This is a reminder that registration will close on May 15th for the Oxford Round Table's 11th Annual International Session on Environment, Climate Change and Global Warming during the dates of July 22 – July 25, 2015 at
Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
Harris Manchester College is one of the thirty-eight colleges that form
the University of Oxford and was founded in 1786. We are pleased to invite
you to become a member of this Round Table. Membership is limited to
approximately thirty-five (35) interdisciplinary scholars who have a
particular interest in this subject.
You
are invited and encouraged to make a presentation and to provide a
paper on a relevant aspect of the topic, however, your participation as a
member of the Round Table is not contingent thereon. Those not
presenting papers will be placed on a discussion panel. Papers presented
at the Round Table may be subsequently submitted for publication in the
Forum, a journal of the Oxford Round Table. Papers considered for
publication in the Forum are evaluated by peer reviewers as to technical
and substantive quality and for potential to make a significant
contribution to new knowledge in the field. Papers and presentations
regarding the following areas are of particular interest to the
conference. However, these suggested areas of research and writing are
not meant to be limitations and the conference programme is open to all
substantive areas of formal and informal research in education.
The session will be facilitated by: Dr. Yehia Khalil, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University
The session will be facilitated by: Dr. Yehia Khalil, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University
Members
of the Oxford Round Table have access to an array of academic, cultural
and social resources, including the Oxford Union Debating Society,
colleges and halls of Oxford dating back to 1204, museums, theatres,
bookstores, college chapels, river boating, literary pubs, political
clubs and may, on recommendation, become official readers of the
venerable Bodleian Library of the University, founded by Duke Humphrey
circa 1440 and refounded by Sir Thomas Bodley 1602. A free afternoon and
evening will be available on Tuesday for independent travel to London
(one hour south of Oxford), Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Stonehenge,
Salisbury, Cambridge or many of the other cultural sights in England.
Topics of discussion will include but is not limited to:
Environment and Sustainability
Sustainable Development
Environmental management and sustainability
Impact of urban development on the environment
Environmental toxicology
Development of environmental criteria
Environmental management and policy
Environmental remediation and restoration
Clean energy and sustainability
Green energy technologies
Environmental monitoring programs
Industrialization and the environment
Politics of sustainability
Ethics of sustainability
Environmental Law
The Financial Crisis and The Environment
Religion and the Ecology
Evolution and the Goals of Environmental Policy
Global Warming and Climate Change
Global Warming and the Greening of Religion
Setting the Balance for Global Climate Change
The Church and Global Warming
Power Utilization
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Effects of a Warmer World upon Contaminated
Communities
Climate Change Issues and Affirmative Actions
The Role for Mediation in Climate Change Agreements
Thermal and Daylight Optimization
Climate Change Impacts
Effects of climate change on the environment
Climate and air pollution
Climate change and environmental dynamics
Global Dimming
Generations unconcerned
Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Climate Change and Challenges for Coastal
Communities
Biodiversity
The Importance of Biodiversity
Biogeochemistry
Land Use
Biodiversity and the Climate
Biodiversity Loss
Tackling Biodiversity Loss
Biodiversity in the Artic
Global Change and Biodiversity Conservation
Health and the Environment
Environmental health
Ecological and human health risk assessments
Designing for health
The safety of food
Radiation fields and toxicology
Waste disposal challenges
Water quality
Social and economic issues
Accidents and risks
Contamination in rural areas
Health and Ecology
Emerging contaminants
Contamination of hot spots
Nanoparticles and health effects
Integrating health and safety
Infectious Diseases
Environmental Education
Environmental inequalities and justice
Emerging substances and mixtures
Environment, epigenetics and early programming
Epidemiological studies
Directing research strategies to protect future
Generations
Broadening Education toward Environmental Restoration
Integrated Education in Energy and the Environment
Improving Campus Sustainability
Ecological Effects of Climate Change
Drought and water scarcity
Ecology and ecosystems management
Emerging pollutants
Diversity in Ecology
Changes in Phenology
Species’ resilience to climate change
Temperature and wind effects on ocean currents and
Marine life
Coral reef vulnerability
The expansion or shift of plant and animal ranges
Nutrients’ role and influence over ecosystem response
Environmental Risk Assessments (ERA)
Risk mitigation and risk adaptation
Risk mitigation challenges
Disaster Management
Risks of nanotechnology
Clean and Renewable Energy Systems
Coal-to-liquid and gas-to-liquid technologies
Hydrogen generation and storage technologies
Natural gas from hydraulic fracturing
Waste-to-energy conversion systems
The conference will run from Wednesday night through Saturday morning. We will have reception and dinners in the Olde Dining Hall on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights where the Oxford professors and students dine when university is in session. Lunches are provided on Thursday, Friday and Saturday along with tea/coffee/biscuit breaks during the meeting. You
can also reserve a room in the Oxford University dormitory at Harris
Manchester College where students stay during term time. More detailed information concerning the schedule of events and the registration fee can be found on our web site.
In order to ensure that you are registered in a timely and accurate manner, we recommend that you register on our website at www.oxfordroundtable.co.uk. Should you be unable to attend, we would welcome your nomination of a colleague to attend in your place. We look forward to hearing from you.
Alternatively, we are also hosting a few other sessions in 2015 that may be of interest to you as well:
Issues in Childhood Education, July 19 – 22, 2015
Critical Public Issues, July 26 – 29, 2015
Religion, Women and History, July 29 – August 1, 2015
Please direct all inquiries to:
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Coordinator
Oxford Round Table
Fax: 866-244-8833
E-mail: coordinator@
Web Site: www.oxfordroundtable.co.uk
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