As part of the run-up to the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of the 2009, The International Alliance of Research Universities is organizing the conference “Climate Change: Risks, Challenges and Decisions” to be held in Copenhagen on March 10-12, 2009. Details about the conference […]
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The Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN/ISDR) are pleased to invite you to the Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance which will be held on October 19-22, 2008 at the Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The theme […]
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The Climate Podcast highlights the best news, features, commentary and analysis from Nature Reports Climate Change, as well as the hottest topics on the Climate Feedback blog. Tune in for interviews with the people behind the science, insights from journalists covering the research and opinions from climate experts. Keep up to date on the latest […]
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The 14th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management will be hosted by The University of Vermont and its Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources from June 10 14, 2008. ISSRM is the official meeting of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, and is the largest international meeting of social scientists who […]
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Call for abstracts for the IHDP Open Meeting on ‘Social Challenges of Global Change’, - the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 16-19 October 2008, New Delhi, India. Abstract submissions are accepted for sessions, oral presentations, and posters until November 30th 2007 on the new Open Meeting Website:
http://www.openmeeting2008.org.
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This guide is the second in a series of documents designed to support agencies implementing participatory agro enterprise development programs operating within defined geographical areas.
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http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/
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“Governing shared resources: connecting local experience to global challenges”
The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons, July 14-18, 2008
The IASC 2008 global conference will take place in Cheltenham, England. The emphasis of the conference is the exchange of knowledge on shared resources or commons: between developing and developed world, between […]
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Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation?
7 & 8 February 2008, Royal Geographical Society, London
Conference Announcement
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the University of Oslo, with the support of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) project, announce a two day international conference to be held on 7 and 8 […]
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Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that can be used to help users to visualise human development. The development is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organizations.
http://www.gapminder.org/
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Gender and Collective Action: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis
By Lauren Pandolfelli, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Stephan Dohrn
This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender; i.e. how gender-oriented analysis can foster more effective collective action in the context of agriculture and natural resource management and how collective action can be used […]
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