Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions
Arctic Change 2008
Quebec City, Canada
9-12 December 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 26 September 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=11120
Or contact:
Mark Andrachuk
Email: mandrach [at] uoguelph.ca
Abstracts are invited for session T10 "Community Adaptation and
Vulnerability in Arctic Regions," being convened at the Arctic Change
2008 Conference, to be held 9-12 December 2008, in Quebec City, Canada.
The session will feature CAVIAR research (an international
interdisciplinary team funded under IPY) as well as other related
research. Organizers encourage interdisciplinary researchers interested
in adaptation to climate change to submit abstracts and participate in
this session.
This session will bring together researchers, northerners, government
representatives and others who are interested in the implications of
climate change for people in Arctic communities. Presentations and
discussion will address the ways that resources and livelihoods are
affected by changing conditions, as well as adaptation strategies
available to communities and governments.
The session will be chaired by:
Barry Smit (University of Guelph, Canada)
Grete Hovelsrud (CICERO, Norway)
Isabelle Champagne-Shields (ITK, Canada) (to be confirmed)
The deadline for submitting abstracts for all sessions is
Friday, 26 September 2008.
To submit an abstract for this session, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=13010
For further information regarding this session, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=11120
Or contact:
Mark Andrachuk
Email: mandrach [at] uoguelph.ca
Information about the Arctic Change 2008 conference can be found at:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/