GLP e-news No. 49. August 25, 2012

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1 GLP e-news No. 49 August 25, 2012 We would like to inform you on a short and informal news update (GLP e-news) from the Global Land Project IPO, with some recent information that might be relevant to you. We send these updates on occasion to supplement the GLP News. Apologies for multiple postings. If you want to contribute with items to these newsletters, please contact the IPO ([email protected]). Also please let us know if you do not want to receive these updates in the future. 1) GLP News IHDP Annual Report 2011 released. IHDP is pleased to release its 2011 Annual Report, featuring editorials by its newest Scientific Committee members, Professors Ruth Oniang'o and Dan Ariely, and highlighting some of the current challenges and opportunities of human dimensions research on global environmental change. Compiled in a shorter, more concise format, this 2011 report has been designed to offer its readers an overview of the programme and its projects, and provide a comprehensive update on IHDP's latest activities and progress. Download the report directly at the IHDP website. Special issue of the journal Earth System Dynamics on Land Use impacts still welcomes GLP contributions. The special issue Impacts of Land-Uses and Land-Cover Changes (LULCC) on the functioning of the Earth System is part of the IGBP synthesis activities on this topic. The special issue aims to provide an overview of Land use and land cover change as a central topic in global change research. It is a high priority to improve the fundamental understanding of LULCC interactions with human, bio-geochemical, and bio-geophysical dynamics, and of LULCC impacts on the regional and planetary climate system, as well as on the functioning of our socio-economic system. This special issue aims to synthesize existing research, new findings, and to provide a roadmap for future research. Deadline for submissions: November 1st, More information here, or

2 contact the editor: Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré 2nd IHDP Writing Contest. The IHDP Secretariat's Writing Contest is open again! Young scholars are invited to take part and write an article for the second issue of the DIMENSIONS magazine, to be published in late fall The issue will focus on the human dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and will be directed towards a wider audience, including non-scientists interested in the topic. Deadline: 31 August Contact: ([email protected]). Website. Policy briefs for Rio+20 summit. The briefs produced by the scientific community to inform the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) were commissioned by the international conference Planet Under Pressure: New Knowledge Towards Solutions ( The all nine policy briefs are available to download as Pdfs on the International Geosphere Biosphere Program Website (IGBP). 2) Call for contributions & Upcoming Events Call for papers: Land Systems Science Symposium at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2013, Los Angeles. A special symposium focused on research advances and needs in the geographical dimensions of Land Systems and Land Change is being organized to take place within the 2013 AAG Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. This symposium builds on a long tradition of research in land use and land cover, and of coupled human and natural systems within Geography, the focus provided by the Journal of Land Use Science and Land, and interests of the land change science community. Titles and abstracts for papers, conforming to AAG annual meeting guidelines, initially should be submitted to Richard Aspinall ([email protected]) as soon as possible and before 31 August Please, check the complete information about the symposium here, before sending the abstracts. MRI Synthesis Workshop on Qualities, Vulnerabilities, and Management of Ecosystem Services in Mountain Regions. 3-5 September Bern, Switzerland. Website. Ecosystem services must be quantified in order to remain relevant for policy making on the global and sub-global levels and must be understood in the context of history and power relations, particularly as they relate to land use. More information here. IRG Conference. The Third Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM Society) will be held at Beijing Normal University (BNU). 7-9 September Beijing, China. IDRiM. The theme of the conference is From surprise to rationality: Managing

3 unprecedented large-scale disasters. More information Berlin Conference on Evidence for Sustainable Development (ESG Conference). 5-6 October Berlin, Germany. Organized by the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) in co-operation with LIAISE Network of Excellence. Endorsed by the Environmental Policy and Global Change Working Group of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), PEER Partnership for European Environmental Research, and Earth System Governance Project. More information. 4th International Student Training Workshop on Health and Environmental Changes in Mega Urban Areas (GECHH, START Workshop) October Beijing, China. With support from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), an International Student Training Workshop will be held following an international Scientific Workshop. Read more. Symposium: Land Uses, Property and Cultural Diversity in Conflict: Perspectives to Conservation and Protected Areas in Latin America. On III Latinamerican Congress of Anthropology (ALA), 5-9 de November 2012, Santiago de Chile and Temuco, Chile. Organized by Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Universidad Arcis, Universidad Alberto Hurtado y Universidad Austral de Chile. This symposium suggests the opportunity to review critical and creatively different approaches about practices and representations of ethnicity, culture, biodiversity, conservation and protected areas in Latinamerica. And to review several types of conflicts related with the ideas of conservation, management and sustainability, in which some people, land uses and properties, are considered as "threats" among to "natures" and an intervention object. More information. 8th Alexander von Humboldt International Conference on Natural Disasters, Global Change, and the Preservation of World Heritage Sites. 12th - 16th November 2012, Cusco, Peru. The conference will be held at EGU, aiming to bring together geoscientists, engineers, seismologists, geologists, architects, and other specialists, to discuss natural disasters and their prevention, with particular emphasis on World Heritage sites. More information here. Biannual international 'Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event' (JURSE). The biannual international 'Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event' (JURSE) reaches for the first time South America, demonstrating the world-wide reach of this scientific field, dedicated to explore cutting-edge themes in urban remote sensing with respect to the Information Technology and Geosciences. JURSE 2013 is designed to be a forum of excellence where a selected group of researchers, practitioners, and students will present and discuss their latest findings and results on new methods, innovative methodologies and

4 technological resources recently employed to investigate the manifold aspects of the urban environment through orbital and airborne remote sensing data. Full paper deadline 15 October 2012, Notification of acceptance 10 December More information here. Population Association of America Annual Meeting. The PAA 2013 Annual Meeting will be held April 11-13, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Call for Papers (PDF) is available now. Submissions are made online at the 2013 Annual Meeting Program Website. Deadline for submissions is September 21, The PAA Board of Directors wishes to encourage broad participation in the Annual Meeting. If you would like to serve as a session Chair or Discussant at the 2013 Annual Meeting, please indicate your interest by sending an to ([email protected]). In order to appear on the program, presenters must register for the meeting. Registration will open in January XIX International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology. The 2013 Conference XIX International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology will be held jointly with the International Conference on Sustainability Science in Asia, on February 5-8, The conference endeavors to be a platform for scholars and practitioners to share knowledge on viable solutionapproaches for sustainable development that have mutual benefits for society and the environment. The platforms also strive to link academic institutions with international funding agencies for project development. The conference theme, "Decisions that Work: Linking Sustainability, Environmental Responsibility and Human Well-Being" emphasizes the reinforcing consequences that action to increase environmental sustainability has for the health and well-being of people. More details here. European Climate Change Adaptation conference The conference on climate change adaptation scheduled to take place on March 2013 in Hamburg, Germany. Call for abstracts opened. Deadline for submissions: 15 October More details on the ECCA conference website. Call for Papers: 27th International Population Conference to be held in Busan, Korea August The IUSSP 2013 Conference Call for Papers is opened on the website and extended abstracts (2-4 pages) are mandatory and should include sufficient information for the organizer to judge the merits of the submission including description of topic, theoretical focus, data and research methods, and expected findings. You can also download the full list of sessions with sessions cross-listed in more than one theme. On the website you will find also the information on registration, side meetings, exhibit space, and travel to Korea. Deadline to submit abstracts: 15 October Berlin Mini-conference Dynamics in Food and Agriculture based Supply Chains. Held by the International Geography Union (IGU) - Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces on 2013 Thursday 11 of July

5 Saturday 13 of July Call for contributions is opened on the following topics: Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks, Renewable resources, Globalization and sustainable rural development, Rural livelihoods and households, Informal production, Innovative agri-food clusters, Rural innovation systems, Resilient rural regions, Dynamics in food retail, Ecosystem services, and Alternative food geographies. Local Organizers: Peter Dannenberg and Elmar Kulke Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Humboldt-University at Berlin. Important Dates: 300-word abstract or full paper by 31 January Deadline for registration is 1 April More information here. GLP OSM 2014 Land transformations: between global challenges and local realities. The Global Land Project Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM) will be held from 19th 21st March 2014 in Berlin hosted by Humboldt University. The webpage of the event will soon be launched. Meanwhile, more information will be updated on the GLP Website. 3) Jobs and Funding International Climate Protection Fellowships the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Humboldt foundation announces its latest round of climate grants that enables prospective leaders to conduct a research-related project in the field of climate protection and resource conservation during a one-year stay in Germany. Applications must be completed online. The completed application form including all the necessary additional documentation must be submitted by the closing date for applications (1 December 2012). Additional information on the online application process, all the documentation required and access to the online application procedure are available on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation s website. Post-doctoral researcher vacancy in the area of modelling interactions of terrestrial ecosystems-climate change-land use change, and ecosystem services (EU project OPERAS). The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and its Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research/Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany, invites applications to the open position of a Post-doctoral researcher, in the area of modelling interactions of terrestrial ecosystems-climate change-land use change, and ecosystem services (EU project OPERAS). This is position is available in the EU-FP7 project Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAS) that is a joint project across 27 European partner institutions (coordinated through University of Edinburgh) that seeks to assess how the concept of ecosystem services/natural capital can move beyond the academic domain, and contribute to sustainable management of ecosystems. The main tasks of the post-doctoral researcher will be to quantify ecosystem responses to climate

6 change and human land use/land cover change. Complete applications received by 15 September 2012 will receive full consideration; the position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found. More information and requirements here. Contact: Prof. Almut Arneth ([email protected]) 4) Other Publications LOICZ Book: Human-Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene. This book deals with the potentials of social-ecological systems analysis for resolving sustainability problems. Contributors relate inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives to systemic dynamics, human behavior and the different dimensions and scales. Read more. Glaser, B., Krause, G., Ratter, B.M.W and M. Welp (2012): Human-Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene. Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society, 232 p. GWSP Book. River Basins and Change. This electronic book aims to bring together the major contributions to the international conference on The Global Dimensions of Change in River Basins Threats, Linkages and Adaptation, organized within the Global Catchment Initiative of the Global Water System Project (GWSP). Read more. Bogardi, J., Leentvaar, J., Nachtnebel, H.-P. (Eds.)(2012): River Basins and Change. Bonn: Global Water System Project with UNESCO-IHE. International Project Office (IPO) Global Land Project (GLP) National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Av. dos Astronautas, 1758 Prédio Planejamento Sala 12 Jd. Granja São José dos Campos SP Brazil [email protected]