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Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability:Environment, Economy and Society at risk?

Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at risk? is the theme of an international seminar to take place at the University of the West Indies, (UWI) Mona Campus from July 24-28, 2006. The seminar is part of the joint Regional meeting to be held by the Department of Geography & Geology, UWI Mona Campus, in conjunction with the Climate Change Research Group and the Developing Areas Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers.

The meeting will comprise three days of selected papers, as well as two field days illustrating aspects of Jamaica’s vulnerability to environmental change and globalisation.

According to the conference organizers, the Caribbean region is confronted by global change on many fronts. Global warming and climate change comprise the environmental engine while globalization and population growth are the fuel that drives changes in economy, society and landscapes. Caribbean nations (small island developing states - SIDS) are vulnerable to these global changes in complex and interconnected ways.

The aim of the meeting is to present a multi-disciplinary perspective on global change in the Caribbean region by highlighting its impacts on environmental, economic and social systems. The common theme of these Meetings is the search for development strategies that focus on the social and economic needs of people without further deterioration of the region’s fragile environmental resource base. This will be carried forward into this fifth Meeting, with a more overt focus on the nature of climatic change in the Caribbean Basin, and the consequences of observed trends for human activity.

The conference will bring together researchers from geography and related disciplines in the natural and social sciences to share their views on the interrelated impacts of global change on Caribbean people, societies and landscapes. Papers will be presented on a number of themes including Environmental change in the Caribbean Basin: current trends and future predictions; Vulnerable Caribbean natural systems: the impacts of environmental change and population pressure; Vulnerable Caribbean economies and societies: the impacts of globalization and environmental change. Specific topics to be considered include issues such as conservation, biodiversity, national parks and protected areas, and island biogeography, water resources and land degradation. Papers in the fields of tourism, trade, agriculture and food security, urban and regional planning and industrial policy will also be discussed.
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