Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Topics

• Participatory Process
  • Can we act locally without thinking globally?
  • Who or what deserves equal concern?
  • Politics of boundaries: natural, public, private resources?
  • Living personally without knowing politically?
  • Wellbeing and quality of life
  • Women and men; children and the elderly; families and villages
  • Public knowledge: the role of the media and government
• Ecological Realities
  • Shared danger signs: rising sea levels, desertification, soil degradation
  • Common spaces: Ecological footprints, atmospheres, biospheres, eco-spheres
  • Biological diversity: its past and prospects
  • Relations of human and ecological value: static or dynamic
  • Universal and variable impacts on environments
• Education, Assessment and Policy
  • Negotiating the hidden hand of personal self-interest
  • Balancing good governance and responsible citizenship
  • Self-government, self-management, and cultural autonomy
  • Biotechnology and its critics
  • Poverty and its eradication
  • Accountability: beyond financial years and bottom lines
  • Environmental education in a time of eco-systemic crisis
  • Measuring impacts: environmental assessment
• Economic, Social and Cultural Context
  • Reconfiguring the economic equation: contesting "financial years" and "instant gratification"
  • Diversity and Meanings: cultural sustainability and sustainable heritage development
  • Science and technology vs environmental sustainability?
  • Changing patterns and cultures of consumption
  • Urbanization and the sustainability of human settlement
  • Free trade and fair trade
  • Climate change: impacts and responses