Green Political Theory Workshop (Manchester)

[Stijn Neuteleers]

Workshops in Political Theory Sixth Annual Conference Manchester Metropolitan
University 2-4 September 2009 Workshop on GREEN POLITICAL THEORY Conveners:
Stijn Neuteleers (K.U.Leuven, Belgium), Corey MacIver (University of Oxford,
UK) The management of environmental problems and the rise of the environmental
movement pose significant challenges for contemporary political philosophy.
These challenges can be found both on a global level and on a local level. At
the global level, for instance, climate change is one of the major issues in
real-life international politics and has induced a growing debate on the ethics
of climate change (global distributive justice, intergenerational justice,
etc.). At the local policy level, we are confronted, on the one hand, with the
conflict of environmental values with other values such as economic growth and
justice. On the other hand, we have to deal with conflicts among environmental
values themselves (biodiversity, restoration, wilderness, etc.). Our political
and economic instruments and theories have difficulties to cope with these
challenges e.g. cost-benefit analysis, value of privacy, discount rates,
aggregative models of democracy, etc. The broad field of political philosophy
and the environment tries to provide answers to these challenges. The workshop
aims to cover a broad range of green political theory topics such as: - Ethics
and politics of climate change - Democracy and the environment - Public policy
and the environment - Environmental citizenship - Environmental justice - Green
economics - Environmental decision-making If you would like to present a paper
at this workshop, please submit an abstract of 300-500 words (or a full paper)
to stijn.ne...@econ.kuleuven.be and corey....@nuffield.ox.ac.uk by
April 30, 2008. Practical information (registration, fees, etc.) can be found
on the conference website (www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/pap/events/wpt). Messages to the
list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.
Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://
listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html. Other philosophical resources on the
Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.