Call for Papers: Rethinking Integrated Assessments and Management Projects in the Americas at AGU (Brazil)

Session U 10 - Rethinking Integrated Assessments and Management Projects in the Americas

Sponsor: Union

Session Description:
Science and management agencies have invested substantially in interdisciplinary integrated assessment and management projects to address climate threats to water supplies, populations and environments in the Americas. It is time to illustrate and evaluate the efficacy of the core scientist-practitioner research partnerships of these projects and their effectiveness in targeting solutions and enhancing information exchange. Abstracts could address: co-development of science; decision support for environmental challenges; vulnerability to climate change; challenges to resource management posed by governance structures.

This is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate work in climate services, decision support, adaptation to climate variability and change, hazard vulnerability analyses, applied climatology, and many other topics and fields of endeavor.

Conveners
Gregg Garfin (Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona; <gmgarfin@email.arizona.edu>); Patricia Romero-Lankao (Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research; <prlankao@ncar.edu>); Robert Varady (Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona; <rvarady@email.arizona.edu>)

Meeting information and abstract submission: www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/index.php

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2010