Call for Contributions & Abstract Submission

Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial of her birth. The Ester Boserup Conference 2010 “Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment” wishes to pay tribute to her work and to her intellectual heritage.

Ester Boserup’s work focussed on understanding processes of social change. She conceptualized human societies – in their present-day form and in their historical development – as dynamic relationships between natural, economic, cultural, and political structures. This interdisciplinary approach to social development and the manner in which Boserup positioned herself at the interface between academia and politics form integral parts of her intellectual legacy. The conference will therefore consider contributions addressing her approach, her interface position and the applicability of her theories to current sustainability issues.

We would like to invite you to participate by contributing to one of the sessions listed below; designated session leaders are indicated in brackets:

• Development
  (Claudia Binder)
  
  
• Gender and Globalization: Engendering Development and the Importance of Women in Rural Areas
  (Parto Teherani-Krönner)
  
  
• Integrated Modelling of Land-System Change
  (Helmut Haberl)
  
  
• Future Responses to Resource Scarcities
  (Faye Duchin)
  
  
• Land Use Change: The Triple Exposure to Climate, Population Pressure, and Globalization
  (Anette Reenberg)
  
  
• New Approaches for Understanding Land-Use Intensity
  (Karlheinz Erb)
  
  
• Population and Economy
  (Sigrid Stagl)
  
  
• Rural systems and socio-ecological transitions
  (Fridolin Krausmann)
  
  
• Intensification and the Anthropocene
  (Erle Ellis)
  
  
• Land use change at multiple scales: interactions with climate change and ecosystem services
  (Peter Verburg)
  
  
• Time Use and Social Change
  (Simron Jit Singh)
  
  
• Dynamics of Population, the Economy and the Environment
  (Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz)
  
  
• Land Use Change, Resource Conflicts and the Socio-Ecological Crises
  (Markus Wissen)

Some session titles are still preliminary and will be specified by the session leaders according to the contributions received. If you would like to propose a new session, or chair one of the sessions listed as tba, please contact us at info@boserup-conference.org.

Further technical details concerning the presentations and posters will be available on the conference website at www.boserup-conference.org.

The members of the conference’s scientific board are: Prof. Dr. Marina Fischer-Kowalski (Alpen Adria University), Prof. Dr. Claudia Binder (University of Graz), Prof. Dr. Sigrid Stagl (Vienna University of Economics and Business), and Prof. Anette Reenberg (University of Copenhagen).

Please direct any questions or comments you may have to the team at the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna at info@boserup-conference.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!

Please submit your abstract of no more than 500 words for a presentation during the conference or a poster (A1 format, 594mm x 841mm) to info@boserup-conference.org no later than July 31, 2010. If possible, indicate the session to which you would contribute. 

The list of proposed sessions is available here.

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