Calendar of events 2012
January- Quaternary Science and
Society: The Quaternary Research
Association's Annual Meeting
New Forest (UK), January 4-6
More information here
- Landscape planning for the future: using fossil
records to map potential threats, opportunities and likely
future developments for biodiversity and ecosystme services.
This is a PAGES co-sponsored workshop and the first of
the PAGES Focus 4 Biodiversity Theme.
Oxford (UK), January 9-11.
More information here
February
March
- Planet Under Pressure Open Science Conference 2012: A major international conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge - www.planetunderpressure2012.net
London, March 26-29
This conference is jointly organized by all four global change
programmes.
Some examples for sessions with a GLP
contribution/participation:
Telecoupling and land change: Trade and the rise of
eco-consumerism (Eric Lambin, Anette Reenberg, Juliette
Caulkins (UTZ Certified), Tobias Langanke) more information here
Large scale land acquisitions
(LSLA) and sustainable rural development in the global South
(Peter Messerli, Thomas Breu, CDE, University of Bern,
Michael Taylor, ILC, Andreas Heinimann (GLP SSC) and Anette
Reenberg). More information
here
April
May
- Regioresources 21: A cross-disciplinary dialogue on
sustainable development of regional resources.
Dresden (Germany), May 21-23
RegioResources 21 started in 2012 to establish a permanent cross-disciplinary dialogue on sustainability features in planning, decision and policy making on multiple scale levels. The conference series intends to provide an overview on the most recent questions and innovative solutions and to facilitate the intellectual exchange and methodological transfer between different disciplines addressed in regional resource management, planning, decision making and policy support. The 2012 conference will be organized by Global Land Project and the European Land-use Institute as an endorsed project in GLP.
The conference RegioResources 21 will be held from (May, 21-23, 2012) at Dresden University of Technology, Dept. of Forest-, Geo- and Hydrosciences, Tharandt.
For more information please see: Regioresources 21
- Climate Adaptation Futures: Second International
Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2012
May 29-May 31, 2012, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
More information here
- Congress of the European
Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe) 2012
Tübingen (Germany), 30th May - 2nd June 2012
Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production. More information here
June
- Forum on "Land Use in
Transition: Potentials and Solutions between Abandonment
and Land Grabbing"
Halle (Saale, Germany), 20-22 June 2012. More information here
July
- 6th International
Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs
2012). Managing Resources of a Limited Planet:
Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty
Leipzig, Germany, July 1-5. More information here
August
September
October