Diary

Diary

Article Type: Diary From: International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Volume 1, Issue 3

2009

Energy and Sustainability

9-12 August, Newark, Delaware, USA

Energy and Sustainability 2009 is a student-run conference put on by the Solar Hydrogen IGERT program at the University of Delaware. This year's conference will be devoted to the broad themes of energy and sustainability. The event entails both technical and non-technical talks, poster presentations, networking sessions, and of course, an impressive and diverse line-up of guest speakers. The conference aims to offer the opportunity for people to come together and share and learn about topics in energy and sustainability.

Further details are available at: www.conference.solarigert.org

Tenth International Congress of Ecology

16-21 August, Brisbane, Australia

The Officers and Board of INTECOL are delighted to announce that the Tenth International Congress of Ecology, which will be held in Brisbane, Australia, August 16-21, 2009. The congress will be hosted by the Ecological Society of Australia in partnership with the New Zealand Ecological Society. This is the first time that an International Congress of Ecology will have been held in the southern Hemisphere. Ecological research and its implementation for managing environmental systems are flourishing in Australia and New Zealand. The conference intends to share research successes and promote the intriguing plants, animals and ecosystems on offer in the region.

Further details are available at: www.intecol10.org/default.asp

Tenth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation

23-25 September, Lisbon, Portugal

The Tenth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation will take place on September 23-25, 2009 in Lisbon (Portugal) focusing on two topics, Water Management and Climate Change. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of environmental tax policy issues with regard to water management and climate change law and foster cross-disciplinary links among economics, law and political science. Each topic includes a keynote plenary session and several parallel panels. Contributions from the following fields are especially welcome:

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  water management policies and institutional frameworks;

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  tax instruments for climate change prevention and mitigation;

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  coordination of environmental taxes with other environmental economic instruments;

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  benchmarking of energy tax systems;

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  international competitiveness in the presence of climate policies with tax instruments; and

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  new tax-related financial mechanisms for climate and coastal protection in developing countries and small island states.

All submissions must include: full name, affiliation and contact details of the author(s), paper title, an uploaded electronic version of the abstract in English, prepared as a Microsoft Word document, and at least a short biography of the author(s). Further details can be seen at: http://GCET2009.com/

Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science

2-4 October, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA

The History Department at Mississippi State University is proud to host the Sixth Annual Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science on October 2-4, 2009. This workshop will continue its tradition, begun at MIT in 2004, of bringing together history graduate students (or very recent PhDs, space permitting) who are studying the environment, agriculture, science, or technology. Papers are circulated in advance to all participants. At the meeting, authors make brief presentations and then receive feedback from fellow participants and senior scholars through informal discussion. The format is particularly suitable for the presentation of work in progress. In conjunction with the workshop, organizers are planning professional development activities of interest to junior scholars. Owing to logistical constraints, papers must be in English. MSU will provide housing, food, and some funding to help defray travel costs. For further information, please visit the conference web site: www.msstate.edu/dept/history/WHEATS/Home.html

Second Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development International Conference (MESD 2009)

4-6 November, Nancy-Metz, France

This conference is co-organized by the ICN Business School, Nancy, France, the Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises (a multi-university European business research consortium), Nancy-Metz, France and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. The 2009 MESD Conference focuses on the issue of strategies for sustainable technologies and Innovations. Academics, research-oriented practitioners, experts, consultants and other professionals in the area of sustainable development are invited to attend and encourage the participation of individuals whose role is to influence the future strategies used by their businesses. Conference activities will include: presentation of scientific and “Best Practices” papers, round-table discussions, Keynote speakers, Gala, and social events. For further information, please visit the conference web site: www.mesd2009.org/welcome.htm