21st annual ISDRS conference

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Deadline: December 19, 2014 | Date: July 10, 2015-July 12, 2015

Venue/Country: Australia

Updated: 2014-11-17 03:03:59 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

21st Annual conference to be held 10-12 July 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.

The Tipping Point: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity

Hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Education, and the Alfred Deakin Research Institute,

Deakin University, Geelong, Melbourne.

For information on the programme and abstract submission see:

www.isdrsconference.org

Abstracts are to be submitted before 19 December 2014.

The conference will examine the management of social and natural community vulnerabilities and the enhancement of adaptations to climate change in the context of sustainability.

Whilst the tipping point is typically regarded as a negative point 'of no return', especially in ecology and climate science, our call repositions the notion of the tipping point as a 'point of transformation' into relatively more hopeful settings. Although incremental efforts towards change appear to make little difference, eventually sustainable attitudes and behaviour may become the norm rather than the exception. A key task for policy makers and other sustainability stakeholders is to bring about a positive tip before a catastrophic negative one occurs. This conference invites debate on all aspects of the tipping point concept, including the desirability, feasibility and potential reversibility of a positive tip, especially in the context of continuing global financial uncertainty. We invite papers interrogating evidence for emerging tipping points in different policy areas and social-cultural settings and look forward to debates across disciplinary, national and cultural boundaries.

Scholars are invited to summit papers in the core research areas of the ISDRS:

I. Sustainable Development Science

II. Ecosystem Pressures and Limits

III. Climate Change and Energy

IV. Sustainable Land Use & Sustainable cities

V. Corporate Sustainability and Innovation

VI. Society and Sustainability

VII. Institutions and governance structures for Sustainable Development

Special themes for the 2015 conference

a. The Tipping Point: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity

b. Culture and Sustainability

c. Gender and development

d. Deep ecology and ethics

For events-related inquiries, contact Mahaela Jackson: mahaela.jacksondeakin.edu.au

For academic inquiries only, contact Yamini Narayanan: y.narayanandeakin.edu.au

NOTE 1: We can keep you posted if you register as a Follower (for free) on the website of the ISDRS.

NOTE 2: Optionally you can register as a Green member (paid membership), which gives you a reduced fee to the conference. This discount is higher than the membership fee and gives additional benefits like free journals. So if you are planning on coming to the conference this might be a good choice. You can register at: www.isdrs.org