[Ica-osgeo-labs] Fwd: Geography2050 - Early Registration Ends October 2nd!

Tue Oct 13 08:36:12 PDT 2015

Hi Chris,

Thank you for sharing this info. This event esp. the multi-year strategic dialog focused on the vital trends that will reshape the geography of our planet by 2050 is of importance.

G4A US colleagues - It will be great if any of you are able to attend this and be the Geo4All voice. If you are able to attend, please contact Chris directly.

Suchith

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Geo4All Community,

I would like to invite all of you to join us next month in NYC for the Fall Symposium of the American Geographical Society.  This year’s theme is Geography 2050:  Exploring Our Future in an Urbanized World (www.geography2050.org<http://www.geography2050.org>).  This is the second installment in a multi-year strategic dialog focused on the vital trends that will reshape the geography of our planet by 2050.  We would love to have the Geo4All voice at the table as part of this dialog!

Below is a copy of a recent email blast (and I will send another, on the heals of this email), but our agenda has a wide variety of perspectives.  I encourage you to take a look at our broad set of speakers.

Anyways, please register and even better, please tell all of your friends!

Thanks

Chris

Dr. Christopher K Tucker
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
The MapStory Foundation
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Exploring our Future in an Urbanized World
November 19th and 20th, 2015

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Cities at Risk of Disaster

As our planet and its various societies face increasingly volatile change, we must address the future geography of urban vulnerability to natural, technological, and health hazards, and discuss the various approaches to building resilience.

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Dr. Ebru Gencer
Executive Director and Board President,

Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R)

Dr. Ebru Gencer is the Co-Chair of the Urban Planning Advisory Group to the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction, and an Associate Researcher with the Euro-Mediterranean Climate Change Center (CMCC).She is also a Coordinating Lead Author for Urban Climate Change Research Network’s (UCCRN) Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities, a US National Delegate of ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners), and an Urban Expert for the World Humanitarian Summit.Within the last decade, Dr. Gencer has been involved in projects in South-Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Americas and the Caribbean with different capacities. She was the International Consultant for Urban Planning and Disaster Resilience for the UNISDR, analyzing disaster risk reduction practices of the local governments in the Western Balkans and Turkey. As an associate researcher at CMCC, she worked on developing a toolbox for resiliency profile of cities as part of the EU (FP7) funded CASCADE (Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Water Resources and Human Livelihoods in the Coastal Zones of Small Island Developing States) project. As a think-tank member of the EU CATALYST and a consultant with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Venice, she developed research on the vulnerability characteristics of urban settlements in the Central America and the Caribbean Region.

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Dr. Robert S. Chen
Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network

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Senior Research Scientist,
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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Mr. Jacob Rosengarten,
Chief Enterprise Risk Officer,
XL Catlin Group

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