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Noteworthy... UPCOMING EVENTS Chatham House Conference, “The Future of Cities” London, UK February 8-9, 2010 World Urban Forum 5, The Right to the City – Bridging the Urban Divide Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 22-26, 2010 ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and City of Bonn, "1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change" Bonn, Germany May 28-30, 2010 Urban Environmental Pollution 2010 - Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life Boston, MA USA June 21 - 23, 2010 World Cities Summit: Livable and Sustainable Cities for the Future Singapore June 28-30, 2010 National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) - 2010 International Climate Change Adaptation Conference Queensland, Australia June 29 - July 1, 2010 IOA - Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies "21. European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS)" Bonn, Germany July 26-29, 2010 The International Society for Ecological Economics 11th Biennial Conference, “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crises” Bremen/Oldenburg, Germany August 22-25, 2010 International Conference on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainability in an Urbanizing World Tempe, Arizona USA October 15-17, 2010 Global Land Project (GLP) Open Science Meeting: Land Systems, Global Change and Sustainability Tempe, Arizona USA October 17-19, 2010 PLUREL: Peri-urban Land Use Relationships – Strategies and Sustainability Assessment Tools for Urban – Rural Linkages Copenhagen, Denmark October 18-21, 2010 First International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization Harbour Plaza Hong Kong, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong December 15-17, 2010 Resilience 2011, "Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change Tempe, Arizona USA March 11-16, 2011 PAST EVENTS SENSE-Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment Symposium,"Climate Proofing Cities" Amsterdam/Volendam, Netherlands December 1-4, 2009 Low Carbon Cities 45th ISOCARP International Congress Porto, Portugal October 18-22, 2009 International Conference on Megacities: Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development Leipzig, Germany September 7-9, 2009 Fifth Urban Research Symposium, "Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda" Marseille, France June 28-30, 2009 GECHS Synthesis Conference: Human Security in an Era of Global Change Oslo, Norway June 22-24, 2009 IHDP Open Meeting 2009 Bonn, Germany April 26-30, 2009 (Information on the UGEC specific sessions, side-event on Cities and Global Environmental Change and the UGEC workshop following the OM '09 can be found here) Climate Change Congress, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions Copenhagen, Denmark March 10-12, 2009 (Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez?, UGEC Scientific Steering Committee Co-chair, chaired Session 33 on 'Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Areas') Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change in Asia’s Coastal Megacities Bangkok, Thailand February 26-28, 2009 World Urban Forum 4(WUF4): Harmonious Urbanisation Nanjing, China November 3-6, 2008 MEDIA September 14, 2009 The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) launches the World Development Report (WDR) 2010: Development and Climate Change and discusses three main themes: (i) What does climate change mean for development? (ii) What does development mean for climate change? (iii) What does this mean for policy? Click on the link to download audio and video coverage. August 26, 2009 The World's Cities: Mapping Urban Growth in Developing Countries Hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, UGEC co-chair Dr. Karen Seto discusses changes in urban land-use patterns and identifies both the gaps and opportunities for future research on urban land use. Click here to view her presentation. DFG Science TV Follow the megacity research of Project Associate, Frauke Kraas in these 12 three-minute videos. Yale University Podcast In this interview, UGEC co-chair Dr. Karen Seto discusses the important connection of megacities to climate change. Science magazine special issue on cities, Science, February 2008 RELATED INITIATIVES AdaptNet International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Urban Initiative UN-HABITAT Sustainable Development Network (SUD-net) UNU-Institute for Advanced Studies The Urban Resilience Program Urban Climate Change Research Network CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Tyndall Centre Cities Programme Login |
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