7-8 May 2025
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Lahore School of Economics
Call for Papers
The Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Lahore School of Economics is organizing the fifth Environmental Science and Policy Conference on 7 & 8 May 2025. A broad outline of the conference's scope includes original research articles, case and technical reports, reviews and analyses. All scholars, and practitioners, professionals, researchers and policymakers with a common interest to study in the field of Environmental Science and Policy from different disciplines are welcome to share their research. The Conference only will publish research of the highest quality and impact.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3/13/2025 03:53:00 PM,
Status of water quality and quantity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Swat and Kabul rivers of northern Pakistan are within an important regional watershed that supports river-based livelihoods and is impacted by untreated effluent discharges and municipal solid waste. Evidence indicates that fish populations are decreasing in these rivers. One potential cause of poor aquatic health is pollution; therefore, we investigated the presence of several contaminants in the river systems and local fish species of both rivers. Total 25 spots on River Swat and 21 on River Kabul were identified as contamination hotspots. Water samples were collected during seasons of high (summer) and low (winter) river flow. CECs (Agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, plasticizers, chemicals in personal care products, and hormones); Heavy Metals (Pb, Cr, Cd and Zn) and Microplastics were quantified. In the Swat River, caffeine, N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET), butachlor and plasticizers were detected at all sites. In the Kabul River, caffeine and several lasticizers and DEET were detected at all sites. Pharmaceuticals (analgesics and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs) were quantified in both rivers. Microplastic of various nature and sizes in 100% water, sediments and fish samples were detected in Rivers Swat and Kabul.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5/14/2024 08:00:00 AM,
27-28 February 2019
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Lahore School of Economics
Call for Papers
The social metabolism reproducing society in the modern era is upsetting Earth’s natural equilibrium, which until recently, had maintained relative stability for millions of years. Marking this shift in the planet’s biogeochemical processes due to human activities, scientists recently declared the emergence of a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’. This new global shift is characterized by severe (1) socio-environmental crises, including climate change, degradation of air, water, soils and habitats, rapid extraction of finite freshwater and mineral reserves, deforestation and desertification, and growing quantities of wastes that cannot easily be absorbed into the environment. Such processes are being experienced unevenly across space on a scale never before witnessed in human history, producing impacts that are becoming increasingly critical for our own species as well as others (2).
Aiming to understand the environmental, social and economic dimensions of these crises, particularly in the context of Pakistan, as well as to engage critically with the contemporary debates regarding possible ways to safeguard and/or restore ecologically sustainable systems to the extent possible, this conference will serve as a site for grappling with the multiple and complex sources of these crises, the ecological and social impacts experienced, and the technological, economic and policy interventions being attempted at local, national, and international scales.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9/26/2018 04:27:00 PM,
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT
PRODUCTION OF NATURE
15– 16 December, 2016
(Abstracts)
Keynote Address
Un-natural resources
Barbara Harriss-White
While natural resources are substances that can be exploited by society, the term un-natural resources draws attention to natural resources that are exploited – and landscapes created – through the criminal violation of laws intended to regulate the economic processes of extraction. The propositions that these crimes may be unpunished – and even incentivised – because they supply the financial preconditions for electoral democracy and because political immunity protects criminal accumulation, are explored in this paper. Four case studies: illegal coal mining and un-doused subterranean fires in Jharkhand, illegal sand-mining in Tamil Nadu and hydro-criminality in Arunachal Pradesh, India, reveal social relations of criminality in the extraction of resources for the energy and construction sectors, the relations between criminal accumulation and party political funding and behaviour. They also alter the orthodox narratives of local politics in the states studied in ways examined in the paper.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12/15/2016 01:54:00 PM,
16-17 April 2015
Labels: Annual Conference, Environment, Environmental Science and Policy
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/16/2015 10:04:00 AM,
April 16-17, 2015
The Environment of Small Cities of Pakistan
Call for Papers
From Gwadar in the south to Skardu in the far north, small cities of Pakistan are in the throes of change spurred by social and metabolic processes of global urbanization. While this transformation is uneven and varied it is a trend towards incorporation of the local and small scale in the circuit of global capital. E-waste recycling in Bhakkar or burgeoning health and agro-chemical commerce in Jampur exemplify developments destined to have far reaching socio-ecological consequences.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10/17/2014 10:40:00 AM,
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