ISEE Elections News

The Election for the ISEE Board 2022 will be launched on Friday, December 17. The election process will be open for ten days, and only members of ISEE can vote. If your membership has lapsed, do please renew on our website.

You will be electing a President-Elect, ten regular board members, and two student members. The election link will be sent to members only on Friday, December 17. 

INSEE Conference

The INSEE Conference is a week away and registrations are open. We have a great programme with 7 plenary lectures, 24 parallel sessions and approx. 70 papers. Details are at our website ecoinsee.org and also at INOMICS. A key event is the Maler Memorial Lecture by Sir Partha Dasgupta that is being organised in collaboration with SANDEE-ICIMOD.  

Post-doctoral Associate ECOZOIC

POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, LEADERSHIP FOR THE ECOZOIC,
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND APPLIED ECONOMICS,
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

We seek a Post-doctoral Associate to join the Ecological Economics node of the Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) initiative at the University of Vermont, in partnership with McGill University and housed in UVM’s department of Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The position is for 2 years, ideally beginning in February 2022, with the possibility of promotion to Research Associate at that time. The workload of this position will be balanced at approximately 50% administration, advising, and outreach and 50% research. In collaboration with L4E faculty, the Post-doctoral Associate will strategically develop the activities of the UVM L4E node to further the goals of L4E while managing and contributing to a productive, inclusive, and impactful research lab. 

PHD Students ECOZOIC, University of Vermont

PHD STUDENTS, LEADERSHIP FOR THE ECOZOIC,
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

The University of Vermont (UVM) in Burlington, Vermont and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec seek up to 6 PhD students for Fall 2022 to comprise the third cohort of Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) fellows. This third cohort will join the current L4E community of 18 PhD fellows. 

Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) offers exceptional graduate students the opportunity to collaborate in enabling a socially just transition to a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. The UVM node of the L4E focuses on Ecological Economics. We particularly seek applicants to the UVM program in Sustainable Development Policy, Economics and Governance (SDPEG), but will also accept applicants to other programs on the condition that candidates identify an advisor aligned with the principles of the ecozoic and of ecological economics and willing to actively contribute to the L4E initiative. Successful candidates will receive four years of funding to pursue their PhD while actively engaging in the L4E inter-university initiative via coursework, workshops, lectures, retreats, and other collaborative activities. We have already arranged tuition waivers for candidates accepted to the SDPEG program, and will request waivers in other programs as needed, but they are not guaranteed. Regardless of the department, UVM L4E students will receive broad, transdisciplinary education in the biophysical, institutional, behavioral and ethical foundations of the human economy, and training in the policies, practices and theories required to promote a socially just sustainability transition. Students will have the opportunity to collaborate with L4E counterparts in McGill University’s Anthropology for the Ecozoic (A4E) node and we encourage students with a particular interest in anthropology to apply directly to the A4E.

UNU-WIDER Annual Lecture with Bina Agarwal

Forthcoming, Bina Agarwal will  be delivering the UNU-WIDER annual lecture 25 on ‘Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?’ 9 December 2021.

Call for Candidates for ISEE Election

UPCOMING ISEE ELECTIONS and CALL for NOMINATIONS

The ISEE Board Election will be held in December for 1 President-Elect, 10 Board Members, 2 Student Members.

Nominations of Candidates must be received by November 26th.

If you are interested in running, you can send a notification of your interest to your Regional Society President and cc secretariat@isecoeco.org.

A final list of candidates will be drawn up by the Regional Council comprising presidents of all the ISEE Societies.

If nominated, we shall require a brief CV, photo, and short paragraph on why you would like to join the board.

As only active ISEE Members and active student members paying their membership fees are entitled to stand and/or vote for the board elections, we encourage you to keep your membership active.

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS INTERNSHIP WITH THE VATICAN

Length: 1 year (January-December 2022) with option to extend
Hours: 36 hours/wk (flexible with research needs and urgency of assignments)

Position Summary
The ecological economics intern will work in the ecology and/or economics team within the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD). The DPIHD is the Vatican’s main research arm on matters of ecology, economics, health, migrants, refugees, and security. This is exemplified by the Vatican Covid-19 Commission, which is hosted at DPIHD, which seeks to reimagine and transform global economic structures to ensure integral human development for all. It also reports its findings directly to Pope Francis.

The internship is the product of a Memorandum of Understanding between the DPIHD and ISEE, coordinated and advised by the ecumenical Circle of Ecological Economics Elders (CoEEE), composed of some of the principal thought leaders of the Ecological Economics movement in league with global activists on climate change, ecological overshoot and social equity. The internship is dedicated to the memory of Stuart Scott, a brave fighter for ecological economics principles and the need for interfaith leadership to break the roadblocks to global cooperation in combating global change. 

Funding

ISEE has received a commitment of financial support to the internship in the form of a partial scholarship to cover rental of living quarters at a maximum of EUR 1000/mo. for 12 months. Expenses on food and travel connected to the internship should be covered by the intern’s home institution or by the intern. If no additional funding is assured for the winning candidate, a further grant for these purposes may be negotiated. 

Responsibilities

• Assist the leads of the ecology (Fr Joshtrom Kureethadam), economics (Marta Pedrajas) and Covid-19 commission (Sr Alessandra Smerili) on various projects
• Regular (biweekly) meetings with the CoEEE to coordinate efforts undertaken with the Dicastery with other ISEE and degrowth research initiatives (such as development and rollout of a community footprint survey and action initiative with local parishes worldwide. 
• Letter and speech writing
• Assist in the rollout of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform
• Develop stronger relationships with Vatican Radio, Vatican Media and the Pontifical Academies
• Research on your PhD or postdoc (Vatican related or not, but you can have access to the library and archives if needed)

Requirements

• Current PhD candidate or postdoc in ecological economics or degrowth, or demonstrably related area
• Demonstrates in-depth understanding and advocacy of ecological economics principles
• Strong written and oral communication skills (in English, ideally also Italian, Latin, or Romance languages helpful)
• Ability to work independently and take initiative on projects
• Following or willing to learn the fundamentals of Catholic Social Teaching, especially Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti

Application process

• 1 or 2 page CV
• Writing sample (or recent publication)
• Letter of commitment to the objectives of the internship with a brief (2-pg max) research and action plan for the year
• Recommendation from thesis supervisor or faculty head
• To be submitted by December 15; Decision by December 31

Supervisory Economist, GS-0110-15
US Environmental Protection Agency

This position is in The Office of Water, Economics Center. If selected, you must work at the location stated in this announcement. This position is designated as High Risk and requires a background investigation.  Unless an appropriate background investigation is already on record with the Office of Personnel Management, you must undergo a background investigation.  All conditions of the pre-employment security process must be met before an official letter of employment can be issued with a report for duty date.

If you are selected, you must complete (or have already completed) a 1-year supervisory or managerial probationary period. 

14th International Conference
of the European Society for Ecological Economics

Dipartimento di Economia e Management
Università di Pisa, Italy

June 14-17, 2022

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS

5th of November 2021

WILL ACHILLES CATCH UP WITH THE TORTOISE?
IT’S HIGH TIME FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ON SUSTAINABILITY

The deadline for submissions for special session proposals has been extended to the 5th of November 2021. Please visit our website for other details on the submission process. We look forward to your contributions!

KEY DATES

Special session proposal: 5th November 2021

Deadline for sending abstracts: 30th November 2021

Registration deadline – early bird: 26 March 2022

INSEE Conference

INSEE-IIITD Conference 2021

Sustainable Societies, Ecological Systems and Economic Development

The eleventh biennial conference of The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) will be co-organized with Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD). The conference will be held online during December 15-17, 2021.

We encourage participation from academia and research institutions, and particularly from PhD students entering the job market.

ECOEOC BRAZIL Newsletter

Constitution and ByLaws of ISEE

A special committee of ISEE has been working on making some necessary changes to the constitution and bylaws of the Society. The bylaws changes have been unanimously approved by the Board, and now the membership is required to approve the corresponding wording changes in the constitution. The re-worded constitution states:

ARTICLE IV. Board of Directors

The Board of Directors shall establish policy for the Society and shall be responsible for the fulfillment of the stated purposes of the Society. The Board, elected directly by individual members, shall consist of the President, President-Elect and Immediate Past-President, up to ten ordinary members, and two student members. All terms of office are for two years. A Secretary shall be selected by the Board from the non-presidential Board members. A Treasurer shall be selected by the Board of Directors from among the general membership of the Society.

Board members will serve for two years; elections will be held annually to replace half of the members. This change is being made to ensure continuity on the Board, facilitating committee work on a number of initiatives and working on conferences.

Members will be sent a request to approve this amendment within the next few days.

Workshop on Socio-ecological Transformations

Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR and Heidelberg University, Germany, in collaboration with the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) invite you to a joint workshop.

Joint Workshop Shiv Nadar University and Heidelberg University in collaboration with the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE)
on
«Socio-ecological Transformations – Perspectives from Ecological Economics and the MINE-Framework»

11th and 12th October 2021

The two-day workshop will approach the question of sustainable socio-ecological transformation, step-by-step from an Ecological Economics perspective. The discussions will revolve around questions like:

• What are socio-ecological transformations?
• Why is it useful to analyze these transformation processes using an interdisciplinary framework?
• How can such an interdisciplinary framework be developed?
• What perspectives and theoretical dimensions are opened by this approach?

EE Job Role (Deputy MSc Programme Director)

SRUC is hiring a new Deputy Programme Director for MSc in Ecological Economics. The role is open until the 30th of September.

Webinar Series: Grappling with the Question of Sustainable Consumption in the Global South

28 September 2021, 1:00PM UTC / 6:30PM India

How to talk about sustainable consumption in the Global South? This question is often a  non-starter. Mainstream sustainability discourse usually holds that the Global South is poor, and therefore, this question is irrelevant. While it most certainly is a question for the “rich world” and the rich world needs to take primary responsibility, the Global South is also urgently confronted by it in unique ways.

This three-part series of interactive webinars invites you to join scholars and activists to explore and advance an appropriate vocabulary and knowledge-action agenda for sustainable consumption in the Global South.

CALL FOR PAPERS

14th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE 2022)

WILL ACHILLES CATCH UP WITH THE TORTOISE?
IT’S HIGH TIME FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ON SUSTAINABILITY

Dipartimento di Economia e Management
Università di Pisa, Italy
June 14 to June 17, 2022

The 14th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics takes place exactly 50 years after the UN conference on the human environment, where the UN acknowledged the environmental crisis. Yet the current state of the environmental crisis seems to indicate that the needed actions and policies have not yet been implemented. We need to move beyond solutions based only on technology, and design transformative action on sustainability.

KEY DATES

Special session proposal: 29th October 2021
Deadline for sending abstract: 30th November 2021
Notification of acceptance before: 31st January 2022
Registration deadline – early bird: 26 March 2022
Final paper due: 6th May 2022

Abstracts can soon be uploaded through the electronic portal on the website.

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

ISEE-ESEE-DEGROWTH 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, JULY 5-8 BUILDING ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS IN TIMES OF ECOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL CRISIS International Online Joint Conference of the international degrowth research networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics and the European Society for Ecological Economics,  hosted by University of Manchester, UK. The preparations for the Manchester conference are in full swing. The conference will bring together academics from the Degrowth and Ecological Economics communities, voices from the Global North and Global South, civil society actors, activists, artists, and policymakers. It aims to break down silos and stimulate dialogues between and within different perspectives, disciplines, and social movements. Hosted by the University of Manchester (UK), the conference is organised by international degrowth research networks and the International Society for Ecological Economics, together with the European Society for Ecological Economics and with the support of Steady State Manchester. Note: Some, but not all, sessions will be recorded. The draft programme is now available on the conference website. There is a very full programme of 135 parallel sessions on a wide range of themes on degrowth and ecological economics and with a global reach of speakers from Asia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, and Europe. Please do look at the programme for full details of sessions (all registered attendees will receive a full list of actual speaker names closer to the date of the conference). The conference is free to attend, and registration is open.

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Links Link to the conference: https://www.isee-esee-degrowth2021.net/  Link to overview of events: https://www.isee-esee-degrowth2021.net/call-for-papers  Link to the registration: https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/197/register

Plenary Panels Include Building alternative livelihoods in time of crisis: The roles of academia and activism Participants to include Tania Briceno, Gabriela Cabaña, Alexandra Köves, Tonny Nowshin, Clive Spash, Julia Steinberger  The future of ecological economics Participants: Bob Costanza, Corinna Dengler, Beatriz Saes, Bengi Akbulut, Lisi Krall, Louison Cahen-Fourot UBI, UBS, UAA and care income  Participants to include Jan Otto Andersson, Maeve Cohen, and Vincent Liegey Trade unions and the Just Transition Participants to include Sean Byres (Trademark), Paul Goldrick Kelly (Nevin Economic Research Institute), Brenda O Neill (Waterford Institute of Technology) Mainstreaming a new economics: Levers for change in a post-COVID economic recovery Speakers:  Jasper Kenter, Bina Agarwal, Jane Mariara, Sandra Waddock, Simone Martino,  Sam Buckton

Plenary speakers include Naomi Klein, Glicéria Jésus da Silva, and George Monbiot.

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, and an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of: How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Earth and Each Other (2021), On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019), No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). In 2018, she published The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018) reprinted from her feature article for The Intercept with all royalties donated to Puerto Rican organization juntegente.org. Photo Credit: Kourosh Keshiri

Glicéria Jésus da Silva

Glicéria, better known as Célia Tupinambá, is from the Serra do Padeiro village, located in the Tupinambá Indigenous Land of Olivença, in the south of the State of Bahia, Brazil. She participates intensively in the Tupinambá’s political and religious life, getting involved, above all, in issues related to education, the productive organization of the village, social services and women’s rights. She is currently a teacher at the Tupinambá Serra do Padeiro State College (CEITSP). She has been President of the Association of Tupinambá Indiginous Population of Serra do Padeiro (AITSP). She has also worked in the Network of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations in the Northeast, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo (Apoinme) and was a member of the National Commission for Indigenous Policy (CNPI). In addition, she represents her people at the  United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). In 2015, she made the documentary “Voz Das Mulheres Indígenas” (17min.), which gathers testimonies of indigenous women from Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte and Alagoas about their trajectories in the indigenous movement.

George Monbiot

George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the land, sea and human life and Heat: how to stop the planet burning; his latest is Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan and has made several viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40m times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, that he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 60m times. George is working on a new book, to be published in 2022, about how to feed the world without devouring the planet.

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Open PhD Position We have a  scholarship for a PhD-position on ecological-economic modelling in the field of ecosystem services in multifunctional landscapes. The scholarship is particularly targeted at gifted students from developing and emerging countries. Works place is the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, and Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany.

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Doctoral or Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological, Environmental and Resource Economics The Chair of Environmental Economics and Resource Management at the University of Freiburg, Germany, Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner) is seeking a Doctoral or Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological, Environmental, and Resource Economics, beginning November 1, 2021, or the earliest date thereafter. The position is in the BMBF-funded project ValuGaps, remunerated under state salary scheme TV-L E13, and limited to a term of three years. Employment is full-time (postdoctoral) or 75% part-time (doctoral).

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Multiple Research Positions at University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment Do you want to do research that impacts local to global sustainability decisions? Do you take a systems focus — and thrive when working on a team? We want to meet you. We’re the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment (IonE), and we’re looking for multiple researchers, postdocs, Ph.D. students, and a research coordinator to join our Knowledge Initiatives team.

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5th – 8th JULY 2021 BUILDING ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS IN TIMES OF ECOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL CRISIS International Online Joint Conference of the international degrowth research networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics and the European Society for Ecological Economics,  hosted by University of Manchester, UK. https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/197/register There is NO CHARGE to attend this virtual Conference as an Attendee or Invited Speaker.  Presenters are asked to contribute a fee to help cover the costs.  Details on the Registration form.   CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.isee-esee-degrowth2021.net/

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Economics for Rebels Podcast In May 2021, the European Society for Ecological Economics launched a podcast series called Economics for Rebels. This podcast aims at communicating ecological economics ideas in order to open them to critical discussion and test their applicability, from global problems to people’s everyday lives. Sometimes, it is about potential solutions, sometimes about unanswered questions. It is always about learning how to act more effectively for a socially just and environmentally sustainable future. A new episode comes out every second Monday. Follow Economics for Rebels on Spotify or any other podcast channel to receive the news on the new episode. If you wish to suggest topics/guests to the editors or consider hosting episodes yourself, feel free to contact us: alexandra.koves@uni-corvinus.hu.

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Deconstructing biodiversity economics and the Dasgupta Review New high trending article by Spash, C.L. and F. Hache (2021) The Dasgupta Review is the latest attempt at justifying financialisation of Nature, but also much more. It represents a high point in applying concepts of capital and wealth accumulation comprehensively to all aspects of human and non-human existence.

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May 2021 Population Matters Update Message from Robin Maynard, Director, Population Matters Ploughing lonely furrows, casting pearls… One of the organisations I worked for before joining Population Matters was the Soil Association. As with seeking to communicate the benefits of achieving a smaller,  sustainable human population, promoting the benefits of organic food and farming was a lonely and much contested furrow to plough at times! The exponents of mainstream, ‘conventional’ agriculture (in reality, completely antithetical to the conventions and principles of good husbandry) did all they could to denigrate organic farming, dismissing it as ‘muck and magic’, claiming there was no evidence of any benefits.

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Gender Inequality in Developing Economies Bina Agarwal Bina Agarwal has a new book in Italian. Learn more about the release of this book via a book launch video and several interview.

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Here is your weekly ISEE News in Review.

5th – 8th JULY 2021 BUILDING ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS IN TIMES OF ECOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL CRISIS International Online Joint Conference of the international degrowth research networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics and the European Society for Ecological Economics,  hosted by University of Manchester, UK. https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/197/register There is NO CHARGE to attend this virtual Conference as an Attendee or Invited Speaker.  Presenters are asked to contribute a fee to help cover the costs.  Details on the Registration form.   CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.isee-esee-degrowth2021.net/

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Research Associate in Social Science and Circular Economy We are hiring one full-time social science post-doctoral research associate for our interdisciplinary project ‘One Bin to Rule Them All’ funded by the UKRI Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Grant.  The project explores the circular economy of plastic waste and will involve a household trial.

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Two new lectureships at the University of Manchester, UK Lecturer in Global Development Permanent Position Applications are welcomed from appropriately qualified candidates in all areas of global development, but particularly from candidates with research and teaching interests related to global political economy, gender and development, poverty and inequality, agrarian change and sustainable development.

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Lecturer in Human Resource Management and International Development Fixed Term Position Applications are welcomed from appropriately qualified candidates in all areas of human resource management and international development, but particularly from candidates with research and teaching interests related to international human resource management, human resource practices, organisational change, project finance, risk management, organisational behaviour, and human capacity building within a global development perspective.

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5th – 8th JULY 2021 Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis International Online Joint Conference of the international degrowth research networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics and the European Society for Ecological Economics,  hosted by University of Manchester, UK. https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/197/register There is NO CHARGE to attend this virtual Conference as an Attendee or Invited Speaker.  Presenters are asked to contribute a fee to help cover the costs.  Details on the Registration form.   CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.isee-esee-degrowth2021.net/

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Summer School Summer School on Ecological and Feminist Macroeconomics (Online, 12-16 July) It is with great pleasure that we announce this summer school organized by the University of Barcelona School of Economics. It offers a crash course on both ecological and feminist macroeconomics. Moreover, it invites participants to reflect upon the convergence between the two. The intention is to contribute to macroeconomics able to face the challenges of the XXI Century. These are well reflected by the Sustainable Development Goals. Particular emphasis will be paid to ecological sustainability, gender equality, and their intersections.

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May 5, 2021 THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide 50% Discount until 14 May 2021 Almost one year ago with Anitra Nelson, we published Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide. Our publisher, Pluto Press, offers 50% discount on all published books till the 14th of May…

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TT Assistant Professor Integrated Land Use and Exosystem Services The University of Groningen in the Netherlands invites applications for a tenure track position. We are looking for an early-career academic who is interested to start a tenure-track that focuses on education and who can strengthen our teaching and research in the field of energy and environmental sciences. In particular, we are looking for a candidate with expertise in societal and socio-economic aspects of the way that land use has to be integrated with ecosystem services such as agriculture, cattle farming and/or water management. The societal aspects of such ecosystem services are accompanied with local as well as national and global challenges that come with changing from more classical (fossil) energy sources to renewable energy. These challenges are even more pressing when approaching the ecological and societal disturbances of intensified farming and unbalanced water use from a sustainability perspective. Discussions on such topics often show contrasting conclusions depending e.g. on the point of departure, being more national (NL), more Europe-based, or more globally-oriented. This ensures a rather dynamic research field that also brings challenges to teaching this in a well-balanced way.

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“Meeting of knowledges” in Brazil Video Roldan Muradian interviewed José Jorge de Cravalho (Professor from the Department of Anthropology of the University of Brasilia, Brazil) about the inclusion of traditional (ecological) knowledge in public universities in Brazil. Prof. de Carvalho created the “meeting of knowledges” project, aiming to set a decolonial institutional setting at universities for allowing the exchange of knowledge across different cultural backgrounds.

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ISEE-ESEE-DEGROWTH 2021 CONFERENCE, JULY 5-8

Submissions are now closed and all submitted abstracts are under review. Acceptance will be sent out first week of May, or sooner. We will soon be opening up registration for the Conference.  There will be no registration fee for registered attendees and invited speakers, a relatively small fee will be requested from presenters to cover presentation costs.   Further information will be posted on the Conference website, https://www.ISEE-ESEE-DEGROWTH2021.net.

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YouTube Partners

Expanding our Resources

As many of you know we have started a YouTube Channel. We are also Partnering with other organization to provide you will additional video resources. If you would like to be included in this list, please email us at secretariat@isecoeco.org.

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New Research

Airport projects responsible for human rights violations…

All across the globe airport projects are generating serious conflicts and social and environmental impacts: land acquisition, displacement of people, destruction of ecosystems, local pollution and health issues. To read more, click the button below. 

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ISEE-ESEE-DEGROWTH 2021 CONFERENCE, JULY 5-8

Submissions are now closed and all submitted abstracts are under review. Acceptance will be sent out first week of May, or sooner.

We will soon be opening up registration for the Conference.  There will be no registration fee for registered attendees and invited speakers, a relatively small fee will be requested from presenters to cover presentation costs.  

Further information will be posted on the Conference website, https://www.ISEE-ESEE-DEGROWTH2021.net.

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CfP Markets in sustainability transitions (new deadline: 15 May) Markets in sustainability transitions We have already received interesting submissions to our special issue on ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’ in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and we know that some of you are working on manuscripts.

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Full PhD Scholarship Researching the Social Aspect of Solar Energy Distribution in Australia Australia has one of the highest numbers of households with solar panels. Solar energy can help households to reduce their energy bills. Rebates for installation and buy-back policies (feed-in-tariff) are in place to help people adopting rooftop solar panels. However, there are two groups who are missing out: renters and apartment occupants.

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Ecological Economics Journal Upcoming papers are available from our journal.

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ECOECO Webinar Series

The future of ecological economics

The Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics (ECOECO) would like to invite you to the cycle of webinars «The future of ecological economics«. The cycle will be carried out between March and October 2021, in an online format. The webinars will discuss diverse and important topics in preparation for the XIV National Meeting of Ecological Economics, which will be held in November 2021.

Eleventh biennial conference of
The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE)

Deadline for Abstracts Extended

INSEE has extended the deadline for abstracts to April 15th and plans to conduct the conference in hybrid mode (offline + online for some papers where travel may be difficult for various reasons).

An updated CfP is available here. The dates for the conference (December 15-17, 2021) and venue remain unchanged.

Inaugural Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Awarded

Floating Coast

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont (UVM), in partnership with the U.S. Society of Ecological Economics, has announced the inaugural winner of the Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics.

The prize, which celebrates outstanding writing on the environmental limits of a finite planet, is awarded to the book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth of Brown University.

WHAT’S NEW IN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY

Argentine-Uruguayan Association of Ecological Economy (ASAUEE)

From the Argentine-Uruguayan Association of Ecological Economy we want to send you the invitation to the cycle CONVERSATIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND UNIVERSITY EXTENSION organized by +E Revista de Extensión Universitaria (of the National University of the Littoral) that begin on March 31. The conversations are virtual and aimed at discussing the issue of 2021 call for the magazine +E: Environment and university extension: scenarios, conflicts, agendas and public policies.

Eleventh biennial conference of
The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE)

Deadline for Abstracts Extended

INSEE has extended the deadline for abstracts to April 15th and plans to conduct the conference in hybrid mode (offline + online for some papers where travel may be difficult for various reasons).

An updated CfP is available here. The dates for the conference (December 15-17, 2021) and venue remain unchanged.

Books, Books, Books! 

ISEE Book Resources

Some recent additions are available on our website. If you would like to suggest a book to add, contact secretariat@isecoeco.org. 

Religion Meets Climate Change

Article submitted by Stuart Scott, Executive Producer, FacingFuture.TV

Global warming is the biggest challenge of all time. It impacts every living species. However, the inherent dangers are very difficult to comprehend, as such, people brush it off as one more issue in life that will somehow be handled, fixed, no worries, human ingenuity will prevail.

But, what if it’s not that simple?

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A Balance of Social Metabolism Methods,
case studies and future perspectives

The course is FREE and ONLINE and will be developed from 5-20 May 2021. The course is organized by the South Training Action Network of Decoloniality Stand Ugr and the University of Granada, Spain, among others.

Will be featured by teachers Joan Martínez Alier and Victor Toledo.

Two of our friends from the Andean Society of Ecological Economy, will also participate: Mario Alejandro Pérez Rincón and Jesus Ramos. 

Visit the ISEE website for more information.

Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact 

Nature Award for Driving Global Impact was launched in 2019 with the aim of championing researchers who are striving towards the achievement of one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

PhD scholarship within International Environment and Development Studies

PhD position at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at NMBU to work on transformative change towards just and sustainable economies. 

The position is ideal for students with training and interest in sustainability science, ecological economics and degrowth/postgrowth studies.

The deadline for submission is 6th April 2021.

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Submit Your Paper

Deadline: March 1, 2021

You still have time to send us your paper for Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis. 

International Online Joint Conference of the international degrowth research networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics, and the European Society for Ecological Economics, hosted by University of Manchester, UK, July 5-8, 2021, https://www.ISEE-ESEE-DEGROWTH2021.net. 

Deadline for new and revised submissions: March 1, 2021 – notify us if you need an extension. 

If you have not done so, please let us know of your intent to revise or submit a new paper, secretariat@isee-esee-degrowth2021.net. 

Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture

Slower by Design, Not Disaster
Managing without Growth

Why long-term economic growth isn’t feasible or desireable and how human economies are the key to saving the planet. 

2021 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture

Peter A. Victor

TONIGHT: Wednesday, February 24, 7-8 p.m. ET, Online

Free. Register at policyalternatives.ca/rosenbluth

Presented by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC. 

– Online Event –

«GENDERING THE COLLECTIVE:
Managing South Asia’s Forests and Farms»

Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment Global Development Institute, University of Manchester

Thursday, February 25, 10h (Mexico) \ 16h (United Kingdom) \ 21:30h (India)

Closing Act
II International Meeting of Chairs in
Economy and Environment

With the purpose of collectivizing the experiences, reflections and challenges that the II International Meeting of Economics and Environment Chairs left us (November 27 and 28, 2020) under the virtual modality, we are sending you this document.

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ISEE Bulletin

You Still Have Time to Submit! 

Deadline: March 1, 2021

You still have time to send us your paper for Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis. 

International Online Joint Conference of the international degrowth research networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics, and the European Society for Ecological Economics, hosted by University of Manchester, UK, July 5-8, 2021

Deadline for new and revised submissions: March 1, 2021

Email questions to secretariat@isee-esee-degrowth2021.net

EAEI Needs a Program Manager

Berkeley Lab’s Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division (EAEI) is looking for a Program Manager to join their Electricity Markets and Policy Department (EMP)!

In this role, you will manage, lead, develop and conduct research and technical assistance activities in areas such as utility regulation and business models, performance-based regulation, evolving utility commercial opportunities, rate making, and rate design within the EMP Department. Your work will require you to interact with research scientists, project team members, and external customers to achieve program success.

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Call for Abstracts on Sustainable Economic Models

Opportunity to contribute to a conference track and PhD workshop at ISDRS2021 (12-15th July 2021)

Goals and Objectives of the Track

Following the 2008 economic crisis and with the extraordinary impacts of the 2020 COVID19 pandemic, the limits of the growth-oriented capitalist economic paradigm have become very clear. Unquestioned economic growth, the environmental costs of production and consumption processes, and the social inequalities resulting from these standard industrial practices cannot be sustained.

This unsustainable development is not limited to the traditional capitalist countries but the whole global capitalist system, including post-communist countries, emerging economies and developing countries. Green economy and green growth suggest promising adaptations of the global growth-oriented system but the present climate and biodiversity crises call for transformations.

Alternative economic approaches and paradigms have emerged at different scales that speak to emerging de-growth debates and seek to oppose or subvert the growth-driven capitalist paradigm. This theme considers new, alternative, diverse, and socially just economic development both in the global North and South.

This track welcomes contributions to a variety of topics (for details see https://2021.isdrsconferences.org/sustainable-economic-models/).

For Questions on the track:Thomas Hahn, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden, Track Co-chair and ESEE Focal Point Sweden
thomas.hahn@su.se

For Questions on the conference: Volker Mauerhofer, Mid Sweden University, ISEE Treasurer and ISDRS2021 Chair volker.mauerhofer@miun.se

Post Growth Challenge

Calling writers, artists, designers, and video makers.
Can you make a Post Growth Policy Package?

An initiative in collaboration with the Manchester Meteor and the Systems Change Alliance.

2021 Virtual Poster Conference CfA

Deadline Extended: 2021 Virtual Poster Conference Call for Abstracts: Building Resilient Economies in a Time of Uncertainty

We have extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our 2021 virtual poster session to MONDAY FEBRUARY 15th.The United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE) announces a call for abstracts for our first virtual poster conference on the theme, “Building Resilient Economies in a Time of Uncertainty”. The conference aims to highlight the multiple uncertainties of our time, including the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental and racial injustice, unprecedented wildfires, an extraordinary Atlantic hurricane season, and ongoing impacts of climate change. The objective of the conference is to provide students with an opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from members of the ecological economics community.

BOĞAZİÇİ University Students and Staff
Struggle for Academic Freedom

ISEE and ESEE stand in solidarity with BOĞAZİÇİ university students and staff in the struggle for academic freedom.

The International and European Societies for Ecological Economics (ISEE and ESEE) herewith fully support Turkish academics and students in the fight for academic freedom and condemn the recent steps taken by the Turkish government to silence those who conduct research and teaching or undertake learning, that does not match with their values and political biases.

INSEE-IIITD International Conference CfP

CALL FOR PAPERS

INSEE-IIITD International Conference
Sustainable Societies, Ecological Systems and Economic Development
15-17 December 2021

Eleventh INSEE Biennial Conference, New Delhi

The eleventh biennial conference of The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) will be co-organized with Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD).

Professorship (W2) in Economics

Professorship (W2 in Economics, with a specialization in Sustainability and Economic Policy

The School of Business and Economics establishes a new research and teaching focus on sustainability from a business and economics perspective and searches for two new professors. Within this context, we invite applications for a tenured professorship (W2 in economics, with a specialization in sustainability and economic Policy starting in the summer term 2022 (from 1 April 2022 onwards).

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Ecological Economics Journal

Upcoming papers are available from our journal.

• February 2021: click here
• March 2021: click here
• April 2021 (In Progress): click here