Green Economy in the South
Negotiating Environmental Governance,
Prosperity and Development
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA, TANZANIA JULY 8th – 10th 2014
The Conference is hosted by:
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Dodoma
It is co-hosted by:
The Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape;
The Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester; and,
The Institute for Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University.
The Sustainability Platform, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
www.GreenEconomyintheSouth.wordpress.com
Context and Rationale
The momentum gathering behind the idea and practice of the Green Economy is coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the North, but generally happier economic circumstances in the South. Economies are growing and 'green economic initiatives' are part of these changes. Carbon payments, ecotourism, community-based wildlife management, Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and offsets by mining companies exploiting new resources are all a part of a landscape offering new commodities, opportunities for commercialization and integration into wealth-generating markets. And so too are growing incidents of land (and water) grabbing, displacement and alienation of resources required for wealthy tourists, bitter local conflicts over the locally-defined rules of access to carbon (e.g. firewood) purchased by wealthy northerners, green washing and other harmful activities that either cause poverty, or else distribute the fortune and misfortune of the green economy inequitably. Equally demands for alternatives to market-driven environmental degradation, and for market-dominated solutions are also gaining strength and coherence.
In this context we invite papers and panel proposals for a three-day international conference critically examining these phenomena. The conference will be held in Tanzania and builds on a series of sister conferences held in Europe and North America (most recently Grabbing Green and Nature Inc). We are convening it in Tanzania because we want the focus of this conference to be about the growth of the Green Economy in the South, and therefore this conference must be more accessible to Southern speakers, researchers and activists.
In addition to the conference itself we will also be organizing field trips to sites after the conference is formally finished to locations where interventions of the green economy are unfolding, in carbon forestry, wildlife management and eco-tourism.
We welcome papers, films, website launches and panels on all topics associated with, but not limited to:
- Carbon forestry
- New forms of wildlife management
- Neoliberal environmental governance
- Eco-tourism
- Green offsets
- Bio-fuels and Agriculture
- Green agricultural growth
- Transgenic crops (GMOs) and patent rights
- Challenges to neoliberal hegemony
- Post-democracy and environmental social movements
- Poverty Reduction and Green Economic Initiatives
- Green CSR in Developing Economy Contexts
- Mining and the environment
- And theoretical initiatives pertaining to all of the above and more
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Mathew Bukhi
Geography Department
University of Dodoma
P.O Box 395
+255 688 724063
Skype account: mathew.mabele.bukhi
Twitter account: Mathew Bukhi @atuyu
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