ESEE 2015: special session accepted!!

Our proposed session to the the 11^th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), which will be hosted by the University of Leeds, UK on 30 June – 3 July 2015,  has been accepted.

The aim of this session is to continue moment established in the course of the first PORES Workshop, which was held in Seville, Spain, 23-24 October, 2014, where these topic were addressed at length by the proposed lead contributors to this special session and a number of other scholars working on this and related topics. bring forward a debate that we understand to lie at the very heart of ecological economics, concerning the performative and productive relationships between human use and the biophysical of ecological phenomena, understood as a living process, evolving over time and
comprised of a complex array of interdependent determinate, purposive and anticipative processes. We propose that a discourse on ecosystems services that does not explicitly and formally address questions of power, in social systems, as a study object with dynamical relevance, is bound to be lacking in explanatory power. By opening up and formalising
discussion of this point, with the PORES Workshop and with this and other follow-up activities, we aim to improve both the relevance and the rigor of the ecological economics discourse concerning ecosystems services.

All information about the Call for Papers HERE

Deadline for submission: 14th December

Special Session 7.23. PORES – power relations and ecosystems