Call for Papers and Workshops
We welcome contributions from any field of political science, development studies, geography, economics, sociology, social ecology, law and related disciplines and kindly invite you to submit proposals in one of the following areas:
- Theoretical and empirical reflections on the current social-ecological crisis related to natural resources, and their potentials and limits for transformations.
- Looking to the past to understand the future: contributions from environmental and socio-economic history.
- Methodologies and approaches assessing e.g. the economic, political, social, legal, and environmental impacts of resource extraction.
- Analysis and evaluation of public and private policies and governance of natural resources (e.g. laws, codes, standards, certification schemes, labels).
- Theoretical and empirical contributions on topics such as resource conflicts, territorial dynamics of resource frontiers or (global) commodity chains in context of social-ecological transformations.
The proposals should be submitted in PDF format until 31st October 2018 via our ConfTool website in one of these three forms:
- Individual Papers, including a title, an abstract (300-500 words) and a short CV (50-70 words);
- Special Sessions (consisting of 3-4 thematic papers), including a session description (300-500 words) as well as title, abstract and short CV (200 words) for the individual papers of the session.
- Open Workshops with interactive features on the conference topic for/from practitioners and scientists. This form especially aims to promote transdisciplinary dialog. Proposal should include a description of the workshop, methodology and goals (approx.
- 300-500 words) and short CV of the organizer(s) (50-70 words).