[CPEO-BIF] Conference on Public Participation

[delicajw@email.uc.edu]

Greetings all.  I would like to post a second announcement and call for
papers for a conference we are hosting here at the University of
Cincinnati.  I hope that many of you with practice in the field with
issues of public involvement in environmental decision making will try to
attend.


Regards,


John



SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT and Call for Papers



6TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION AND ENVIRONMENT


This announcement contains new information concerning conference venue,
keynote speaker, and a call for special programs and sessions.


6TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION AND ENVIRONMENT


DATE:			July 27-31, 2001


LOCATION:		Cincinnati, OH

			Marriott Kingsgate Conference Center on the campus of the University of
Cincinnati.


HOST: 		Center for Environmental Communication Studies and

			Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati




CONFERENCE THEME:  

Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making:
Advances in 

Theory and Practice.



KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Ware Professor of Sociology and
Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta
University.  Dr. Bullard is a leading scholar in the area of
environmental justice and the author of Dumping in Dixie: Race,
Class, and Environmental Quality, and Sprawl City: Race,
Politics, and Planning in Atlanta (with Glenn S. Johnson & Angel
O. Torres).


PURPOSE OF CONFERENCE:

The purpose of this conference is to bring together environmental
communication scholars, environmental and community activists, and
environmental decision makers who are concerned with informed and
empowered public involvement in environmental matters.  Our hope is that
the conference will serve as an opportunity to establish a dialogue
between communication and other scholars interested in environmental
matters, and further the discussion of the relationship between academic
research  and public policy, and between scholarly activity and public
activism.


CALL FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND SESSIONS:  

We invite public participation practitioners, environmental decision
makers, environmental organizations, community-based environmental
activists, and others to submit proposals for special programs or
sessions.  Ideas for such programs may range from practical workshops for
effective participation strategies, and roundtable discussions by
citizens and activists describing their attempts to participate in
environmental decision making, to the viewing of films/videos that
document public involvement in a particular environmental controversy. 
We are open to a wide variety of possibilities and are looking for
programs that will compliment, and yet provide an interesting alternative
to, traditional academic presentations of research.


The deadline for receipt of papers, panel proposals, and all conference
program submissions is 

March 1, 2001.  Protocols for submission and a complete description of
the conference are available under the "What's New" tab on the Center for
Environmental Communication Studies website (www.uc.edu/cecs).


Interested participants can view the facilities of the Marriott Kingsgate
Conference Center at their web address
(http://conferencecenters.com/CVGKG/).


For more information about the 2001 Conference on Communication and

Environment, please contact one of the following individuals:


Steve Depoe, Conference Co-Planner

Director, Center for Environmental Communication Studies

University of Cincinnati

(513) 556-4449

depoe@uc.edu


John Delicath, Conference Co-Planner

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication

University of Cincinnati

(513) 556-4440

delicajw@email.uc.edu


In coming weeks, information concerning conference registration fees and
the conference lodging and meal package at the Kingsgate Hotel will be
available under the "What's New" tab on the Center for Environmental
Communication Studies website (www.uc.edu/cecs) or the Conference on
Communication and Environment web site:
(http://www.esf.edu/coce/conf.htm)





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