Enviro Events Digest II

Land Use in Transition: Potentials and Solutions Between Abandonment and Land Grabbing. 6/20-22 in Halle, Germany. The IAMO Forum 2012 will provide a platform to discuss cutting-edge research about the main trends, drivers, and outcomes of land use in transition economies of Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, and East Asia. The overall aim of the IAMO Forum 2012 is to improve our understanding of land use change in transition economies and to stimulate debates and discussions. O

 rganized by the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Geometrics Lab), and the University of Wisconsin (SILVIS Lab). http://www.iamo.de/forum0/forum2012

Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) http://www.iamo.de/en

Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Geometrics Lab) http://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/abteilungen/geomatik/research

University of Wisconsin (SILVIS Lab) http://silvis.forest.wisc.edu/

The 5th Annual Aspen Environment Forum. 6/22 17:00 to 6/25 15:00 in Aspen, CO.  The forum will explore how the planet is adapting, how we are adapting, and how adapting does not mean accepting.  For more information contact Andrea Browne-Phillips at abp@aspeninstitute.org or 202-736-3846.  http://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/2012/06/22/5th-annual-aspen-environment-forum

Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Webinar on Social Science in Antarctica. 6/25 17:00 GMT.  Professor Andrés Zarankin, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil will be presenting on “Landscapes in White; South American’s human sciences in Antarctica”.  The second speaker will be Dr. Peder Robert with presentation “When did Antarctica become a colonial space - and did it ever stop?”.  The APECS Anthropology site is located at http://apecs.is/research/areas-of-research/social-science-a-humanities/anthropology.  For more information contact Rosa Rut Thorisdottir at rosa.thoris@gmail.com or Luís Guilherme de Assis at luisguilhermera@yahoo.com.br.