Pedro Fidelman

The 3rd International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in February 2009. The conference will consist of a two day field visit to community based adaptation projects in different ecosystems, and three days of interactive discussions on different thematic areas. (more…)

The IAI’s Collaborative Research Network on “Functional biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas: an interdisciplinary approach” is offering a 1-week post-graduate course on “methodologies in functional biodiversity assessments”. (more…)

Advanced Institute on Global Environmental Change and the Vulnerability of water resources in the context of the Millennium Development Goals

• Intensive seminar session: September - October 2007 at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands
• Research phase: 2007/2008 . Final Synthesis Workshop: October 2008
• Application Deadline: 10 March 2007

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Challenges to the sustainable management of ecosystems to maximise poverty alleviation in Amazonia/Andes, semi-arid Africa, India & the Hindu Khush and China: four regional situation analyses.

Closing date: 30 March 2007

The Natural Environment Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council and Department for International Development invite applications to perform situation analyses of the challenges to ecosystem services most important to the well being of the poor (more…)

The Politics of Climate Change Project is designed to encourage colleagues to systematically apply the theories and methods of political science to the task of identifying politically viable long-term state strategies for mitigating climate change that would be effective enough to prevent catastrophic climate change. (more…)

IIASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. Many of IIASA’s National Member Organizations (NMOs) provide special grants to enable young scientists from their countries, or foreign students studying in their country, to participate in the program. From June through August accepted participants work within the Institute’s Research Programs under the guidance of IIASA scientific staff. (more…)

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