GECHS sessions at the Open Meeting in Bonn, 26-30 April 2009
GECHS will organize 12 sessions with more than 60 paper presentations in the Open Meeting in Bonn 26-30 April 2009. The meeting will take place at the former German Parliament premises on the United Nations Campus.
This 7th Open Meeting, “Social Challenges of Global Change”, addresses the need to incorporate not only the social aspects of climate change, but also the social aspects of many other environmental changes which happen in our society, such as resource shortages, the destruction of ecosystem services, and new threats to human health.
The GECHS sessions cover important aspects of the social challenges of global change, including how to approach the threats to human security, emerging new vulnerabilities in megacities and its implications for human security, interactions between globalization and global environmental change, limits and barriers to climate adaptation, climate change and conflicts, sustainable adaptation, environmental management and human security for disaster resilient communities, sustainability and adaptive capacity, and reducing water insecurity through stakeholder participation.
An overview over these sessions is presented below. The full program for the conference is available at the Open Meeting website.
- Emerging New Vulnerabilities in Megacities and Implications for Human Security
- Emerging Urban Vulnerabilities under Climate Change: Implications for Health and Human Security
- Sustainable Adaptation: Climate Change and Poverty Reduction
- Reducing Water Insecurity through Stakeholder Participation in River Basin Management
- Human Security in the 21st Century
- Double Exposure: Interactions between Globalisation and Global Environmental Change
- Limits I: Barriers and Limits to Adaptation Posed by Governance (international focus)
- Limits II: Barriers and Limits to Adaptation Posed by Governance (National and Subnational Focus)
- Limits III: Barriers and Limits Relating to the Role of Communities in Local Adaptation
- Sustainability and Adaptive Capacity
