Calendar of events 2011
January- 13th Biennial Conference of the International
Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
Hyderabad, India, January 10-14.
The Conference provides a unique opportunity to resurface the discussion and debate on Commons and bring experience and evidence from across the world to show that Commons are not a relic of the past, but play a strategic role in maintaining ecological health, reducing poverty, and improving collective action.
For more information, please visit: 13th IASC 2011
- IGBP Symposium on Ecosystem Impacts of Geoengineering
San Diego, USA, January 31.
Many proposed geoengineering schemes may involve important and unexplored consequences to the ecosystems that populate our planet. However, to date there has been very little research carried out to evaluate the potential hazards of geoengineering schemes on these sensitive ecosystems. This workshop will bring together ecosystem researchers and geoengineering researchers for a special workshop on Ecosystem Impacts of Geoengineering.
For more information, please see: IGBP Symposium
February
- 1st INTERFACE Workshop
Captiva Island, Florida, USA, February 28-March 3.
How Do We Improve Earth System Models: Integrating Earth System Models, Ecosystem Models, Experiments and Long-Term Data. The workshop will focus on three themes: Nutrient interactions and limitation in global change, Water availability and ecosystem dynamics, and Acclimation of carbon uptake and release to climate and atmospheric change.
For more information, please visit: INTERFACE workshop
April
- Forecasting Urban Land-Use Change: A NASA Sponsored
UGEC Workshop – Call for Participants
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, April 1-3.
This spring, the UGEC project will host a NASA sponsored workshop, 'Forecasting Urban Land-Use Change'. The focus of the workshop will be on forecasting urban land-use change and Earth system responses.
For more information, please see: UGEC workshop
- Population and Space in Environmental Change: Cities,
Scales and Climate Change
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, April 27-29.
This International seminar seeks to discuss the relationships between population, space and environment with special emphasis to some urgent questions to the field of environmental studies regarding climate change.
For more information, please see: Cities, Scale and Climate Change
May
- Second ICARUS Conference
Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 5-8.
The Second ICARUS (Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through the Social Sciences) Conference will be held from May 5-8, 2011 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. The conference theme is: Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation: Marginal Peoples and Environments.
More on the conference can be found at: 2nd ICARUS conference
- The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?
May 11.
This conference will bring together the range of disciplines and realms to discuss, to debate the evidence for the Anthropocene.
For more information, please see: Anthropocene conference
Or contact: The Geological Society, London, Email: leila.taleb(at)geolsoc.org.uk
June
- International Summer School 2011
Hokkaido University, Japan, June 27-July 8.
International Summer School 2011 for Ph D students on 'Understanding coupled natural and social systems: feedback loops between land-use and ecosystem change'. This summer school is co-organised by the GLP Sapporo Nodal Office. Travel expenses (including international and domestic flights) for participants will be covered by the organiser. Deadline for applying is 15 March 2011.
More information as well as application form can be downloaded from: International Summer School
July
- Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and
Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional
Knowledge
Mexico City, July 19-21.
The aim of the workshops is to identify, compile and analyse relevant indigenous and local observations, knowledge and practices related to understanding climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation. The workshop secretariat is now calling for the submission of abstracts for the first workshop, which will focus on Climate Change Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge. This workshop will be held in collaboration with the Mexican National Institute of Ecology (INE). Deadline for Abstracts: 18 March 2011.
More information, see: Climatefrontlines
August
- ACES 2011: Conservation Conflicts: Strategies for
coping with a changing world
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, August 22-24.
Changing patterns in land use, over-exploitation, pollution, climate change and the threat posed by invasive species, all challenge the way we currently manage and conserve biological diversity. Consequently, there are increasing numbers of conflicts between those interested in conserving species and those with alternative goals, interests or values. This conference brings together academics from a range of disciplines, policy makers and practitioners to address how, when and why conflicts arise, and to identify mitigation strategies
For more information, see: ACES 2011
September
- International CarboForest conference
Forest Reseach Institute, Sekocin Stary, Poland, September 21-23.
The CarboForest conference intends to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to discuss recent innovations and challenges related to all aspects of carbon storage and management in forest ecosystems. This conference will bring together scientists, politicians and environmentalists from different disciplines to confer and communicate their most recent findings relevant to the global carbon cycle, with an emphasis on the role of forest ecosystems and will promote the cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and concepts in research, policy and practice.
For more information, please see: CarboForest conference
October
- Post Graduate Course: Integrated assessment of
ecosystem services: From theory to practice
Amsterdam/Wageningen, The Netherlands, October 3-9.
Obtain insight in the theory and practice of integrated assessments of ecosystem services. The course will address the full range from quantification to mapping to valuation to governance in the context of a range of case studies.
More information on registration procedures for this coursecan be found via the ESP conference website: Post Graduate Course
Or contact Pieter van Beukering: beukering(at)ivm.vu.nl
- Carbon in a Changing World Conference
Rome, Italy, October 24-26.
This event is jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Coordination Action on Carbon Observation Systems (COCOS, www.cocos-carbon.org/) of the European Commission, and contributes to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) carbon task.
Further information, including logistic details, is available at: Carbon Conference
November
- Sixth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse
Gases - Science, Policy and Integration
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 2-4.
The subject of the conference is Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases, and the conference aims at bridging the gap between science and applications within the policy and decision making arenas.
For more information, please visit: NCGG6
- International Conference on Climate Change and Food
Security
Beijing, China, November 6-8.
Great food security advances have been made over the past half-century, but many people remain food-insecure. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that approximately 1 billion people were undernourished worldwide in 2010. In response to this challenge, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) are jointly hosting an International Conference on Climate Change and Food Security in Beijing, China.
Call for papers, please see: Climate Change and Food Security
- UGI 2011 - Regional Geographic Conference
Santiago, Chile, November 14-18.
The IGU Conference theme - United and Integrated with the World - offers a timely and comprehensive organizing framework for the first IGU meeting in many years in Latin America.
For more information, please visit: UGI 2011
- Land Use Transitions in South America
Ilhabela, Brazil, November 17-19.
This international workshop is organized and hosted by the future IPO of GLP and Gilberto Camara (GLP SSC). The aim of the workshop is to provide a vision about the land transitions in South America to be presented at the ‘Planet Under Pressure’ conference in London, March 2012.
For details, please see: GLP workshop: Land Use transitions
- Linking models of human behaviour and decision making
processes with land system models
Canberra, Australia, November 28-December 1.
This workshop is organised and funded by GLP IPO, CSIRO and Prof. Mark Rounsevell, CECS, University of Edinburgh, UK. The workshop aims to explore new, different ways (for instance global-scale agent-based modelling) of combining terrestrial models, with models of human dynamics. The focus will be on the land system as example of human-environment interactions, keeping in mind that development at a more fundamental process level may be required for coupling human and environmental process representations in models of the global earth system.
For more information, please see: GLP workshop: Land Use transitions