April 30, 2010 - World Association of Soil and Water Conservation

June 28-July 2, 2010International Conference: 18 th Commonwealth Forestry ConferenceEdinburgh, Scotland. Some financial support is available for developing country participants, with details onhow to apply for support here. For more information about the event, click here.June 29-July 1, 2010Call for Abstracts: 2010 International Climate Change Adaptation, Queensland, Australia, 29 June –Submission deadline: 18 January 2010. For more information and to register, click here.July 3-7, 201024th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB): The 2010 meeting of the Society forConservation Biology (SCB) will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on July 3rd-7th, 2010. The theme of themeeting is "Conservation for a Changing Planet." Because of the focus on environmental change, the meeting willhighlight the importance of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to conservation.www.conbio.org/2010July 4-7, 2010The 9th European IFSA Symposium: 4-7 July 2010 in Vienna! Building sustainable rural futures - The addedvalue of systems approaches in times of change and uncertainty. The following five themes give an overviewof the issues that will be addressed at the 9th European IFSA Symposium: 1. Knowledge Systems, learning andcollective action; 2. Transition, resilience, and adaptive management; 3. Energy production, CO2 sink andclimate change; 4. Sustainable food systems; 5. Landscape and rural land useJuly 5-9, 2010AOGS 2010 will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, India, on July 5-9, 2010.http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2010/index.asphttp://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2010/public.asp?page=sessionProposal.htmJuly 6-7, 2010Spatial assessment and analysis of vulnerability GIScience applied in the interdisciplinary domain ofhazard and climate change researchWorkshop within the framework of GI_Forum 2010, July 6 – 7, 2010 - Salzburg, AustriaInformation available at www.gi-forum.orgThis theme is expected to highlight different developed and currently investigated methodologies to spatiallyassess vulnerability. It will specifically address the issue of vulnerability assessment, independent fromconceptual discussions. The focus will be on the review and discussion of different methods of GIScienceemployed to assess, quantify and represent vulnerability as integrated spatial phenomena. Within a workshopsession, current achievements and future research challenges will be identified and formulated.Topics- Assessments in the domains of disaster risk reduction, climate change, naturalhazards and human security- Methods for indicator selection and index construction- Scale issues in vulnerability assessments- Validation and accuracy of vulnerability assessments- Spatio-temporal visualisation of complex indicatorsThe workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 7, 2010 and will be followed by theannual GI_Forum. In addition to presentations ranging from different scholarly schools of vulnerability theworkshop will focus on output oriented discussion sessions.The papers will be peer-reviewed and published in a book.Schedule- Deadline for submission of full papers for oral presentation and publication in the conference proceedings 1February 2010 (Information about submission of papers is available at www.gi-forum.org)- Notification about accepted contributions 17 March 2010Scientific committee- Susan L. Cutter, University of South Carolina (Keynote Speaker)- Mark Pelling, King’s College London- Thomas Loster, Munich Re Foundation40