Forum on the Anthropocene

Geographers have been thinking and teaching about human interactions with the environment for centuries. Whether the phrase used to describe this area of scholarship is man‐land, man and nature, people‐environment, nature‐society, human dimensions of global change, or the Anthropocene, these studies are deeply rooted under the umbrella of geography. Scholars in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts have embraced the concept of the Anthropocene, and often employ it as a vernacular term with no implied connection to a so‐called golden spike, or stratigraphic layer of sediment or rock that would mark an official transition from one slice of geologic time to the next. This collection of essays explores ways in which the Anthropocene may be a helpful framework to organize geographical teaching and scholarship about ways in which people have interacted with and transformed planet Earth. The term Anthropocene was coined in the realm of Earth System science, but the authors who contributed to this Forum relate the idea to topics such as novel ecosystems and species assemblages, conservation, commodification of nature, global capitalism, and ways in which our species, Homo sapiens, has markedly transformed the Earth for at least thousands of years. The Forum also engages with the fact that the Anthropocene as a proposed new epoch of the geologic time scale may not make sense at the spatial and temporal scales at which geographers view the world. Geographers have an opportunity to address myriad unanswered questions about the Anthropocene.     

Study Abroad: A Review of the Kentucky Institute for International Studies (KIIS) and Geographers' Role in the Consortium

Abstract

The Kentucky Institute for International Studies is a consortium of colleges and universities that provides semester length and short summer semester over-seas study programs. This article traces the growth of the consortium from its ro-ots at Murray State University in 1975 through the celebration of its thirtieth anniversary in 2005. Aspects considered include the overall growth of the consor-tium and the type and number of progr-ams offered, as well as the composition of the faculty and students who participate. Contributions of consortium geography faculty members are examined.     

在中国林业政策国际论坛上的讲话

<正> 各位代表,各位来宾, 女士们、先生们: 由中国环境与发展国际合作委员会林草问题课题组、国家林业局政策法规司、中国科学院农业政策研究中心联合主办的“中国林业政策国际论坛”今天就要结束了,我代表国家林业局对论坛的顺利召开表示热烈祝贺,对各位代表、各位来宾的辛勤工作以及所有关心和支持中国林业事业的朋友们表示衷心的感谢! 两天来,与会代表紧紧围绕国际林业发展道路和政策框架、林业产权和税费体制改革、政府在林业发展中的职能等问题进行了广泛而深入的讨论,取得了丰硕成果。特别是林草课题组中外方专家利用自身优势,     

"地理学发展与应用——30年回顾与展望"国际学术论坛在广州召开

International Forum on Development and Application of Geographical Sciences: A Retrospect for the Past Three Decades and Prospect was held in Guangzhou University on 19-22, December, 2008. It was sponsored by Guangzhou University, The Geographical Society of China, and Guangdong Geographical Society. More than 200 geographers and graduate students participated in this forum from more than 140 institutions throughout the world, including USA, UK, Australia and across the Taiwan Straits.     

Cities Destroyed (Again) For Cash: Forum on the U.S. Foreclosure Crisis

In 2008, there will be at least 2.5 million new foreclosures in the United States. Record levels of mortgage delinquency, default, and foreclosure are causing widespread hardship in cities and suburbs across America, and causing repeated destabilization of global credit and investment markets. In this Forum, six housing specialists unravel the complex connections between urban geography, subprime lending, and foreclosure. Although a wide variety of view-points are represented, three common threads are evident. First, foreclosures are tightly linked to the lax underwriting standards and aggressive business practices of the subprime mortgage market. Second, the subprime-foreclosure linkage is a reflection of the steady deregulation of U.S. financial markets and the promotion of homeownership as the cornerstone of national housing policy. Third, deregulated mortgage market segmentation has created uneven new geographies of debt, risk, and default—superimposed atop existing landscapes of old-fashioned exclusionary discrimination. Low-income and racially marginalized neighborhoods, once redlined and excluded from mainstream credit markets, were at the center of the profitable wave of subprime abuse and equity extraction during the long housing boom, and are now at the center of the long, slowly unfolding catastrophe of the U.S. foreclosure crisis.     

未来世界河流的重要讨论会--第8届国际河流研讨会在布里斯班召开

The 8th International Riversymposium was held in Brisbane, Australia on 6-9 September 2005. The International Riversymposium is an integral part of Brisbane's annual broadbased cultural event.The Queensland Government is a foundation partner of the International River Foundation, formed to secure the future of the International and National Thiess Riverprize. The theme of symposium in this year is "Water and Food Security- Rivers in a Global Context" ( www.riversymposium.com ).The Riversymposium provides a global forum which aims to make a difference to the declining state of rivers and waterways globally. Its strength lies in the breadth of its challenging program content of important keynote presentations and case studies of rivers in crisis, attracting a diverse range of national and international delegates. Some 450 scientists from 38 countries attended this conference, and about 100 papers were presented on the symposium in 2005.     

发展乡村科学,助力乡村振兴——第二届乡村振兴与乡村科学论坛综述

2019年4月27日,第二届乡村振兴与乡村科学论坛在南京成功举行,来自全国20多个省份的近400名专家学者相聚南京师范大学,共话乡村振兴战略与乡村科学发展。本次论坛共有8个特邀专家主题报告,14个议题报告,并设置了自由讨论环节。论坛报告及专家发言观点纷呈、讨论热烈。本文从乡村科学与乡村振兴、城乡融合与乡村振兴、精准扶贫与乡村振兴、深化改革与乡村振兴、乡村重构与乡村振兴、村域发展与乡村振兴等6个方面对主要观点进行梳理,以期对新时代乡村科学的快速发展与乡村振兴的有序推进有所裨益。     

近年来生态学研究热点透视——基于“中国生态大讲堂”100期主题演讲的总结

“中国生态大讲堂”(China Ecological Forum, CEF)是一个中国生态学领域的综合学术论坛;它以“传播新知识,交流新思想,展示新成果”为宗旨,举办系列学术讲座、春冬季专题研讨会、高级研讨班以及焦点论坛等学术交流活动。自2005年创办以来,“中国生态大讲堂”已经组织了100期主题演讲和12次大型学术研讨会、6次专题研讨会、2次高级研讨班,成为广大科研人员进行学术交流的重要平台。迄今,已有300人次的知名科学家、中青年学者在大讲堂作了学术讲演,其中150人次是来自国外研究机构的知名学者。从近年来演讲的主题来看,“气候变化与生态系统适应性”、“生态系统评估和管理”和“生态系统服务”等是生态学研究的热点问题。自2009年以来,根据“中国生态大讲堂”研讨会整理出版的《中国生态大讲堂系列丛书》已经出版了5本,涵盖了当前生态学研究的主要领域及其关键科学问题,反映了当代生态学研究的科学前沿。本文通过对“中国生态大讲堂”讲座和研讨会主题的梳理,探讨了近年来生态学研究前沿领域和热点问题,希望能为中国生态系统研究者提供参考。