Diary

Citation

(2003), "Diary", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 4 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2003.24904aac.001

Diary

Washington, DC30-31 January 2003

This conference will explore the role of education regarding one of the central issues of the twenty-first century – how to achieve a more sustainable relationship between people and the environment. The security of people and nations, economic opportunity and quality of human life depend upon the continued availability of a life-sustaining environment. The conference will prepare a national agenda for education for a sustainable and secure future, develop a plan and a constituency for making this agenda a national priority, bring leaders in society together with the full range of the educational enterprise, and produce a report of recommendations on how to improve environmental and sustainability education on various levels and in various communities and as a whole.

For more information, visit the National Council for Science and the Environment’s Web site at: www.cnie.org/NCSEconference/2003conference/index.cfm, or contact Therese Cluck, conference co-ordinator, at: conference@ncseonline.org

The Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP) 2003 Call for Papers

San Antonio, Texas6-10 April 2003

SAGEEP will be held in San Antonio, Texas, at the Omni Hotel. For a full list of session topics and information on how to submit abstracts for review, access the EEGS Web site (www.eegs.org) and click on the SAGEEP 2003 logo or click on the following link: www.eegs.org/PDFfiles/Call%20for%20papers.pdf

Fourth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development (ECOSUD 2003)

Siena, Italy4-6 June 2003

Organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology, UK and the University of Siena, Italy, ECOSUD 2003 is the fourth international conference in the series on ecosystems and sustainable development. The meeting will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent work on aspects of ecosystems and sustainable development including engineering and modelling.

The aim of the conference is to encourage and facilitate the interdisciplinary communication amongst scientists, engineers, economists and professionals working in ecological systems and sustainable development. Emphasis will be given to those areas that will most benefit from the application of scientific methods for sustainable development, including the conservation of natural systems around the world.

Special sessions are being planned to focus on research in ecological modelling, socio-economic ecology, conservation, management and recovery of endangered and degraded areas, sustainable development, information techniques for development, ecological engineering, health and development. The conference topics are:

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  sustainable development issues;

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  environmental and ecological policies;

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  ecosystems modelling;

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  natural resources management;

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  environmental management;

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  biodiveristy erosion and soil management;

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  water resources;

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  wetland and lakustrine issues;

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  landscapes;

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  forestation;

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  agricutural systems;

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  ecotechnologies;

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  brownfields;

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  energy generation and conservation;

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  thermodynamics in ecology;

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  ecotoxicology models;

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  environmental risk;

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  development economics;

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  recovery of damaged areas;

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  conservation and management of endangered areas;

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  mathematical and system modelling.

Papers are invited on the topics outlined above and others falling within the scope of the meeting. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail as soon as possible to the Conference Secretariat at: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk Please insert ECOSUD 2003 in the subject line and also include your name, full address and conference topic in the main body of your e-mail.

For further instructions on paper submission, please see: www.witpress.com/authors.htm#Conference

6th Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Sciences (NESS): “Scales, Limits and Borders: Problems in Political Ecology”

Turku/Åbo, Finland12-14 June 2003

Hosted by Åbo Akademi University, the University of Turku and the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, this conference will be organized around working sessions that use and critically elaborate on the concepts of scale, limits and borders as they are tied to the concept of political ecology. These include: global ecological justice; limits to growth today; multilevel environmental governance; global environmentalism; national policies; political ecology in history; and Johannesburg: a first anniversary. The deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2003.

For more information on the conference, visit its Website at: www.abo.fi/6thNESS/, or contact Ea Maria Blomqvist, Åbo Akademi University, FC, Biskopsgatan 10 A, FIN-20500 Åbo, Finland, e-mail: ea.blomqvist@abo.fi

First World Congress on Information Technology in Environmental Engineering

ITEE 2003, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland24-27 June 2003www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/itee2003/index

The acquisition, storage and processing of environmental information are becoming vital to preserving the quality of human life. Potentially dangerous changes are happening in the atmosphere, oceans, animal habitats and places where hazardous materials are used, or have been discarded without adequate environmental protections.

In recent years, information technology has become significant to all scientific groups and fields involved in environment engineering. Knowledge-based systems which enable the study of environmental changes have been developed and are being extended to manage those environments. New paradigms for designing objects to enable easy disassembly and recovery of components contribute to reuse. Developments in exploiting alternative energy sources are reducing dependence on non-renewable resources. Surveillance techniques enable tracking of persons likely to threaten the lives of persons or their environment.

The ITEE 2003 conference will provide a forum for exchanging information among pollution engineers, knowledge engineers and scientists. Some of the objectives include discussion of projects for long-term storage of data, data update and validation, and the consistency of data. Research topics and funding opportunities discussed at the conference will be of interest to all researchers. Another objective is to discuss means of assessing the potential of individual teams in implementation and modelling of large-scale systems.

Several workshops/tutorials are planned for ITEE 2003. Each workshop will focus on a particular topic, and consist of several presentations and open discussions. The proposal for a workshop should include the title, topics covered, proposed speakers, targeted audiences, and estimated length (hours) of the workshop. The proposal should be submitted to the general chair and respective area co-chair by 30 September 2002, and the NAISO Planning department: planning@icsc.ab.ca

Submission of papers can be done through the Web site: www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/itee2003/indexsub.html