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The organisers welcome paper proposals that address any of the following issues:
1. Inequalities caused by any form environmental damage
2. Particular diseases or conditions associated with the environment
3. The relationship between environmental and social inequalities
4. Particular categories of urban dwellers most affected or least able to resist environmental blight
5. The extent of engagement by the labour movement, voluntary organisations, and other agencies to address environmental inequalities
6. Policies (private or public) to offset/redress environmental damage to particular social groups
7. Technical developments intended to reverse environmental inequalities
8. Theoretical or methodological approaches that focus on environmental issues in relation to social inequality e.g. relationships between private and public interests, or concepts of the common good
9. Environmental justice: an appropriate concept for historical research?
10. The relationship, if any, between social and environmental inequality and social and environmental justice
For a full description and further details see either
http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/news/uhn/2007_jul.html
or
website above
http://eauh.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/browse_sessions.php?idsession=39
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