Symposium "Universities and Climate Change: the Role of Higher Education Institutions
in Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges"
Manchester, United Kingdom, 1st -2nd September 2016
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-als/veranstaltungen/universities2016.html

Dear Colleagues,

Many universities across the world perform state- of-the art research on matters related to climate change, both in respect of
mitigation, and adaptation. Yet, as shown by the latest 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change
(COP 21), held in Paris in December 2015, there is much room for improvements in the role played by universities
in the negotiations and in influencing decision-making on a matter of such a global importance.

There are unfortunately relatively few events where a multidisciplinary overview of university-based
research efforts and projects on climate change can be show cased, and where
researchers from across the spectrum of the natural and social sciences have had the
opportunity to come together to discuss research methods, the results of
empirical research or exchange ideas about on-going and future research initiatives focusing
on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

It is against this background that the Symposium “Universities and Climate Change: the Role of
Higher Education Institutions in Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges"
is being organised  by Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and HAW Hamburg, Germany,
under the auspices of the  International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP).
It will be held in Manchester, United Kingdom, on 1st -2nd September 2016.

The Symposium will involve researchers in the field of climate change in the widest sense, not only
from traditional climate science, but also from the fields of environment, human geography,
business and economics, arts, administration and media studies.

The Symposium will focus on the role of higher education institutions in addressing the
mitigation and adaptation challenges and will contribute to the further development of this
fast-growing field.  All papers will be peer-reviewed and the accepted ones will
be published in the “Handbook of Climate Change Research at Universities: addressing the mitigation
and adaptation challenges”. This will be a unique, state-of-the-art publication,
which will document and promote the research on climate change taking place at universities
across the world. The publication will be  part of the award-winning 
“Climate Change Management Sustainability Series” (launched in 2008), published
by Springer, one of the world´s top five scientific publishers. 

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Climate Change
Strategies and Management, which is a fully indexed journal. The call for papers can be seen
here: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=6464.

You are based on an university and performing research on climate change,
this is an event not to be missed.  Further details can be seen at: