Hello, A fellow UC Berkeley ESPM graduate student and I are putting together a symposium for the 2011 Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting (Nov 28th to Dec 2nd at University of Canterbury, New Zealand) on Conservation and Food Security and we are looking for individuals who work on this subject and would be interested in participating in our panel.
The working title of the symposium is "Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Communities?: Links between Conservation and Food Security". We are interested in assembling a range of perspectives on this topic, from those who study biodiversity and sustainable agricultural systems to those who examine links between natural resource dependence and food security. The keynote speaker for this symposium will be Dr. Justin Brashares, from UC Berkeley, whose talk will address issues of food security in the context of fisheries management and the bushmeat crisis in Africa. Five fifteen minute presentations and a concluding question and answer period will follow. If you are planning to attend SCB in New Zealand in 2011 and would be interested in being a part of our panel, please email me and provide a working title/abstract for your talk by January 14th. We unfortunately cannot offer travel funding for participants at this time, but encourage you to seek out independent channels for conference travel funding. Thanks, Katie Fiorella PhD Student Environmental Science, Policy & Management University of California, Berkeley kfiore...@gmail.com
