Ester Boserup Conference 2010 – Conference Commitee
Time: November 15-17, 2010
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Deadline: June 28th, 2010
Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial of her birth. The Ester Boserup Conference 2010 Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment wishes to pay tribute to her work and to her intellectual heritage.
Keynote presentations structure the conference. They highlight Boserups theoretical work, intellectual legacy and relevance to policy institutions (preliminary topics include):
- Billie Lee Turner II: Agriculture and Land Use
- Ramon Lopez: Development Issues
- Marina Fischer-Kowalski: Long-Term Socio-Ecological Change
- Wolfgang Lutz: Population, Education and Economy (tbc)
- Meliss: Leach: Sustainable Livelihoods (tbc)
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 28th, 2010. If you need further details, please visit our website at www.boserup-conference.org or contact the team at the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna at info@boserup-conference.org .
Contact
Ester Boserup Conference 2010 – Conference Commitee
info@boserup-conference.org
Mag.a Gabriela Miechtner
Institute of Social Ecology Vienna
Schottenfeldgasse 29/1/5
A-1070 Vienna, Austria
http://www.iff.ac.at/socec
Source: FEMALE-L@jku.at