Hi Folks, Hope you're all doing well. I've got two holes to fill on the program (info below). If anyone's willing and able to serve on either of these, please let me know. For graduate students, we appreciate your enthusiasm but ISA's policies require a PhD to serve as discussant.
best, dgwebster Discussant FA02 Water Justice and Stakeholder Participation Water is necessary for human life. Our bodies will not function without it. Crops will not grow without it. Sanitation is impossible without it. Electricity generation is incredibly difficult without it. In fact, water is important in most industrial processes as well. With all these demands, scarce freshwater resources are often claimed by many stakeholders but rights are often granted to the powerful and denied to the poor. The papers on this panel tackle the problem of water justice by examining the role of stakeholder participation in two major problem areas: freshwater management and hydropower construction projects. Most are comparative and either cover areas in the Middle East or in Latin America. Chair FB63 Migration Theories, Bringing the Environment Back In Migration theory has gradually evolved in Europe and in North America in the context of different scientific disciplines with a focus on the migrant and refugee. The first paper reviews the northern theoretical discourse focusing on four functional linkages between migration and development, the environment, security, and gender. The second paper reviews research on environmental migration in francophone countries that is primarily available in French, examines key theoretical and methodological approaches and assesses to which extent these approaches differ from those of Anglo-Saxon scholars. The third paper analyzes complex linkages between environmentally- or climate-induced migration and neoliberal rural policies in Mexico based on a multidisciplinary research design that focused on four communities in the Mexican state of Morelos. From a perspective of Feminist Social Anthropology the fourth paper suggests the pertinence of incorporating Social Representations Theory in relation to the social and cultural construction of gendered identities in a case study. The final paper argues that environmental degradation is an important driving force of migration focusing on the micro-level and examining how and why different types of environmental conditions may lead to internal migration based on survey data for migrants and non-migrants in 16 countries. -- D.G. Webster Assistant Professor Environmental Studies Program Dartmouth College 6182 Steele Hall Hanover, NH 03755 phone: 603-646-0213 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/faculty/webster.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
