1997 OPEN MEETING OF THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS
OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE RESEARCH COMMUNITY
IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
June 12-14, 1997
THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT
WITH SPECIAL PLENARY SESSIONS
Health
Attitudes and Behavior
Industrial Transformation/Business and Trade
Integrated Assessment
Environmental Governance
Environmental Security
The 1997 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions Research Community will be held at the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria on June 12-14, 1997.
This meeting is a follow-on to the First Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change Community held at Duke University on June 1-3, 1995. It is sponsored by
IIASA and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), with co-sponsorship from Directorate
General XII of the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, the International Human
Dimensions Programme of Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the Austrian Ministry for
Science and Transport.
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together the growing human dimensions research
community to promote exchanges of information on current research, teaching and outreach, to
encourage networking in this new field, and to attract social scientists, humanists and others not
previously involved in human dimensions work. There will be special plenary sessions on leading
issues in the human dimensions of global environmental change as stated above, followed by
numerous small group sessions.
For updates and additional information: This material will be updated regularly and will be
available, inter alia, at the IIASA and SSRC World Wide Web sites, at http://www.iiasa.ac.at and
http://www.ssrc.org, respectively. To speak with meeting staff, please contact either Ingrid TeplyBaubinder at IIASA, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria, +43-2236-807-478 tel., +43-2236-71313 fax,
teply@iiasa.ac.at, or Arun Elhance at the Global Environmental Change Program at the Social
Science Research Council, 810 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019, +212-377-2700 tel.,
+212-377-2727 fax, elhance@ssrc.org.
March 12, 1997
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Draft Agenda
THURSDAY
9.30 Opening
10.00 Plenary Session -Health
FRIDAY
9.00 Plenary Session -Industrial Transformation/
Business and Trade
SATURDAY
9.00 Plenary Session -Environmental Governance
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Small Group Sessions
10.45 Coffee Break
11.00 Small Group Sessions
10.00 Coffee Break
10.15 Small Group Sessions
Environmental Security
Integrated Regional
Assessment
Environmental Governance
Population Dimensions of
Regional Environmental
Change
Human Choice and Climate
Change
Consumption as a Cause of
Environmental Degradation
Socializing the Pixels and
LUCC
Health
Trade
Globalism, Localism and
Citizenship
Integrated Assessment
Resilience in
Ecological/Economic
Systems
Integrated Regional Analysis
Biodiversity
Regional Experiments and
Innovation Oriented Climate
Policy
IIASA - LUC
Interactions between
Environmental Regimes
Industrial Transformation
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Plenary Session -Attitudes and Behavior
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Plenary Session -Integrated Assessment
12.00 Lunch
13.30 Plenary Session -Environmental Security
15.30 Coffee Break
15.45 Small Group Sessions
15.30 Coffee Break
15.45 Small Group Sessions
14.30 Coffee Break
14.45 Small Group Sessions
Modeling Human Agency
Remote Sensing and GIS in
support of HDP
Population and the
Environment
Stakeholder Involvement in
Integrated Assessment
Vulnerability
Deforestation and Regrowth
in the Brazilian Amazon
Energy
Land Use
Coasts and Islands
Attitudes and Behavior
Attitudes and Behavior
Energy Technology
Industrial Transformation
Perspectives on Sustainable
Development in Europe
16.30 Closing Session
18.00 Social Event