Call for Papers: Global Environmental Change and Human Security - The Need for a New Vision for Science, Policy, and Leadership (Marrakech, 22-24 November, 2012)

Global Environmental Change and Human Security: The Need for a New Vision for Science, Policy, and Leadership 

Marrakech, 22-24 November, 2012

Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 July 2012

The NRCS and the GIZ, along with numerous partners, have successfully organized the previous editions of the above conference respectively in 2009 and 2011 focusing on different, but related themes. This series of worldwide scientific meetings, organized in Morocco and involving a huge number of delegates representing more than 50 countries and 300 participants, is increasingly acknowledged as a distinguished multinational forum that provided an early focus on key "glocal" issues from an interdisciplinary/multidimensional approach and North-South / South-South perspectives. It is designed to: provide space for exchanging and sharing research outcomes and relevant experiences; contribute to the setting of future science and policy agendas; and explore necessary networking. The two editions gave birth to high quality publications with a worldwide relevance and a substantial set of inputs for decision-making processes at various levels (ex. Sustainable Agricultural Development, Springer / Global Food Insecurity, Springer / Climate change, Energy Crisis and Food Insecurity, Laval University Press).

In order to sustain the debate within the current context and dynamics, the organizers are pleased to launch the third edition with a focus on the theme: "Global environmental change and human security".  This edition is expected to provide an update of the newest understanding of environmental change caused by current development models and schemes, human security implications of this change, and options available for different societies to respond to present and future challenges. Participants will consider how understandings and conceptions of security are being transformed in the face of global environmental change (with a focus on climate change), and how urgent a shift – in science, policy and leadership – is required to manage efficiently and prudently the current dynamics.  The event will serve as a space to conceive this critically needed roadmap.

Organizing Institutions: North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS), Morocco | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany | National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Leadership (NCCSD), India.

Partners: Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France

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