June 11-15, 2007; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The aim of the course is to provide an overview of the current state of ecohydrology, and to give several in-depth examples of the ecohydrological functioning of different ecosystems around the globe.

To view more information on the course and/or to register, you can go to the website

July 11-July 21, 2007; Bad Krozingen, Germany

The Summer School is intended as a sequel to last year's Autumn School in Peyresq, France which introduced NeWater and non-NeWater researchers to concepts of and methods for adaptive river basin management.

The Global Water System Project (GWSP) is able to offer funding (participation and travel costs) for up to 5 young researchers (PhD-Students and PostDocs). Please submit the application form including a CV, a letter of reference, and a letter of motivation to the GWSP IPO (). Deadline for applications is 23 April 2007.

For further information please click here.

Department of Geography and Geology, UC; Copenhagen, Denmark; May 7-8, 2007

Presented by the University of Copenhagen's "Rio Initiative", the IARU, and GLP. The conference will seek to understand the roles and positions of LDCs, and the threats and challenges they face, in relation to climate change and the factors driving it. Registration is now open.

The 14th IHDP-Scientific Committee Meeting and the 22nd Scientific Committee Meeting of IGBP 13-18 March 2007, Angra dos Reis, Brazil

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Fourth SSC Meeting Tempe AZ; April 14-15, 2007

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The Leopold Leadership Program at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University invites mid-career academic environmental scientists from North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States) to apply for the 2008 fellowships that provide scientific leadership, communications and outreach training. Deadline: 16 April 2007

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16 February 2007, Berlin

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is designed to strengthen the “Human Dimensions and Policy Implications”of the IAI Science Agenda. The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) will fund interdisciplinary Global Environmental Change research with emphasis on complex, dynamic coupled human - biophysical systems in order to develop strong human dimensions research in conjunction with existing projects.

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Joint IHDP-CIESIN human dimensions discussion list IHDP and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) would like to introduce the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change HDGEC Discussion List containing more than 300 US and European researchers.

Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Valuation of Socio-Economic Impacts The Conference, organised by the Fondatione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Consortium for Coordination of Research Activities Concerning the Venice Lagoon System (CORILLA) will be held 12th - 13th March 2007 in the Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli in Venice, Italy

Registration Deadline: 20th February, 2007

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Intensive seminar session: September – October 2007 at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands Research phase: 2007/2008 • Final Synthesis Workshop: October 2008 Application Deadline: 12th March 2007

Small Research Grants for African Global Change Scientists Deadline: 28 February 2007

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The Mandela Institute of the Wits Law School is offering two certificate courses in 1) Conservation and Biodiversity Law, and in 2) Introduction to Environmental and Sustainable Development Law University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 12th February to 25th May 2007 Deadline: 29th January 2007

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The Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation introduces a new funding scheme to intensify the cooperation between German and Latin-American researchers and institutes (postdoc-level). Social scientists from Latin America are given the opportunity to carry out a research project of their own choice in Germany (6 months duration). The major research themes are: good governance and stable institutions, political responsibility and democratization, development processes in Latin America and Europe, intercultural integration. Within this frame, the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication of the University of Lueneburg, Germany, is looking for an excellent colleague from Latin America who is working in the field of participation and cooperation in sustainability governance. For further information, please contact Harald Heinrichs at .

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Energy Management and Cleaner Production in Small and Medium Industries 29 October - 30 November 2007 University of Twente, Netherlands

An International Course for the public and private sector involved in energy conservation and environmental protection in industries.

Course organized by the department of Technology and Sustainable Development (TSD), CSTM University of Twente, Netherlands.

5 March - 5 April 2007 University of Twente, Netherlands

An International course for the public and private sectors on energy, environmental and climate change projects.

Course organized by the department of Technology and Sustainable Development (TSD), CSTM University of Twente, Netherlands. In close collaboration with the Iternational Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, ITC, the Netherlands.

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New IGES/START Report

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1st International Conference on Adaptive & Integrated Water Management: Coping with complexity and uncertainty" (CAIWA 2007) 12-15 November 2007; Basel, Switzerland

9-11 May 2007; Washington DC, USA

Deadlines for application are 20 and 31 December 2006 respectively!

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18-29 June 2007; Vysoke Tatry, Slovak Republic

2007 Marie Curie Summer School in Emerging Theories and Methods in Sustainability Research (THEMES): Institutional Analyses of Sustainability Problems. This Summer School will be arranged in cooperation with IHDP and will take place from 18-29 June 2007 at the Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences, in Vysoke Tatry, Slovak Republic. This summer school will discuss the role of institutions in governing human use of natural resources, particularly under increasing pressures of global environmental change. Specific objectives include developing deeper insight into the genreal theory of institutions with specific applications to resource regimes (local and global). Also, covering methods for the analysis of institutions, and institutional and ecological economics within new member states facilitating dialogue and knowledge exchange amongst the countries in transition from various geographical regions.

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20-22 June 2007

IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA) is organizing an expert meeting on climate-society-environment interactions that are important to understanding climate change and its potential implications: Integrating Analysis of Regional Climate Change and Response Options. The 3-day expert meeting will be held 20-22 June 2007 in Nadi, Fiji.

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24 May - 6 June 2007

The Institute for Environmental Studies of the Vrieje Universiteit Amsterdam and the International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development of Maastricht University welcome applications for this Summer School with financial support from the European Commission. The Marie Curie Summer School on Earth System Governance will be held back to back with the 2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Participation in the Summer School includes access to the conference on 24-26 May 2007 and intense lectures, paper discussions and group work from 28 May to 6 June.

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Deadline 12 January 2007

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) announces the continuation of the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. UCAR manages this NOAA-sponsored program, which pairs recently graduated postdoctorates with host scientists at U.S. institutions to work in an area of mutual interest. The objective of this program ist to help create the next generation of researchers needed for climate studies.

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18-20 April 2007

Organised by Faculty of Geosciences and MNP 18-20 April 2007 Utrecht University The Netherlands

Deadline for submission of abstracts extended: 15 October 2006

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starting fall 2006, FH Eberswalde Germany

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15-18 November 2006, Washington DC, USA

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For new PhD students and post-doctoral researchers: International Workshop on 'Communicating Climate Change: Science and Media Networking for the Future' (British Council, American University, and SeaWeb/COMPASS)

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, Call for Applicants 23 January - 19 May 2007

Advanced training for environmental leaders of the developing world to examine land-use science Application deadline: 15 October 2006

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The APN is pleased to announce that the 2006 Calls for Proposals have been launched. The APN is inviting proposals under two separate programmes, the ARCP Programme and the CAPaBLE Programme , for funding from April 2007, and is able to provide a limited amount of financial support for research and capacity development activities that fall within its areas of interest. The 2006 Annual Regional Call for Proposals (ARCP) and the 2006 CAPaBLE Call for Proposals involve ONE COMBINED & OPTIONAL pre-proposals stage, and the APN recommends, in particular, those researchers who have never submitted a proposal to APN before to consider submitting a pre-proposal. Details and format of pre-proposals are provided separately. For more information on the 2006 Calls for Proposals, please visit the APN website or contact the APN Secretariat.

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4-8 September 2006; Mexico City, Mexico

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17-18 November 2006; Berlin, Germany

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27 Sept - 7 Oct, 2006; Peyresq, France

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Autumn School on Adaptive Water Management The NeWater project (www.newater.info) convenes an autumn school for young researchers on "Adaptive Management in the context of Integrated Water Resources Management " from 27 Sept - Sat. 07 Oct. 2006 in Peyresq, France. Further information available at.

IAI-NCAR Colloquium September 11-22, 2006; Boulder, Colorado

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The IAI-NCAR Colloquium will be held from Sept. 11 – 22, 2006 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colorado, USA. This is a training opportunity for natural and social scientists and early career professionals dealing with “Policy planning and Decision making involving Climate Change and Variability”.

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- CLOSED October 13-26, 2006

IHDP and APN (Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research) announcethe Fifth International Human Dimensions Workshop: Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Water, Trade, and the Environment to take place 13 to 26 October 2006 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The workshop will be about the role of institutions in causing and mitigating global environmental problems, its substantive focus will be on water and trade. Researchers, stakeholders and decision makers working in the field of global environmental change with an interest in the workshop theme, both from a scientific and a political perspective, are enouraged to apply. Also, you can download the 2004 Workshop Report (Global Environmental Change, Globalization and Food Systems) here.

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to take place from 9-12 November 2006 in Beijing, China. IHDP and its partner programmes on global change research form a partnership called the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). ESSP invites scientists, policy makers, practitioners, scholars, members of the private sector and journalists to participate in the ESSP Open Science Conference "Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges" to be held in Beijing, China, 9-12 November 2006 and to submit contributions now; Registration is now OPEN and can be done online.

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(RIHN): First International SymposiumNovember 6-8 2006; Kyoto, Japan

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December 6-9, 2006; Bali, Indonesia

IHDP core project IDGEC (Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change) will have its Synthesis Conference from 6-9 December 2006 in Bali, Indonesia.

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December 6-7, 2006

The Collegeof Europe, in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute, organises a conference on "Sustainable resource management, raw materials security, Factor-X resource productivity – tools for delivering sustainable growth in the European Union" on 6/7 December. The deadline for the submission of abstracts will be 7 July 2006. Target groups are researchers, in particular from economics, as well as high-level decision-makers from business, public policy and NGOs. Young researchers are especially encouraged to present a paper. The conference will take place in Bruges, Belgium, one of the most scenic places throughout Europe. All additional and needed information can be found on the College of Europe webpage.

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German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU): Press Release on CO2: Double Risk to Oceans and Coasts. All press releases and reports can be downloaded at http://www.wbgu.de

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Further Workshops & Research Calls

September 26-28, 2006 Bangkok, Thailand This workshop will offer Asian water management decision-makers an overview of the existing Earth observation programs, their applications, and opportunities for data access. The workshop will also have working groups on flooding, drought, and water quality.

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First Call for international workshop on Ecosystem Services in the Neotropics: State of the Art and Future Challenges Valdivia, Chile, 13-19 November 2006

This is the first international workshop dedicated to the analyses of ecosystem services such as water production, carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and recreation in the tropical and temperate areas of Latin America and the Caribbean, from Mexico to Patagonia. For further information: http://www.forecos.net/neotropics

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2006: Analysing Complexity, Barcelona, 7-17 June 2007: Institutional Analysis of Sustainability Problems, Bratislava, 18-29 June 2008: Methods and Tools for Environmental Appraisal and Policy Formulation, Lisbon, 26 May - 6 June 2009: Integrated Analysis of Complex Adaptive Systems, Brighton. 15-26 June The courses are targeted at PhD students and other early stage researchers. For further information: http://www.umb.no/research/themes

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International Foundationa for Science (IFS) and the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Japan, announce a new call for applications to two Grant/Fellowship competitions. Please consult the IFS web for complete details: http://www.ifs.se

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International Projects and Concepts for Disaster Prevention is now online at http://www.database-dkkv.dyndns.org

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(eds. Uli M. Huber, Harald K.M. Bugmann and Mel A. Reasoner) - This new books contains more than 60 contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies, each with an outlook on future research directions.

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Together with USF Osnabrück, IFF Social Ecology will be hosting a 2-day workshop on "Formalized and Non-Formalized Methods in Resource Management". The workshop will take place in Osnabrück, 21-22 September 2006.

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