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CBA8: 8th conference on community-based adaptation to climate change. Kathmandu, 24-30 April 2014
Posted on: 21 May 2014
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This event looks at the latest developments in community-based adaptation financing, planning and best practices. Highlights from the event, including comments, blogs, and social media coverage from the three days of fields trips and four days of conference sessions of CBA8 are available online. The conference concluded with the launch of the Kathmandu Declaration on Financing Local Adaptation, which saw delegates call for a radical shift in flows of finance to ensure the most vulnerable communities can adapt to climate change.
From vulnerable places to resilient territories: The path to sustainable development. Fortaleza, Brazil, 27-30 April 2014
Posted on: 21 May 2014
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This Regional Studies Association conference focused on thinking about paths, policies and ideas to strengthen vulnerable places and to develop cohesive and resilient territories. Presentations and papers are available online.
56th CAF Meeting and Regional Seminar on Tourism and Air Connectivity in Africa. Luanda, Angola, 28-30 April 2014
Posted on: 21 May 2014
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Presentations and background information is available for this meeting on tourism and air connectivity in Africa.
Resilience 2014. Resilience and development: Mobilizing for transformation. Montpellier, 4-8 May 2014
Posted on: 19 May 2014
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This is the third International Science and Policy Conference on the resilience of social and ecological systems. The aim was to create an arena for exchanges and discussions articulating concepts and practices of adaptation, transformation and development. Abstracts are available together with a video of the masterclass. In preparation for the international conference in 2014, a number of scientific activities and events were held to promote a collective expertise on the resilience of social and ecological systems. Presentations from these are also available.
Time to make garden cities a reality. London, 25 March 2014
Posted on: 15 May 2014
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The TCPA’s Spring Conference builds upon the Association’s highly successful Garden Cities campaign with the aim of keeping up the momentum on the Garden Cities and Suburbs agenda in the build up to the 2015 general election and providing practical solutions to delivery. The Conference considered how we can overcome the practical, economic and political barriers to delivering new large-scale communities built to Garden City standards. It explored issues such as whether the existing New Towns legislation needs updating; how land value increases can be used to fund up-front infrastructure investment; how we can ensure that high quality new developments remain attractive and successful places for generations to come. Presentations are available online.
Water and environment 2014: CIWEM’s Annual conference. London, 8-9 April 2014
Posted on: 15 May 2014
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This event looked at the practical reality of sustainably delivering water and environmental management. Presentations are available online.
Impact assessment for sustainable development: Knowledge systems for the future. Brussels, 1-2 April 2014
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As a European research consortium LIAISE investigated over the past found and a half years the Impact Assessment (IA) practices in relation to Sustainable Development (SD). Specific attention was given to the question how the process of IA in various venues (i.e. nation states, supra national organizations and local organizations) is related to the processes of research and knowledge production. The conference presented the main findings of LIAISE in evaluating IA practices, research agenda setting, tool repository development, test cases, and outreach. Presentations are available online.
Trees, people and the built environment. Birmingham, 2-3 April 2014
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This is a collaborative event that brings together professionals from the worlds of forestry and arboriculture to hear ground breaking international research on urban foresting. The event highlights the many social, econonic and environmental benefits that trees bring to urban populations, and indeed the planet. This event is hosted tri-annually by the Institute of Chartered Foresters as its National Conference, and managed by a pan-industry steering group of organisations with an interest in urban greening. Presentations are available online.
Seminar on developing effective tourism clusters. Baku, 3 April 2014
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Although the tourism sector is highly competitive, joint efforts are increasingly becoming the norm rather than the exception. Tourism practitioners from the public and private sectors, academia and civil society are recognizing that through clustering, they can build a critical mass allowing them take advantage of operational synergies, generate economies of scale, increase productivity and innovation, and ultimately become more competitive. Moreover, with tourism products being comprised of and amalgam of activities across various industry sectors such as retail, accommodation, cafes and restaurants, cultural & recreational services, effective clustering allows destinations to provide a seamless and high quality visitor experience. Nevertheless, the tourism sector faces challenges in the development of effective tourism clusters, especially the fragmented nature of the sector and the preponderance of small- and medium-sized enterprises, as well as a lack of awareness of clustering opportunities. Participants in the seminar of Developing Effective Tourism Clusters were presented with practical, evidence-based experience of cluster development, and have the opportunity to engage in debate about the key factors which ensure the successful creation and management of tourism clusters. Presentations and background information is available online.
Urban equity in development: Cities for life. Medellin, Colombia, 5-11 April 2014
Posted on: 8 May 2014
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The Seventh Session of the World Urban Forum provided a platform to create new networks and partnerships and strengthen existing ones, with a meaningful impact on equity and development. Participants gained new awareness about the role that cities, countries, international agencies and development partners can play in advancing an equity agenda, sharing knowledge and best practices. Discussions took place on how to implement the “Cities for Life” concept that is both normatively and operationally linked to the notion of equity. The concrete objectives of WUF7 are to take stock of where the world stands with respect to the equity concept, analysing how this concept is perceived and utilised. Conclusions of the plenary sessions are available online. This blog provides a response to the Medellin Declaration.
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