We ask all presenters to send their paper, as soon as it is ready, but at the latest on August 28, to Kris van Koppen. Also if you have submitted your paper in time for the CD-ROM, please send it to Kris as well (some of you already did). Preferred format is pdf, but other widely used formats (rtf, doc, txt) are possible too. To avoid long download times (and overloaded mailboxes), please take care to limit your paper size to 200kB or less (do not include pictures of high resolution and choose for medium quality print in PDF).

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1A Social theory and the environment - Chairperson: Kris van Koppen

• Ilmo Massa. The conceptual shifts in environmental social sciences after the 1960s onwards
• Helena Jeronimo. Critical aspects of risk theory facing environmental conflicts
• Hilary Tovey. Natural resources, valorisation, and co-production in the dynamics of rural-urban relations
• Joao Luiz Hoeffel, Almerinda Fadini, Jussara Christina Reis & Cerise Rocha de Jesus. The Sustainability Concept in Latin-America Social Theory: a preliminary analysis
• Philippe Boudes. Does social morphology improve environmental sociology? Origin and future of an old European sociological theory
• Miguel Rodrigues. System Theorizing and Environmental Governance in the EU

1B Risk, governance and biotechnology - Chairperson: Bálint Balázs

• Michiel de Krom. Birds of a feather? Food and agricultural risk governance of avian influenza in different EU Member States.
• Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd & Ylva Uggla. Reducing complexity, constructing identities and ascribing capabilities. Making transboundary risks governable.
• Sabil Francis. Biological Transfer Agreements and environmental governance: implications for biotechnological research.
  
• Marina Abdul Majid. Implementing the Socio-Economic Considerations Clause for Regulating Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs) in Malaysia: Challenges and Options.
  
• Egle Butkeviciene, Leonardas Rinkevicius & Ausra Rimaite. GMOs in Lithuanian public opinion and mass media discourse.
  
• Beatrice Bengtsson & Mikael Klintman. Stakeholder consultations in the EU governance of GMO in the food chain

1C Climate change and the public - Chairperson: Çigdem Adem

• Diana Wehlau, Hanna Krapf & Ines Weller. Climate Change and Sustainable Consumption - Consumers torn between increasing environmental awareness and decreasing economic options?
• João Pato, Luísa Schmidt & Susana Valente. Social choice and climate change: An international sociological assessment on climate change public perceptions and public compliance with policy objectives
• Udo Kuckartz. Europeans' perceptions of climate change and global warming: A micro-macro analysis. 
• Aiste Balzekiene, Leonardas Rinkevicius & Audrone Telesiene. Climate change: risk perceptions and mass media discourse configurations in Lithuania.

2A Discussing the social pillar of sustainability - Chairperson: Bálint Balázs

• Magnus Boström. Challenges in incorporating the social dimension in a transnational sustainability project. The case of the FSC.
• Sonia Regina Seixas Barbosa, João Luiz Hoeffel & Mariana Bianchi. Quality of Life and Socioenvironmental Degradation in the Cantareira System Environmental Protected Area, SP/Brazil.
• Mikael Klintman. Handling Challenges of Scale in Eco-Tourism.
• Suvi Huttunen. Social sustainability and rural bioenergy production in Finland.
• Alicia Arriaga. Is Environmental Justice the Main Force for Local Sustainability?

2B Consumerism and environment - Chairperson: Peter Oosterveer

• Annukka Berg. The Double-edged Sword of Responsible Living Discourse: Mapping the policy discourses on sustainable consumption and production in Finland
  
• Lucie Middlemiss. Practice meets community: the role of community-based organisations in stimulating sustainable practices among participants
  
• Paivi Timonen & Minna Lammi. Gardening as a consumer power in Finland and Britain.
  
• Stephan Lorenz. The German 'Tafel': a sustainable way to deal with food affluence?
  
• Daniel Fischer, Claudia Nemnich & Matthias Barth. Towards a Culture of Sustainable Consumption. A Transdisciplinary Approach to Organizational and Individual Learning for Sustainability in Educational Institutions.

2C Energy provision and climate change - Chairperson: Cecilia Claeys

• Giorgio Osti. The energy co-provision in Italy: an irreducible technological asymmetry?
  
• Susana Fonseca & Joaquim Nave. From structural factors to individual practices: reasoning on the main paths for action on energy efficiency.
  
• Pia Laborgne, Andreas Huber, Dorothée Marchand & Nadine Roudi. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies in the Context of Communes: Scope of Action and Local Experiences.
  
• Xavier Lemaire. Climate Policies and the Politics in the Design of Markets of Carbon Credits.
  
• Bettina Bluemling & Arthur Mol. 'Walking on two legs' to the accreditation of CDM? Institutional histories of CDM accredited projects in China.

3A Environmental attitudes and values - Chairperson: Kris van Koppen

• Julia Bardes. The protestant legacy in man's relationship with nature
  
• Stéphanie Vincent. Alternatives to individual car travel: an environmental attitude
  
• Luisa Schmidt, Susana Valente & Mónica Truninger. Environmental public policies and public awareness in Portugal: a scenario of contradictions.
  
• Jean-Paul Bozonnet. Has ecocentrism already won in France?
  
• Dusan Ristic & Ana Pajvancic. Environmental Attitudes of Urban Dwellers on the Danube River in Vojvodina
  
• Henning Best. Environmental concern: Empirical analyses on measurement approaches and attitude structure.

3B Food chains and networks - Chairperson: Giorgio Osti

• Ulf Liebe. Rebelling against McDonaldization of Agriculture.
• Katerina Psarikidou & Bronislaw Szerszynski. Alternative Agro-food Networks: A New Knowledge-based Agro-food Paradigm?
• Wojciech Goszczynski. Building sustainable local food networks in unsustainable environment as a lesson for post-transition countries. Case study from Poland.
• Bálint Balázs. Building Alternative Agro-Food Systems in Hungary.
• Peter Oosterveer. Restructuring Food Supply: Food, Sustainability and Supermarkets.

3C Climate change policies - Chairperson: Mikael Klintman

• Ralph Matthews. Understanding Adaptive Capacity as a Dynamic Institutional Process: A Case Study of an Arctic Gateway City.
• Mette Jensen & Anne Holst Andersen. Sociological Aspects of the Introduction of Biofuels for Transport.
• Johannes Schubert. Global warming and the case of sea-level rise in New Orleans and The Netherlands: Social reaction- and adaptation-capabilities to be explained by Cultural Theory and Varieties of Capitalism approach.
  
• Rauno Sairinen. Thinking about future challenges for Finnish natural resource policy.
  
• Andre Schaffrin. What Can We Learn From the Welfare State? An Empirical Investigation on Climate Policy.

4A Environmental citizenship - Chairperson: Cecilia Claeys-Mekdade

• Juha Kotilainen. Environmental Citizenship, Natural Resource Governance and Transforming Politics of Sustainability.
• Leena Haanpää. Environmental citizenship and citizen-consumer: Individual actors' role in the environmental question.
  
• Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias. Citizen participation and Environmental Policy.
  
• Anneleen Kenis & Erik Mathijs. From individual to collective change and beyond: Ecological citizenship and politicisation.

4B Nature protection and social perception of animals - Chairperson: Kris van Koppen

• Susana Costa, Phyllis Lee & Catarina Casanova. Social Perceptions of Chimpanzees in Tombali (Guinea-Bissau, West Africa): a sociological contribution to chimpanzees conservation.
  
• Catarina Casanova, Susana Costa & Cláudia Sousa. Social perceptions about the environment in rural Guinea-Bissau: must animals and nature remain sociology´s ultimate "other"?
  
• Svetlana Stephenson. The Dog that Could not Bark.
  
• Teresa Líbano Monteiro & Verónica Policarpo. Attitudes towards animals' rights in Portugal: the influence of social values.
  
• Carolina Toschi Maciel. Animal welfare: social challenges due to this new concept.
  
• Pekka Jokinen, Markus Vinnari & Saara Kupsala. Animal-farming practices and consumer trust in Finland.

4C Governance of water - Chairperson: Giorgio Osti

• Çigdem Adem. 'Rivers are Ours' versus 'Rivers are Flowing in Vain'. Conflict over Water Governance in Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey.
  
• Marta de Sousa & Sofia Bento. Debating a Dam is Debating Dams - Internet environmentalist discussion group on Alqueva dam.
  
• Marja Ylönen. Moral regulation of water pollution in Finland since the 1960s till 2000.
  
• Urska Strazisar. The water flows of island Dugi otok: Governing, managing and using water on the small Adriatic island.
  
• Sofia Bento, Mostafa Errahi, Audrey Richard-Ferroudji et al. Farmers facing climate variabilities and changes: the case of groundwater users of coastal aquifers in France, Portugal and Morocco.

5A Citizen participation - Chairperson: Luigi Pellizzoni

• Mhairi Aitken. Public Participation in Scottish Land-Use Planning: Empowerment or Social Control?
  
• Joao Guerra. Local Sustainability and Public Participation: The Role of Municipalities in population's engagement process.
  
• Laura Nistor. Participation - the missing component of the Romanian environmental NGOs.
  
• Carmit Lubanov. Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making Processes in Israel and the Role of NGO's in Shaping the Socio-Environmental Agenda.
  
• Piotr Matczak. Litter in your park: a community based model of sustaining the quality of green areas in cities

5B Biodiversity protection - Chairperson: Çigdem Adem

• Allan Sande & Jill Beth Otterlei. Environmental policy and governing nature - government or governance?
  
• Liam Hysjulien & William Markham. The Norwegian Whaling Controversy: Claimsmaking, Framing, and Science in International Environmental Politics.
  
• Steve Yearley. Game Theory with Real Game: engaging with deer and biodiversity in the UK.
  
• Philippe Deuffic. From denunciation to institutionalization. How biodiversity becomes a public issue?
  
• Christine Katz. Intercultural Perspectives. The missing link in the discussion about Sustainable Nature Management.

6A Environmental decision-making and risk - Chairperson: Magnus Boström

• Raymond Murphy. The Coupling of the Chronic and the Acute: Environmental Problems, Disasters, and Leadership.
  
• Matthias Gross & Alena Bleicher. Governing Ignorance: Decision Making in the Restoration of Industrially Contaminated Landscapes.
  
• Cecilia Claeys. Mosquito control in France: a socio-technical controversy between environmental preoccupations and health protection.
  
• Lúcia Fernandes. Complexity, uncertainties and vulnerabilities in contaminated places decision-making in Portugal and Brazil.
  
• Emelie Stenborg. Managing the Chemical Risks with Consumer Goods: The Dual Role and Dilemmas of Member Organisations.
  

6B Sustainable agriculture - Chairperson: Bálint Balázs

• Marja Järvelä, Pekka Jokinen & Suvi Huttunen. Food, feed or fuel? Experiments on sustainable development alternatives at Finnish farms.
  
• Nataliya Ikonnikova. Crucial social and cultural environment of ecological tourism (case study).
  
• Alina Strugut. The Impact of EU Sustainable Development Policies on Subsistence Households.
  
• Sarolta Németh. Networking for renewables: local resources and innovative technologies in rural development.

7A Education for sustainability and social learning - Chairperson: Ernest Garcia

• Zsófia Szi-Ferenc. Possibilities for collaborative learning through the establishment of an informal science-policy community.
  
• Bengt Larsson. Environmental representations and responsibilization in children's books.
  
• Luiz Carlos Beduschi, Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Evandro Mateus Moretto et al.. Social learning and sustainable water management: evidence from three watersheds in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.
  
• Marco Rieckmann & Matthias Barth. Experiencing the Global Dimension of Sustainability: Intercultural Dialogue and Competence Development in International E-Learning Settings.
  
• Kris van Koppen. Public support for nature protection: its social and personal dynamics and its role in environmental change.

7B Social and economic functions of nature - Chairperson: Alexander Drozdov

• Nikita Pokrovsky. Globalization of Wild Nature As a Perennially 'New' Dreamland: The Ugory Project in Kostroma (Russia)
• George Tsobanoglou. Environmental Issues and Social Capital. Local communities and agricultural development in economically depressed areas.
• Sergey Bobylev & Alla Bobylev. How much does it cost?.
• Liviu Mantescu. The blind game of decentralization in European environmental policies - Community-based institutions for managing forest commons at stake in Romania and Spain

8A Science, environment and the public - Chairperson: Cecilia Claeys

• Anne Bergmans, Ann Crabbé, Ilse Loots & Marian Deblonde. Assessing Joint Knowledge.
  
• Luigi Pellizoni. The politics of facts: environmental conflicts and expertise.
  
• Ernest Garcia & Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias. Scientific information and collective action in socio-ecological conflicts.
• John van Breda & Michael Stauffacher. 'Laboratories' for advancing and studying public formations in sustainable development.
• Maria Eugenia Rodrigues. Nature re-enacted: exploring the dynamics of public participation in environmental monitoring.
  
• Kos Drago. Participation in environmental decision making processes between instrumental and substantial rationality.

8B Corporate governance - Chairperson: Nikita Pokrovsky

• Maria Tysiachniouk. Corporate social responsibility as a business strategy: Stora Enso-WWF partnership for sustainable forest management in Russia.
  
• Werner Palz & Iván López. Greenwashing - delusive environmental publicity in times of climate change. A comparative analysis of a frequent but often neglected phenomenon in Germany and Spain.
  
• Mehmet Ümit Taner & Funda Dönmez. The ecological consequences of neoliberal urban politics and the impact of mega-events in the third world: Formula 1 Istanbul park racing circuit in Omerli watershed.
  
• Idalina Dias-Sardinha, Pedro Verga Matos & Lucas Reijnders. Sustainable Development Strategy and Sustainability Reporting connections with Corporate Governance.
  
• Roman Novozhilov. Ensuring Environmental and Social Sustainability of Private Sector Projects.