The Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology is an award of the Research Committee Environment and Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), established March 17, 2005, and given once every four years. The international award is intended for outstanding contributions of scholars to the study of environment-society relations during the four years since the last call for nominations.

The Action Research Action Learning Interest Group organises a PhD Course in June 1-4 at the Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

International Mini-conference in St. Petersburg, April 18-19, 2009 organised by Centre for Independent Social Research, Russia; University of Umeo, Sweden; University of Joensuu, Finland about globalization and localization of natural resource governance.

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 in various themes. The deadline for submitting abstracts is extended until Sunday, 08 March 2009.

The European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) invites papers for its congress in Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009. Deadline for submitting Abstracts is February 28th 2009.