The 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association will be held in Lisbon between 2 and 5 of September 2009. The ESA Environment and Society Network invites submissions of papers.

Human Ecology Division at Lund University is launching a new and unique International Master’s Program in Human Ecology: Culture, Power, and Sustainability, starting in August 2009. It will combine the ecologists' genuine concern for life on this planet with social science tools for grasping why it is threatened by human ideas, politics, and economics.
The program provides trans-disciplinary perspectives and analytical tools for communicating about problems of sustainability. It will help you understand the cultural and political dimensions of consumption and resource use, how perceptions of environment and economy differ in time and space, and how environmental problems are distributed globally.

Nature and Culture, a refereed interdisciplinary journal exploring the relationships of human activity with the natural world, invites submissions for a special issue on the viability of adaptive technologies in an era of global environmental change. The journal is a forum for the international community of scholars and practitioners to present, discuss, and evaluate critical issues and themes related to the historical and contemporary relationships that societies, civilizations, empires, regions, nation-states have with Nature.