changes are referred to as system innovations and transitions to sustainability.
Consequently, there are various issues that will be addressed at the conference:
- How can networks of actors, including end-users and traditional knowledge suppliers work together and share the knowledge that is needed to enhance sustainable innovation, and how can they contribute more effectively to developing and establishing practices of sustainable consumption and production?
- How can these actors work together to form knowledge networks at a regional level as well as networks facilitating regional system innovations and transitions tot sustainability?
- How can the exchange of knowledge between North and South be enhanced and, in particular, what the North can learn from the South with regard to sustainable innovation?
The programme includes regular paper & poster sessions, workshops & dialogue sessions, and social events, including a conference dinner and excursions. The programme includes special activities for students, firms and staff members involved in developing sustainable operations at universities and other organisations. The programme also includes festivities surrounding the new building of the Academy of Technology, Innovation & Society Delft, a demonstration of sustainable innovations on campus in Delft and, on
Monday 25th of October 2010, pre-conference training courses and workshops on various issues that are relevant to the scope and theme of the conference. Network and capacity building will be facilitated at the conference and pre-conference activities. On Friday 29th of October, there will be excursions.
additional information can be found here
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Vacancy - Assistant Professor in Social Metabolism Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna
The Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna (Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies - IFF - Alps-Adria
University) headed by Marina Fischer-Kowalski is looking for an assistant professor
starting in December 2009. Preferably an individual with a background in social sciences such as sociology, political science, anthropology, human geography and a broad perspective on social science theories and
methods. Applicants should have experience with empirical research.
Tasks:
• Habilitation or equivalent scientific achievements within six years
• Contribution to research in social metabolism and more specifically in linking physical, economic and societal aspects.
• Acquisition and coordination of research projects; high profile publications.
• Engagement in teaching and the supervision of students in the master and doctoral program in social ecology.
• Collaboration in further development of the Institute’s scientific profile and organizational structure.
• Support to consultancy activities and negotiations among stakeholders.
Preconditions:
• A doctoral degree.
• Knowledge of interdisciplinary fields, such as human ecology, ecological economics, political ecology or industrial ecology.
• Familiarity with a broad variety of social science theories and methods.
• Proficiency in methods of empirical data analysis.
• Experience in interdisciplinary research.
• Excellent knowledge of English.
Additional assets
• Experience in project management and acquisition.
• Good publication record.
• Experience in teaching and student supervision.
• Knowledge of German.
Applications welcome until 14 October 2009
additional information can be found here
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Conference - Energy transitions in an interdependent world
The Sussex Energy Group at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex is organising and hosting an international conference to discuss and debate emerging research agendas in energy social science. he conference will be held at the University of Sussex, near Brighton, on the 25th and 26th February 2010 and is open to academics, policy makers, industry and non-governmental organisations working in the field of energy transitions. We welcome abstracts that outline theoretically robust and empirically informed contributions to one or more of the following themes: low carbon energy innovation; secure and resilient energy systems; the politics of sustainable energy transitions.
Further details including the full conference call and application guidelines are available from the conference website here
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Publication now available on the Scientific Capacity Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries (CAPaBLE Programme)
The CAPaBLE Phase 1 In Review brochure is now available.
This publication highlights the key outcomes of the Scientific Capacity
Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing
Countries (CAPaBLE Programme) in its first phase from April 2003 to
March 2006. To download a copy of the brochure and other APN
publications, please visit the APN Products webpage here
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Vacancy Programme Fellow for Communications and Development and Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs
As
part of the APN's capacity building efforts, the Secretariat is
inviting applications from highly motivated individuals for the
positions of Programme Fellow for Communications and Development and
Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs, based in Kobe,
Japan. For position description, specific duties and qualifications, please click the link below:
Programme Fellow for Communications and Development
Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs
Application deadline is on 2nd June 2009
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Special issue of 'Technological Forecasting and Social Change'
special issue of 'Technological Forecasting and Social Change' was published, resulting from a collaboration between researchers of IHDP-IT and KSI. It is entitled 'Sustainability Transitions in Developing Asia: Are Alternative Development Pathways Likely?', and edited by Frans Berkhout, David Angel and Anna J. Wieczorek.
The references and links to ScienceDirect can be found here
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Special issue of JIE on Materials Use Across World Regions
The Journal of Industrial Ecology has recently published a special issue on Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures. The special issue examines resource use on a global scale--focusing on materials use at national and world regional levels, detailed analysis of metals cycles within this context, and assessment of existing governmental policies that are based on material flow analysis (MFA). Countries and regions examined include Australia, Japan, Austria, the USA, Europe, Latin America, and the transition economies. Articles in this special issue specifically address:
* The global sociometabolic transition
* Resource productivity in Japan
* Resource use trajectories in Australia
* Historical carbon flows in Austria
* Comparative material flows in Latin America
* Material use changes in transition economies
* Platinum group metal flows in Europe
* An approach to historical material flow analysis
* The "hidden" trade of metals in products
* Prospects for material flow accounts in the U.S.
* Japan's government policies based on material flow analysis
The Journal of Industrial Ecology is an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed bimonthly published by Wiley-Blackwell, owned by Yale University, and headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The special issue is edited by Helga Weisz, of Klagenfurt University, Austria, and Heinz Schandl, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.
The special issue is available here
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