Symposium on coping with global change in marine social-ecological systems

An international symposium on coping with global change in marine social-ecological systems will be held in Rome, Italy, from 8 to 11 July.

The central goals are to share experiences across disciplines and to identify essential next steps and common elements and approaches that promote the resilience of marine social-ecological systems in the face of global changes.

In eight sessions, speakers and participants will discuss:
- scale, vulnerability, and resilience: case studies and integrated approaches to the study of change and drivers of change in marine social-ecological systems;
- Are the high seas social-ecological systems? Internationally-shared marine resources under climate change;
- integrated modelling of marine social-ecological systems: possibilities and limitations;
- ecosystem services and values: ecological, economic, social and cultural;
- marine social-ecological systems, human security, and climate change: policy responses;
- practicing interdisciplinarity: how can marine and social scientists work together on social-ecological systems?
- marine science for society communications, outreach, and management in an uncertain future;
- governance approaches for building adaptive capacity in marine social-ecological systems.For further information, please visit:
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