The 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment in Uppsala

The Earth Summit in Rio 1992 declared that environmental issues should be “best handled by participation of all concerned citizens at the relevant level”. Twenty years after, improved institutional frameworks and international tools are needed for better environmental governance and for giving legal force to the principle of public participation. 

 

This conference views it timely to revisit participation as a process for deliberating on the commons. The aim is to re-imagine participation as citizenship rather than stakeholder engagement, an instrumental concept reproduced in the past decades. These questions and the need for crafting ‘new commons’ within and beyond natural resource contexts are of concern for environmental communicators. 

The conference is being co-hosted by the Division of Environmental Communication at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala University’s Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) and the Cemus Research Forum (CEFO).

The full COCE 2013 Program can be downloaded in PDF format.

Live discussion can be followed using the Twitter hastag #COCE2013

The International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) is a professional association of teachers, scholars, artists, practitioners, students and organizations involved in Environmental Communication around the world.