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New Project: ‘Hamburg Water Cycle (HWC) – Jenfelder Au’ about economic feasibility of an integrated and decentralised wastewater disposal and energy generation system, approved funding under EU LIFE+ (Project duration: 2011-2016)

The project’s overall objective is to demonstrate the technical, environmental and economic feasibility of an integrated and decentralised wastewater disposal and energy generation system for an urban housing district in Hamburg, Germany. The concept will bring together well-known technologies, as … Continue reading

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Symposium: Public participation in environmental management – Challenges and opportunities (Conference language: German), Osnabrueck, Germany, Sept. 22-23, 2011

The central question of the symposium is: How can public participation contribute to good environmental management? The aim of the event will be critical assessment of public participation processes in the environment. This inventory will be characterized on the one … Continue reading

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Environmental & Integrated Assessment of Complex Systems Biosystems – Water – Land Management Conference: 30th nov. to 2nd dec. 2011. France, Montpellier

EcoTech&Tools will be the opportunity to learn and exchange about the latest research related to environmental and integrated assessment of various anthropogenic complex systems such as human-interacting biosystems (agriculture, forestry, etc ), water management systems, land management. Special focus will … Continue reading

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Conference: IGS-SENSE. Resilient Societies – Governing Risk and Vulnerability for Water, Energy and Climate Change, University of Twente, October 19-21, 2011

This conference will bring together experts, academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to discuss and debate governance solutions to make societies more resilient. The aim is to link theory and practice to create a knowledge bridge to … Continue reading

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Launch of Amsterdam Global Change Institute (AGCI)

Integrated Knowledge for Sustainable Society Choices The Amsterdam Global Change Institute (AGCI) is a new venture at VU University Amsterdam: http://www.agci.vu.nl AGCI brings together more than 200 researchers from five institutes and departments across the three Faculties of Earth and … Continue reading

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IHDP Social Sciences and Humanities Survey: Integrated the Social Sciences into Global Change Research

The United Nations University’s International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change (UNU IHDP), in partnership with the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, have developed a survey to understand how better to engage the social sciences and humanities … Continue reading

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