Pedro Fidelman

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 can be found at http://www.climatecongress.ku.dk/

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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 of the congress is “Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction.”

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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 focus on environmental and natural resources issues. (more…)

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.

More information at:
http://www.ihdp.org/.

“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 practitioners and researchers, and between old and �new� commons. (more…)

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 of February 2008 at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The title of the conference is “Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation?” (more…)

The American Geophysical Union, the Mexican Geophysical Union, and several other societies from Latin America will be having a joint meeting in Acapulco, Mexico. The deadline for submitting abstracts for talks or posters is March 1st.

A session on “Human Dimensions of Climate Variability and Change in the Americas” will be held at the AGU/UGM Joint Assembly in Acapulco, 22-25 May 2006. (more…)

The International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) calls for contributions to its 13th edition. This official meeting of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, will take place from June 17-21, 2007. The 2007 symposium will be hosted by Utah State University in Park City, Utah. Abstract submissions are due January 31, 2007.

The theme for the 2007 symposium is Landscape Continuity and Change - Social Science Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Conversations. (more…)

The biennial Coastal Zone conference, now in its fifteenth edition, claims to be the largest international gathering of ocean and coastal management professionals in the world.

Coastal Zone 07 will be held in Portland, Oregon, July 22 to 26, 2007. (more…)

This international multi-disciplinary conference is intended to promote science and integration of knowledge for the sustainable management of coastal resources. It will provide a venue for scientists, engineers, managers and policy-makers to discuss recent advances and innovative ideas, share experiences and develop networks.

Venue: Arendal Kultur- og R�dhus, Arendal, Norway

For more information visit the Symposium website
http://www.imr.no/iczm/home

The 11th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) will take place fom June 19-23, 2006, on the grounds of the the Agung Rai Museum of Art (ARMA) in the town of Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.

For information visit the IASCP 06 Conference website:
http://www.iascp.org/bali/iascp06.html

IHDP (International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change) and APN (Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research) announce the fifth International Human Dimensions Workshop: Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Water, Trade, and the Environment, to be held in October 2006, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

For information visit the IHDP website: www.ihdp.org

The 12th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM), the official meeting of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, will take place from June 3-8, 2006. The 2006 symposium will be hosted by Simon Fraser University and the conference activities will take place on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The ISSRM is the largest gathering of social scientists and managers in resource management worldwide and this is the first time that the symposium will be held in Canada.


For information visit the conference website at
http://www.issrm2006.rem.sfu.ca/