Human
Ecology
Review
Official Journal of
SHE
Updated News & Announcements
International Year of Biodiversity
Posted 12-18-2009
Dear SHE members:
The Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) is an independent faculty-and-student-based professional association in higher education, designed to serve the needs of environmental scholars and scientists who value interdisciplinary approaches to research, teaching, and problem-solving.
A major aim of AESS is to encourage interdisciplinary understanding of environmental science, policy, management, ethics, history, and all of the other vital contributions of traditional disciplines. From its beginning, the Association has been envisioned as a community of environmental scholars and scientists, not a confederation of disciplines. Fundamental to its members’ embrace of higher education is the notion that broad advances in environmental knowledge require disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to research and learning.
On behalf of the AESS Program Committee and Site Arrangement Committee, we are pleased to announce the launch of the AESS 2010 Conference website, which is being hosted temporarily by Lewis and Clark College. The conference will be held at Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR, June 17-20. For information on the conference, please visit http://www.lclark.edu/college/programs/environmental_studies/aess2010/index.php.
The theme for our 2010 AESS Conference is Many Shades of Green. The theme reflects the growing diversity of the environmental movement and the spread of “green” thinking into new and more varied venues. A bewildering profusion of green ideas are working their way through global politics and discourse as new groups enter into –– and challenge –– the traditional environmental movement.
The AESS Program Committee is trying something new this year. We would like to provide an opportunity for the ESS community to help shape the organization of the 2010 AESS Conference at Lewis and Clark. To accomplish this bottom-up approach, we are breaking up the call for sessions and presentations into a two-step process:
Step 1: Call for session proposals (deadline Feb 1, 2010)
Step 2: Call for presentation abstracts (deadline Mar 30, 2010)
posted 12-10-2009
Special Report
"CHECpoints”
from the
International Conference on Human Ecology in an Urbanising World
(June/July 2009 – Manchester)
Ian Douglas and Eva Ekehorn
The Gerald L. Young
Book Award in Human Ecology
The Society for Human Ecology distinguished scholarly book award, named in honor of Gerald L. Young who is considered one of SHE’s founders and a recognized leader in scholarly publications in human ecology, is presented annually for the best single book published in a calendar year. Any member of SHE may nominate books for consideration for this award. Nominations should include name of author, title of book, date of publication, publisher, ISBN, and brief statements as to why the book should be considered. The deadline for nominations for this award is February 28, 2010.
Click here for more information.
SHE supports the awards program for building
healthy communities for active aging
SHE joins the growing chorus of organizations and foundations that embrace the spirit and vision of this award program that was developed by the US EPA Aging Initiative together with the President's Council for Fitness and Sports, the CDC, the National Council on Aging , Active for Life and the National Blueprint. This award recognizes communities for their outstanding comprehensive approaches to implementing principles of smart growth, as well as strategies that support active aging. This award is given each year to communities with the best and most inclusive overall approach to implementing smart growth and active aging on a variety of fronts, at the neighborhood, tribe, city, county, and/or regional level. Smart growth strategies address climate change and address the pollutants that harm human and ecological health.
Book Offer for SHE Members
If you are interested in purchasing a copy of:
Rethinking Environmental History:
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Edited by:
Alf Hornborg
J. R. McNeill
Joan Martinez-Alier
The publisher (AltaMira Press) is willing to give SHE members a 20% discount on the purchase of the book. Please contact the publisher via their website:
Copyright 2010, The Society for Human Ecology
The Society for Human Ecology (SHE) is an
international interdisciplinary professional society that promotes
the use of an ecological perspective in both research and
application. The Society holds regular conferences, conducts workshops and symposia, and
co-sponsors a variety of related activities to further integrate work among professionals in fields
pertaining to human ecology.
For membership information
contact:
Barbara Carter
College of the Atlantic
105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor,
ME 04609, USA.
or use the online contact form
