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 and 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 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.