Discard Studies at the Association of American Geographers Conference (April 2015)
This year the AAG’s annual meeting is in Chicago from April 21-25. The schedule shows that presentations on discard studies at an all time high. However, the over 100 panels on waste and pollution are rarely grouped together in panels dedicated to the topic. Instead, they are case studies or topics of concern on panels about sustainability, urban development, watersheds, “odd objects,” neoliberalism, and a host of other topics. It would seem that in geography, discards have become a common way to look at other problems. Our dream (at Discard Studies) has arrived!
Below is a list of the few panels dedicated to waste, including the ones I have co-organized with Josh Lepawsky, followed by the long list of individual panels on waste and pollution. We hope to see you there!
Panels:
Tuesday, 4/21/2015
8:00 AM: A Global Food Waste “Tour” I: Exploring the Phenomenon of Food Waste in the Global North and the Global South
10:00: A Global Food Waste “Tour” II: Exploring the Phenomenon of Food Waste in the Global North and the Global South
12:40: Making Other Worlds Possible III: Discards, Diverse Economies, and Degrowth I
2:40: Making Other Worlds Possible IV: Discards, Diverse Economies, and Degrowth II
Thursday, 4/23/2015
10:00 AM: The Value of Capitalist Natures III: Life, Waste, Finance
Friday, 4/24/2015
8:00 AM: Environmental Pollution in the United States
Individual Sessions on Waste:
Unpacking waste-to-energy: material needs, energy opportunities and the waste hierarchy
Food Waste Prevention in Universities: Using social media as a tool for behaviour change
Waste, Crisis, and the Ecological Limits to Capital
The (in)visible landscapes of large-scale infrastructures
A Global Assessment of the Reuse of Untreated Wastewater in Irrigated Agriculture
University campus: Living labs and classrooms for sustainability
Using Interpretive Method to Analyze Electronic Waste Policy
Bodies, Communities, Rivers: Affect and matter in China’s organic waste DIY project
Spatial Analysis of Green Waste Management in Fresno, California
Altering the Urban Environment: A Case Study of Los Cartoneros in Buenos Aires
Tracking Trans-national Hazardous Waste Trading: Methodological Problems and Partial Solutions
Food, fads and fashion – how modern kitchens create more waste.
Build it and they will come: Urban wasteland habitat
Resource geographies and diverse economies of urban mining in Australia
Capital’s Demon: Industrial Sorting and A Theory of Dark Value
The Political Ecology of Urban Food Waste: Uneven Governance in the World’s Cities
Jefferson County, Alabama: Catalog Entries for the Museum of Waste
Addressing “Food Waste”, Changing Food Value(s)? Comparing France and the United States
Network Analysis of Research on Discards, Diverse Economies, and Degrowth
Transformation of ‘Food’ to ‘Waste’ at the Household Level
Food Waste From Food Literate Households in Waterloo, Canada
Challenges of Solid Waste Management in Patna, India
Grocery retail development and household food waste in Seoul
Exploring the “Household” as a Site of Food Consumption and Food Waste: The Case of Indonesia
The Path to Zero Waste at a Liberal Arts University
People, Protests and Planning: Siting for Waste Management
Islands in the Stream: Waste, Infrastructure, and the Expansion of the Carceral City
Exploring STEM (and STEAM) through Geography: Making Space for Technology
After the floods: disposability and the everyday in Kedarnath, Himalaya
Industrial Symbiosis at the Urban Boundary
Individual Sessions on Pollution:
Trans-boundary Pollution in China: Do Polluting Plants Locate in the Borders of Jurisdictions?
Breathe In, Breathe Out: Respiratory Hospitalization in Metro East St. Louis
Political Ecology of Coal in East Asia with the Growth of Coal Power Plants in South Korea
Analysis of Environmental and Socio-economic Factors of Cancer Villages in China
Atmospheric nitrogen inputs and cycling in montane forests in and near a major tropical city
Exploring the Social Indicators to Understand Stormwater Management
Spatial Occurrence of Northeastern Ohio Bats to Artificial Light Sources
Developing spatial multipollutant metrics for epidemiologic research
Whose Arctic? Exploring southern-Canadian narratives of the Canadian Arctic through pollution policy
The spatial injustice of exposure to sanitary sewage and other pollutants discharges in the SJBE
Trophically Disparate Levels of Blood Mercury in Breeding Birds of Northwest Greenland
Does where you live matter? Assessing how air pollution relates to asthma and COPD
Toxic Release Inventory and Infant Mortality in New York State
Limits of Dominion: Tracing Environmental Impacts of the Physical and Biometric U.S.-Mexico Border
Spatial-Temporal Analyses of Heavy Metal Water Pollution and Impacts on Public Health in China
Developing a GIS-based model to track potential point-sources of urban stream pollution
Dynamic modeling of inhaled air pollution using GPS and accelerometer data
Determinants of Household-level Air Toxics Cancer Risk Disparities in Greater Miami, Florida
The Institutional Dynamics of Water Management in the Everglades Agricultural Area
Industrial Agglomeration and Chinese Manufacturing Pollution
Noise maps on the move: a case study of Hartford, CE
Ambient Air Pollution and Birth Weight in Georgia, USA
Children’s Exposure to Criteria Air Pollution Due to Drop-off Programs at School
Multicriteria geospatial optimization approach to watershed management strategies
Water Pollution and the Connection to Industry in Bangladesh
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Air Pollution in Chinese Cities
Assessment of runoff and nutrient loadings in Lianshui Watershed using modified SWAT model
Dry deposition of atmospheric particulate matter to wavy water surfaces
GIS Hotspot Analysis of Environmental Toxins in the Air and Water at a Municipal Scale
Fine particulate matter dynamic and its impact on public health in rapid urbanized China
Interpolative Spatial Modeling of the Distribution of NO2, CO, and SO2 Aerosols in Tehran, Iran
Importance of Road Name Address for Line Source Air Pollution Dispersion