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19th Annual Colloquium of the CSRs of the IGU

01 - 07 August 2011, NUI Galway

Theme: The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Local and Global Challenges and Opportunities

The 19th Annual Colloquium of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems (CSRS) was held at NUI Galway, from 1-7 August 2011, and is judged to have been a most successful event. Some 70 delegates and accompanying persons attended from 17 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, the UK, and the USA), providing many opportunities for the exchange of international research experience relating to the theme of the Commission. For more information on the Colloquium, please visit the WEBSITE or contact Dr Mary Cawley, Geography Discipline, NUI Galway mary.cawleynuigalway.ie

Whitaker Institute kindly provided sponsorship towards Keynote Lectures by international specialists on the broad colloquium theme, as follows. The texts of their lectures are included here as Powerpoint files:

 

 

Tuesday 2nd August: Professor Ana Maria Bicalho, Federal University of Brazil

Forestry Management in Inhabited Conservation Units: the Tapajós National Forest as a Model of Community Governance. Download slides HERE

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Tuesday 2nd August: Professor Lucette Laurens, University of Montpellier 3

Ceasing Agriculture and Territorial Orientated Changes: Which Developmental Models? Uncertainties Pertaining to the Uprooting of Vines in Languedoc-Roussillon. Download slides HERE

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Wednesday 3rd August: Professor Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University

Grounding Global Challenges and the Relational Politics of the Rural. Download slides HERE

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Saturday 6th August: Professor Tony Sorensen, University of New England, NSW

Quantum Dreaming: the Relevance of Quantum Mechanics to Regional Science. Download slides HERE

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This event was supported by the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP), funded under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, administered by the HEA and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

         

    

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