Call for Proposals – Assoc. for Environmental Studies and Sciences
AESS’s 2011 Annual Meeting and Conference
“Confronting Complexity”
Hosted by the University of Vermont
June 23-26, 2011
Burlington, Vermont
AESS recognizes and embraces complexity as the hallmark of our field. Social, physical, biological and ideological factors in environmental problems are intricately linked, and environmental problems are so tightly interconnected that addressing one invariably affects others, limiting our predictive capacity, and challenging the assumptions embedded in our models of natural and social phenomena. Engaging in dialogues about complexity presents challenges in both classroom and public sphere. Confronting complexity is critical to our ability to develop effective responses, which is why we have chosen this them for our upcoming meeting.
Click here to submit a session proposal. Call for individual presentation abstracts opens on Jan. 31, 2011.
Plenary addresses by Climatologist Heidi Cullen and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (invited).