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Updated June 30, 2008

Southeast Regional Quality Growth Conference
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
August 12 - 14, 2008 • Charleston, SC
www.sustainablecommunitiesconference.org

Nashville - The Southeast Watershed Forum is working with NOAA's Coastal Services Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Gulf of Mexico Program, TVA and other agencies and organizations on plans for the first Regional Quality Growth conference - Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, scheduled for August 12-14, 2008 in Charleston, South Carolina at the Doubletree Guest Suites.

This conference offers an opportunity to provide regional leadership on issues that will dramatically affect the viability and natural resource base of southeastern communities. It will highlight resource protection programs and management strategies to ensure more sustainable communities in a time of unprecedented growth and development pressures, diminished water availability and threats from climate change.

More than 35 presenters and seven plenary speakers will provide innovative ideas and case studies based on the following themes: 1) Building Greener Communities; 2) Saving Habitat, Farmland, Green Infrastructure and Community Character, and 3) Designing Resilient Communities.

Pre-conference workshops and field trips will be available on August 12, with the conference program beginning on August 13. Early registration is $160/person until July 18. A conference room rate of $109/night is available until July 25. On-line registration and room reservations are available through the website: www.sustainablecommunitiesconference.org.

The program should attract developers, land use planners, natural resource managers, elected officials, land trusts, watershed groups, universities and local, state and federal agencies in an effort to showcase ideas for creating wiser land use and development strategies for the region. The conference will serve as the Forum's 11th Watershed Roundtable.

For additional information, please contact the Southeast Watershed Forum at 615-627-1310 or kd@southeastwaterforum.org, or visit the website at www.sustainablecommunitiesconference.org.

Nebraska Community Foundation
2008 Rural Philanthropy Conference

Save the Date!

September 10-12, 2008
Nebraska City, Nebraska

The 2008 Rural Philanthropy Conference is just around the corner.

Come learn more about...

  • Using the Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth as a Call-to-Action
  • Rural Development Philanthropy
  • HomeTown Competitiveness (HTC), Fundraising Catalysts & Strategic Grant Making
  • Action Planning
  • Public Policy
  • Engaging Alumni and Expatriates
  • Communications and Marketing
  • Donor Visitation and Strategie

Make plans to attend today!

The Rural Philanthropy Conference is convened
by the Nebraska Community Foundation.

Details and registration information will be available soon.
For more information contact Sheri Hink
at 402-323-7347 or shink@nebcommfound.org.

See highlights from the 2007 conference at www.nebcommfound.org/RPC/2007RPC.htm.

INTEGRATIVE THINKING FOR COMPLEX FUTURES:
CREATING RESILIENCE IN HUMAN-NATURE SYSTEMS

XVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology

Sept. 10-13, 2008
Huxley College of the Environment
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington, USA

Western Washington University's campus will provide a stimulating setting for Human Ecology's most important, integrative, interdisciplinary and personable gathering. And, the Cascade Mountains and the "Salish Sea" are beautiful in September!

Compelling keynote speakers, and many different themes to participate in, including:

  • Ecology in Thought and Action
  • Urban Human Ecology
  • New Directions in Human Ecology Education
  • Resilient Roads to Management: Processes and Challenges
  • Environmental Biography
  • Conservation Psychology
  • Adaptation
  • Integration
  • Feedback
  • Self-reliance
  • Interdisciplinary Environmental Program Design and Curriculum
  • Regional themes around resource and governance issues

Suggestions for tracks and sessions are welcome:

Gene Myers
Huxley College, Western Washington University
360-650-4775
Gene.Myers@wwu.edu
http://www.societyforhumanecology.org

A summer short course in Environmental Demography is being offered by the University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC), July 16-18, in Boulder, Colorado. The course will provide an overview of the sub-discipline and several in-depth examples of central areas of research. Top scholars in the field will review both conceptual and methodological aspects of their research. In addition, students will receive an introduction to spatial data and analyses with a focus on the link between demographic and environmental processes. Topics include: Population and Environment Scholarship: A Review and Considerations for the Future (Lori Hunter, University of Colorado - Boulder); Agent Based (Simulation) Approaches to Modeling Population and Environment (Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill); Population and Deforestation: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches (David Carr, University of California - Santa Barbara); Measuring Environmental Racial Inequality: Using GIS to Link Theories, Questions, Definitions, and Indicators (Liam Downey, University of Colorado - Boulder). Format: The course is open to all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty from any institution. CUPC will provide a limited number of stipends to pay for travel to and from the short course. Course credit: If desired, students may enroll in the course for 1.5 credits, and the CUPC will cover tuition expenses. Credit-seeking students will be expected to complete a final exam. For further information, including application information, please see: http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/cupc/short_courses/env_demography/ or contact: Lori.Hunter@colorado.edu. Application deadline: April 6. Supported, in part, by NICHD.

2008 Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Training Course Schedule
by Rabel J Burdge and Colleagues

March 13 & 14
The Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel, Richmond, BC, Canada. Rabel Burdge (USA) is the instructor. For a registration form and additional questions contact Rabel at burdge@comcast.net or phone +1-360-676-9892. Registration is now open! To view the course outline go to http://www.socialimpactassessment.net/SIAcourseMarch08Vancouver.htm

April 28 & 29
At the Eco-Centre Building on the Griffith University Campus in Nathan, Brisbane, Australia. Instructors are Rabel Burdge (USA) and Roy Rickson (Australia). Roy may be reached at r.rickson@griffith.edu.au or phone +61 (0)7 3735 7516 and Rabel at burdge@comcast.net or phone +1-360-676-9892. Registration opens 1 February, 2008. For registration information and to view the detailed course outline go to http://www.socialimpactassessment.net/AustraliaSIAcourse.htm

May 4-5
Convention Exhibition Centre in Perth, Western Australia, Sunday and Monday May 4 & 5 in conjunction with the 28th annual meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). The Instructors are Rabel Burdge (USA) and Nick Taylor (New Zealand). Registration is now open! For questions about the course contact Rabel at burdge@comcast.net or phone +1-360-676-9892. To register and view the course outline go to http://www.socialimpactassessment.net/IAIA2008PerthSIAcourse.htm

June 9-10
At the Dudley H. Davis Center on the Campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont in conjunction with the 14th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) June, 10-14. Instructor is Rabel Burdge (USA). You may contact Rabel at burdge@comcast.net or phone +1-360-676-9892. Registration is now open. To view the course outline go to http://www.socialimpactassessment.net/SIAcourseISSRM08.htm

October 23-24
In Downtown Washington D.C. (USA). A venue will be located for the 2008 course. Rabel Burdge (USA) is the instructor. Registration begins July 15, 2008. To registration and for other information contact Rabel at burdge@comcast.net or phone +1-360-676-9892. To view the course outline and register go to http://www.socialimpactassessment.net/WashingtonDCSIACourse.htm

For details go to http://www.socialimpactassessment.net/2008siacourses.htm and scroll down to your preferred date. Includes links to outlines for each course.

First Call For Papers And Participation
2nd International Conference On Sociology
May 12-15, 2008
Athens, Greece

The Sociology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 2nd International Conference on Sociology in Athens, Greece, May 12-15, 2008. The conference website is www.atiner.gr/docs/Sociology.htm

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a half-day tour to archaeological sites will be organized.

Papers (in English only) from all areas of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Social Work are welcome. Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. If you think that you can contribute, please send an abstract of about 300 words, via email only (atiner@atiner.gr), before October 15th, 2007 to:  Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER and Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr), Director, ATINER.