Pedro Fidelman

The current edition of the Commons Digest, a quarterly publication of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), reports on the 12th IASC biennial meeting, held in Cheltenham, England in July 2008.

This edition of the Commons Digest is available at:
http://www.iascp.org/E-CPR/cd07.pdf

People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change

The Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) at the University of Amsterdam announces its fifth biennial conference, People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change’. The conference will take place from July 9-11, 2009, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

For more information see: http://www.marecentre.nl/

2008 is a critical time for coral reefs. At the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium held in July, midway in the International Year of the Reef, over 3000 experts from 75 countries assembled to face some hard truths: coral reefs are teetering on the edge of survival and it is our fault. High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have produced a lethal combination of hotter and less alkaline seawater. (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/.

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…)