December 10th, 2014 
CI2S Enterprise Content Admin Call for Papers: International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Actions: London 27–31 January 2015.
Conference Focus
The 10th International Conference on Climate: Impacts and Actions will be held at the University of Greenwich, London, 27-31 January 2015. This annual event seeks to create an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of evidence of climate change: its causes, its ecosystemic impacts, and its human impacts. The conference also explores the technological, strategic, and social responses to climate change. Proposals for paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, roundtables or colloquia are invited, addressing the impacts of and responses to climate change through one of the following themes: Proposal ideas that extend beyond these thematic areas below will also be considered:
Theme 1: Scientific Evidence
What is evidence is there of climate change?
- Paleoclimatology: the earth’s climate in a long view
- Climate change today: examining the data
- Ice cap reduction and glacial melt
- Sea level change
- Floods, drought, forest fires, hurricanes and other sporadic events
- Albedo or measuring the earth’s reflectiveness
- Meteorology and climate informatics
- Equilibria and disequilibria: change processes and countervailing tendencies
- Climate measurement processes, methodologies and technologies
- Reading complex, dynamic and unstable systems
- Developing local and global climate models
- Change scenarios: slow, rapid, abrupt or episodic
Theme 2: Assessing Impacts in Divergent Ecosystems
What are the impacts of climate change on natural environments?
- Ocean currents and el Niño
- Riverine ecosystem impacts
- Mountain ecosystem impacts
- Coastal ecosystem impacts
- Marine ecosystem impacts
- Forest and grassland ecosystem impacts
- Impacts on wilderness and protected areas
- Impacts on specific biomes
- Impacts on biodiversity, potential extinctions
- Hardiness zone migration
- Regional variations: temperature and rainfall
Theme 3: Human Impacts and Impacts on Humans
What evidence is there that human activity has contributed to climate change, and what are the impacts of climate change on human life?
- Anthropogenic factors in climate change: determining the relative contribution of natural and human causes
- Impacts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
- Land use patterns, agriculture and livestock husbandry and deforestation as factors in climate change
- Impacts on humans: agriculture, fish stocks, food supply, health
- Human settlements and sea level rise
- Impacts on humans: water resources, desertification
- Impacts on humans of intense weather events, natural disasters and ecological surprises
- Impacts of climate change in the developing world
Theme 4: Technical, Political and Social Responses
How do scientists, technologies, policy makers and community members respond to climate change?
- Environmental policies in response to climate change
- Controversy and denial: politics, the media and scientists with dissenting views
- The international politics of climate change
- The past, present and future of international agreements
- Education and awareness for management of global climate change
- Protected areas and preservation of biodiversity: ‘corridoring’ and other strategies
- Strategies for sustainability
- Human adaptive strategies
- Technologies of mitigation: carbon dioxide sequestration, solar shades and other processes
- Alternative and renewable energy sources: technologies, policies and strategies
- Carbon taxes, offsets and trading
- Emission standards
- Climate ethics and the precautionary principle
- Eco-development, eco-efficiency
- Music, Climate Change, Environment and Art
Submissions are welcomed that cross more than one thematic area. Please suggest additions and changes and email Dr. Ewan Miller: dr.ewanmiller@aol.co.
Access Grant Scholar Award
A limited number of Access Grant Scholar Award will be granted to Participating Paid Delegates attending the conference to cover per diem, flight ticket and travel insurance. For more information about the online registration, accommodation, access grant scholar award, email Dr. Ewan Miller: dr.ewanmiller@aol.co.
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