2nd WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION (WSCCA- 2017)

06/09/2017

2nd WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION (WSCCA- 2017)


Climate change is among the major challenges of modern times. As the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the COP 24 recommendations call from action not only from government, but also from various stakeholders.
Apart from the knowledge offered by modelling and forecasts which allows us to understand the problem and how it develops in the future, we need to know more about approaches, methods and tools, which may help us to cope with the social, economic and political problems posed by climate change now. In other words, we need to speed up developments in the field of climate change adaptation.
It is against this background that the “2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation” is being organised. The event is a joint initiative by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), the Research and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life Sciences” of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the Baltic University Programme in Uppsala (Sweden), in cooperation with the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) and the United Nations University initiative “Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development” (RCE). The Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, covering some of the key areas in the field of climate change adaptation.
The “2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation” will be held in Coimbra, Portugal. Coimbra is one of the country´s major cities, situated around 206km (125 miles) north of Lisbon and about 125km (76 miles) south from Porto from where many international connections are available. It will focus on “integrative approaches to implement climate change adaptation”, and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.

Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interactions among the various stakeholders working in the field of climate change adaptation, the aims of the “2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation” are as follows:
i. to provide research institutions, universities, NGOs and enterprises all around the world with an opportunity to display and present their works in the field of climate change adaptation;
ii. to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of climate change adaptation projects, especially successful initiatives and good practice;
iii. to discuss methodological approaches and experiences deriving from case studies and projects, which aim to show how the principles of climate change adaptation may be implemented in practice;
iv. to network the participants and provide a platform so they can explore possibilities for cooperation.

Last but not least, an additional aim of the event will be to document and disseminate the wealth of experiences on climate change adaptation available today across the world. To this purpose, the book “Theory and Practice of Climate Adaptation” will be published, with all accepted papers. This will be a further volume of the award-winning book series “Climate Change Management” published by Springer, which since its creation in 2008 has become the world´s leading book series on climate change management.
In addition, a set of papers selected by the coordination team will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (a fully indexed journal, also at ISI /Thomson Reuters). The decision of the editors as to which papers may be selected -and undergo peer review- for the book and for the special issue of the journal, is final.
/// PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Delegates attending the “2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation” will come from a cross-sectoral range of areas, from both industrialised and developing countries. They are:
i. officials at city, regional and national levels concerned with climate change
ii. members of NGOs working with climate change;
iii. researchers at universities and research centres;
iv. teaching staff at universities;
v. representatives from companies;
vi. representatives from development agencies working with climate change adaptation and executing projects on the ground;
vii. project officers and consultants;
viii. other people interested in the field.
The participation of doctoral students is warmly encouraged and supervisors/advisers are kindly requested to facilitate their participation. The sort of international exposure and the rich content of this Symposium will be beneficial to their work, and their careers.
It is believed that this wide range of participants will help to outline the need for and the usefulness of integrated approaches towards climate change adaptation and, hence contribute to the further consolidation of this thematic area.

Data: 06 de Setembro de 2017

Local: Coimbra - Portugal

Contato: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/FakLS/07Forschung/FTZ-ALS/Veranstaltungen/Nova_Call__FINAL_.pdf


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