Announcing the first Millennium Conference:
Water-Ecosystem Services, Drought, and Environmental Justice
The Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Millennium Conference Series provides ESA members the opportunity to organize special conferences highlighting emerging, exciting ideas in ecology with the endorsement and support of the Society. The ESA Governing Board is pleased to announce that the first Millennium Conference, Water-Ecosystem Services, Drought, and Environmental Justice, will be held in 2009. The conference is being co-chaired by Ted Gragson of the University of Georgia and Steward Pickett of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. The full Organizing Committee is listed here.
The objective of this conference is to create a forum for participatory discussion of the socio-ecological processes of the local-to-regional provision of water-ecosystem services. The goal is to initiate a fundamental shift in approach to managing and allocating ecosystem services. This approach will draw on the strengths of physical, biological and social science disciplines to reach an understanding of patterns, mechanisms and processes that anticipate plausible change. The significance of this shift is that it lays the foundation for addressing ecosystem and social vulnerability to drought while minimizing environmental justice consequences.
Participation will be primarily by invitation. Limited opportunities to apply to attend, along with other details, will be announced at a later date.
Calls for proposals for future Millennium Conferences will be posted on this page and emailed to ESA members, tentatively in Fall 2009.
For further information, contact Aleta Wiley, Science Program Assistant at ESA Headquarters, 202-833-8773 ext. 218; aleta@esa.org.
The Millennium Conference Series is made possible by the contributions of ESA members to the Millennium Fund. For more information, or to contribute, go to www.esa.org/member_services/support.php.
