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Subject: Call for Papers: Small Island Developing States Date: Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:28 From: IRFD World Forum sids@irfd.org To: Gustaf.Neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

Barbados +10 - United Nations International Meeting on Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

Port Louis, Mauritius - 10-14 January 2005

CALL for PAPERS: IRFD World Forum and Side Event http://www.irfd.org

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IRFD World Forum on Small Island Developing States:

Challenges, Prospects and International Cooperation for Sustainable Development

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Objectives

1. Contribute to the UN International Meeting: 10 Year Review of the Barbados Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (Port-Louis, Mauritius, 10-14 January 2005

2. Mobilize the Scientific Community to engage in research, policy analysis, and design programs of action to solve major problems faced by small island developing states on continuous basis

3. Raise global public awareness on issues of small island developing states through research, education, and dissemination of new knowledge.

Call for Papers: Key Issues and Challenges

1. Climate change, fragile ecological systems and human societies in a sea of Islands.

2. Population and economies

3. Biodiversity

4. Renewable energy

5. Transport and physical infrastructure

6. Promoting greater self-reliance

7. Building human resource and technological capacity

8. Communicating and linking

9. Public and private institutional capacity

10. Promoting island identity to effect social change

11. Managing natural resources, addressing environmental issues

12. Finance, trade and investment

13. Health issues including HIV/AIDS and malaria

14. Globalization and socio-economic impacts on Small Island Developing States

(market access, tourism, cultural assets, information technology, foreign investments, security, etc.)

15. International cooperation for small islands

IRFD Side Events at the UN International Meeting

Port-Louis, Mauritius, 10-14 January 2005

Those who wish to attend this UN Meeting and to present at the IRFD Side Event should submit presentation title and abstract no later than October 20th, 2004. Acceptance of abstracts will be notified within 24 hours. Registration Deadline is October 25th.

IRFD Virtual Conference on Small Island Development

IRFD will host a Virtual Conference on its website that will allow for the presentation of papers and interactive online discussions as a contribution to the overall event.

Those who wish to submit papers for this virtual online event, please send abstracts no later than November 10th, 2004. Registration Deadline is December 10th, 2004.

Final Papers due December 31, 2004

All papers from both events will be published in the Small Islands Conference Proceedings after the virtual conference is complete. Select substantial papers will be included in a series of edited thematic books. Selected authors will be notified and time allotted for updates and revisions.

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