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ESF Junior Summit "Water: Unite and Divide"

Date: 
29/08/2012
Excerpt: 
The European Science Foundation (ESF) offers, on a competitive basis, full-cost awards to leading early career scholars to participate in the first ESF Junior Summit "Water: Unite and Divide. Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future". ...

RegioResources 2012 Conference

Date: 
21/05/2012
Excerpt: 
RegioResources 2012 is a conference intended to provide an overview on the most recent questions and innovative solutions and to facilitate the intellectual exchange and methodological transfer between different disciplines addressed in regional resource management, planning, decision making and policy support. ...
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IGS Symposium - Social Science in Context

Date: 
24/11/2011
Excerpt: 
On the occasion of awarding the honorary doctorate to Prof.dr. Helga Nowotny, IGS invites you to the symposium Social Science in Context - Thematic and Institutional Perspectives, which will take place 24 November, 2011 in Twente, The Netherlands.
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Call for Papers: Earth Systems Engineering 2012

Date: 
21/11/2011
Excerpt: 
Papers are invited for this three-day technical international symposium on systems engineering for sustainable adaptation to global change. The symposium will be held from 3-5 July, 2012 at Newcastle University, UK and aims to address the analysis, design, engineering and management of coupled human, environmental and engineered systems.

SENSE PhD Training School on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

Date: 
26/09/2011
Excerpt: 
The SENSE PhD Summer School will help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the national and global levels. The Summer School will consist of intensive lectures and seminars...
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Wageningen Soil Meeting: Soil Science in a Changing World

Date: 
18/09/2011
Excerpt: 
In this conference the importance of soils and soil science for combating the problems that are faced around the globe will be discussed. The first edition of the Wageningen Soil Meetings will address the importance of soil scientific knowledge for global issues. ...
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Festive Inauguration of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute (AGCI)

Date: 
16/06/2011
Excerpt: 
The Amsterdam Global Change Institute (AGCI) is a new venture at VU University Amsterdam. The institute brings together five institutes and departments across the three Faculties of Earth and Life Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, and Social Sciences.

Interview in 'International Innovation': LIAISE is good example of European interdisciplinary research collaboration

Date: 
10/12/2010
Excerpt: 
This was one of the conclusions in the interview with the PEER chair Henrik Sandbech in the October edition of International Innovation magazine. A key item in this interview on the subject of European research collaboration was the question how environmental research can contribute to solving societal challenges.

2010 Berlin Conference: The social dimensions of environmental change and governance

Date: 
08/10/2010
Excerpt: 
The 2010 Berlin Conference was the 10th conference in the well established series of European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. This year’s conference adressed the “Social dimensions of environmental change and governance”.
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