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Upcoming Events
15th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress 11 September 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) World Clean Air Congress The 2010 IUAPPA Congress theme of "Achieving Environmental Sustainability in a Resource Hungry World" recognizes the need for holistic management approaches to effectively mitigate potential water, food, energy and environmental challenges. This Congress will bring together specialists from academia, industry, consulting, environmental advocacy groups and government to present innovative ways to improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize (more)
2010 Arctic Science Conference 13 September 2010 Anchorage Downtown Marriott Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska
Arctic AAAS
Increasingly rapid global change now presents Alaska with emerging challenges. Many of these lie at the interface of water and society as an ever crowded world grapples with balancing quality, supply and demand. Water is life and our approaches to its management, conservation and utilization will determine the survival and (more)
2010 Marie Curie Training Course Architectures for Earth System Governance 04 October 2010 Berlin, Germany This training course addresses the implications of environmental
change for equity in earth system governance. To this end, the summer
school links the work of scholars on ‘global governance architecture’
to debates on the distributional effects of environmental governance
and change. Particular attention will be paid to the question to what
extent the shift from government to governance improves the capacity of
the existing global governance (more)
Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change' 08 October 2010 Berlin, Germany The 2010 Berlin Conference will be the 10th conference in the well
established series of European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change. This year’s conference will adress the
“Social dimensions of environmental change and governance”.For decades, the economic costs and, more recently, the potential
economic benefits of environmental change and governance have been at
the centre of national and international public policy (more)
International Symposium on Sustainability Science 25 October 2010 PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies
Montclair State University • Montclair, NJ
PSEG Institute for Sustainability StudiesMontclair State University
A new paradigm for research, informed decision-making and development of science-based policy is emerging at the very heart of the sustainability transition to reverse non-sustainable trends:• Reconciling society's development goals with the planet's environmental limits• Understanding the fundamental character of interactions between nature and society• Advancing the social and technological knowledge related to sustainability, andusing such knowledge for action • (more)
Scaling and Governance Conference 2010 10 November 2010 Wageningen, The Netherlands
IntroductionPolicies
have many impacts on environmental and human processes at different
spatial and temporal scales. Climate change, biodiversity, energy
consumption, water resource management, and food security are a few of
the many examples illustrating the complex multi-scale interactions
within and between environmental and human processes. This observation
fits well within a long history of disappointments in policy and
management related to our environment and indicates that scale
sensitive (more)
Future Challenges, Ancient Solutions: What we can learn from the past about managing the future in the Pacific 29 November 2010 Laucala Campus, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Many challenges face the peoples of the Pacific Islands in the 21st century. Solutions are needed that are both effective and acknowledge the cultural context in which they will be applied. Many solutions that have been applied to the Pacific Islands have failed because they have been neither culturally sensitive nor (more)
Engineering Sustainability 2011 10 April 2011 David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh
and The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research ... Engineering Sustainability 2011 will bring together
engineers and scientists from academia, government, industry, and non-profits to
share results of cutting edge research and practice directed at development of
environmentally sustainable buildings and infrastructure.
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