1st International conference on urbanization and global environmental change

The 1st International Conference on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change "Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainability in an Urbanizing World" will be open to scientists, policymakers and the general public and will provide a comprehensive perspective of current knowledge of the dynamic and complex interactions between urbanization and global environmental change.

This conference is organized in close cooperation with the Global Land Project (GLP), who will host their Open Science Meeting from October 17-19. GLP is a joint research project for land systems for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP). Both UGEC and GLP will conjoin on Sunday, October 17th under the theme of "Sustainable Land Systems in the Era of Urbanization and Climate Change" in order to focus jointly on themes surrounding the urban, land, and climate change interface.

The themes that these linkages bring forward are becoming more prominent in global change and climate change science as suggested by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other major agenda-setting reports, recent and forthcoming, internationally. The goal of this day is to build contacts and networks among urban and land-change specialists to foster more collaboration worldwide, expanding the range of issues addressed.