2012 Winners!
Events
The Institute of the Environment sponsors and co-sponsors a number of conferences, workshops, and campus activities throughout the year that help encourage interdisciplinary interaction between faculty, students, and departments across campus. IE lists these on its calendar, as well as upcoming talks, seminars, exhibits, and other happenings to help keep the UA community and the general public up to date on the latest environment-related events on and off campus.
Upcoming Events
Conflict and Collaboration in Community and Environmental Decision Making
Conflict and Collaboration in Community and Environmental Decision Making
In this intensive, 40-hour skill building training workshop, participants will learn how to analyze and understand the dynamics of conflict and collaboration in complex public policy settings. The workshop will help participants develop the conceptual understanding, the analytical tools, and the practical skills of: conflict or situation assessment, convening and facilitation, process design, joint fact-finding, applications of decision support tools, regionalvisioning and a range of public engagement strategies.
21st Annual Desert Horticulture Conference
21st Annual Desert Horticulture Conference
This is the premier annual conference for all members of the southwest green industry. Timely, research-based information is presented that is relevant for designing, building, maintaining, and producing plants for urban landscapes in the arid Southwest.
Four concurrent sessions include arboriculture, design, maintenance and hands-on workshops, plus student posters.
Attendees can earn continuing education units for various professional organizations.
Bat Night 2012
Bat Night 2012
Bat Night is a yearly environmental performance art event produced by The Rillito River Project and held in Tucson Arizona under the Campbell Avenue bridge. This bridge spans the Rillito River, which once had water flowing in it most of the year. Human settlement over the last century has left the river dry, endangering many of the species that relied on the river for their water and habitat.
ECR2012: Working Across Boundaries
ECR2012: Working Across Boundaries
Share Your Experience and Knowledge
The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution invites you to submit a session proposal for the Seventh National Conference on Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR). Proposals are now being accepted for pre-conference training workshops and for conference panel sessions and roundtable discussions in the following four tracks:
Climate Adaptation Futures 2012
Climate Adaptation Futures 2012
Co-hosted and convened by the University of Arizona in the southwestern United States, and by UNEP’s Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA), the conference focuses on adaptation to climate variability and change.
Southwest Climate Summit
Southwest Climate Summit
Please join us for a meeting of federal, tribal, state, and local stakeholders, resource managers, and scientists to discuss the state of climate science in the Southwest and needs for climate-related research to inform societal and management decisions.
The author team will unveil the 2012 Southwest Climate Assessment (SWCA).
