Dealing with Disasters International Conference
28th-29th November 2011, Cardiff, UK

The two-day conference will include: Keynote speakers, plenary sessions and themed workshops. We seek submissions for papers based on the theme: Reflections on Recent Disasters where topics may include, but are not limited to:

1. Environmental disasters and the findings from interventions

2. Transport, industrial and other man-made disasters and the implications for planning

3. Conflict as a disaster and the implications

4. Risk, vulnerability, poverty and development: the inter-relationships

5. Impacts of disasters on travel and tourism and ensuing mobilities

Submissions are welcome from anyone in the research, NGOs, practitioner, policy or industrial community.

Further details here.

2012 ISEE Conference Call for Papers
12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND RIO +20
CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR A GREEN ECONOMY
29 May – 1 June, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

ISEE is a nonprofit, member-governed organization dedicated to advancing understanding of the relationships between the economy, ecology and society, for the mutual well-being of people and nature. ISEE conferences are transdisciplinary and have been held biennially since 1990. ISEE 2012 has been conceived to dovetail with the Rio +20 UNCSD Earth Summit . The Earth Summit has been charged with developing a road map for international cooperation toward a “Green Economy” and for promoting institutions necessary for sustainable development. ISEE 2012 will address UNCSD themes as well as other key debates within ecological economics and environmental policy. It will promote dialogue with the Summit through a final ministerial panel and the participation of policy makers. The challenge for Ecological Economics at this Summit is to contribute to designing innovative alternatives, to address market and institutional failures, as well as to better understand ecological and economic systems.

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Humanitarian Innovation Fund

Call for Proposals - July 2011

We are pleased to announce the second call for proposals for the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) is now open.

The Humanitarian Innovation Fund supports organisations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative solutions to the challenges facing operational agencies in the delivery of effective humanitarian aid.

Today sees the second call for proposals for the ‘large grant facility’ which provides funding to projects up to £150,000 and supports the development, implementation and testing of innovation. The ‘small grant facility’ offers project funding of up to £20,000 and is open to proposals at any time.

Full details of the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, the call for proposals and the different types of funding available can be found here. To help humanitarian innovators better understand how the application process works, there is now an instructional video available English on the HIF website a video in French will be available next week.

For further details, including the full call and application packs, please visit www.humanitarianinnovation.org.

Disability-Inclusive MDGs and Aid Effectiveness
Date: 12 – 14 March 2012
Location: UN Conference Centre, Bangkok

A call for papers is now open for new or recent work (published or unpublished) on disability-inclusive MDGs or disability and aid effectiveness for presentation at this conference, organised jointly by Leonard Cheshire Disability and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).  Bringing together disabled people's organisations, non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, development practitioners and academics, the conference will offer a unique opportunity to develop innovative ways to bring disability into the international development mainstream.

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