A few weeks ago, Jim Jones circulated an announcement for a session at
the conference on Integrated Assessment of Agriculture and Sustainable
Development: Setting the Agenda for Science and Policy (AgSAP), 10-12
March 2009, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
(http://www.conference-agsap.org/).  Lennart Olsson (Lund University,
[log in to unmask]) and I are organizing Session C-2 on
Modelling Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies to Cope with Climate
Change (http://www.conference-agsap.org/session_C2.htm).  Holger Meinke
(Wageningen University) will give a keynote presentation, "Will Global
Mitigation Policy Enhance or Undermine Local Adaptation?"  We encourage
you to submit an abstract for this session, and to inform other
colleagues who are doing relevant work.  We want to showcase innovations
in system modelling to inform decisions that can reduce the
vulnerability of agriculture to a changing climate, reduce the
contribution of agriculture to climate change, or manage the tradeoffs
and exploit the synergies between adaptation and greenhouse gas
mitigation.  Examples of topics that we would like to see represented
include:

    * modelling approaches that span spatial scales and system levels;
    * interventions that consider tradeoffs and synergies between
      immediate development goals and long-term sustainability or
      between environment and livelihood goals within agriculture;
    * innovations for managing the uncertainty associated with climate
      change; and
    * studies that consider climate change in the context of other
      global drivers of change.

Please note that abstracts are due 15 October.

Regards,

Jim

--
James W. Hansen, Ph.D.
Research Scientist - Agricultural Systems
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society
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