The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to 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...

This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research...

Submissions are solicited on a wide variety of topics including but not limited to: Agricultural economic theory and policy; Agricultural markets; Agricultural trade; Agricultural investment; Rural finance; Resource economics and environment protection; Agricultural R&D and extensions; Employment,...

This summer school will focus on how global change affects principal processes, compartments, interactions of the earth system. The summer school will combine general principles of earth system science with cutting-edge scientific insights. Specific topics that will be covered include: - Global...

The subject of the conference is "The New Landscape of Global Agriculture." Electronic submission for discussion groups, mini-symposia, learning workshops and computer sessions can be made via the link on the website.

Conference topics: - Environmental policy, instruments and environmental management - Exhaustible and renewable resource economy - Sustainability and economic growth - Climatic signals and indicators of environmental change - Climate change: discounting and relative prices, global carbon market...

The programme of the conference will cover all areas of environmental and natural resource economics.

The event targets participants from agricultural, environmental, economic, social and information technology sciences. Contributions may address methodological or theoretical issues, applications or dissemination and participatory aspects. Applications may relate to for instance agro-technical...