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IHDP Open Meeting 2009 - 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change - 26-30 April 2009; Bonn, Germany - The Social Challenges of Global Change

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Demographics

Monday, 27 April 2009

How do we deal with demographic challenges?

Though demographic challenges are in many ways synonymous with human dimensions research, they have not yet been explored fully or placed at the center of the Global Environmental Change research agenda. However, we can immediately understand the importance of research on demography by asking ourselves some of the following:

What do we aim for in research on demography?
What do we need to know about demographic challenges?
What strategies do we need to put in place to get at the aims identified?
How do we implement those changes that we need?
How do we communicate them and educate people about them?

The day should be composed of an opening morning plenary and subsequent set of parallel sessions. The role of the plenary is both to introduce the different topics captured under this heading as well as linkages to the other main challenges of the 7th IHDP Open Meeting. It should also provide a platform for exchanges of insights and views stemming from science and the general public on one of the most central issues of humankind.

Programme

Opening Ceremony

Overview

Session Chair:

Andreas Rechkemmer
Executive Director, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change

Plenary Speakers:

Prof Frieder Meyer Krahmer State Secretary BMBF	Prof Hebe Vessuri Chair of Council, UNU
Prof Oran Young Chair, IHDP Scientific Committee	Prof Yanhua Liu Vice-Minister for Science and Technology, China
Dr Heide Hackmann Secretary-General, ISSC - on behalf of ICSU and ISSC	Prof Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber PIK Director

Plenary Session - Demographic Challenges

Overview

Session Chair:

Lori Hunter
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Plenary Speakers:

Ms Flavia Pansieri Executive Coordinator, UNV	Prof Wolfgang Lutz Leader, World Population Programme, IIASA
Prof Xizhe Peng Fudan University, Institute Director

Parallel Sessions

Overview

View the complete list of papers and sessions on "Demographic Challenges"

Roundtable: Addressing the Social Challenges of Global Change - The Role of Science in the 21st Century

Overview

Moderator:

James Painter
BBC World Service, UK: Reuters Institute, UK

Panelists:

Oran R. Young University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA; Chair, IHDP Scientific Committee	Carlo Jaeger Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Frieder Meyer-Krahmer State Secretary BMBF, Germany (tbc)	Xuemei Bai CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia
Liu Yanhua Vice-Minister for Science and Technology, China (tbc)	James L. Buizer Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
Nicole Dewandre EU Commission, DG Research, Belgium	Gernot Klepper Kiel Institute of World Economics, Germany; IHDP Scientific Committee Member
Katrina Brown University of East-Anglia, UK; IHDP Scientific Committee Member	Roger Kasperson Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA

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