Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] CfP: Decision-making on megaprojects: contested
numbers, contested democracy
> > Dear colleagues,
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> Please find below a call for abstracts for a special session I organize at the ESEE Conference "ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS THEORY AND PRACTICE", Istanbul, 14-17 June 2011.
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> Decision-making on megaprojects: contested numbers, contested democracy
> This open call session is devoted to the discussion of the contested nature of major infrastructure projects in European countries in the era of multilevel governance. In particular we discuss the role played by technical instruments assessing their costs, benefits, and risks, as main source of public justification. Through the presentation of case-studies of contested mega-projects in EU countries we want to advance in the understanding of the following questions: the multi-level governance of infrastructures and its democratic gaps; the normative basis of the “conventions of quantification” used in order to produce numbers meant to justify megaprojects; justifications of big infrastructures beyond numbers.
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> The special session is not yet advertised on the website (it is supposed to be advertised in few days). The deadline for abstract submission is the 24th of December, through the website of the conference http://www.esee2011.org/index.php (where you can find more general info on the conference).
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> Best
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> Laura Centemeri
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> Laura Centemeri
> Senior Researcher
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> Centre for Social Studies (CES)
> Associate Laboratory
> School of Economics
> University of Coimbra
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> Colégio de S. Jerónimo
> Apartado 3087
> 3001-401 Coimbra
> PORTUGAL
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> Phone: +351 239855590
> Fax: +351 239855589
> E-mail: centemeri@???
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> http://www.ces.uc.pt/investigadores/index.php?action=bio&id_investigador=151&id_lingua=1 >
