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März 2013
14- 16 April 2013: Take places the "Final Colloquium: Megacities-Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" in Bonn.
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28 March 2013: Last day of the Early Bird registration for the 2nd international BMBF conference "Future Megacities in Action – Innovative Solutions for Energy- and Climate- Efficient Urbanization" from 14 to 16 May 2013 in Hamburg.
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März 2013
8. – 12. April 2013: "Metropolitan Solutions" Messe in Hannover.
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März 2013
28 March 2013: Abstract submission deadline for the European Conference "Climate Change and Nature Conservation in Europe - an ecological, policy and economic perspective" 25- 27 June 2013, Bonn.
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25 March 2013: Registration deadline for the "International Conference on Biodiversity" which will be held from 16 to 18 April 2013 in Berlin.
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March 2013
31 May 2013: Abstract submission deadline for the "African Climate Conference 2013" which will be held from 15 to 18 October 2013 at Arusha International Conference Centre, Tanzania.
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March 2013
3 May 2013: Deadline for abstract submission for the "7
th HyMeX Workshop" from 7 to 10 October 2013 in Cassis, France.
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March 2013
15 March 2013: Extended deadline for applications for the Summer School "Adaptation Governance: Spatial, Temporal, and Cultural Constraints and Opportunities" from 26 June to 4 July 2013 in Budapest, Hungary.
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March 2013
15 March 2013: Proposal submission deadline for the "People and the Planet 2013: Transforming the Future" Conference from 2 to 4 July 2013 in Melbourne Australia.
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Internationale News 2010
Dezember 2010
The WCRP OSC with the theme of “Climate Research in Service to Society” will be held in order to identify key scientific challenges and opportunities to advance understanding and prediction of variability and change of Earth’s climate system on all space and time scales. Individuals who wish to present their work at the WCRP Open Science Conference are encouraged to start submitting an abstract online.
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The aim of the conference on “Coastal Systems, Global Change and Sustainability” is to bring together the international research community working on land-ocean issues, show-case the width and scope of ongoing research, help to build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field and to inspire new research, theory building and applied science.
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The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located near Vienna, Austria, hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students work closely with an IIASA senior scientist mentor on a project proposed by the student, related to his or her graduate research. The latter should be compatible with ongoing research at IIASA. An application form can be completed online.
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Sessions held at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly will be associated with PAGES foci and cross-cutting themes. Participants are invited to submit abstracts to a session.
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The grants available for the current call are supposed to cover fieldwork expenses for doctoral students conducting a study within the following theme: Mitigation potential: Research to evaluate and document the technically and economically feasible GHG abatement potential of various agricultural practices and technologies and their synergies with adaptation.
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The annual growth rate of atmospheric CO2 is reported to be below the average for the period 2000 – 2008. The latter brought the atmospheric CO2 concentration to the highest level during at least the past 2 million years. The global financial crisis is deemed to be the main reason for the abrupt decline in fossil fuel emissions by 1.3 per cent in 2009, whereas the drop in CO2 emissions is less than half of that anticipated one year ago.
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The review discusses the characteristics of contemporary urbanization and the roles of urban planning, governance, agglomeration, and globalization forces in driving and shaping the relationship between urbanization and the environment. Recent research on urbanization and global change in the context of sustainability as well as opportunities for bundling urban development efforts, climate mitigation, and adaptation strategies to create synergies to transition to sustainability are emphasized.
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The paper is dealing with the challenges arising from reducing global environmental risks simultaneously to meeting economic development goals. Therefore a solution for these issues requires a reorientation toward new research that better allows science and society to address the needs of decision-makers and citizens at global, regional, national, and local scales.
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The article refers to the recently published report of the same title, identifying five main challenges, namely Forecasting, Confining, Responding and Innovating in order to enable sustainable development, poverty eradication and environmental change in the face of global change.
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Researchers are invited to contribute articles that update the present knowledge of the satellite observed oceanic variability related to Climate Change. Analyses can include both modeling and observation that use satellite data. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Recent Sea Level Rise analyses
- Changes of Ocean Circulation
- Global warming and its effects on regional weather patterns, including hurricane activity
- Melting of Ice over the Polar Regions and Greenland
- Climate change effects on biological productivity
- Natural climate fluctuations and multidecadal variability
The initial Call is for a 1 page abstract which can be submitted to the lead guest editor Carlos Garcia Soto: carlos.soto@st.ieo.es
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The main goal of the conference is to address key scientific challenges and opportunities to advance understanding and prediction of variability and change of Earth’s climate system on all space and time scales. The event, hosted by WCRP, will take place in the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, CO, USA. The second announcement contains information on the conference science programme and the dates for registration, abstract submission and financial assistance application.
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Main goal of the event which is being held in the context of the International Year of Biodiversity, is to create an ambitious, aspirational vision for the future of biodiversity conservation. The latter is supposed to trace a credible pathway through the next critical years of biodiversity work and establish achievable targets for policy and research. The conference will be hosted by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform with the support of the Belgian Science Policy Office, its parent institution and the Steering Committee of EPBRS.
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A veritable orchestra of Earth-observation systems is intended to make reams of data available and relevant to decision-makers. At the last summit of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO)—the organization attempting to get this ensemble performing in synchrony—initiatives were unveiled to monitor land-cover changes and forest carbon stocks. GEO delegates embraced plans to funnel data from platforms tracking everything from biodiversity to earthquake risks into a free and open database.
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The research project "Coastal Futures" had been designed to extend the knowledge base for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) by using offshore wind farming in the German North Sea as a case study for sea use change. In order to come to a holistic assessment of impacts from offshore wind farms on the coastal system, a range of existing approaches has been adopted and new methodologies have been devised. The resulting research design analytically integrates not only results of social and natural science investigations, but also links qualitative empirical research and quantitative modelling.
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The global change System for Analysis, Research and Training (www.start.org) has announced the 2011 Call for Proposals for African scientists to conduct collaborative research and assessments of global environmental change (GEC) in Africa. The main topic 2011 is climate change, agriculture and food security with focus on sustainability of ecosystem services. Proposals can be submitted until 7 December 2010.
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The compilation of studies scrutinizes interactions of land-cover/land-use change with climate in a region where the climate warming is most pronounced compared to other areas of the globe. The climate warming in the far North, and especially in the Arctic region of Northern Eurasia, affects both the landscape and human activities. Thus, human dimensions are an important aspect of the topic. State-of-the-art methods of satellite remote sensing combined with GIS and models are used to tackle science questions and provide an outlook of current land-cover changes and potential scenarios for the future. The book is directed at the broad science community including graduate students, academics and other professionals in this field.
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As the security of water supply for humans and the biodiversity of rivers are often seen as competing goals, the global-scale analysis of freshwater resources considers threats to both issues, after accounting for investments in infrastructure and water services. Developing strategies that jointly address water security for humans and biodiversity are deemed as crucial by the authors. The article has been edited by scientists of GWSP.
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The NCCR, Switzerland’s centre of excellence in climate and climate impact research hosts the event taking place in Grindelwald, Switzerland on September 4. – 9. 2011. Main topics will include
-Global land and water use in a changing climate
-Ecological implications of climate change and weather extremes
-Ecosystem services and climate change: forests grasslands and croplands
-Food security: coping with climate change in agriculture.
The invitation is addressed to young researchers from all disciplines of climate research worldwide.
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The main focus of the conference will be on the nature and role of sustainable system innovation in transforming Asian development pathways in fields such as energy, mobility, sanitation, nutrition and housing in urban and rural areas. Achievements which have already been made in the International Human Dimensions Programme Core Project on Industrial Transformation (IHDP-IT) over the last ten years will be reviewed additionally to the further development of a new research agenda supported by the APN (Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research) and the Research Council of Norway. The conference is organised under the auspices of the IHDP’s Industrial Transformation project, APN – Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, University of Malaya,The Research Council of Norway, Eindhoven University of Technology and the Jadavpur University, India.
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The document which will be presented during the next GEO Summit in Beijing from 3-5 November 2010, sets out a number of key actions that build on a strategy to expand the current observations of the global carbon cycle into a fully integrated observation system measuring the essential parameters and variables and therefore gaining a better understanding of the latter.
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DIVERSITAS bioDISCOVERY project: “Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century”
As quantitative scenarios are becoming obsolete for evaluating future socioeconomic development on ecosystem services and biodiversity, global terrestrial, freshwater, and marine biodiversity scenarios are analyzed by a range of measures including extinctions, changes in species abundance, habitat loss, and distribution shifts, as well as comparing model projections to observations. The main outcome of the publication is that the range of projected changes is broader than recent studies suggest, whilst declining biodiversity for the 21st century is projected consistently in all scenarios.
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DIVERSITAS-ecoSERVICES: “Ecosystem Services for 2020”
Since most of the nations have not reached the 2010 targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), namely the reduction of the rate of loss of biodiversity, a new plan of action has been developed by the CBD. The latter contains 20 targets for 2020 currently discussed at the 10th Conference of the Parties in Nagoya, Japan. The paper is aiming at the evaluation of possible targets based on real interests of people in preserving biodiversity.
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The book provides a major, accessible synthesis of the current state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between Global Environmental Change and food security. Moreover other factors, such as socioeconomic conditions, affecting GEC and food security are taken into account.
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After the departure of Oran Young, the IHDP has opened the call for nominations for a new SC Chair which can be made by everyone within the scientific community. Candidates should be willing to start their 3-year term in 2011. IHDP works closely with other global programmes within the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), i.e. WCRP, IGBP, and DIVERSITAS, and facilitates collaboration with the related programmes of IHDP’s institutional sponsors ISSC, ICSU, and UNU.
Nominations should be sent to:
secretariat@ihdp.unu.edu
Reference: IHDP SC Chairperson Nomination
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The International Project Office (IPO) of the Earth System Governance Project will be hosted by the Lund University in Sweden as of January 2011. Support for the IPO will mainly come from The Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and the Faculty of Social Sciences, represented by its Department of Political Science. With their strong background in transdisciplinary environmental and global change research Lund University will be able to provide the Earth System Governance Project with an effective and stable International Project Office.
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The report is the result of the findings of a high-level panel of 15 international experts. These experts have been asked by ICSU and the Belmont Forum to conduct an analysis of the international research capabilities required to respond to the challenges of delivering knowledge to support human action and adaptation to regional environmental changes (called the Belmont Challenges). Due to time restrictions and the scale of the task the report has to be seen as preliminary. Further studies in a number of important areas are still necessary.
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Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) and GKSS Research Centre jointly invite multiple stakeholders, coastal users, decision-makers and scientists to this international conference on storm surges. The objective is to find answers to the following key questions by using an interdisciplinary approach:
- How do we deal with the present level of risk?
- How do we respond to changing future conditions?
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The InterAcademy Council (IAC) has delivered its independent report into the processes and procedures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report, which was delivered to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC Chairman Rajenda Pachauri during a press conference in New York on 30 August 2010, reviews the set up and structure of the IPCC in general. But it also examines the management of IPCC, their way of communicating, the use of data from non-peer reviewed literature and the incorporation of various opinions and viewpoints.
The report concludes with several recommendations, which will be reviewed by the IPCC in details during their next Plenary session in Busan, Republic of Korea (11-14 October 2010).
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Almost 16.000 geophysicists - researchers and students - from all over the world are expected to take part at this year’s AGU Fall Meeting. Participants of the session “The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes” will work on scientific issues related to the Third Pole region and discuss current research results on atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere and their integrations with global change. Abstracts can be submitted until 2 September.
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The upcoming Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance is a joint initiative of the Environmental Governance Working Group and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University and the IHDP Earth System Governance Project. The conference addresses a multitude of contemporary environmental issues, including the following topics:
- Linking across Scale
- Linking the Social and Natural Sciences
- Linking Research to Practice
- Linking the "5 A's"
Abstracts can be submitted until 15 September 2010.
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The complete DIVERSITAS Annual Report 2009/2010 can be downloaded from the DIVERSITAS website.
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This year’s GSA (Geological Society of America) Meeting is offering 156 topical sessions and different field trips contributed to geoscience and related issues. The Conference will take place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Registration will be possible until 27 September 2010.
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Plenary sessions, scientific workshops, and round tables will encourage all participants to exchange current information and scientific knowledge about climate change and delta planning. The conference strives to strengthen cooperation and networks between deltas and delta cities and to promote the collaboration between researchers, politicians and practitioners. The topics on the agenda of the upcoming conference will deal with the following themes: flood risk management, salt water intrusion and fresh water supply, climate in urban areas, health, governance and economics. The conference is hosted by two Dutch Research Programmes: Climate changes Spatial Planning and Knowledge for Climate, and the City of Rotterdam.
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This international conference is an interdisciplinary platform for networking and information exchange on ecohydrology and water resource use.
The Latsis Symposium will bring together researchers and scientists from different disciplines to join discussions on topics related to hydrology, soil and plant ecology, environmental complexity, and water resource management. Registration will be possible until 15 September 2010.
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Mountain ecosystems are confronted with far-reaching challenges which are mainly caused by economic and environmental changes. The upcoming CMS (Centre for Mountain Studies) and MRI (Mountain Research Initiative) conference “Perth II - Global Change and the World's Mountains” will address topics which are related to mountain areas as places of biodiversity and economic relevance. The conference is also supported by the Global Land Project of the IGBP and IHDP, UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme, and the Commission on Mountain Response to Global Change of the International Geographical Union.
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Following an invitation of the NCCR Climate, Switzerland's centre of excellence in climate and climate impact research, 70 young researchers from different fields of climate change will be able to join this year’s NCCR Climate Summer School in the Swiss Alpine. Workshops and lectures will mainly focus on topics related to the current discussion on adaption strategies and the forecasting of possible climate scenarios.
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The symposium will address the current knowledge of the future ocean. Understanding manmade and natural changes of the ocean is one of the main challenges. The 3rd symposium on the Future Ocean will help to recognise and to understand the changes. The Scientific Program will consist of seven topics which will reflect the current knowledge of the ocean.
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The upcoming GWSP-conference “The Global Dimension of Changes in the River Basins – Threats, Linkages and Adaption” will bring together leading and young researchers to discuss topics dealing with river basins and their management. The conference is aiming to concentrate on disciplines which have an impact on the changes of river basins. The interdisciplinary dialogue and analysis will be accompanied by plenary sessions, panel discussions, workshops and poster sessions.
Furthermore, the conference will offer enough room for discussion on further research projects and the development of well-founded solutions.
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As a continuation of the First Symposium in Shanghai in 2008, the 2nd Symposium on “Global Monsoon and
Low-Latitude Processes: Evolution and Variability” will focus on the following three topics:
- Global monsoon concept
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Global correlation of regional monsoons
- Evidence of global monsoon intensity
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The conference is aiming at bringing scientists, policymakers and the general public together in providing a comprehensive perspective of current knowledge of the dynamic and complex interactions between urbanization and global environmental change. This conference is organized in close cooperation with the
Global Land Project (GLP), who will host their Open Science Meeting from October 17-19 at the same location.
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“Social dimensions of environmental change and governance” will be the guiding topic of the conference. Despite a wide discussion about the influence of environmental change on economic costs and benefits, the socio-economic causes and impacts of global environmental change and the inadequacy of policies addressing them do still not receive the needed level of attention. The conference wants to assist in building a bridge between the ongoing efforts to conceptualize, analyze and measure the social dimensions of environmental change, policies and governance structures, on the one hand, and the corresponding efforts in mainstream economic analysis on the other hand. Scientists from different social science disciplines will meet in Berlin to discuss the social dimensions of environmental change.
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Initiated by IGPB, the conference will take place prior to the next UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro scheduled for 2012. It will bring together the world's leading thinkers on global-change research.
The aim of the conference is to discuss two major challenges of the future: what will it take to make food, energy and water accessible to nine billion people in a way that is sustainable? And, what inevitable environmental changes must we prepare for?
The conference is a follow up of the 2001 Open Science Conference in Amsterdam which eventually resulted in the launch of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP).
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WCRP Open Science Conference: ‘Climate Research in Service to Society, Denver, USA, 24–28 October 2011.For the first time ever the whole WCRP research community will meet to discuss the behaviour of the climate system and its interactions with other Earth system components. The aim of the conference is to assess the current state of knowledge on climate variability and change, identify the most urgent scientific issues and research challenges, and ascertain how the WCRP can best facilitate research and develop partnerships critical for progress.
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The conference is organised in collaboration with the National Research Foundation, South Africa.
International scientists, policy makers will discuss the challenges global data is facing but also look at the critical role scientific data and information plays in scientific, economical and social policies of nations.
The CODATA Prize 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in the World of Scientific and Technical Data will be awarded during the conference.
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GLP will hosts its first Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM). It is the aim to bring together researchers working on the divers issues of land change in order to inspire new areas of research and facilitate review, theory building and extrapolation. This Conference is organized in close cooperation with IHDP’s
UGEC project (project (UGEC Conference 15-17 October 2010, with the 17 October organized jointly with GLP on the topic of 'Sustainable land systems in the era of urbanization and climate change').
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The objective of the conference is to share knowledge and information on the interaction between biodiversity and climate change. Strategies and actions will be identified in order to preserve biodiversity. This years conference will focus on Asian Pacific Region.
Authors are requested to submit abstracts of not more than 300 words electronically for initial review, no later than
July 15, 2010
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IMBER IMBIZO* II
Integrating biogeochemistry and ecosystems in a changing ocean - Regional comparisons –
10 -14 October 2010, Crete, Greece
IMBER is an IGBP-SCOR project focussing on ocean biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems research looking at the sensitivity of biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems to global change.
It is the goal of the conference, which will consist of three interacting workshops with joint plenary and poster sessions, to review current knowledge and identify key questions for further research of the interactions between marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems.
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The conference, which expects to attract 600 to 800 participants, will look at different areas of sustainability such as Climate Change, Energy, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Land Use and more.
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The conference will address the possibilities of building bridges and create linkages to connect research on social and ecological processes. It is aimed to cross boundaries between the social and natural sciences, and between scholars and practitioners working in the global North and South.
The conference is part of a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project and is under the auspices of IHDP.Deadline for paper abstracts
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On 22 June, 2010, ICSU, in cooperation with ISSC hosted an Open Forum in Paris
to explore institutional frameworks that could effectively and successfully support the research.
The forum also delivered the first draft of the
Grand Challenges in global sustainability research. The document is part of a process which should guide and stimulate research on global change and sustainability.
Quaternary Research Congress
The next INQUA Congress will be held 20-27 July 2011 in Bern, Switzerland.
The accepted session proposals will be published on 15. August. Scientist are then invited to submit their abstracts.
Abstract submission will be open until 30 November 2010.
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IPBES aims to provide governments with reliable and independent information and data needed to take decisive actions in order to address declines in biodiversity and ecosystems services worldwide. IPBES will take a multi-disciplinary approach acknowledging the close link between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Also see
Rik Leemans (chair of the ESSP) on biodiversity and his views on the future role of IPBES.
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Vom 1. bis 3. November 2010 findet in Yokohama, Japan, ein Workshop zum Ausbau von Kapazitäten in Asien auf dem Gebiet
„Bridging Scales and Disciplines“ statt.
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Gerade veröffentlicht: Sonderheft zum Thema Energiepolitik von Städten: Kohlenstoffemissionen und Kohlenstoff Management in Großstädten.
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Der "World Social Science Report 2010" erscheint am 25. Juni 2010
um 11:00 Uhr unter dem Titel “Knowledge Divides“ im UNESCO
Hauptquartier in Paris. Der Bericht wurde vom „International Social
Science Council“ (ISSC) erstellt und von der UNESCO veröffentlicht.
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Die Konferenz zum IHDP Kernprojekt
wird vom 15. bis 17. Oktober an der Arizona Landesuniversität in
Tempe, Arizona, stattfinden. Themen sind die Herausforderungen
für Nachhaltigkeit in einer urbanisierenden Welt.
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IGBP Statement zur Unterstützung für den IPCC Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change.
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