FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Tom Dietz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preliminary Announcement and Request for Contributions The IUSSP/IHDP Population-Environment Research Network The Population-Environment Research Network is a new internet resource for scientists and scholars that will go on-line in January of 2001 at the internet address www.populationenvironmentresearch.org. The Network was created by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP) for Global Environmental Change with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in the United States and is being supervised by a Steering Committee and International Advisory Board of scholars and experts. The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University in the United States is providing network development and support. The goal is to provide the first global electronic resource specifically focused on current scientific research in population-environment dynamics, provide an online searchable database, encourage active academic exchanges and collaboration and help consolidate population-environment studies as a significant research field within demography and the social sciences. The Network will provide free web-based access to the latest literature, data, project news and findings from population and environment research around the globe. In February 2001 the Network will host the first international cyber-seminar and electronic conference through the website that will focus on population dynamics, migration and coastal and marine resources and ecosystems. The Network is now soliciting contributions from researchers for recent publications, working papers, bibliographies, conference presentations, datasets, project descriptions and other materials to enter into the Network s database. Electronic and hardcopy materials are welcome. Please send electronic materials, bibliographic citations or URLs for on-line documents to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please send or fax hardcopy materials to the Washington Headquarters at the address below. Contributions are welcome from diverse disciplines including: Demography, Geography, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Ecology, Biology, Environmental Studies and Mathematics. To find out more about the Network in general contact the network coordinators. Population and Environment Research Network, Washington Headquarters, 4611 Bayard Road, Bethesda, MD 20816 USA, Tel/Fax Network Coordinators: Catherine Marquette (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) and Laura Murphy (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Neil T. M. Hamilton Deputy Executive Director, IHDP International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Walter-Flex-Str. 3 53113 Bonn Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uni-bonn.de/IHDP phone: +49 228 - 739 051 fax: +49 228 - 73 90 54 _____________________________________________________ ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
