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Making environmental history
relevant in the 21st century
A Joint Meeting of the American Society
for Environmental History and
the Forest History Society
March 28 - April 1, 2001
in Durham, North Carolina.
Distinguished Lectureship in Forest
and Conservation History “Smokechasing:
The Search for a Usable
Place” given by Dr. Stephen Pyne
Professor, Biology Dept., Arizona
State University and Fire Historian
Banquet Speaker ‘Man and Nature
in the 21st Century’ given
by Dr. David Lowenthal Professor
Emeritus, University College
London and George Perkins Marsh
Biographer.
Plus: First Night Plenary Session
with: Norman Christensen, Nancy
Langston, Patty Limerick, and Donald
Worster
180 Technical Papers Breakfast discussion
groups
Field Tours Entertainment by the
Coastal Cohorts, Exhibits and Poster
Session Contacts at Duke University,
NCSU, UNC, the National
Humanities Council, and research
facilities of the NIEHS, EPA and
the U.S. Forest Service
Follow the FHS Web site at http://
www.lib.duke.edu/forest/ for information
updates.
http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/jtconf.html
European University Institute (EUI)
Native, naturalized,
and exotic species
in European history
20-21 April 2001 Florence
- How have animals and plants
moved across Europe to alter human
history
- When have Europeans considered
exotic species good or bad and why
- How has treatment of non-human
species recapitulated treatment of
human species
- How has Europe’s global biological
exchange altered world history
Our goal is to explore Crosby’s themes
about ecological exchange on
a European level. Our hope is that
we can attract a small, enthusiastic
group of scholars to discuss these
fascinating topics in a remarkable
setting. . All discussions will be held
in English. An appropriate workshop
publication is anticipated.”
Luisa Passerini, professor Peter
Becker, professor Marcus Hall, Jean
Monnet Fellow -Workshop Coördinator
E-mail: hall@wsl.ch
Department of History & Civilization
European University Institute
Villa Schifanoia,
Via Boccaccio 121,
I-50133 Firenze - Italy
http://www.iue.it/
(besloten bijeenkomst)
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redactie: myriam d a r u
webversie: jan van den n o o r t
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Climate Change and Variability
in Northern Europe
Proxy Data, Instrumental
Records, Climate Models and
Interactions
Second international symposium CLIC
Turku, Finland, 6-8 June 2001
Background
Climate change is widely considered
as one of the most considerable
environmental changes taking place
globally. Climate is a continuous
process, which at times shows rapid
changes, and sometimes, gentle
drifts or fluctuations. The mutual
threat shared by societies is largely
based on the fact that we do not
know what to expect about future
climates on a regional scale. Although
the understanding of climatic
parameters and their complex
interactions on different spatial and
temporal scales is improving rapidly,
there are still many challenging,
unanswered questions with regard
to potential future climates.
Objective
The aim of the interdisciplinary
symposium is to bring together scientists
studying climate dynamics
in a broad sense and to foster communication
between scientists and
interest groups applying scientific
knowledge on mitigation and adaptation
for climate change.
For the detection, attribution and
forecasting of climate change, the
development of sophisticated climate
models is fundamental. Ideally,
for the purpose of projecting future
climates, climate models should be
able to adequately
1) represent the current climate,
2) reproduce interannual and decadal
climate variability for a given
history of external forcings (based
on instrumental data),
3) reproduce different climate episodes
in the past (based on proxy
data) and
4) successfully simulate abrupt climate
change events from the past.
These requirements call for close
collaboration and sharing existing
knowledge between scientists from
various fields, for example palaeoenvironmentalists,
ecologists,
atmospheric scientists, oceanographers
and climate modellers, to
name a few. Northwestern Europe
and the North Atlantic are known
to be most challenging regions in
climate models. Various models
predict very different climates for
the region. Hence, there is a need
to bring together scientists studying
different aspects of this region’s
climate to share knowledge and
understanding of climate process.
In the proxy record field, higher
resolution thanks to new, advanced
methods in sampling, detection,
computing and data analysis allows
interesting comparisons with available
instrumental records. Furthermore,
better data will aid pinpoin-
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