Diary

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(2005), "Diary", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 6 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2005.24906bac.001

Diary

11th Annual International Sustainable Development Research ConferenceHelsinki, Finland7-8 June

The 11th Annual Conference will be held in association with the University of Tampere Research Institute for Social Sciences, Progress in Industrial Ecology – An International Journal and Statistics Finland. The conference will be held at Statistics Finland in Helsinki, Finland on 7-8 June 2005. For the conference, the organisers are seeking offers of papers from researchers and practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, industrial ecology and environmental policy. They are particularly interested in papers that critically assess the progress that has been made in sustainable development research and practice in terms of integrating policy studies and issues of governance and management to approaches in material and energy flow studies and life cycle assessment.

Papers may address any relevant area but contributors may find guidance amongst the key criteria listed below:

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  Definitions, concepts and implications of sustainable development.

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  Ecological economics and sustainable development.

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  Business and sustainable development.

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  Industrial ecology and industrial metabolism.

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  Material and energy flow studies and life cycle assessment.

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  Industrial symbiosis, eco-industrial parks and eco-industrial networking.

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  Cleaner production.

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  Indicators of sustainable development.

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  Free trade, development and globalisation.

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  Poverty, population and health promotion.

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  Institutional arrangements and the practice of sustainable development.

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  Policies for sustainable development.

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  Economic instruments and sustainable development.

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  Legislation and sustainable development.

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  Voluntary agreements.

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  Extended producer responsibility.

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  Strategies for sustainable development.

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  Planning and implementing sustainable development.

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  Networks, stakeholder management and sustainability.

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  Local action for sustainable development.

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  Cooperation and alliances for a sustainable future.

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  Education and sustainable development.

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  Environmental management and sustainability.

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  Corporate social responsibility.

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  The Contribution of Sustainable Investments to Sustainable Development.

Further details from jouni.korhonen@uta.fi or at http://erpenvironment.org

International Conference on Energy, Environment and Disasters(INCEED 2005) – Bridging the Gaps for Global Sustainable DevelopmentCharlotte, North Carolina, USA24-30 July

This conference will be of special interest to environmental professionals interested in advancing global sustainable development through efficient/effective programs, research and policy implementation on the triple areas of energy, environment and disasters.

The conference, which will be hosted by the Global Institute for Energy and Environmental Systems (GIEES) of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA in Charlotte, 24-30 July 2005, is jointly organized by the International Society of Environmental Geotechnology (ISEG), the Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction (GADR) and UNESCO along with other large national and international organizations.

About 100 sessions, panels and forums that will feature keynote lectures, presentations, recorded debates and discussion panels are planned. Some of the session discussions will be video-taped for subsequent television broadcast. The best papers on thematic topics will also be selected for review and possible publication in special editions of reputable, peer-reviewed international journals.

The expanded INCEED 2005 Conference is an outgrowth of the regular ISEG conferences which started in 1993 with the continuing objective of applying technical and social science knowledge from a diversity of disciplines to address critical issues in sustainable development. Conferences that have been hosted in North America, Asia, South America and Europe have drawn an average of 500 participants from 50 countries. These conferences are held biennially and rotated among different continents. INCEED 2005 is a special intermediate year conference that has been expanded to include coverage of the plans and programs of UNESCO and GADR as well as other organizations on hazards.

Research advances communicated at these events and some consensus positions will be directly put into public policies by agencies in many countries. The ISEG-GADR-UNESCO trio of organizers seeks to continue to promote scientific cooperation among countries, organizations and individuals on the thematic issues of this conference. Further details are available at: C/o Global Institute for Energy and Environmental Systems (GIEES), CARC Building Room 238, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA. Tel: (704) 687-2182; Fax: (704) 687-3115; e-mail: iseg@uncc.edu; web site: www.iseg.giees.uncc.edu

The 2005 World Water WeekStockholm, Sweden21-27 August

The 2005 World Water Week will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 21-27 August 2005 and will be a global gathering of leading experts from the business, civil society, governmental, inter-governmental, science and water management sectors.

Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for the world's diverse water community. It includes the Stockholm Water Symposium, topical plenary sessions and panel debates, scientific workshops, separately organised seminars and side events, exhibitions and festive prize ceremonies honouring excellence in the water field.

Abstracts are being accepted for presentation during the World Water Week's Stockholm Water Symposium workshops under the overall theme “Drainage Basin Management Hard and Soft Solutions in Regional Development”. In particular, abstracts are sought for the following workshops:

^.Design and Operation of Infrastructure for Multiple Development Objectives

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  Coping with Climate Variability, Climate Change and Water-Related Hazards

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  Water Provision Across Sectors and Jurisdictions

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  Tailoring Water and Sanitation Solutions to Reach the Millennium Development Goals

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  Strategies to Increase Resource Use Efficiency in Industrial and Agricultural Sectors

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  Political and Social Negotiation Processes: Sustainability and the Politics of Water

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  Approaches to Mitigate Soil and Gully Erosion

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  Water Quality Degradation by Hazardous Substances and the Cost of Non-action

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  SIWI Seminar for Young Water Professionals: Water Demand Management – An Effective Strategy that Incorporates both Soft and Hard Solutions?

For more information, visit the web site: www.worldwaterweek.org or send an e-mail to sympos@siwi.org

Sustainable Communities and New Modes of Citizenship in Developed CountriesLondon, England31 August-2 September

Since the mid-1990s development agendas in western countries have been dominated by discourses of sustainability. From Local Agenda 21 programmes, through to regional development strategies, the concept of sustainability has been deployed, translated and (re)interpreted to fulfil a variety of policy ends. On the one hand, advocates argue that this shift opens up new opportunities for the democratisation and implementation of locally embedded and environmentally sustainable economic development programmes. In the process new forms of active, empowered citizenship are established and fostered and new sustainable communities established. On the other hand, critics point to the ways in which the term sustainability is deployed as a discursive tactic and used to divert attention away from the everyday realities of divisive, neo-liberal inspired development practices. This interpretation raises questions about the nature of sustainable citizenship with concerns about the impacts of the potential re-drawing of the boundaries between welfare states and citizens. This module draws on a range of studies from developed countries to compare and contrast the concepts and practices that have underpinned the shift towards sustainable community agendas in different countries.

The conference will highlight and explain the differences that characterise policy agendas in different places and assess their emerging form and character. Further information is available from, the conveners: Mike Raco (E-mail: m.raco@reading.ac.uk), Frances Fahy (E-mail: fahyf@tcd.ie) and Sara Fuller (E-mail: s.fuller@sheffield.ac.uk).

Greening of the Campus VI: Extending ConnectionsBall State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA15-17 September

Ball State University's 2005 Greening of the Campus conference is the sixth in a series dating from 1996. The theme for this event is “Extending Connections”.

Once again we seek to host paper, poster, and workshop presentations that illustrate the important role colleges and universities play in cultivating the awareness, understanding, and/or ability of students, faculty, professional staff, and their many public constituencies to enhance the health, integrity, and long-term sustainability of the places where they live and work.

For more information and to submit papers, visit the web site www.bsu.edu/provost/ceres/greening/, or contact Becky Amato, e-mail: bamato@bsu.edu, Tel: (765) 285-2385.

Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Mountain Areas of EuropeIoannina, Greece20-24 September

For centuries agriculture has played a multifunctional role in defining and sustaining mountain biodiversity in Europe through the management of habitats, species and landscapes. With significant agricultural adjustment and even contraction now in prospect, there is potential for major impacts on mountain biodiversity. Some of these changes may be deleterious, e.g. loss of locally adapted species and semi-natural habitats; others beneficial, e.g. new successional pathways providing opportunities for restoration of some of the large predators that occurred in the pre-agricultural landscape, e.g. raptors, wolves and bears.

The observed changes are an interaction between socioeconomic drivers and ecological responses. Agricultural restructuring altered the landscape and affected the natural habitats, and those changes affect the socioeconomic procedures in these areas. The overall aim of this international conference is to highlight the necessity for interdisciplinary research of both the socioeconomic and ecological dimensions in the framework of sustainable development. The focus of the conference will be the implications of social and economic changes for biodiversity conservation in Europe's mountain areas. More specifically, the conference will examine simultaneously both the social drivers of change that shape agriculture throughout Europe and the ecological effects of these new agricultural practices on landscapes and biodiversity. Further information is available from: Bioscene Conference organizing Committee, Department of Ecology, School of Biology, U.P. Box 119, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. E-mail: biosceneconf@bio.auth.gr

Sustainable Innovation 2005Brussels, Belgium28-29 October

Sustainable Innovation 2005 will focus on the global “state-of-the-art” in sustainable product/service development and design and will provide an update on worldwide developments The event will analyse the obstacles and opportunities for sustainable product/service development and design. It will highlight best practice and provide a range of case studies, and will include invited and refereed papers covering sustainable product/service development and design from product designers and design engineers, academics, sustainability managers and other business practitioners and will include a number of interactive processes on days 1 and 2 designed to enable delegates to think through sustainable product/service challenges and issues.

Sustainable Innovation 2005 welcomes conceptual and research-based papers covering sustainable product and services in the context of a range of issues: Product policy; Product development processes; Supply chain management; Product-service-systems (PSS); Education and training; Tools and techniques; Management systems; Organisational dimensions; Performance measurement and metrics; New business models; Newly industrialised and “developing” country perspectives; Case studies.

For further information, please visit the web site: www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd10

2006

The Campus of the Future: A Meeting of the MindsHonolulu, Hawaii, USA8-11 July

The Campus of the Future is a first-of-its-kind joint annual conference of three leading US associations that serve higher education: The Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA), the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). Our joint conference mission is to create the opportunity for an unprecedented connection for formal exchange and informal dialogue between three parties of critical decision makers. Our intent is to collaboratively address the pressing strategic issues in higher education, and to promote an enhanced understanding of, and appreciation for, their respective professional roles.

For more information, visit the conference web site at: www.campusofthefuture.org/