Completed GLP Events
Field trip. Upper drainage basin of the Yellow River, China. August, 2011.
The GLP Beijing Nodal Office organized a field trip for understanding how land use affects fluvial processes and stream health in the upper drainage basin of Huang He (the Yellow River).International Summer School, June 27-July 8, 2011, Hokkaido University, Japan.
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 was co-organised by the GLP Sapporo Nodal Office.
For more information, please see: International Summer School
Sino-Netherlands workshop. June, 2011, The Netherlands.
In collaboration with the University of Wageningen, Netherlands and the Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute of China, the GLP Beijing Nodal Office organized a Sino-Netherlands workshop which took place in the Netherlands. The workshop was followed by a field excursion in the Rhine River drainage basin.'Tradeoffs of Ecosystem Services and Land Use Strategies'. May 30-June 2, 2011, Paris, France.
Combined with the 3rd International Conference on 'Water, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development in Arid and Semi-arid Regions'. International conference co-organised by the GLP Beijing Nodal Office.
For more information, please visit: : Water, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development'Sustainable Land Use in an Urbanizing World'. June 27-29, 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Workshop co-organized by GLP IPO and the UGEC project (Urbanization and Global Environmental Change).Scaling and Governance Conference, November 10-12, 2010, Wageningen, The Netherlands
'Towards a New Knowledge for Scale Sensitive Governance of Complex Systems'
This conference was co-organised by GLP SSC member Tom Veldkamp. Wageningen University and Research (UR) invited participants of the conference to discuss integrative concepts, methodologies, and case studies related to scaling and governance issues in complex systems. Anticipated outcomes of the conference included an international research agenda and recommendations for scale-sensitive governance approaches.
For more information please see: Scaling and Governance conferenceGLP Open Science Meeting, October 17-19, 2010, Arizona, USA
'Land Systems, Global Change and Sustainablility'
GLP had its first Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM) from 17-19 October 2010 at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. This Conference was organized in close cooperation with IHDP’s Urbanization and Global Environmental Change project (UGEC) which also held its 1st International Science and Practice Conference from the 15-17 October 2010. October 17 was organised jointly with GLP on the topic 'Sustainable land systems in the era of urbanization and climate change'.
The aim of the GLP OSM 'Land Systems, global change and sustainability' was to bring together large parts of the international research community working on land change issues, showcase the width and scope of ongoing research, help build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field, inspire new research and facilitate review, theory building and extrapolation. In a broad sence the intellectual aim of the conference can be summarized as: "To advance the science of land systems and their change for analysis and response to global change and sustainability".
A major theme running throughout both the UGEC and GLP conferences, and the focus of the overlapping day was the linkages among urbanization, land and landscapes, and climate change. The themes embedded in these linkages, constitutes one of the next phases of emphasis in global change and climate change science as registered by the USCCP, IPCC, and other major agenda-setting reports forthcoming in the US and internationally.
For more information see: GLP OSM 2010
'Environment and Sustainable Development in Mongolian Plateau and Surrounding Regions'. August 26-27, 2010, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, China
International conference co-organised by the GLP Beijing Nodal Office.International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, July 5-8, 2010, Ottawa, Canada
Special session on agent-based modelling. This session was co-sponsored by the Aberdeen Global Land Project Nodal Office on Integration and Modelling, and co-organised by GLP SSC member Dawn C. Parker (University of Waterloo, Canada). This session invited papers demonstrating application of agent-based modelling to land use problems at different scales, socio-ecological problems, and modeling heterogeneous human behavior and its impacts on environment and ecosystem services.
GCOE-INeT International Summer School 2010, June 19-July 1, 2010, Japan
'Cascading interactions among ecosystems'
Summer school co-organised by GLP SSC member Hideaki Shibata. This summer school provided a unique opportunity for international and Japanese Ph D students to learn field research methods. Students also discussed current research findings and explored future directions for various research topics on ecology encompassing a wide array of disciplines, including population, community, ecosystem and landscape/seascape ecology.
For more information please see: Summer schoolJapan Geoscience Union Meeting, May 23-28, 2010, Chiba City, Japan
GLP subcommittee of the Science Council of Japan chaired the session ‘Global Land Project and Geosciences’ and discussed land cover/land use change, vulnerability and resilience of land systems, and ecosystem services management.
For more information please see: JpGUInternational workshop on Integration and Modelling, March 19–20, 2010, Aberdeen, UK
'Representation of Ecosystem Services in the modelling of Land Systems'
Workshop organised by the Aberdeen Global Land Project Nodal Office.
This workshop explored measurements and representations of ecosystem services in land systems and models for application in policy and practice. The workshop provided an opportunity for leading international researchers in land system science, spatial and process modelling of coupled natural and human systems, and ecosystem services to produce a new research agenda on modelling ecosystem services.
ECOSMAG Synthesis Meeting, February 25-26, 2010, Yokohama, Japan
With primary funding from Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Ecosystem Services Management in Asia (ECOSMAG) was established to improve the understanding of the impacts of land management on ecosystem services provided by upper tributary watersheds. This synthesis meeting deliberated research findings to date, shared concrete results on ECOSMAG and related activities in Asia and discussed outstanding research implementation challenges. The meeting was organised by the GLP Sapporo Nodal Office and ECOSMAG is endorsed by GLP.
For more information please see: ECOSMAGJoint GLP workshop, November 2-3, 2009, Vientiane, Laos
'Forest-agriculture frontiers: impacts of land-use transitions on livelihoods and environment in the humid tropics'
Joint workshop of GLP and the research project 'Transition of Shifting Cultivation at Forest-Agriculture Frontiers' - a project coordinated by Ole Mertz from University of Copenhagen with partners from Brazil, Mexico, Tanzania and SE Asia. The objective of this workshop is to obtain an overview of the past and on-going land use transitions in the humid tropics and to review the consequences these changes have on local livelihoods and environment.
For a more detailed outline of the workshop topics please see hereSociety for Human Ecology Conference, June 29-July 3, 2009, Manchester, UK
'Human Ecology for an urbanising world'
Session on "Urbanization and land-system change" organized by Helmut Haberl (GLP-SSC). Further information on this session is available: here
or by contacting: helmut.haberl(at)uni-klu.ac.atGLP Workshop and Book project, June 15–17, 2009, Beijing, China
'Vulnerability and Resilience of Land Systems in Asia'
In June 2009, the Global Land Project Nodal Offices in Beijing, China and Sapporo Japan co-organized a Workshop on Vulnerability and Resilience of Land Systems in Asia. The workshop integrated knowledge on the vulnerability of land systems to multiple stressors in Asia. Papers on models, metrics and measures of land system vulnerability and resilience, scales and vulnerability teleconnections, institutional change and urban ecosystems and vulnerability were presented.
For downloads of presentations please see: here
For workshop report please see: here
GCOE-INeT International Summer School, June 14-20, 2009, Hokkaido University, Japan.
'Frontier of Ecosystem Ecology in Northern Forest'
Co-organized by the Sapporo Nodal Office of GLP and Hideaki Shibata (GLP SSC).Modelling Workshop, May 29-31, 2009, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland
'Agent-based land market models'
The Aberdeen GLP nodal office on integration and modeling, and the US NSF-sponsored SLUCE 2 project will co-sponsor a small, interactive workshop on agent-based land market models, organized by Dawn Parker (GLP SSC), Tatiana Filatova, and Eleanor Milne (GLP Aberdeen).
For further information please see: hereIHDP OM, April 26-30, 2009, Bonn, Germany
'Social Challenges of Global Change'
Three GLP sessions at the OM:
Session B090 Land-use continuity and change: 'Adaptation in coupled human-environment systems' (Anette Reenberg)
Session B040 Integrative models of human and environmental systems in land change science (Richard Aspinall)
Session B100 Global land use research and datasets: 'From historical land-use to human appropriation of biomass' (Helmut Haberl).
For more information regarding the IHDP OM please see: here
For presentations please see hereUS-IALE Conference, April 12-16, 2009, Snowbird, USA
GLP Nodal Office Aberdeen hosted a symposium titled 'Agent-based modelling of land use effects on ecosystem processes and services'.
For more information please see: hereCopenhagen Climate Conference, March 10-12, 2009, Denmark
'Climate Change – Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions'
GLP Chair Anette Reenberg chaired Session 34 titled: 'Adapting Human Land Use to Climate Change'. And, John Porter (GLP SSC) co-chaired Session 37 on 'Adapting Future Agricultural Production to Climate Change'.
For more information regarding the Conference please see: here
For presentations please see herePhD Course, March 4-6, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
'Poverty, vulnerability and adaptation - Rural livelihood and land use responses to global change'
Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen in collaboration with GLP IPO.
For more information please see: hereGLP Workshop, January 12-14, 2009, Birkeroed, Denmark
'Vegetation productivity in drylands. Trends, Similarities, Differences, Causes & Research gaps'
GLP IPO organised and hosted this 3-days workshop on drylands. For more information please see here
For more information please see: here
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FRESH Seminar, October 27-29, 2008, Tarland, UK
'Framing Ecosystem Services and Human Well being'
FRESH are a series of seminars which GLP is supporting. This specific seminar was organised and run by the GLP Nodal Office Aberdeen on Integration and Modelling. For more information please see here GLP Workshop, July 17–19, 2008, Aberdeenshire, UK
'Data and model integration for coupled models of land use change'
This workshop was organised and run by the GLP Nodal Office Aberdeen on Integration and Modelling. For details please see hereGlobal Land Use Data Workshop, May 22-23, 2008, Vienna, Austria
The Global Land Use Data Workshop was hosted by the Institute of Social Ecology (Klagenfurt University, Austria) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL, The Netherlands), and organised in close cooperation with GLP IPO. For presentations please see here4th IGBP Congress, May 5-9, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa
'Sustainable Livelihoods in a Changing Earth System'
At this 4th IGBP Congress GLP IPO organised and hosted 3 sessions. For presentations please see here1st China-Japan Academia Summit, March 6, 2008, Beijing
'Land Use and Sustainable Development in Eastern Asia'
GLP Nodal Office Beijing in conjunction with GLP Nodal Office Sapporo organised a special session on this summit.Biome boundary shifts Workshop, March 4–7, 2008, Yokohama, Japan
'Advanced prediction of biome boundary shifts in regional and global dynamic vegetation models'
Workshop co-organised and co-sponsored by the GLP Nodal Office in Sapporo. For more information please see hereGLP Workshop, February 28-March 2, 2008, Aberdeen, UK
'The design of integrative models of natural and social systems in land change science'
This workshop was organised and run by the GLP Nodal Office Aberdeen on Integration and Modelling. For details please see hereLaSyS Workshop, October 25-26, 2007, Tune, Denmark
'Land system science: Handling complex series of natural and socio-economic processes'
Danish Network for Land System Science (LaSyS) organised and hosted this 2-days workshop in close cooperation with GLP IPO. For presentations please see hereGLP Workshop, October 24, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark,
'Globalisation, impact on regional and local land-use decisions and practices'
Workshop organised and hosted by GLP IPO. For presentations please see here