ECOPOLITICS XIV CONFERENCE - "GREENING SUSTAINABILITY"
Limited places still available!
Thursday 27 November to Saturday 29 November 2003
RMIT University - City Campus
Further information from www.rmit.edu.au/tce/ssp/events/ecopol
The idea of sustainable development is widely known and has attracted =
broad support. In the 15 years since the Brundtland report made
sustainable development a household term, individuals, communities,
corporations and governments have developed and are implementing many
initiatives that embrace the idea of sustainable development. However as
last years Rio+10 Conference in Johannesburg demonstrated, what passes
as 'sustainable development' may not be sustainable, but instead is open
to considerable discussion and debate.
It is therefore timely for Ecopolitics scholars and activists to
re-examine, re-evaluate and explore individual, local, regional,
national and global efforts towards sustainable development with a view
to greening sustainability. Some questions to be explored include: Is
sustainable development sustainable? What sense is being made of
sustainability? What changes/practices are occurring or should occur?
What are their implications? Whose voices are being heard and what
viewpoints need to be considered? Has the concept of 'sustainable
development' reached its use by date? Has the idea of 'sustainability'
replaced the ideas of 'progress' and 'development' as the major goal for
human societies?
Ecopolitics XIV seeks to explore the theoretical, practical, and
cultural dimensions associated with questions such as these.
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