MARE Conference – People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change
Posted in Events by fedwards on November 17th, 2008
When: 9 – 11 July 2009
Where: Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Call for Papers
The Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) at the University of Amsterdam announces its fifth biennial conference, People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change’. Since its inception in 2001, the international MARE People and the Sea conference has established itself as one of the leading interdisciplinary forums for debate and learning in the realm of maritime and coastal research and policy. The 2009 conference is the fifth in the series and builds on previous conference outcomes that have clearly placed the capabilities of social sciences on the agenda of wider maritime interests. This conference bridges several debates on coastal change and questions how people, around the globe, are tackling the challenge of living with uncertain futures and adapting, or not, to a myriad of changes.
Five conference themes address the challenges of uncertainty over coastal change across different, but strongly connected sectors.
1. Transformations in fisheries and aquaculture
2. Transformations in coastal and deltaic landscapes
3. Governing under conditions of uncertainty
4. Culture and imaginations of coasts under change
5. Whose needs count in adapting to change?
There will be keynote addresses by:
Professor Fikret Berkes (Canada Research Chair, University of Manitoba)
Professor Alpina Begossi (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Professor Edmund Penning Rowsell (Middlesex University, UK)
Panels will be 1.5 hours in length and should contain 3-4 paper presentations. All panel proposals and paper abstracts must be submitted electronically along with the conference pre-registration form available at www.marecentre.nl. The deadline for panel proposal and abstract submission is 31 January 2009. The conference committee will communicate its decision with regard to the various submissions by 6 March 2009. Where permitted, all presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings. We will also invite selected authors of full papers to publish in a special issue of the Journal of Maritime Studies (MAST).
The conference fee is €345,-. Up to twenty graduate students who have been accepted for paper presentations will be given a reduced fee of €175. We strive to provide support to participants from developing countries. Please contact Bas Bolman for details on this. This year, we will also be giving awards for the best paper, best student paper and a special recognition award for best ‘popularizer’ of the sea.
Cancellation policy: Once your abstract has been accepted for our conference we expect that you will attend the conference. We therefore request that you register and pay the conference fees before 31 March, 2009. Failure to do so will normally result in removal of your paper from the programme. Refunds are allowed only in exceptional cases. In case you want to withdraw your paper from our conference, we ask you to inform us promptly.
For more information about the conference see www.marecentre.nl. All queries may be directed to Bas Bolman (conference @marecentre.nl).
