Urban Justice and Sustainability – Vancouver, 22-25 August 2007 22-08-2007 Introduction How can the growing inequalities and injustices of much urban and regional
development today be mitigated and reversed? Can we develop theories and
practices that simultaneously build sustainability and justice at the urban,
regional and global levels? These and more questions will be dealt with during
the Vancouver conference.
Description
This conference focuses on two quests: one for social justice, the other for
sustainability. The first encompasses a range of traditional social science
issues like poverty, homelessness, segregation and discrimination, issues that
have been given renewed urgency by processes of urban and regional development
during the recent phase of globalization. Latterly, the search for
sustainability – social and economic as well as ecological – has been given new
impetus by the debate about global climate change and also the occurrence of
some remarkable natural phenomena – hurricanes, massive fires, and floods, and a
devastating tsunami. Both quests have radical implications: each calls into
question the viability of current systems of production and consumption.
Conference themes include following:
Programme
More information on the programme can be found in the "links section" at the
bottom of this page.
Location
Vancouver, Canada
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