“Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth”
1 – 6 June, 2008
Department of Geography, University of the Aegean
Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

On the occasion of the celebration of the International Year of Planet Earth in 2008, the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean in Lesvos, Greece, is organizing the international conference “Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth”. The UNESCO Natural Sciences Sector has granted support to the conference.

Contemporary socio-spatial problems require a deep understanding of the coupled human-environment systems inhabiting Planet Earth and, particularly, of their complex interactions in order to inform decision making from the individual to the global level. The purpose of the conference is to bring together all the disciplines that study natural and human phenomena taking place on Planet Earth, to encourage the dialogue among them and to provide discussion fora on the integration of knowledge, a task requiring a move beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries and towards interwoven theoretical and analytical schemata.

The Conference language is English.