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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 > > 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] > > > 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