February 2018 – weecnetwork

Sao Paolo University is looking for a researcher, postdoc level, in environmental governance

27 February 2018/0 Comments/in News/by WEEC Network

The Institut of Energy and Environment (IEE) from São Paulo University (USP) wishes to appoint highly qualified candidates for one new research positions at postdoctoral level.
This vacancy is linked to the Thematic Project “Environmental Governance of the Macrometropole Paulista facing climatic variability” funded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP. This proposal consists of an integrative approach between the scientific production of the thematic research project and the perspective of a necessary process of social learning involving society and managers focused on the Socio-environmental Governance of Sao Paulo’s Macrometropolis, characterized by the perspective of interdisciplinary academic innovation and with the aim of contributing to public management in the region based on the results achieved by the subprojects that make up this thematic project.

Planned activities are directed to the consolidation of scientific production, educational strategies and scientific dissemination around the object of study, the Macrometropolis, promotion of a feedback process incorporating different knowledge and promotion of means to increase academic knowledge in order to subsidize opportunities for social and environmental governance. The work will be carried out at the Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE) of the University of São Paulo (USP). Candidates must have previous proven experience in interdisciplinary work, especially in the areas of urban planning, climate change and the environment. As well as empirical experience in fieldwork, research and project management.

Application via the Internet: until March 8, 2018;
Dissemination of the results, with the classification of the selected ones: until March 18, 2018; Start of the scholarship: April 20, 2018.
Duration of the scholarship: 2 years with the possibility of renewal by 1 year and another 1, depending on the candidate performance.
Amount of the grant: R $ 7,174.80, approximately € 1,800 or US $ 2,225.

Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics

9 February 2018/1 Comment/in News/by WEEC Network

The School will take place at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and will address key elements of the new economy transformation, exploring the cutting edge methods and policy applications in ecological economics, with a particular focus on Green Economy for Countries, Cities and Regions: Ecosystems, Economy, Policy. With a clear sustainable development focus, it will draw on the expertise of a range of disciplines: economics, ecology, physics, environmental sciences, finance, politics, international relations, sociology, psychology, complex systems theory, etc. to address the current challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, water shortages, social cohesion and achieving sustainability.
The course will be composed of theoretical and applied modules and will address the key elements of the environment-economy interaction: the foundations of ecological economics, methodological approaches, finance for the green economy, ecological conflicts, the story of REDD, economic instruments, regulation, environmental taxes, environmentally extended input-output analysis, multiple criteria methods, as well as renewable energy, regenerative cities, ecosystem service and case studies from around the world. The Summer School will feature interactive simulation games.
The lecturers will include the leaders in the field of ecological economics: Dr Joachim Spangenberg (SERI Germany), Prof. Juan Martinez-Alier (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Dr Stanislav Shmelev (Environment Europe Ltd), Prof. Robert Ayres (INSEAD), Dr Stefan Speck (European Environment Agency), Ambassador Kevin Conrad (Coalition for Rainforest Nations), Prof. Dave Elliott (The Open University), Prof. Herbert Girardet (The Club of Rome), Prof. Irina Shmeleva (Institute of Sustainable Development Strategies).
The course is designed for multiple points of entry and could be helpfulfor PhD students, government experts, representatives of international organizations and business. The course will give participants an opportunity to explore key methodologies for ecological-economic analysis and to apply these to various case studies. Oxford and SummerWinter Schools in Ecological Economics organized by Environment Europe attracted participants from over 40 countries, including Canada, USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Bosnia, Latvia, Ghana, Nigeria, Jordan, Sri Lanka, China, India, Taiwan, and Australia, including UNEP, UNDP, IUCN, OECD, ILO, DEFRA staff, NGOs, academia and business, including Shell and Deloitte.

Environmental data from below

9 February 2018/0 Comments/in News/by WEEC Network

The 7th STS Italia Conference will be hosted at the University of Padova, Italy, June 14 through 16, 2018, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the FISPPA Department and the University of Padova. The focal theme of the 7th STS Italia Conference will be Technoscience from Below.
The conference will be an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical work from a variety of disciplines and fields: sociology, anthropology, design, economics, history, law, philosophy, psychology and semiotics. By focusing on Technoscience from Below, the 7th STS Italia Conference will offer the opportunity to explore alternative co-productive paths of science, technology, and innovation.
The conference will be articulated in 26 tracks, clustered in five main thematic streams: 1) Participation, citizen engagement and democracy from below; 2) The shaping of biomedicine, medical expertise and healthcare from below; 3) Innovation, design and standardization from below; 4) Imaginaries, knowledge and networks from below; 5) Including and connecting from below.

The panel on “Environmental data from below” is about the governance of the environment, inextricably linked to data. Interventions, policies and future scenarios for sustainability are all based on data generated and analysed
within specific institutional settings, such as supranational agencies, environmental protection agencies and official statistics.
In this sense, the activities of analysis, publication and diffusion of environmental data actively contribute to shape and delimit the field of environmental governance’s authority through expertise.
Whatever the strategy pursued by decision makers may be (e.g. to defuse possible conflicts; to enlarge consensus), procedures of data collection and analysis, as well as
their purpose, tend to be restricted to within accredited settings and further performed in institutional loci.
Currently, these patterns may be bypassed by new trajectories of engagement that develop alternative processes of empowerment for non-experts.
Social movement research has signalled the growing tendency of grassroots movements, NGOs and activists to contest official data. Statactivism is conceptually a
specific kind of participation as well as contestation by non-institutional actors using
data analysis. Other research fellowships refer to data activism as particularly focusing
on digital technologies adopted for the collection of data. This general tendency invests the environmental domain as well, and it offers new forms of participation through data. Indeed, environmental movements as well as other concerned groups not only put the role of institutional expertise under scrutiny; they can also contribute to developing alternative forms of scientific knowledge production. Thus, participation is transforming through the challenge of creating evidence and the organisation of data collection from below. This contrasts with solicited forms of participation through data, such as citizen-science projects.
An S&TS perspective, paying attention to socio-technical assemblages of data infrastructures and the practices related to them, may bring a better understanding of these ongoing processes.
Therefore, the present track aims to gather theoretical as well as empirical proposals focussed on combinations of heterogeneous actors in relationship to data collection, management and sharing of environmental issues, such as (but not only limited to):
– heterogeneous assemblages for the generation of environmental data from below;
– design and creation of ad hoc infrastructures for data collection, analysis and sharing of environmental data;
– practices of maintenance and management of bottom
– up data infrastructures;
– analysis of expertise aligned for the implementation of data infrastructures from
below;
– practices of civic hacking for the environment; and
– the role of alternative baselines as new tools of political environmental participation

Convenor: Paolo Giardullo, University of Padova (Italy) paolo.giardullo@unipd.it

Conference website

Call for abstract beforeFebruary 15th

Opportunities for Environmental Education, a new free resource

4 February 2018/1 Comment/in News/by WEEC Network

“The current secondary school curriculum, for all its faults, does provide numerous opportunities for schools, teachers and students to explore a wide range of the world’s most pressing issues. The power of this handbook lies not just in its careful analysis of what the curriculum says, but also in its excellent exemplification of how teachers are seizing opportunities to explore these issues with their students. The case studies of practice are particularly useful in helping us see what’s possiblein today’s schools. There is something here for everyone: for experienced practitioners there will be insights from other people’s work; and for those just starting out, a wide range of teaching and learning opportunities are carefully set out for scrutiny, evaluation and adaptation”, says Prof William Scott, NAEE Chair of Trustees.

NAEE’s new secondary school curriculum report illustrates how Key Stages 3 and 4 provide numerous opportunities for schools, teachers and children to explore a wide range of the world’s most pressing issues. This is the latest in a number of reports that NAEE will be publishing from time to time and is freely available to download here.

NAEE’s primary school report illustrates how the new foundation and primary curriculums provide numerous opportunities for schools, teachers and children to explore a wide range of the world’s environmental and sustainability issues.
The report is freely available to download here.

Coastal Zone Canada Conference, July 14-19, 2018

1 February 2018/2 Comments/in News/by WEEC Network

Coastal Zone Canada 2018, the bienniel conference of the Coastal Zone
Canada Association, will be held from July 14-19, 2018, in beautiful
St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
The broad theme of the conference is “Seeking Practical Solutions to Real Issues: Communities Adapting
to a Changing World”.
The Coastal Zone Canada Association expects to attract some 300 coastal zone
practitioners including field scientists, managers, environmental
organizations, policy makers, and government bodies. Effective
management of complicated coastal zones is founded on efficient
exchange of information among different groups, and education is an
important foundation of that information exchange.
The CZC18 will have much to offer to environmental educators working in marine
and coastal environments, are you ready to present a work?
Tha Call for abstracts is open here.

Please visit the web site for more information on the conference themes and structure.

Sao Paolo University is looking for a researcher, postdoc level, in environmental governance

Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics

Environmental data from below

Opportunities for Environmental Education, a new free resource

Coastal Zone Canada Conference, July 14-19, 2018

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