Here is the schedule of sessions of the Research Network 12 ‘Environment and Society’ for the 9th ESA Conference.

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.

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.

The 8th ESA Conference on 'Conflict, Citizenship and Civil society' took place between 3rd- 6th September 2007 in Glasgow, UK.

A short report from our coordinator, Kris van Koppen (doc)

With 39 papers over 8 sessions, the E&S Network did well at the ESA Conference in Torun (9-12 September 2005). Participation was remarkably good, with 20 to 40 persons attending at the sessions, up to the very last one!

This conference was organised by the Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia (ISIG) and the Department of Human Sciences of Trieste University, in cooperation with the ISA RC24 'Environment and society' research committee. The theme was 'Local institution building for the environment. Perspectives from East and West'.

Many colleagues - including two guests from US and Canada - have participated at  the sessions of the ESN, at the Sixth ESA conference in Murcia, Spain, 23-26 September 2003.