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SCB Activities Society for Conservation Biology 2008 Annual Meeting

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The SCB 2008 annual meeting will feature innovative social science and interdisciplinary content, including informational and social events, plenary sessions, short courses, symposia, workshops, discussion groups, and many oral and poster presentations.

Social Science Working Group Events
The SCB Social Science Working Group (SSWG) will hold an informational meeting on Monday, July 14th from 12:00-1:30pm in Room H of the Convention Center. SSWG and the SCB Austral and Neotropical America Section (ANA) are co-hosting a social gathering (with a cash bar) at 7:00pm on Monday, July 14th in the Convention Center Rotunda. For more information on social sciences within SCB and to learn more about SSWG, please visit the SSWG web site here.

Plenary Speakers
All five of SCB 2008’s plenary speakers have social science backgrounds or extensive experience working at the nexus of natural and social sciences: - Chuck Cook, director of The Nature Conservancy’s coastal and marine program in California. - Author and activist Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg. - Jeffrey A. McNeely, IUCN Chief Scientist and President of the Asia Secion of SCB. - Diane Russell, Biodiversity and Social Science Specialist for the US Agency for International Development and a founding board member of SSWG. - Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, and currently a scholar-in-residence in the Environmental Studies Program at Middlebury College.

Scientific Program – Individual Presentations and Posters
There are numerous social science presentations in many different presentation and poster sessions. Session topics in which you will find social science content include (but are not limited to) “social science”, “environmental polictics and policy”, “land use planning”, “adaptive management and monitoring”, “scientists and managers: bridging the gap”, “economic growth and biodiversity”, “conservation funding and capacity building”, “indigenous knowledge and conservation”, “environmental economics”, “environmental sociology”, and “the politicization of endangered species science.” For a listing of all social science presentations (oral, poster, and speed) and their times and locations, please see the daily schedules and general schedule.

Scientific Program - Workshops, Symposia, Short Courses, and Organized Discussions
Among the social science and interdisciplinary session topics being explored in these sessions are those listed below. For times and locations, please see the daily or general schedules.

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The Role of the Social Sciences in Conservation Planning
Session Organizer: Tara Lee Teel
When: July 10-13, 2008
Fee: Attendee from High income country: $150, Attendee from low income contry: $75
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Targeting Behavior: Designing Conservation Behavior Change Programs
Session Organizer: Shannon Earle
When: July 11-13, 2008
Fee: Attendee from High income country: $150, Attendee from low income contry: $75
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Economic Growth and Biodiversity: The Elemental Arguments
Session Organizers: Jon Rosales and Corey Peet
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Advances in freshwater conservation planning
Session Organizer: Nathaniel P. Hitt
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Assessing Ecosystem Service Values for Marine and Coastal Ecosystems:  Melding the Natural and Social Sciences
Session Organizers: Mary Ruckelshaus, Anne Guerry, and Mark Plummer
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Connecting Ecological and Socioeconomic Monitoring to Management for Marine Protected Areas in California's Channel Islands
Session Organizer: Satie Airame
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Landscape Change on the Cumberland Plateau: Drivers, Consequences, and Policy Solutions for a Key Biodiversity Hotspot
Session Organizers: Charles Brockett and Jonathan Evans
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Parks, People, and Posterity: Reconsidering the Ethical Dimensions of International Conservation
Session Organizers: Ben Minteer and Thad Miller
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The Politicization of Endangered Species Science
Session Organizer: Francesca T Grifo
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How to Conserve Biological Diversity By Improving Public and Corporate Policies - The Policy Workshop
Session Organizer: John MacKnight Fitzgerald
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Tools and Methods for Integrated Land-Sea Planning
Session Organizers: Sarah Carr, Daniel Dorfman, Ken Vance-Borland, and Patrick Crist
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The involvement of the private sector in marine protected area planning, management, and conservation.  Case studies from the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific.
Session Organizer: Rick MacPherson
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Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation II: Engaging surrounding communities
Session Organizers: Jane M. Packard, Priscilla Weeks, and Mikki Sager
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Integrative Conservation Problem Solving Workshop: Methods to Bridge the Natural and Social Sciences
Session Organizers: Susan Clark, David Cherney, Kathryn Semmens, Kimberly Byrd, Richard L Wallace, and Seth Wilson
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Capacity-Building for SCB Chapters, Part II: Empowering Environmental Problem-solving
Session Organizer: Fiona Nagle
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Conservation Internships: Building collaborations between conservation organizations, universities, and societies to facilitate student learning, promote diversity, and advance conservation
Session Organizers: Renee Mullen, Tosha Comendant, and Sean Watts
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