GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING-2009 (GCGW-09) Session on Education, Awareness and Training on Climate Change
The Global Conference on Global Warming will take place in Istanbul, Turkey on 5-9 July 2009. Details can be seen at: http://www.gcgw.org/gcgw09/index.php?conference=gcgw09&schedConf=gcgw09 In the context of the GCGW-09 a special “Session on Education, Awareness and Training on Climate Change” will be organized. It is convened by Professor Walter Leal, from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. The session will consist of papers which will explore the links between education, awareness and training and climate change. The session will be organized in cooperation with the “International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management” (IJCCSM), published by the Emerald Publishing Group in the United Kingdom. The “Session on Education, Awareness and Training on Climate Change” will congregate climate experts, educators and university personnel performing activities which aim at fostering awareness on climate change to different groups and audiences. A special focus will be given to pilot and demonstration projects, curricular activities and to research which aim to catalyse a better understanding of global warming, climate change and of the factors which are associated with it. Papers presented at the Session will be published in a special issue of the (IJCCSM) hence maximizing the efforts made ot participants to attend the conference and present their findings. Contact details: Prof. Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DL) Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" Hamburg University of Applied Sciences- Faculty of Life Sciences Lohbruegger Kirchstraße 65 21033 Hamburg, Germany e-mail: walter.l...@ls.haw-hamburg.de
