Agriculture

Event Profile: International Water & Effluent Exhibition (IWEX) which takes place at the NEC, is the UK's premier international water show and the 2007 edition promises to be the largest and busiest IWEX ever. Since its launch the event has developed into a forum for networking and training as well as one of the largest exhibitions of its type in Europe. Highlights: The IWEX event oncorporates a number of key seminars for professionals within the water industry looking at the challenges and opportunities arising within our industry. These will include debates regarding legislation, academic reviews of the latest technological advances and workshops on the practical implications. Visitor's Profile: IWEX is aimed at the following job descriptions: Engineering - chemical, civil, design, electrical, mechanical, process, Company Management - Chief Executives, Managing Directors, General Managers, Chairmen, Owners, Finance, Buyers/Purchasers, Health and safety, Operations, Plant/Site Management Production, Research/Development/Scientific, Sales & Marketing/Business, Development. Exhibitor's Profile: IWEX is the UK's no.1 marketplace for supplying to the water industry including: Contractors, Industrial water users, Utility providers, Government, Environmental agencies etc. Held every two years, the event has developed into a forum for networking and training as well as one of the largest exhibitions of its type in Europe. Organizer: Faversham House Group Limited Faversham House, 232a Addington Road, South Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom. Tel: +(44)-(20)-86517100 Fax: +(44)-(20)-86517117

Environmental Monitoring & OSPAR Compliance 2008 26 to 28 February 2008 Aberdeen, United Kingdom Website: http://www.iqpc.com/uk/ospar Contact name: Swaantje Buss Attending Energy IQ’s Environmental Monitoring & OSPAR Compliance 2008 will enable you to enhance your oil-in-water monitoring processes and ensure you are complying fully with the latest OSPAR regulations. Organized by: IQPC

INECE is pleased to announce that it will hold its 8th International Conference on 5-11 April 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. INECE’s triennial international conferences bring together environmental compliance and enforcement practitioners from more than 80 countries and organizations to build partnerships for enforcement cooperation and to share a wide range of skills and experiences that improve compliance with international and domestic environmental laws. The 7th Conference (2005) provided training on INECE's principles of compliance and enforcement course and fostered the development of a new compliance and enforcement network for the Maghreb region. The Conference resulted in the Marrakech Statement and Call to Action on making law work for people, environment, and sustainable development. The 8th Conference will open with two days dedicated to local capacity building and networking events. The subsequent five days will feature action-oriented thematic workshops, distinguished keynote speakers, and networking opportunities for over 150 invited participants, and will include a day for field visits to sites of innovative environmental enforcement initiatives in South Africa. Central themes of the Conference will include "Strategic Management of Environmental Compliance & Enforcement Programs," "Detecting Noncompliance," "Transboundary Compliance," "Biodiversity and Compliance," "Climate Change and Compliance," and "Compliance Promotion and Social Aspects." INECE will be releasing a Call for Papers on these and other environmental compliance and enforcement topics in advance of the Conference. South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, which is supporting the Conference, noted that "[e]nvironmental compliance and enforcement are becoming high profile issues in South Africa in the context of high economic growth and development, ...the ongoing protection of our biodiversity and protected areas, and the required adaptation for climate change. We therefore welcome the attention that the INECE Conference will bring to environmental compliance and enforcement in South and Southern Africa." Additional information on the 8th Conference, including the Call for Papers, will be made available in the coming months. Conference participation is by invitation only; nominations will be made through the regional compliance and enforcement networks.

Description: The numbers of specialists in the field of agricultural economics have diminished in many land grant institutions throughout the U.S. Six outlook seminars have been planned for agricultually diverse locations around Virginia. The seminars are designed to present timely, expert agricultural economic-outlook information so participants may make more informed decisions affecting the sustainability of the farming business. The meetings are designed for producers, extension educators, and other agricultural influencers such as lenders, input dealers, and processors from Virginia and bordering states. These mettings will utilize both on-site presenters and interactive, web-based video conferencing technology allowing experts from around the United States to make presentations. The remote sessions will be totally interactive so that participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and/or make comments to the presenters for their consideration and response.

The 19th International Conference on Water Jetting will be held in Nottingham, UK, from 15-17 October 2008. This, the original conference on this technology, is the premier event in Europe. The development of ultra high-pressure pumps in the early 1970s transformed the water jetting industry and led to the birth of this International Conference. Since the first conference, water jetting has grown into a mature industry with applications ranging from precision shaping of hard to machine materials, to environmentally friendly cleaning in many industries and the decommissioning of munitions and the removal of damaged flesh from severe wounds.

Al Gore, the Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2007, pointed out 15 years ago that global warming is a real problem, that the Earth is in the balance and the time to act is now. To restore the balance now missing in our relationship to the Earth is essential, and the choice is ours. Our challenge is to accelerate the necessary change in thinking about our relationship with the environment in order to shift the pattern of our civilization to a new equilibrium. In striking the balance, what are the strategic goals necessary to save the global environment? How can we establish the social and political conditions most conducive to the emergence of sustainable societies? The aim of the 6th Taipei International Digital Earth Symposium (TIDES 2008) on May 15th to 16th 2008 is to help in the search for this balance. The Academia Sinica, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) and Chinese Culture University (CCU), have hosted the conference each year in Taipei, Taiwan since 2003. Continuing our study of Digital Earth applications in the field of environmental sustainability and social sciences, the main theme of the 6th Taipei International Digital Earth Symposium is ¡§Earth in the Balance ¡V The Challenges in Scientific Mapping, Modeling and Monitoring of the Earth¡¦s Systems¡¨. Topics of the conference include national land and marine conservation, natural resources development, environmental protection, disaster control & prevention, and humanities & social science applications. Through this conference, we hope to find ways to help to restore the balance now missing in our relationship to the Earth and the Digital Earth concept and technology can be applied to achieve sustainability in all sectors of society and the environment and thus better human life on this planet. II Organizer: Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan Chinese Culture University, Taiwan III Conference Theme: Earth in the Balance-The Challenges in Scientific Mapping, Modeling and Monitoring of the Earth¡¦s Systems Topic 1: Earth Observing System Topic 2: Social Science Topic 3: Environment & Natural Resource