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.