Prospects for integrated environmental assessment
24 October 1996 - 24 October 1996
France
An international symposium entitled "Prospects for integrated environmental assessment: lessons learnt from the case of climate change" will be held in Toulouse, France, from 24 to 26 October 1996. The symposium is sponsored by the Community's specific RTD programme in the field of environment and climate.
The aim of the symposium is to review activities in the field of integrated environmental assessment (IEA) and draw lessons from the extensive IEA experience of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Based on these experiences, the symposium will discuss critical generic issues relating to IEA for other global and regional environmental problems. These issues will include dealing with uncertainty, quality assurance, interdisciplinarity, problems of scale and aggregation and the research/policy interface. The symposium programme will include plenary sessions, round table discussions and working groups.
The symposium is intended to lead to the establishment of a European research forum on IEA which will identify the challenges ahead and support the development of good practice. This forum would encourage wide participation of both providers and users of IEA and foster cooperation between researchers and policy makers at European and global levels.
Further information may be obtained from:
MEDIAS-France
CNES
BPi 2102
18 avenue Edouard-Belin
F-31055 Toulouse Cedex
Fax +33-61282905
E-mail: sec@medias.cst.cnes.fr
The aim of the symposium is to review activities in the field of integrated environmental assessment (IEA) and draw lessons from the extensive IEA experience of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Based on these experiences, the symposium will discuss critical generic issues relating to IEA for other global and regional environmental problems. These issues will include dealing with uncertainty, quality assurance, interdisciplinarity, problems of scale and aggregation and the research/policy interface. The symposium programme will include plenary sessions, round table discussions and working groups.
The symposium is intended to lead to the establishment of a European research forum on IEA which will identify the challenges ahead and support the development of good practice. This forum would encourage wide participation of both providers and users of IEA and foster cooperation between researchers and policy makers at European and global levels.
Further information may be obtained from:
MEDIAS-France
CNES
BPi 2102
18 avenue Edouard-Belin
F-31055 Toulouse Cedex
Fax +33-61282905
E-mail: sec@medias.cst.cnes.fr