CALL FOR RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
North Carolina's 7th Annual Community-Based Environmental Justice Summit will be held October 21-22, 2005 at the Historic Franklinton Center at Bricks, Edgecombe County, NC . Community members, government officials, environmentalists, students and researchers will participate. The Summit seeks to raise public awareness about environmental justice; connect communities in need with technical resources; support and encourage community-driven research; help communities and policy makers address problems of environmental injustice; and, bring about positive changes in public health and the environment by promoting social and environmental justice.
This announcement is a call for research presentations on environmental justice. We invite submissions that address environmental justice topics from any disciplinary perspective, including environmental sciences, social sciences, humanities, law, journalism, public health and medicine. Researchers who have conducted community-driven or community-based research are encouraged to present in collaboration with community groups. We plan to include abstracts chosen for presentation in conference proceedings to be released in 2004. Research presentations (approximately 15 minutes in length) will be given at a plenary session on Friday afternoon, October 21.
Please fill out a title, author(s) and abstract (250 words or less) of your research in the Abstract Submission Form and submit by Monday, August 22, 2005 to:
Abstracts may be submitted by mail or e-mail using the attached form. E-mail submissions should have a subject line indicating “EJ Summit Abstract.” Abstracts will be reviewed by the Environmental Justice Summit Coordinating Committee. Notification of whether abstracts are accepted for presentation will be sent in late September.
Authors will be expected to submit a final version of the abstract following the Summit for inclusion in conference proceedings.