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Session "Vector-borne diseases and climate warming" at IGC 2012
The field of vector-borne diseases is receiving increasing attention in face of climatic changes and increasing intercontinental exchange of goods and travellers.
The 32nd International Geographical Congress which will be held in Cologne from 26 to 30th of August, 2012 will offer one session on “Vector-borne diseases and climate warming” , where we as conveyors and chairs are inviting you to participate. ...
32nd International Geographical Congress
Cologne, Germany, 26-30th August, 2012
CFP Deadline: 8 Jan 2012
The field of vector-borne diseases is receiving increasing attention in face of climatic changes and increasing intercontinental exchange of goods and travellers.
The 32nd International Geographical Congress which will be held in Cologne from 26 to 30th of August, 2012 will offer one session on “Vector-borne diseases and climate warming” , where we as conveyors and chairs are inviting you to participate. The congress will receive high public and scientific attention. This type of congress is held every four years and attracts scientist working on spatial dimensions, patterns and structures of various topics all over the world. The session is dedicated to the key topic of the conference “Global change and globalisation”.
However, this session will be (as others) limited to approx. 80 minutes.
We are aiming to win outstanding scientist as contributors for this session, which we will try to publish as a special issue in a suitable international journal. I kindly invite you to submit a proposal for a talk and please feel welcome to submit further studies from your research team to climate change effects on vector-borne diseases as poster presentations.
Our aim is to join expertise from different scientist within this session and to initiate new cooperations.
Please inform us immediately, if you were willing to contribute a paper to this session.
Registration and abstract submission is now possible under
http://www.igc2012.org
Session: Vector‐borne diseases and climate warming
Chairs: Carl Beierkuhnlein & Markus Neteler
Abstract:
In recent years vectors (e.g. insects) with high capacity for transmitting infectious diseases between humans have been found to establish and spread in various continents outside of their native range.
The number of vector‐borne diseases that were performing outbreaks has increased remarkably during the last decades. Climate change is expected to promote this development.
However, it is certainly both, climate change and globalization (especially intercontinental travelling and trading) that contribute to modified spatial patterns of occurrences and transmission cycles of vector‐borne diseases, resulting in a growing threat for humans.
Efficient monitoring and modelling approaches are needed in order to identify regions at potential future risk and to develop societal coping strategies. The recent spread of vector‐borne diseases is particularly also a result of gaps in knowledge and methodological shortcomings in detecting vulnerable regions and populations at an early stage of exposure.
Cooperation between medicine, entomology, virology, and geography is urgently needed, but less developed, yet. Expertise derived from human and physical geography has to be joined. This session is aiming to promote the discussion, to discuss case studies, support the development of networks and to create public awareness for this upcoming and highly relevant issue.
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