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Population Footprints – UCL & Leverhulme Trust Symposia

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, January 7, 2011

TweetPopulation Footprints 25-26 May 2011, The Mermaid Conference Centre, London EC4V 3DB 1st Announcement & Call for Poster Abstracts www.populationfootprints.org We would like to bring to your attention this major UCL and Leverhulme Trust symposium on human population growth and global carrying capacity to be held in London on Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 May 2011. The symposium will [...]

HGRG call for papers – RGS-IBG 2010.

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Thursday, December 17, 2009

TweetThe Health Geography Research Group (HGRG) of the RGS have announced a call for papers for a number of sessions due to take place in the coming year’s annual Royal Geographcial Society- Institute of British Geographers conference. The sessions cover the following themes: Healthy Countrysides?: exploring geographies of rural health Healthy Places Geographies of (dis)ability, [...]

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Monday, June 22, 2009

TweetA new report released today at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn Meeting, says climate change may cause vast human migrations on an order not previously experienced. The report, In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Displacement and Migration, was written by CIESIN, the United Nations University, and CARE [...]