Net Werk voor de Geschiedenis van Hygiene en Milieu, 1999-2001 ...

Topics of Discussion in the Sessions
Resources
What were / what are resources
(material and immaterial in the
course of evolution
Man - environment relations /The
genesis of exploitation
Effects of people on environments /
Effects of environments on people
Sustainance and exploitation
Exploitation and over-exploitation
of what
Economy versus ecology: An unavoidable
conflict
Reproduction
Human needs
Ecology, diet and social patterning
Health and exploitation / over-exploitation
Gender relations in productive behaviour
Is there gender exploitation in reproductive
behaviour
Genetic, environmental and sociocultural
backgrounds to the stability
or growth of populations
Sustainability
Is “sustainability” a new concept in
development planning
Resource-management and sustainability
Phases in life, generation-sets, posterity:
diverging concepts
Population pressure and sustainability
Sustainability in which geographical
and social dimensions
lnnovation
Transformation processes in pre-industrial
and industrial societies /
Technical innovations /
Paradigms of scientific and/or ethical
innovations
Factors for innovations / How to
stop or reduce over-exploitation~
Preservation of elements of former
culture / cultural tradition:
Hindrance of innovation
Nature in Culture /
Culture in Nature
Territoriality, power and control of
resources
Exploitation and over-exploitation
in the animal domain
Affective and emotional response
in man with regard to changes in
nature and innovations: The nature
of the human brain
Exploitation of nature associated
with religious belief or ethic code:
Diverging views
Global Thinking
Invention or diffusion / Invention
and diffusion
Processes in the “Communication
age”
Local knowledge and global exploitation
and expropriation still
valid as an explanation for “underdevelopment”
International Conferences: Awareness,
warning:
What about political facts of enforcement
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contactblad van de
stichting net werk voor de
1084-1085
geschiedenis van hygiëne en milieu
redactie: myriam d a r u
webversie: jan van den n o o r t
Conference Fee
Congress fee 160.00 $ (200 US$
after March 31st. 2001)
Student fee 80.00 $ (100 US$ after
March 31st. 2001)
Partner Programmes will be offered.
IWF
Nonnenstieg 72,
D-37075 Göttingen, Duitsland
Tel: +49/551 /5024- 170
Fax: +49/551 /5024-403
E-mail: iwf.secr.-gsw@iwf.de
www.iwf.de/iuaes-goettingen-2001
The International Water
History Association (IWHA)
2nd conference 10th -12th August
2001 University of Bergen, Norway
(reeds in nummer 67 aangekondigd)
The International Water History
Association (IWHA) 2nd conference
will bring together researchers
from different disciplines who all
study the character and role of
freshwater in history and development.
It is organised in co-operation
with UNESCO’s International
Hydrological Programme.
While freshwater is a true universal
and no human being and no society
can exist without it, its natural
characteristics vary extremely from
place to place and from time to
time. Societies have managed and
harnessed water in various ways
with various implications both for
water resources and for society. This
conference will explore these variations
in man/water relations in time
and space, and examine why some
societies have apparently succeeded,
while others have failed to secure a
sound management system of their
fresh water.
The conference will have three main
aims:
- to present different empirical
research findings and to create a
forum for theoretical discussions
on how the relationship between
man and water can be analysed
and understood in the most fruitful
ways.
- to produce relevant input into
present day debates about issues
including the control and ownership
of water, water conflicts and
water pollution.
- to discuss content and profile of
a multi-volume World Water
History planned by UNESCO
in cooperation with IWHA. The
conference will offer opportunities
for researchers to present perspectives
on water history useful
for the book series.
Provisional themes
A The political economy of water
ownership and control
B Images of water (in religion,
myths, literature and art)
C History of hydrology and water
control
D Narratives on the river and the dam
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