GECHS

The Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) will host its Third Annual Workshop at the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, on 10-11 December, 2007. This workshop will focus on the relationship between micro-level conflict processes and institutions. Professor Scott Gates, Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War at PRIO, Oslo, will deliver the keynote speech.

Download the Call For Papers. Closing date: 30 September 2007.

In the July 2007 issue of Ambio Jon Barnett, Suraje Dessai and Roger N. Jones present the results of a preliminary study of climate vulnerability in East Timor. It shows the results of projections of climate change in East Timor: the country’s climate may become hotter, drier, and increasingly variable; and sea levels are likely to rise. The paper then considers the implications of these changes on three natural resources—water, soils, and the coastal zone—and finds all to be sensitive to changes in climate and sea level. Changes in the abundance and distribution of these resources is likely to cause a reduction in agricultural production and food security, and sea-level rise is likely to damage coastal areas, including Dili, the capital city.

Visit the Ambio web site for downloading information.

An international workshop on Evaluating Climate Change and Development will take place May 10-13, 2008 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt. This workshop aims to identify good practices, methodologies, and information gaps in evaluation of climate change and development projects and programs.

Proposals for papers or presentations are being accepted until September 15, 2007 and should address methodological issues in evaluating either climate change mitigation or adaptation. Research studies and on-evaluative assessments may also be considered, provided they are relevant to the evaluation of climate change issues. These may include reports on methodologies, measurements, and indicators or studies on the relationship between mitigation/adaptation and development.

For more information please visit the conference website.

Abstracts will be accepted until 31 October 2007 for an international conference to be held at the University of Oxford in April, 2008 on Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation.

Conference themes include:

1. Concepts and methods for GEC research related to food systems; vulnerability and adaptation; scenarios; and decision support
2. Regional research, including case studies from the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Southern Africa, Caribbean, Europe and elsewhere
3. Development agenda and policy processes regarding GEC and food security
4. Emerging issues and frameworks for analysis and policy development of adaptation options for food systems to GEC

Please visit the conference website for information about sessions and how to submit abstracts: www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com.

Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times are the themes of an international science and policy conference taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, April 14-17 2008. The overall framework of the Resilience 2008 conference stresses the following features:

• Society and nature represent truly interdependent social-ecological systems
• Social-ecological systems are complex adaptive systems and
• Cross scale and dynamic interactions represent new challenges for governance and management in relation to interdependent social-ecological systems and ecosystem services.

Proposals for panels and working group sessions will be open until August 31, 2007. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations will be accepted from August 15 to November 16, 2007. For more information, please visit the conference web site.