Calendar of events 2009
February-
Ecosystem services - building tools for policy and practice
University of Liverpool, UK, February.
The aim of this fifth seminar out of six is to understand how insights into the production of ecosystems good and services and their associated values at landscape scales can be used to manage multi-functional resource systems.
For more information please see: FRESH Seminar five
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Climate Change - Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions
Copenhagen, March 10-12.
International Scientific Congress on Climate Change. The Danish Government as host of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 supports this Congress organised by IARU as part of the run-up to the COP 15. The purpose of the conference is to try and capture some of the enormous research energy currently being devoted to the elucidation, mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
For more information please see: Climate Change Conference
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Integrated Assessment of Agriculture and Sustainable Development - Setting the Agenda for Science and Policy
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, March 10-12.
For more information please see: AgSAP conference or Flyer
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2009 annual conference of US-IALE: "Coupling Humans and Complex
Ecological Landscapes"
Snowbird, Utah, USA, April 12-16.
More information USIALE -
7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
(Open Meeting) - Social Challenges of Global Change.
Bonn, Germany, April 26-30.
For more information please see: IHDP Open Meeting or contact the IHDP Secretariat at: openmeeting(at)ihdp.unu.edu.
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The future of ecosystem services - towards new transdisciplinary agendas
London, UK, June.
This sixth and final meeting will draw together all the elements of the earlier meetings and provide a clear overview of the progress that has been acheived.
For more information please see: FRESH Seminar six
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Fifth Urban Research Symposium "Cities and Climate Change: Responding to
an Urgent Agenda"
Marseille, France, June 28-30.
A Call for Papers is out please see: urs2009 call for papers
Symposium Website: urs2009
July
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IALE EU Conference 2009: "European Landscapes in Transformation -
Challenges for Landscape Ecology and Management"
Salzburg, Austria, July 12-16.
For more information please go to: iale eu2009
October
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DIVERSITAS second Open Science Conference - "Biodiversity and society:
understanding connections, adapting to change"
Cape Town, South Africa, October 13-16.
The first call for symposia has been announced, and submissions are accepted until 15 September 2008. For more details see: diversitas-osc