The International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) is pleased to announce its 15th annual conference. The conference takes place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 5-8, 2009. The 15th annual conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society is hosted by the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Deadline for submitting abstracts is postponed to January 19th, 2009, 12 am
CET.

In addition, an additional theme has been added (Track 0)":  ‘Responding to the Financial Crisis: Opportunities for Ecological Transition from/within a Collapsed Economy’. The deadline for submitting abstracts to this new theme is February 16th, 2009, 12 am CET.

The German Sociological Society’s Section on Environmental Sociology and the 
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz‐Centre for 
Environmental Research – UFZ are pleased to announce the Second German 
Environmental Sociology Summit in Leipzig (Germany) from November 5‐7, 2009.