GLOBEC-EUROCEANS-FAO Symposium "Coping with global change in marine social-ecological systems"

GLOBEC-EUROCEANS-FAO Symposium "Coping with global change in marine social-ecological systems"
Rome, Italy, 8-10 July 2008

Marine ecosystem changes have impacts on, and consequences for, the human communities that depend on these systems, and how these human communities respond to these changes can have reciprocal impacts on marine ecosystems. These two highly inter-connected and interactive "ecological" (including physical-biological sub-systems) and "human" (including cultural, management, economic, and socio-political sub-systems) components are, however, usually studied independently from each other, and by different scientific disciplines with largely different scientific traditions ("natural" scientists; "social"` scientists and humanists). This symposium is designed to share experiences across disciplines and to identify key next steps and common elements and approaches that promote resilience of marine social-ecological systems in the face of global changes.

Conveners: Dr. Ian Perry (Fisheries & Oceans Canada), Dr. Rosemary Ommer (University of Victoria, Canada) and Dr. Philippe Cury (IRD/CRH, France).

Detailed information is available at the website: http://www.peopleandthesea.org.
Abstracts will be accepted until January 1, 2008.
For specific queries please contact globec@pml.ac.uk.