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Category: GLOBAL COLLABORATION

Topic: 68. Cross-Border Responses to Global Challenges: Can Everybody Win?

[Jurists--the link is: From AAAS Summary: The focus of the session will be to look at the real-life pros and cons of coordinated, innovative problem-solving across borders through the eyes of organizations tasked with solving the problems…..From the caption: A coordinated effort of the American base TSA and Chinese authorities provide the last best hope for keeping perhaps the plant’s rarest species extant.]

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Category: HUMAN BIOLOGY AND HEALTH

Topic: 80. Anthropology and Global Health: Genes, Biology, and Culture

[Jurists--here’s a link: From AAAS Summary: This symposium illustrates the “efficacy and power of combining the universalistic biomedical perspective” (integrated knowledge of genes, biology, and culture) with the local perspective of anthropology, to better address the problems of global health.…..From the caption: My intention is that my work will help reestablish the Renaissance notion that the natural sciences constitute an integral part of culture. From the image: The 12’ diameter ring encircling the moledule “evocative of Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man”, can be seen as an icon for integration.]

Category: CLIMATE CHANGE

Topic: 19. Comparing National Responses to Climate Change: Networks of Debate and Contention

[Jurists--here’s the link: From AAAS Summary:” The relative effect of persuasion and learning via stakeholder forums versus political contention and regulatory imposition in different countries provides a broad comparison. “ …..From the caption: Reactions to icons vary: The polar bear, an icon of the North, that is relevant to Canadians, Inuit, and Cree, among others, serves as an effective reminder of polar-ice melt and is capable of inspiring political action. Elsewhere, for example, the light blub, as an icon representing the benefits of energy efficiency, might serve as a reminder of polar-ice melt, too, but lacks immediacy and an emotional punch.]

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Category:GLOBAL COLLABORATION

Topic: 72. Europe, Africa, and Asia: Rising on the Same Tide

[Jurists--here’s a link: From AAAS Summary: “Speakers will argue the imperative of refocusing European, African, and Asian research and development and innovation policy on the challenges facing our global society. From the caption: “It is increasingly imperative that scientists, social scientists, historians, and governments work together to develop and implement innovative programs that will help ensure the continued preservation of Africa’s rich biodiversity, by carefully considering the social context in which such programs must exist. Providing a global perspective for conserving the species featured in the insets, indeed, for preserving the crocodile itself, should be the focus of our most innovative thinkers as they consider new approaches to enabling protection.]

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Category:SUSTAINABILITY

150. Resource Use and Ecological Resilience in a Tropical Socio-Ecological System

[Jurists--here’s the link: From AAAS Summary: We evaluate how the process of integration into a global society may alter the system in the future and how the cultures of the region are retaining elements of traditional practice that resist these external pressures.…..From the caption: Harpy Eagle conservation through education, through the involvement of indigenous communities in monitoring activities, and through financial rewards for protecting nesting sites, which have led more members of the scientific community to visit critical habitat. These researchers are well-positioned assess key aspects of resource use and ecological resilience.]

Category:CLIMATE CHANGE

Topic: 24. Rethinking Adaptation to a Changing Global Environment

[Jurists--here’s the link: These two images provide a way to visualize the topic of rethinking adaptation to a changing global environment.]