Search
Results for " "
Displaying 120 of about 2921 resultsEARSeL is a scientific network of European remote sensing laboratories, coming from both academia and commercial/industrial sector, which covers all fields of geoinformation and earth observation through remote sensing. All scientists, professionals and researchers involved or interested in the field of the symposium are strongly encouraged to present p…
The Workshop is being jointly organized by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO at the UN Office facilities at Nairobi, Kenya.
The Workshop will open with a two and half-day session on the African Water Cycle Coordination Initiative (AfWCCI). This is a follow-up event to…
Program Overview
The 2012 Sustainable Water Management Conference will be a true sustainability conference focused on water resources integration. This conference seeks to combine technical presentations with in-depth discussions on legal, regulatory, and legislative matters facing water utilities today.
The conference will address a wide range of…
The conference will feature an international panel of experts and participants who will learn from other countries’ experiences, with the goal of identifying challenges, obstacles and solutions for integrating sustainable development principles into planning in southern Iraq.
Iraq is facing a unique set of environmental challenges as one of the Arab re…
The International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology is one of the worldwide leading environmental conferences. This biennial conference brings together engineers, scientists, researchers, students, managers and other professionals in order to address and discuss emerging environmental issues.
Conference topics
Climate and air pollut…
Scope and rationale
It is generally accepted that remarkable progress has been achieved in understanding the climate controlling system on the global scale but also that a spatial downscaling of global processes to the regional scale is required. In a first international conference on climate change in the southern Baltic region, held in 2009 at Szczec…
Ecosystem-based adaptation is recognized by the international community as a powerful, cost-effective tool to increase the resilience and reduce the vulnerability of ecosystems and people to the adverse effects of climate change. It can generate significant social, economic and environmental co-benefits with an important role in adaptation of diverse se…
Description:
The Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Framework (CDRMF) is the introductory course of the EMI-GFDRR (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery) NDRM web-based training package in disaster risk management. The course addresses basic questions such as “Why are disasters a development issue?” and “What are the fundamental compo…
This summit will address the issues professionals face in adapting to sea level rise (SLR) and other climate change related impacts. Local, national and international experts will demonstrate best practices and state of the art research focused on the needs of the following two industries:
The built environment: Architects, planners, landscape architec…
Climate change is likely to have differing implications for agriculture in European countries. Farming in some countries may benefit from warmer temperatures and higher rainfall. Others may suffer from higher temperatures and water shortages. Greater variability in weather patterns is likely and extreme events such as drought and floods could become mor…
Directed at international practitioners in the field of development cooperation, SLE Training for International Development Cooperation offers two training courses on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Resilience which will take place in Berlin in November 2013:
“Prévention des risques liés aux catastrophes (DRR), promotion de résilience et lien entre a…
Following the recent publication of the National Adaptation Programme (NAP) - the Government's strategy for dealing with the effects of climate change - this seminar will provide a timely opportunity to discuss the practical challenges and options for its successful implementation. The agenda includes keynote contributions from Defra, the Committee on C…
The Global landscapes forum combines into one event two of the world’s most influential annual conferences on the role of forests and agriculture in mitigating and adapting to climate change: forest day and agricultural and rural development day. This will be a global platform to inform and engage world leaders, policymakers, scientists, donors, media,…
Overview
The government announced in November 2012 that £120m of new funding would be released to speed up the building of 50 flood defences. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is starting the project by prioritising schemes in Leeds city centre, Sheffield, Exeter, Derby and Ipswich. Defra is also leading surface water management pl…
The course is designed to provide a general understanding on emerging issues, challenges and opportunities with regards to global, regional, national, community and household food security issues and impacts. The course focuses on the four dimensions of food security namely: availability, access, utilization and stability. Participants are to critically…