Organized by ICTA, UAB (www.eco2bcn.es)
With the support of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Inovacion
Date: 2-3 July 2010
Location: Casa del Mar (C/ Albareda 1-13), Poble Sec, Barcelona
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Organizing Committee: Ariza -Montobbio, Pere; Conde, Marta; Demaria, Federico; Kallis, Giorgos; Martinez-Alier, Joan.
Climate and ecological changes together with economic crisis are intensifying tensions and conflicts over access and use of environmental resources in developed and developing countries. Understanding the causes of these conflicts and responding to them equitably requires a multi-disciplinary approach that cuts across established disciplinary boundaries. This international conference includes presentations on the latest research concerning the world´s changing social metabolism, global environmental change, environmental conflicts and questions of justice, with regional and local case-studies.
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Friday, 2 July 2010 |
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| 9 – 9.30 |
Registration |
| 9.30–9.40 |
Welcome Address. Louis Lemkow, Director of ICTA |
| 9.40–10.00 | Environmental Conflicts and Justice, Joan Martinez-Alier, ICTA, UAB. |
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Session 1 Environmental Justice: Theory and Case Studies Chair: Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos |
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| 10.00 –10.30 |
Capital accumulation as time-space appropriation: Toward a framework for quantifying colonial and neo-colonial exploitation. Alf Hornborg, University of Lund. |
10.30 –11.00 |
Racialized environmental conflict and emerging political subjectivities in Latin America, Susan Paulson, University of Lund. |
| 11.00–11.30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30–12.00 |
Environmental Justice in Central and Eastern Europe. Tamara Steger, Central European University, Budapest |
| 12.00–12.30 |
Environmental Justice in Catalonia.
Miquel Ortega y Maria Calaf, ENT- Barcelona |
| 12.30–13.00 |
Mapping Environmental Conflicts with Google-Earth: Spanish capital in Latin America. David Llistar, Delphine Ortega Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. |
| 13.00 –13.30 |
Payment for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism. Esteve Corbera (Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia) and Nico Kosoy (United Nations Environment Programme). |
| 13.30 –15.00 |
Lunch Break |
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Session 2 The politics of environmental change Chair: Kate Farrel |
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| 15.00–15.30 |
Whose back-yard? Wind energy and the politics of landscape value in southern Catalonia. Christos Zografos, ICTA, UAB. |
| 15.30–16.00 |
Reactionary responses to the environmental crisis. Guy Baeten, University of Lund. |
| 16.00–16.30 |
The Antinomies of the Post-Political City: In search of a democratic politics of environmental production. Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester. |
| 16.30–17.00 |
The evolution of Utopian Thinking: from dreams of collective transformation to lifestyle blueprints. Maria Kaika, University of Manchester. |
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Saturday, 3 July 2010 |
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Session 3 Water conflicts Chair: Pere Ariza-Montobbio |
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| 9.30–10.00 |
Social power, water scarcity and the urbanization of the countryside. The case of Matadepera in Catalonia. Iago Otero and Giorgos Kallis, ICTA, UAB. |
| 10.00–10.30 |
Urbanizing the water supply of Barcelona and Madrid through the 20th and 21st centuries: from the local to the global. Hug March and David Sauri, Departamento de Geografia, UAB. |
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Session 4 Islands, disasters and justice Chair: Pere Ariza-Montobbio |
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| 10.30–11.00 |
Island historical-political ecologies: On ecologically unequal exchange, landesque capital and environmental/social justice on Taiwan’s small islands. Eric Clark, University of Lund. |
| 11.00–11.30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30–12.00 |
Complex Disasters: Humanitarian Aid, social metabolism and conflict in the Nicobar Islands. Simron Singh, IFF-Vienna. |
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Session 5 Oil, war, pollution and waste. Chair: Veronika Gaube |
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| 12.00–12.30 |
What Drives the Extractive Frontier? The City of London and Capitalisation of the Mineral Kingdom in the Late 19th Century. Gavin Bridge, University of Manchester. |
| 12.30–13.00 |
Oil frontiers and indigenous resistance in the Peruvian Amazon. Marti Orta, ICTA, UAB. |
| 13.00-14.30 |
Lunch Break |
| 14.30–15.00 |
Petro-landscapes: work and environment in the age of oil. Stefania Barca, Universidade de Coimbra |
| 15.00–15.30 |
Atmosfear: Bombing, Pollution, and Public Health in post-NATO Serbia. Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester. |
| 15.30–16.00 |
Waste and Justice in Campania, Italy. Giacomo D'Alisa and Marco Armiero, ICTA, UAB. |
| 16.00 |
Closure |