Newsletter May 2008

Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association, Newsletter, May 2008

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Editors: Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald, University of California, Irvine
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The ESS Newsletter can also be found at: http://environmental-studies.org. The next edition will be September 2008. We tend to follow a Winter, Spring and Fall schedule.

The ESS newsletter is based at the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California, Irvine (www.cusa.uci.edu) and co-edited by Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald. Please send publication information, announcements, calls for papers, job announcements, job and address changes, email information, queries, etc. for inclusion in the next newsletter to cusa [AT] uci.edu.

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CONTENTS

1. ESS SECTION NEWS
2. NEW PUBLICATIONS
• 2.1. BOOKS
• 2.2. ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
3. ON THE WEB
4. CALLS FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS/SUBMISSIONS
5. CAREER RESOURCES
• 5.1. JOBS
• 5.2. OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS, UNDERGRADS AND RECENT GRADUATES
6. UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
7. NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SECTION NEWS
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE ESS GRADUATE PAPER AWARD
Each year the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association gives an award for the best paper by a graduate student at the previous year’s ISA Convention. The ESS Executive Committee is now taking nominations from papers presented in San Francisco. The Award will be announced at the ISA Convention in New York in February. Authors must have been graduate students at the time of the presentation of the paper to be eligible. We encourage both self-nomination and second-party nomination. If you gave a good paper at the meeting, feel free to nominate it. If you were a chair, discussant, or participant on a panel that included a strong paper by a graduate student, please nominate it. If you are not sure if the author is a graduate student, nominate it anyway. Please send letters of nomination, along with a copy of or link to the paper, to me at barkin@polisci.ufl.edu. Deadline for nominations is June 30, 2008.

SOLICITATION FOR ISA 2009 WORKING GROUP THEMES
The ESS section is one of the first ISA sections to convene a Working Group. The Working Group will be meeting 3 times during the conference: a half-day workshop on the day prior to panel sessions, in the middle of the conference (sometime Monday), and at the end of the conference for a wrap up session (possibly for breakfast on Wednesday). It will include 4 grad students, 6 assistant professors, and 2 associate professors + 8 non-funded participants at any level. Funding is set at $130 – so this would not pay for your trip to ISA. At this point we need to select a workshop topic and Working Group theme. The ISA coordinator suggests: “This might involve ‘how to teach X’ (since nearly all section members teach in the subfield, this can be a unifying theme.) The topic might also involve discussion of the state of the field (perhaps drawing on the Compendium project). Ultimately this is up to the Group Coordinator to craft, seeking a topic that will broadly engage the participating section members.” Marcus Schaper is serving as the ESS Group Coordinator, so please submit your suggestions for Working Group themes to schaper [AT] reed.edu by 6/15.

ISA COMPENDIUM REVIEWERS NEEDED
Members who read the minutes of the 2008 Section business meeting with more diligence than I usually muster know that I agreed to succeed Beth DeSombre as coordinator of the Section?s contributions to the ISA Compendium so she can perform her many other tasks in the Section and the ISA. The Section is committed to producing review essays on the following topics, authors have been recruited, and initial drafts of some have been submitted.
1. Teaching global environmental politics
2. Historical trajectories of international environmental politics
3. IR theory and the environment
4. IPE theory and the environment
5. Science, knowledge and environmental politics
6. Environment and justice
7. Environment and security
8. Gender and environment
9. Environment and sustainability/sufficiency
10. Globalization and the environment
11. Trade and environment
12. Environment and development
13. Domestic/international nexus in environmental politics
14. European Union and the environment
15. The United States and international environmental politics
16. Developing countries and the environment
17. International environmental regimes and IGOs
18. NGOs/civil society and the environment
19. MNCs and the environment
20. Private governance and market mechanisms for the environment
21. Regional governance to address environmental problems
22. International regulation and ozone depletion
23. The politics of climate change
24. International regulation of ocean pollution and ocean fisheries
25. Biodiversity and species protection in international politics
26. Forests and desertification
27. International regulatory efforts to address hazards/chemicals/waste
28. The international politics of energy
29. Issues of fresh water

We have an excellent group of authors writing the essays, and now need reviewers to help them by providing comments on how well the essays communicate to all parts of the intended audience ? students, scholars, and ?anyone wishing to understand international studies in a sophisticated manner? ? and how well they address the desired content.

Authors have been asked to identify the major intellectual and social dimensions of the topic (I take this to mean ?realworld? impact of the problem or efforts to address it, or the political processes involved), indicate the scope and concerns of the ?classical? and older literatures on the topic (some topics have longer intellectual histories than others), trace changes in academic treatment of the topic over time ending with the tenor of current discussions, and supply sufficient bibliographic material and links to important sources for readers to explore more deeply in an informed manner on their own. Authors have also been invited to provide their own assessment of future directions in research, theory, and methodology and identify any important elements of the topic that they regard as ignored or insufficiently considered. The compendium is a major ISA project, and I will do all I can to help the authors ? and through them the section ? make an excellent showing.

With essays coming in, I need 2 reviewers for each essay. Anyone willing to review should contact M.J. Peterson by e-mail to mjp [AT] polsci.umass.edu

UPCOMING ISA CONFERENCES (http://www.isanet.org/conventions/)
International Studies Association, 2009 Annual Convention, February 15-18, 2009, New York.
International Studies Association, 2010 Annual Convention, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans.

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2. NEW PUBLICATIONS
2.1. BOOKS
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Fuchs, Doris. 2007. Business Power in Global Governance. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Brauch, Hans Günter, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Pal Dunay, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, P.H. Liotta (Eds.). 2008. Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 3 (Berlin ? Heidelberg ? New York: Springer-Verlag, 2008).

Pumphrey, Carolyn, ed. 2008. Global Climate Change National Security Implications. The Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.

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2.2. ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Chalecki, Elizabeth L. 2008. “Knowledge in Sheep’s Clothing: How Science Informs American Diplomacy” Diplomacy & Statecraft. Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 1-19.

Chalecki, Elizabeth L. 2007. “He Who Would Rule: Climate Change in the Arctic and its Implications for U.S. National Security” Journal of Public & International Affairs. Vol. 18, Spring 2007, pp. 204-222.

Fuchs, Doris, with Jörg Vogelmann. 2007. ?Business Power in Shaping the Sustainability of Development?. In Jean-Christophe Graz and Andreas Noelke (eds). Transnational Private Governance. London: Routledge.

Harris, Paul G. “Climate Change and the Impotence of International Environmental Law: Seeking a Cosmopolitan Cure.” Penn State Environmental Law Review, vol. 16, no. 1 (2008).

Harris, Paul G. 2007. “Collective Action on Climate Change: The Logic of Regime Failure.” Natural Resources Journal, vol. 47, no. 1 (Winter 2007).

McAfee, Kathleen. 2008. Beyond techno-science: Transgenic maize in the fight over Mexico’s future, in Geoforum 39,148-160

Matthew, Richard. 2008. ?Resource Scarcity: Responding to the Security Challenge.? International Peace Institute. http://www.ipacademy.org/publications/policy-papers

The Forum for Atlantic Climate and Energy Talks (FACET) has launched a new set of commentaries:

• Bill Becker, Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, explores the climate policy challenges for the next incumbent of the White House: U.S. Poised to Act on Climate Change,
• German Parliamentarian Axel Berg discusses current transatlantic climate relations in general, concluding that the time is ripe for a change: Thinking About Transatlantic Climate Policy,
• Andreas Goldthau, Transatlantic PostDoc at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, diagnoses the lack of a global energy governance structure and makes suggestions for institutional reform: Preventing the Perfect Storm, and
• Arne Jungjohann, Director of the Heinrich Boell Foundation?s Environment and Global Dialogue Program, evaluates the EU?s climate and renewable energy package for 2020: A Lukewarm Frontrunner?

These FACET Commentaries no. 7 ? 10, as their predecessors, are opinion pieces which deal with challenges and solutions to transatlantic climate and energy policy, economics, or technology ? sometimes in a rather generalist manner, sometimes with a particular focus, but always as clear, provocative, and straight to the point as possible. http://www.facet-online.org/

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3. ON THE WEB
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BERKELEY/PENN URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL MODELER?S DATAKIT
Looking for GIS data for the U.S.? It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of the Berkeley/Penn Urban and Environmental Modeler?s Datakit. This new website contains more than 150 downloadable ArcMap-ready shapefiles and raster datasets for the 48 contiguous United States. The data is free to all users. The website address is www.dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/research/footprint

ENERGY-L
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has pledged the creation of a new e-mail list, ENERGY-L, for the distribution of announcements related to international sustainable energy activities. This pledge has been accepted by the conference organizers as part of WIREC 2008 Pledges. This new distribution list, similar to IISD?s other popular lists CLIMATE-L, FORESTS-L, WATER-L, CHEMICALS-L, MEA-L, OCEANS-L and AFRICASD-L, has been launched as part of a soon to be announced larger partnership with UN-Energy, the interagency mechanism on energy. Sign up for ENERGY-L at http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm (check your email after subscribing and respond to a confirmation email.) Any subscriber can use this new list to send announcements to the other subscribers on the list by sending emails to ENERGY-L@lists.iisd.ca
For assistance in subscribing to ENERGY-L, please send email to enb@iisd.org

EVALUATING INTEGRATED POPULATION-HEALTH-ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS
Integrated population-health-environment (PHE) development programs can often produce greater improvements?at lower total cost?than multiple programs that each target only one sector. ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko recently interviewed Lori Hunter, an associate professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, about her work evaluating integrated PHE programs with colleague John Pielemeier. In the following ECSP podcast, Hunter discusses the challenges associated with encouraging men?s involvement in family planning, implementing integrated development projects on the ground, and designing projects that are sensitive to local residents? livelihoods and other priority needs.
http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2008/04/podcast-evaluating-integrated.html

THE NEW SECURITY BEAT – The New Security Beat Blog Identifies Today’s New Security Threats. Security is much more than fighting terrorism or weapons of mass destruction. The New Security Beat, ECSP’s blog, provides frequent commentary on the latest news, reports, and resources on the crucial connections among population, environment, and security. Contributors include ECSP staff members, as well as guest commentators such as Major Shannon Beebe (USA) and Department of Defense Policy Planning Consultant Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba. The New Security Beat also features an original podcast series with Wilson Center speakers, such as UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot; retired colonel Dr. Kent Hughes Butts on environmental security; and lead author of UNFPA’s State of World Population 2007 report George Martine on urbanization. http://www.newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/

SUBSCRIBE TO ECSP PODCASTS, NOW ON ITUNES – ECSP’s original podcast series, featuring interviews with Wilson Center speakers and staff dispatches from abroad, is now available for free at the iTunes Music Store. To download past ECSP podcasts and automatically subscribe to new ones, click here. (Note: Requires iTunes.) All podcasts are also available on ECSP’s blog, htttp:newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com

URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH BRIEF RELEASED BY CHINA ENVIRONMENT FORUM
“As mainland China struggles with poorly managed landfills; illegal dumping; lack of citywide recycling programs; and a likely need for 1,400 additional landfills over the next 25 years, lessons from municipal waste management in Taiwan and Hong Kong may prove instructive,” observes a new China Environment Forum research brief on solid waste management in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Available at:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1421&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=397721

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4. CALLS FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS/SUBMISSIONS
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ISA-WEST 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS
ISA-West 2008 will be held in San Francisco, California on the September 26-27, 2008. The 2008 conference will continue ISA-West?s work with the Carnegie Institute for Ethics and International Affairs, the International Ethics Section of the ISA, the Active Learning in International Studies Section of the ISA, and Women in International Security to bring in exciting roundtables, knowledgeable speakers, and practical applications of International Relations scholarship. As always, ISA-West welcomes submissions from all areas within international relations and comparative politics across disciplines. ISA-West also welcomes pedagogical proposals, roundtables, and full panel proposals. Panel proposals should have 3-4 papers, a chair and a discussant. The 2008 conference will also continue ISA-West?s scholarly and activist exploration of questions of ethics in International Relations. The deadline for the conference has been extended to May 30, 2008.

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5. CAREER RESOURCES
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You can find a range of career and job search resources on the Environmental Studies section website at: http://environmental-studies.org/?page_id=82

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5.1. JOBS
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CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (DGES) seeks applicants for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) specializing in Globalization and Global Environmental Change (GGEC). The appointment will be at the senior Associate or Full Professor level and will commence on July 1, 2009. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a statement of their research achievements and plans, links to or up to three reprints of relevant publications, and the names and co-ordinates of three referees. Inquiries and applications for this position can be sent by email to: Chair_Geography@carleton.ca or posted to Mike Brklacich, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6. Consideration of applications will commence on March 24, 2008 and continue until the search committee has made a final decision. Additional information about the Department is available at www.carleton.ca/geography. Please see www.chairs.gc.ca for more information about the Canada Research Chairs program.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Opportunity located in Portland, Oregon. Duties/Responsibilities: Will be responsible for affecting revenue, profitability, cash flow, and repeat business of the company through the ability to develop client relationships and lead associate teams in successfully delivering a quality product or service to the client. Grow business, expand accounts. Scope and manage projects. Mentor and lead staff. Directs preparation of work plans, supervises project teams, and manages project scope, budget and schedule. Utilizes a combination of project management, technical, business management, and business development skills to develop and execute business with a targeted list of commercial and state and local clients with goals for revenue, cash management, and direct margin, and achieving client satisfaction/repeat business. Requires BS in Env. Send Resume to rsmith@comforce.com or call 1-800-300-4880

NATURAL RESOURCES GROUP LEADER
Opportunity located in Portland, Oregon. Education Level Required: Bachelors Degree. Minimum Years Experience: 11-15. Duties/Responsibilities: Manage and lead Natural Resources Services for the Portland, OR office, develop and maintain Natural Resources Services to meet market demands, build and mentor staff in their development and application of regulatory and technical knowledge to solve and address client needs, grow our Natural Resources Services business, and establish Shaw as a leader in delivering high quality Natural Resources Services solutions. Collaborate with peers in the Pacific Northwest District (Portland, Seattle, Anchorage), and will actively participate in XXXXX National Practice Program for Natural Resources Services to understand the direction and growth of the practice within the company. Network with natural resources national practice and other business lines in XXXXXX multi division, manage projects and take an active role in project delivery and QA/QC, and develop business and facilitate proposal and contracting process with new and existing clients. Future growth areas includes the entire west coast region. Requires BS in Env. Send Resume to rsmith@comforce.com or call 1-800-300-4880

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5.2. OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES
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INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE AT THE WORLD FOREST INSTITUTE
The World Forest Institute Fellowship Program brings forestry and natural resources professionals from around the world to work at the World Forest Institute for 6 to 12 months. Fellows conduct an independent research project developed in conjunction with his/her sponsor. Projects are typically either policy or marketing studies, and may be environmental, social or economic in focus. Activities involve information gathering through interviews, meeting with forestry organizations, and taking organized field trips. Fellows typically summarize their projects in a report and poster published by the WFI. A large component of the program involves traveling and visiting with professionals in the Pacific Northwest forest sector. Fellows visit forestlands, research sites, manufacturing facilities, and NGOs. Additionally, Fellows gain valuable cultural experience and English language skills. Project proposals are now being accepted, and a matching grant is available to cover up to half of the Fellowship fee. WFI is located in beautiful Portland, Oregon, a short drive to forests, mountains, beach, and desert. Oregon is the largest producer of forest products among the 50 US states. For more information visit http://wfi.worldforestry.org or contact Angie DiSalvo at adisalvo@worldforestry.org.

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6. UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
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21ST ACUNS ANNUAL MEETING: “THE UN AND THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE”
5-7 June 2008-02-29, Bonn, Germany. The 2008 ACUNS Annual Meeting will be held at the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bonn, Germany 5-7 June, in cooperation with the German Development Institute. ACUNS, the Academic Council on the United Nations System, is an international network of researchers, teachers, practitioners who are interested in UN-focused research and policy. The theme of the 2008 Annual Meeting The United Nations and the Global Development Architecture has been chosen to consider how the UN, its associated bodies and agencies, other international organizations, regional groupings, national governments, non-governmental organisations, and even individual members of civil society have identified, evaluated, and sought to respond to contemporary! global development challenges. For more information, please check the Conference website at http://www.acuns.org

INTERNATIONAL MARINE CONSERVATION CONGRESS
The Marine Section of the Society for Conservation Biology is pleased to announce the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) – Making Marine Science Matter. Dates: May 20-24, 2009. Location: George Mason University, Washington DC . The IMCC will be an interdisciplinary meeting that will engage natural and social scientists, managers, policy-makers, and the public. The goal of the IMCC is to put conservation science into practice through public and media outreach and the development of science-based deliverables (e.g., policy briefs, blue ribbon position papers) that will be used to drive policy change and implementation. This meeting will serve as the 2nd International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC2) and will maintain the scope and vision of IMPAC1 (held in Geelong, Australia in October 2005). 1st call for symposia, workshops, break-out sessions: 1 April; 1 June 2008: 1st call for contributed papers and posters. Please visit the conference website at www.conbio.org/imcc for more information.

INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE
16-18 November 2008; Kathmandu, Nepal. The Conference, titled Biodiversity and Land Use, Biosphere Reserves and Transboundary Parks under Natural and Human Pressures of Global Change, will be held at ! the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Event Email: nchettri@icimod.org

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7. NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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FOOD SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CONFERENCE
The international conference Food Security and Environmental Change : Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation was successfully held in Oxford at the beginning of April. Around 50 countries wererepresented in the event, organized by the Global Environmental Changeand Food Systems (GECAFS) project. Read some of the presentations from the conference here. The full background to the conference can be found atwww.foodsecurity.elsevier.com.

GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES: RECONCEPTUALIZING SECURITY IN THE 21 ST CENTURY
Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century has been presented at the ISA Convention on 26 March 2008 in San Francisco by Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz. It has been presented at the University of California on 1 April 2008 by Hans Günter Brauch and Úrsula Oswald Spring and on 21 April in Washington at the office of UCSUSA and on 22 April at a book launch event organized by the New York Office of the United Nations University on 22 April 2008. There have also been so far five events of launching this new security handbook for the Anthropocene in Mexico City (UNAM, el Colegio de Mexico) and in Cuernavaca (Morelos, Mexico at UNAM/CRIM und CIDHEM) by Úrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Guenter Brauch.

All written papers and powerpoint presentations in English and Spanish can be accessed at: . The book is presented in detail at:
The book is available at all major internet bookstores globally at. http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/hexa-gon_03_ an¬nounce¬ments.htm>. A book-aid project for university libraries in Third World University countries has been launched and is being documented at: < http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/book_aid_project_hex3.htm >. A Spanish and a Turkish short edition of this book are in preparation. The Spanish translation is completed and the Turkish translation is underway. Both versions will be published later in 2008.

THE HUMAN SECURITY BRIEF 2007
Challenging the expert consensus that the threat of global terrorism is increasing, a new report from the Canadian research team that produced the much-cited Human Security Report in 2005, reveals a sharp net decline in the incidence of terrorist violence around the world. The Human Security Brief 2007 demonstrates that:
? Fatalities from terrorism have declined by some 40 percent, while the loose-knit terror network associated with Osama bin Laden?s al-Qaeda has suffered a dramatic collapse in popular support throughout the Muslim world.
? There has been an extraordinary, but largely unnoticed, positive change in sub-Saharan Africa?s security landscape. The number of conflicts being waged in the region more than halved between 1999 and 2006; the combat toll dropped by 98 percent.
? The decline in the total number of armed conflicts and combat deaths around the world that was reported three years ago in Human Security Report 2005 has continued.
The Brief was produced by the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) research team at Simon Fraser University?s School for International Studies in Vancouver, Canada. The HSRP?s research is supported by the governments of Canada, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland and the UK. Available at: http://www.humansecuritybrief.info/

IHDP 7TH OPEN MEETING RECEIVES AROUND 800 APPLICATIONS
With around 800 applications received from all over the world, the 7th Op! en Meeting, which will take place in New Delhi in 15-19 October 2008, is already proving to be a major success. The abstract’s grading process is going through its final stages and the results will be published later this month. This year’s theme, “Social Challenges of Global Change,” reflects the need to incorporate not only the general discussion about climate change, but also many other environmental changes which happen in our society: resource shortages, the destruction of ecosystem services and new threats to human health. The 7th Open Meeting will have a specific focus on science-policy dialogue and interface, given its significance in India and the special focus on this topic in IHDP’s new Strategic Plan for its second decade. IHDP has, with the competitive selection of The Energy Resources Institute (TERI www.teriin.org) as its co-organizer, not only chosen a partner with an impressive store of in-house expertise and a hi! story of planning ground-breaking discussions on global environmental change issues; it has also selected a city and country located at the nexus of a highly dynamic and crucial debate on global environmental change. Four major social challenges will be addressed on one day of the meeting, which will start with an Open Ceremony on 15 October. Specific issues such as water, land, food, climate change, coastal zones, institutions, technology or urbanization will be addressed in conjuction with at least one of the major social challenges. We will have the opportunity to showcase around 600 scientific presentations and numerous high-level panels and side events. buy cialisbuy cialisbuy levitrabuy levitrabuy propeciabuy propeciabuy somabuy somabuy levitrabuy cialisbuy propeciabuy levitrabuy somabuy cialisbuy propeciabuy levitrabuy somabuy cialisbuy levitrabuy propeciabuy soma