GLOBAL LAND PROJECT

Calendar of events 2008

February

• Living with climate change - Are there limits to adaptation?
  Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, February 7-8.
  For more information please see: adaptation2008

• The design of integrative models of natural and social systems in land change science
  Aberdeen, February 28 – March 2. Workshop organized and hosted by The Global Land Project Nodal Office on Integration and Modelling, Aberdeen, UK.
  This workshop will aim to take a broad overview of where the modelling community is today in terms of integrating models of natural and social systems. It will provide an opportunity for modellers working at different scales with different remits and approaches to discuss commonalities and differences.
  For more information please see: GLP Aberdeen

March

• Advanced prediction of biome boundary shifts in regional and global dynamic vegetation models
  Frontier Research Center of Global Change, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, March 4–7.
  By invitation only - please contact Takashi Kohyama: Kohyama(at)ees.hokudai.ac.jp
  For more information please see: biome boundary shift



• The demise of swidden in southeast asia - Assessing the scope and consequences of the decline in swidden cultivation
  Hanoi Agricultural University, Vietnam, March 7.
  The aim of this conference, based on expertise from throughout greater Southeast Asia, will be to provide an assessment of our existing knowledge on swidden change and to identify the research gaps that need to be filled to address adequately the development of swidden communities. For more information please see: swidden
  

April

• Food Security and Environmental Change - Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation
  St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, UK, April 2-4.
  This conference is organised by the GECAFS project gecafs
  For conference organisation please see: foodsecurity.elsevier



• RESILIENCE 2008 - Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times
  International Science and Policy Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, April 14-17.
  For more information please see: resilience2008

May

• 4th IGBP Congress - Sustainable Livelihoods in a Changing Earth System
  Cape Town International Convention Center, South Africa, May 5-9.
  By invitation only. For more information please see: IGBP Congress



• Assessing Crop Production, Nutrient Management, Climatic Risk and Environmental Sustainability with Simulation Models
  University of Georgia, Griffin, Georgia, USA, May 12 - 21.
  Training Program on DSSAT Version 4.5.
  For more information please see: caes or contact Gerrit Hoogenboom at gerrit(at)uga.edu



• Ecosystem services - Solution for problems or a problem that needs solution
  At Salzau Castle, near the city of Kiel, northern Germany, May 13-15.
  For more information please see: ecology.uni-kiel and see the information leaflet



• Global Land Use Mapping Workshop
  Institute of Social Ecology (University of Klagenfurt) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Vienna, Austria, May 22-23. By invitation only
  In the field of global land cover and land use, accurate and spatially explicit information on land use has been frequently identified as a major data gap, especially with regards to agricultural land use. Several attempts are being made at the moment to link statistics and satellite information to map current agricultural land use for integrated modelling purposes.
  For presentations please visit our Presentations section.

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June

• International Conference - Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth
  Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece, June 1–6.
  For more information please see: aegean.earth-conference2008

• Carbon and Communities in Tropical Woodlands Conference
  University of Edinburgh, UK, June 16-18.
  This conference will examine the capacity for tropical woodlands to sequester carbon and their potential to contribute to poverty alleviation and sustainable development through marketing carbon offsets.
  For more information please visit the website: geos.MiomboConference

• Conference on Environmental Observations, Modeling and Information Systems ENVIROMIS-2008
  Akademgorodok, Tomsk, Russia, June 28 - July 6.
  For details please see the event site: scert.enviromis2008

July

• Sustainability on Food, Feed, Fiber, Water, Energy: Science, Technologies, and Global Strategies
  The conference is hosted by the Sustainability Governance Project (SGP), Hokkaido University, Japan, July 2-6. International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture - for Food, Energy and Industry 2008.
  For more information please see: sgp.ICSA2008



• Data and model integration for coupled models of land use change
  The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK, July 17-19.
  Workshop organized and hosted by the Global Land Project Nodal Office on Integration and Modelling, Aberdeen, UK.
  For more information please see: GLP Aberdeen



• Bioenergy and the Earth System Sustainability
  Piracicaba, Brazil, July 17-19.
  A workshop of the Earth System Scince Partnership (Diversitas, IGBP, IHDP, WCRP). The workshop will seek to identify the major opportunities and constraint for bioenergy in the context of earth system sustainability: (i) To identify an ESSP research portfolio to assist moving towards sustainable bioenergy pathways; (ii) To design a set of analyses to feed into research syntheses leading to major publication/s.
  For more information please contact: Pep Canadell (Pep.Canadell(at)csiro.au) or Jean Ometto (jpometto(at)igbp.inpe.br)

August

• People, Food and Environments - Global Trends and European Strategies
  Ghent, Belgium, August 26 - 29.
  XIIth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE).
  Submission of contributions and registration is now open at: eaae2008
  On this website you will also find all necessary information. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact EAAE by email: eaae2008(at)semico.be

September

• International Conference on the natural resources and sustainable development in surrounding regions of the Mongolian Plateau. September 12-16, 2008 at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Co-organised by the GLP Nodal Office on Land Use and Ecosystems Interactions, Beijing, China. More information http://www.glp-beijing.org.cn/
• Bioenergy World Americas 2008
  Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, September 16-17.
  The Bioenergy World Americas 2008 Conference will explore in depth in four main sessions, the following key areas that are pertinent to the sustainability debate: (1) sustainability - stating the case, defining the path, (2) global biofuels market outlook and the implications of sustainability standards, (3) family agriculture as an enabler for sustainable biofuel value chains, and (4) new feedstocks for sustainable biofuels, special focus: jatropha. For more information please see: Bioenergy World or contact: bioenergy-world(at)bees.biz

• International Conference on Land Degradation
  Valenzano, Bari, Italy, September 18-22.
  For more information please see: iamb

October

• 6th International Human Dimensions Workshop
  New Delhi, India, October 12-15.
  For more information please see: Open Meeting 2008  or contact Lis Mullin: mullin(at)ihdp.unu.edu
  

• GOFC-GOLD Symposium on Forest and Land Cover Observations
  Jena, Germany, October 13-17.
  For more information please contact Martin Herold: m.h(at)uni-jena.de, GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Project Office, Jena, Germany.
  

• Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
  Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines, October 19-22.
  Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance. For more information please see: Women in Politics and Governance
  
  
• Ecosystem services and sustainable communities
  The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK, October 28-29.
  The aim of this fourth seminar out of six is to understand how the importance of ecosystem goods and services can be embedded in current approaches to policy development and appraisal at international, national and local scales and what new kinds of methodological tools are needed to support future decision making.
  For more information please see: FRESH Seminar four
  
  
• IALE-D (Germany) annual meeting
  Bonn, Germany, October 30 - November 2.
  Global Change and Landscape Response. Die Rueckkopplungen von Landschaften auf den Globalen Wandel. (partly in German). More details: IALE-D

November

• Conference Marie Curie-iLEAPS - Feedbacks-Land-Climate Dynamics - Key Gaps
  Hotel Club "Le Continental" Hyeres, France, November 16-20.
  More information here
  

December

• NEESPI Session at the Fall AGU Meeting
  San Francisco, California, USA, December 15-19.
  GC02: "Land-Atmosphere-Cryosphere Interactions in Northern Eurasia". The Session description can be seen here
  

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These are events that could be of interest for the GLP community. Information is reproduced as received. GLP takes no responsibility for inaccuracies or changes. Please let us know about forthcoming events you consider relevant that are not on this list. You can write to: lj(at)geogr.ku.dk. Please remember to include title, date, location, a short description and a contact address.