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• 15 jui 2013

  Les Arcs

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Communication and the environment

  ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies volume 7, n° 1(13) / 2014

  Over the last 40 years, scientific research on environmental issues has become a well-established field worldwide. These environmental issues, on the one hand, have provoked a series of novel questions in a variety of scientific disciplines. Simultaneously, they have led to a series of controversies over political, technological, economic and related issues with and between public authorities, industries and civil society. Communication is a quintessential part of these questioning and debating, and a precondition for scientific, societal and political responses to environmental challenges at large.

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• 07 jan 2013

  08 jan 2013

  09 jan 2013

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.

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• 15 mar 2013

  Call for papers - Geography

  Open access environmental data: policies, experiences and practice

  La revue NETCOM - Réseaux, communication, territoire consacrera en 2013 un numéro spécial à la thématique des données en libre accès dans le domaine de l'environnement. La revue est intéressée par des recherches portant sur les nouvelles politiques informationnelles des institutions en charge de la gestion de l'environnement, le mouvement et les usages de l'open data ou l'évolution de la dynamique des systèmes d'information sur l'environnement.

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