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Organizers of the 'Polar Worlds Conference: Environmental and Social Sciences to Understand Observed Changes' announce a call for abstracts. The conference will be convened 26-28 January 2011 in Paris, France.

The main focus of the Polar Worlds Conference is to account for observed changes with a joint environmental and social perspective. It seeks to give an overview of certainties and uncertainties in current mutations.

A unique feature of this event will be to put different scientific communities (e.g. - anthropology, linguistics, history, archaeology, geography, geomorphology, hydrology, climatology, health) into common work sessions. In order to encourage interdisciplinary interactions, plenary sessions will be preferred, with a few specialized workshops. This multidisciplinary approach is based on the experience of the conference organizing group: the "Polar Mutations: Environment and Societies" research group (CNRS, France), which has been promoting interdisciplinarity in arctic studies for 30 years.

Main Conference themes:
1 - Environmental and social changes: certainties and uncertainties 
e.g. - climate, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, ecosystems, languages, cynegetic activities (hunting, herding, fishing, etc.) and travelling techniques, social organization, public health.

2 - Responses to current mutations
e.g. - political organiations; local authorities, partnerships, co-management; knowledge transmission; technological innovations; field observation methods; circulation of goods, people and information.

3 - Propositions and prospective approaches: Resources, policies, challenges and land management
e.g. - renewable and non-renewable natural resources exploitation, risks, politics and land management, geopolitics, maritime routes, tourism.

Abstracts are invited in English or French. Abstracts must be submitted electronically (polarworlds-2011@univ-fcomte.fr) and use the style sheet available on the conference website at http://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/polarworlds-2011/resume_en.html

Additional details on the call for papers and the abstract submission process are available at http://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/polarworlds-2011/appel_en.html

Abstract Submission Deadline: Saturday, 15 May 2010.

For further information on the conference, please go to http://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/polarworlds-2011/accueil_en.html