[Atmos_enviro_health] Wengen-2005 Workshop on Climate, Climatic Change and Human Health

[David Shearman]

Kevin
Please can you enlighten me on the Wengen meeting. I have looked at the information. in one place it says the meeting is in September and elsewhere it says it is in October
David Shearman
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  From: Kevin.Hennessy at csiro.au 
  To: atmos_enviro_health at anu.edu.au 
  Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 11:45
  Subject: [Atmos_enviro_health] Wengen-2005 Workshop on Climate,Climatic Change and Human Health


  -----Original Message-----
  From: BENISTON Martin [mailto:martin.beniston at unifr.ch]
  Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 3:14 AM
  To: BENISTON Martin
  Subject: Wengen-2005 Workshop on Climate, Climatic Change and Human Health
  Importance: High

  APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE MORE THAN ONCE, DUE TO MULTIPLE MAILING LISTS.

   

  Dear Colleague,

   

  I would like to draw your attention to the 10th Anniversary Edition of the Wengen Workshops on Global Change Research that will take place from September 12-14, 2005, in Wengen, Switzerland.

   

  The 2005 meeting will focus on climate, climatic change and human health. As always, the Wengen Workshops are an opportunity to present and discuss state-of-the-art, inter-disciplinary issues. All information related to the meeting, including online registration forms, is now available on the following Internet site:

   

  www.unifr.ch/geoscience/geographie/EVENTS/Wengen/05/Wengen2005.html

   

  As you will see from the "Workshop Program and Call for Contributions", we are proposing a very varied set of issues that includes:

   

    a.. Health issues of the 2003 heat wave in Europe: lessons for the future? 
    b.. Climatic variability and health (e.g., effects of El Niño) 
    c.. Land-use changes and diseases (e.g., health impacts of deforestation) 
    d.. Spread of disease through vertical temperature changes, e.g., Malaria 
    e.. Changing vegetation patterns and its influence on  health (e.g., impacts on pollen-related allergies) 
    f.. Enhanced air pollution in a warmer climate and its impacts on health 
    g.. Aggregate impacts on human health in a changing climate: food security, water availability and quality, increase in natural hazards, socio-economic drivers of health problems 
    h.. Policy aspects of climatic change and health 
   

  Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2005.

   

  On behalf of the Scientific Steering Committee, I look forward to a wide turnout and to meeting you in Wengen next autumn.

   

  Kind regards,

   

  Martin Beniston, on behalf of:

   

  Ellen Wiegandt, Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland  and Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion, Switzerland

  Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/OAR, Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder (Colorado), United States

  Manuel Cesario, University of Acre, Brazil

   

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  Prof. Martin Beniston

  Director, Geography Unit

  Department of Geosciences

  University of Fribourg

  Chemin du Musee 4

  CH-1700 Fribourg

  Switzerland

   

  Tel: +41 (0)26 300 90 11 (Direct line)

  Tel: +41 (0)26 300 90 10 (Secretariat)

  Fax:+41 (0)26 300 97 46

  e-mail: Martin.Beniston at Unifr.CH

  Internet: www.unifr.ch/geosciences/geographie/Personal/MB/mb.html

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