Dear colleagues, James Meadowcroft and I are putting together a panel or two for the *2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance* in November 2018. If you would like to participate please send an abstract of less than 400 words to me ([email protected]) by *12 March.*
*Call for panelists - Conceptual Foundations of Earth System Governance* This panel will bring together new research on key concepts that frame international discussion of environmental governance challenges in the 21st century. It is concerned with understanding, critically interrogating, and refining concepts that increasingly provide the foundation for contemporary theory and practice in the environmental domain, including notions such as: ecosystem services, ‘Anthropocene’, ‘planetary boundaries’, ‘resilience’, ‘the green economy’, and the 'transition to a low carbon economy'. Major political and social change is typically accompanied by innovation in the thought categories we use to make sense of the world, frame arguments, organize collective action, and establish new institutional practices. The papers in this panel will advance our understanding of how conceptual change takes place in the environmental domain and what are its practical implications for environmental governance. The discussion will aim to move beyond arguments about individual concepts, to examine the process and significance of conceptual innovation in the environmental realm. How and why does this innovation take place? Who is making the innovations and how do they propagate? What consequences do they have in practice for the development of social/ecological interactions? We welcome theoretical papers addressing the relationship between conceptual innovation and institutional change, as well as empirical papers addressing the development and implications of particular concepts. We aim to include papers on diverse concepts rather than focus discussion on just one or two concepts. We particularly wish to attract papers addressing the impact of environmental concepts on governance at multiple scales (global, national, and local). We are open to research papers that are informed by a variety of theoretical frames and methodological tools. Best wishes, Hayley -- Hayley Stevenson <https://utdt.academia.edu/HayleyStevenson> Profesora Investigadora Asociada / Associate Professor Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Editor, Political Studies <https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/political-studies/journal202479> New book: Global Environmental Politics <http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/global-environmental-politics-problems-policy-and-practice?localeText=United+Kingdom&locale=en_GB&query=&remember_me=on#eQswpXPkPxdcAllL.97> -- [image: UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA] <http://www.utdt.edu/> Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350 (C1428BIJ) Ciudad de Buenos Aires *www.utdt.edu* <http://www.utdt.edu/> | [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/utditella> | [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/UTDiTella> La Universidad Torcuato Di Tella es una institución sin fines de lucro fundada en los pilares de la excelencia académica, el pluralismo de ideas y la igualdad de oportunidades. Conozca nuestros programas de becas en utdt.edu/becas. -- 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/d/optout.
