ISDEHS

ISDEHS is not only a new platform, but also an experiment to apply a new approach based on voluntarism, participation and virtual teaming to the world of science around the Gulf. In fact only three people out of this team actually knew each other previously and everybody else will meet for the first time in Dubai. The power of the Internet is still a widely unexplored method to allow colleagues from all over the world to act together to achieve a common cause. It is fast, cheap and efficient and can be used across political, cultural and socio-economical borders... ISDEHS 2006 is meant to be the first of a series of symposia intended to create an ongoing dialogue between researchers and policy makers from the Arab world with the global scientific community as well as to reposition the ongoing desertification debate within the context of human security... The International Symposium on Drylands Ecology and Human Security will promote a crosscutting approach to drylands studies that..

Primary location: Hamburg Germany