ACES 2011

Conservation Conflicts: strategies for coping with a changing world

Occuring on Friday 19 August - Wednesday 24 August

About

Join Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability for scientific exploration, discussion, and discovery with social and natural scientists, policy makers and artists from all over the world. Hear cutting-edge lectures by leading Political Ecologist Bill Adams, historian Robert Lambert, renowned social anthropologist Tim Ingolds, prominent evolutionary psychologist Mark van Vught, the economists Nick Hanley, Gareth Edward-Jones, mediation expert Roger Sidaway, facilitator Diana Pound, sociologist Christina Prell, philosopher Alan Holland, Peace studies expert Paul Rogers and a variety of distinguished Conservation Biologists including Bill Sutherland, Rocky Gutiérrez, Steve Redpath, Isadora Katara and Jeremy Wilson.

ACES 2011 is much more than a regular conference. On the agenda are plenary sessions, core and short paper sessions, poster sessions, panel and working group sessions, a policy forum, a debate on fisheries, a conservation conflict inspired art exhibition and musical performances.

To register, visit www.aces-2011.org (registration closes 1 August 2011)

Organisation

Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability

Venue

Aberdeen Art Centre

Address

Aberdeen Arts Centre 33 King Street Aberdeen AB24 5AA

Topics

Climate, water and energy