MARE Conference

People and the Sea V:

Living with Uncertainty and Adapting to Change

9-11 July 2009

The Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) at the University of Amsterdam announces its fifth biennial conference, People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change’.

The conference will take place from July 9-11, 2009, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Since its inception in 2001, the international MARE People and the Sea conference has established itself as one of the leading interdisciplinary forums for debate and learning in the realm of maritime and coastal research and policy. The 2009 conference is the fifth in the series and builds on previous conference outcomes that have clearly placed the capabilities of social sciences on the agenda of wider maritime interests. This conference bridges several debates on coastal change and questions how people, around the globe, are tackling the challenge of living with uncertain futures and adapting, or not, to a myriad of changes.

Five conference themes address the challenges of uncertainty over coastal change across different, but strongly connected sectors:

1. Transformations in fisheries and aquaculture

2. Transformations in coastal and deltaic landscapes

3. Governing under conditions of uncertainty

4. Culture and imaginations of coasts under change

5. Whose needs count in adapting to change?

Keynote addresseswill be given by:

Prof. Fikret Berkes (Canada Research Chair, University of Manitoba)

Prof. Alpina Begossi (State University of Campinas, Brazil)

Prof. Edmund Penning Rowsell (Middlesex University, UK)

Policy Day 8 July 2008: ‘Dealing with sea-level rise in deltaic regions’

Prior to the conference, at the 8thof July 2009, a Policy Day is being organised titled ‘Dealing with sea-level rise in deltaic regions: an international comparison’. This Policy Day offers an attractive combination of plenary sessions consisting of presentations by speakers, followed by short interviews and discussion, with more in-depth discussion on specific themes in four thematic subgroups.

For more informationsee:

All queries may be directed to Didi van Dijk:

Centre for Maritime Research (MARE)
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, Room G.2.05, NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
T: +31 20 5254143

F: +31 20 5254051

E: info @ marecentre.nl