IHDP International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Chagne - A Joint Programme of ICSU ISSC and UNU

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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Equity and Social Cohesion

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

How do we establish social cohesion while overcoming global inequity?

Moving toward sustainability requires a perspective of global social interdependence in order to foster global equity balanced with local social cohesion.

The elements subsumed under this include risk management, disaster prevention, a balanced allocation of public and private goods, the increase of adaptive capacities at all levels, the connection of the movement of labor with social welfare and security, the design of sustainable development pathways, the reconsideration of economic models for sufficiency, the re-design of the institutional framework of the flows of finance and goods, and the emergence of global ethics and values towards social cohesion and global equity.

Programme

Plenary Session - Social Equity, Cohesion and Sustainable Adaptation

Overview

Session Chair:

Martin Parry
Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, UK

Plenary Speakers:

Walter Ammann
Chairman, International Disaster Risk Reduction Centre (IDRC), Davos, Switzerland

Robin Mearns
Social Development Department, World Bank, USA

Wolfgang Schmitt
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany

Dessima Williams
Chair, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Grenada

Special Sessions

Overview

Pro-Poor Climate Change Adaptation
World Bank

Human Security in the 21st Century
Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project (GECHS

Sustainable Water Management - the key for adaptation
BMU

Synthesizing Knowledge of the Natural, Social Sciences and Humanities
Organised by the ESSP Joint Project, GECHH, IHDP GECHH Advisory Group, and IGU Commission on Health and the Environment