Please see details of a forthcoming conference that I am posting on behalf of Terry Marsden.
Best
Paul
Paul Milbourne
School of City and Regional Planning
Cardiff University
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> CARDIFF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE PLACE-MAKING
> DATE: 29th/30th October 2012
> VENUE: Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
>
> Coping with the adaptive changes necessary as a result of climate change
> and resource depletion becomes one of the main challenges facing the world
> in the second decade of the 21st century. Sustainability science has grown
> rapidly as an engaging interdisciplinary field in which to scientifically
> address these issues. This conference wishes to focus on the problem of
> sustainable place- making; that is how integrated thinking can be developed
> and applied in different places and spaces so as to adapt systems of
> production and consumption and bring about transformative change.
>
> The conference wishes to bring together leading scholars and active
> researchers around the theme of sustainable place making, providing a
> platform for critical debate and progress about the theoretical/ conceptual
> and practice and policy implications of adopting place-making approaches.
> Within the themes below, papers are invited which address:
> (i) Areas of theoretical and conceptual progress in understanding the
> comparative complexities of place-based adaptive change;
> (ii) Methodological advances in understanding and assessing integrated
> place-based solutions at different spatial scales;
> (iii) The implications for innovations in policy and practice and for
> adaptive governance frameworks.
>
> Themes
> 1) Sustainable and connected communities
> 2) Ecosystems and ecosystem services
> 3) Implications of mobilities, flows and migrations for the creation of
> sustainable places
> 4) Re-placing risk governance: alternative ways of governing places
>
> Abstract proposals for papers or posters should be submitted by 31st July
> 2012 to: [log in to unmask]
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> Abstracts should be up to 250 words and indicate your name, contact email
> address, your Institution (if applicable) and which theme you would like to
> be considered for. Further details of the conference can be found at:
>
> http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/sustainableplaces/conference/index.html
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