11.06.2013
Reminder: The Fourth Asian Business and Management Conference 2013 - Osaka, Japan - November 21-24
Dear Network Members,
This is a friendly reminder to consider registering for Asian Business Management Conference (ABMC) 2013 to be held in Osaka, Japan. For more details, please visit http://abmc.iafor.org/. To submit an abstract please go to http://abmc.iafor.org/Submissions.html.
Network member Anshuman Khare is a member of the organising team and Program Adviser for Sustainability. It will be great if a session on Cities and Climate Change can be realized. Please submit an abstract and email Anshuman at anshuman@athabascau.ca with your submission number (generated by the abstract submission system).
Thanks for your interest!
11.06.2013
Second Reminder: Climate Adaptation Engineering for Cities and Coasts Symposium, 29-31 Oct 2013, Melbourne
This is a reminder about the Climate Adaptation Engineering for Cities and Coasts Symposium that will be held from 29-31 October 2013 in Melbourne, Australia, co-organised by CSIRO and Australian Department of Innovation. Registration is now open and Abstracts have been extended until 7 July, details and the draft agenda are now available from the symposium website: http://www.csiro.au/ICAE. If you have any enquires please email Stacey.Dravitzki@csiro.au or Celia Torres-Villanueva (Celia.Torres-Villanueva@csiro.au).
18.05.2013
Reminder: Climate Adaptation Engineering for Cities and Coasts Symposium, 29-31 Oct 2013, Melbourne
This is a reminder about the Climate Adaptation Engineering for Cities and Coasts Symposium that will be held from 29-31 October 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. Registration is now open and Abstracts are due at the end of the month, details and the draft agenda are now available from the symposium website: http://www.csiro.au/ICAE. If you have any enquires please email myself (Stacey.Dravitzki@csiro.au) or Celia Torres-Villanueva (Celia.Torres-Villanueva@csiro.au)
Please feel free to pass this notice on to any interested colleagues
Dr Stacey Dravitzki
Symposium Organizer
Climate Adaptation Engineering for Cities and Coasts Symposium
29-31 October 2013, Melbourne. http://www.csiro.au/ICAE
15.05.2013
The Fourth Asian Business and Management Conference 2013 - Osaka, Japan - November 21-24
Dear Network Members,
The Asian Business Management Conference (ABMC) 2013 will be held in the great and exciting city of Osaka, Japan, from November 21-24, 2013 with the theme, “Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability” and is hosted by the International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Anshuman Khare is a member of the organising team and Program Adviser for Sustainability. If sufficient abstracts are received, a session on Cities and Climate Change is a possibility. Please submit an abstract and email Anshuman at anshuman@athabascau.ca with your submission number (generated by the abstract submission system).
For more information about the 2013 event, including how to submit your abstract, please use this link: http://abmc.iafor.org/Submissions.html
This year’s conference will feature Keynote Speaker Professor Yozo Yokota, an internationally renowned jurist and diplomat, who has extensively advised the United Nations, a featured work shop by Conference Co-Chair Dr. Jerry Platt, and Featured Speaker Peter Gardiner, Director of International Relations and Licenses for the Bridgestone Corporation, Japan.
Regards,
Anshuman
03.04.2013
7th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns From our network member Alexandre Hedjazi
You are invited to take part in the 7th ICLEI Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns to take place in Geneva from 16-19 April 2013. For the full program see PDF document below. For more details and registration http://www.sustainablegeneva2013.org/category/conference-programme/?lang=en.
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7th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns From our network member Alexandre Hedjazi
28.02.2013
Report: Symposium "Resource Efficient Cities – Technology Driving Change"
The report on the Symposium on “Resource Efficient Cities – Technology Driving Change” That our network member Anshuman Khare has organized by is now available online at http://occs.business.athabascau.ca/storage/ResEffCit_1.pdf
07.02.2013
Update from Avi Gottlieb: A Résumé of the Cities and Climate Change Network
We have recently completed an analysis of the structure and composition of the Cities and Climate Change Network and of a survey among its members. A brief summary of the main findings is attached. Please send your comments to gottlieb@post.tau.ac.il.
31.01.2013
From our network member Dr. Dale Medearis
The Northern Virginia Regional Commission and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands organized a joint one-day dialogue January 14, 2013 to discuss mutually beneficial and innovative climate adaptation policies. Over 100 scientists, researchers, technical and policy experts, academicians, NGO officials and elected officials (national, state and local level) for the “Climate Adaptation Planning: Local Level Strategies for US Communities” conference. The participants reviewed national and sub-national climate adaptation approaches from the Netherlands, case studies concerning US cities that adopted Dutch climate adaptation policies, and the application of innovative urban sustainability lessons from European regions in Northern Virginia. This work was facilitated by a member of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation Cities and Climate Change Network. For more details see http://dc.the-netherlands.org/news/2013/01/climate-adaptation-press-release.html
31.01.2013
Symposium on Resource Efficient Cities
Our network member Anshuman Khare has organized and will chair a symposium on “Resource Efficient Cities – Technology Driving Change”. The symposium will take place on February 22, 2013 in St. Albert, Canada. Members of the network are among the speakers and participants. For more details please see attached program.
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Symposium
30.05.2012
Avi Gottlieb Elected as IPCC Expert Reviewer
Good news: our network member Prof. Avi Gottlieb has been appointed as expert reviewer of the draft of Working Group II of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (2013). Congratulations, Avi!
30.05.2012
Dale Medearis Elected to Board of Directors of the American Friends of the AvH Foundation
Our network member Dale Medearis has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Congratulations and all the best for your work, Dale!
30.05.2012
Call for Papers: Coping with Climate Change
Please find a call for papers for the special issue “Coping with Climate Change in Developing Countries” (Sustainability) here: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/coping-climate-change. The deadline for manuscript submissions is September 30th, 2012.
03.04.2012
Publisher Found for Forthcoming Book
We have a publisher – Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany. This information has been updated in the attached document.
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Forthcoming Book_Update April 4th, 2012
12.03.2012
Forthcoming Book
UPDATE: The call for papers for the edited book “Mitigating Climate Change:
The Emerging Face of Modern Cities” received wide attention from academics,
city planners, and administrators along with international organisations.
From a number of proposals for chapters submitted, twenty have been
accepted to be included in the edited book by the Editorial Board. Author
(s) have been invited to submit their full papers by August 31, 2012. These
papers will undergo a peer review process and the book is expected to be
published in Fall 2012.
Details regarding this forthcoming book can be found in the attached pdf.
The Editors are grateful to the Editorial Board members, Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, Humboldt Association of Canada, Alexander von Humboldt
Cities and Climate Change Network and Athabasca University's Online Centre
for Corporate Stewardship for wide circulation of the call for papers and
support for this project.
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Mitigating Climate Change - Forthcoming Book
23.01.2012
Survey on 1st Cities and Climate Change Conference 2012
As one of our initiatives after the Cities and Climate conference in October 2011 we now conduct a brief survey among conference participants. We would appreciate it very much if you could spend a few minutes to complete the survey. It will be helpful in planning future undertakings of our Cities and Climate Network.
You can access the survey at www.citiesandclimate.org
We thank you very much for taking the time to participate in the survey.
17.11.2011
Cities and Climate Change Conference Executive Summary and Minutes
Please find attached the executive summary as well as the minutes of the Cities and Climate Change Conference 2011.
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