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5th World Education Congress - call for papers (12/09/08)

Good morning All:

Here's a message from some Canadian colleagues about their environmental education congress next year.

Best wishes, Sandra hails, Ramsar Secretariat
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Please Distribute Widely To Your Colleagues and Networks...

Call for Papers

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, the 5th World Environmental Education Congress will be held at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal from May 10 to 14, 2009. Information about this Congress can be found on the Congress site: www.5weec.uqam.ca.  We encourage you to circulate this news to friends and colleagues on your various lists.

The call for papers has a submission deadline of September 30, 2008. Types of presentations are: oral presentation, poster presentation, roundtable presentation, workshop, NGO/NPO forum. Detailed instructions are available at the Congress site: http://www.5weec.uqam.ca/APPEL/index.asp under "Calls for Papers."

Again, please encourage friends and colleagues to submit their own abstracts.

Your proposal must be submitted online. Thematic niches are:
1. Relationships between ecology and economy: the issue of sustainability
2. Questions of fairness in socio-ecological issues
3. Environmental health
4. Urban challenges
5. Ecologizing colleges and universities
6. School and community
7. Learning in society
8. Heritage interpretation
9. Indigenous knowledge and practices
10. Ethics, environmental thought, and worldviews
11. Art: imagination, creativity, and meaning
12. Ecological identity

More information about these themes can be found at: http://www.5weec.uqam.ca/EN/presentation_themes.asp

We look forward to seeing you in Montreal!

Bob Jickling and Lucie Sauvé
Co-Chairs
5WEEC 2009
5th World Environmental Education Congress
Congress Secretariat - JPdL
1555 Peel Street, Suite 500
Montreal, QC H3A 3L8
Canada
5weec@jpdl.com
www.5weec.uqam.ca
Tel: +1 514-287-1070
Fax: +1 514-287-1248

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Sandra Hails, CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 999 0176; Fax: +41 22 999 0169
E-mail: hails@ramsar.org
Web Site: http://ramsar.org
CEPA mini-Web site: http://ramsar.org/outreach_index.htm

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