Conferences/workshops
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Below are the conferences and workshops which have been granted endorsement by the Scientific Steering Committee of GLP:
- Man in the landscape across frontiers: Landscape and land use change in Central European border regions. IGU/LUCC Central Europe Conference 2007, August 28 - September 4, 2007 in Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia and Czechia. Read more...
- Integrated Analysis of Local Socioecological Systems: Combining Agent-Based and Stock-Flow Modelling Approaches. Part of the International Conference of the Society
for Human Ecology, Rio, Brazil, October 4 - 7, 2007.
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- Third Land System Science (LaSyS) Workshop: Handling complex series of natural and socio-economic processes. Tune, Denmark, October 25 - 26, 2007.
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- Transdisciplinary Seminar Series: Framing Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being (FRESH). The seminar series, coordinated by the Centre for Environmental Managment (CEM) at Nottingham University consists of six events, and is running between September 2007 and August 2009. It aims at bringing together a range of interested parties including scientists, social scientists, policymakers and NGOs, both from the UK based and internationally. Read more...
- Societal Adaptability for Land-use Change in Tropical Rain Forests in Borneo. The overall aim of this workshop series is progress towards sustainable ecosystem services management through informed societal adaptations to land-use change. The workshop series will: a) present the most accurate spatial data on the forest cover of Borneo; b) predict a future trend of the forest cover of Borneo and C) suggest societal adaptations. The first workshop will be held December 13 - 14, 2007, Kyoto University, Japan. Contact: Kanehiro Kitayama (Kyoto University) kitayama(at)ecology.kyoto-u.ac.jp or Ademola Braimoh (GLP Sapporo Nodal Office) abraimoh(at)glp.hokudai.ac.jp
- International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture - for Food, Energy and Industry 2008: 'Sustainability on Food, Feed, Fiber, Water, Energy: Science, Technologies, and Global Strategies'.
The purpose of the Conference is to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers in the field of sustainable agriculture to exchange information and achievements, to ascertain the challenges of the future, and to offer ideas for agricultural practices “…that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
The conference is hosted by the Sustainability Governance Project (SGP), Hokkaido University and will take place July 2 - 6, 2008, Sapporo, Japan.
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