“World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation”, Manchester, UK,
2-4 September 2015: deadline for abstracts extended
Preparations for the “World Symposium on Climate Change
Adaptation” (WSCCA), to be held Manchester, UK, on
2-4 September 2015, are in full swing. Over 200 abstracts
from across the world have been received, and further
abstracts are
now being accepted until the 30th January 2015.
Organised by Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and
the Research and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life
Sciences” of the Hamburg
University of Applied Sciences (Germany), WSCCA entails
cooperation with world´s leading climate organisations,
such as
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World
Meteorological Organisation (WMO), World Health Organisation
(WHO)
the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the International
Council of Local Environment Initiatives (ICLE), the
International Centre
for Integrated Mountain
Developmentof (ICIMOD), the International Climate
Change Information Programme (ICCIP), the United Nations
University initiative “Regional Centres of Expertise on
Education for Sustainable Development” (RCE), and other
agencies. The Symposium
will be a truly interdisciplinary event, covering some of
the key areas in the field of climate change adaptation.
A set of presentations, divided into six main themes will be
organised, distributed over parallel sessions dealing with
some of the key issues of strategic value
in the field of climate change adaptation. These are:
Session 1: Technological approaches to Climate Change
Adaptation
Session 2: Implementing Climate Change Adaptation in
Communities, Cities, Countries and via Outreach Programmes
Session 3: Funding mechanisms and financing of Climate
Change Adaptation
Session 4: Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards
(including floods)
Session 5: Information, Communication, Education and
Training on Climate Change
Session 6: Climate Change and Health
The organisers also welcome suggestions of special sessions,
and so far special sessions on "Climate Change in the Artic"
and
"Climate Change Governance" and others, have been received.
To secure the highest possible quality, all papers are
subject to peer-review. Accepted
papers will be published in a special issue of the
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and
Management
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijccsm
(fully indexed) or at the book “Innovative Approaches to
Implement Climate Change Adaptation”.
This will be a further volume of the award-winning book
series “Climate Change Management”
published by Springer, which since its creation in 2008 has
become the world´s leading book series on climate change
management.
The Symposium will be of special interest to researchers,
government agencies, NGOs and companies engaged
in the field of climate change adaptation, as well as
development and aid agencies funding climate change
adaptation
process in developing countries. The deadline for abstracts
is 30th January 2015. Full papers are due by 30th March
2015.
Further details can be seen at: http://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/wscca-2015.html