Dear All, The COTE Cluster of Excellence organises its fifth Summer School on “Weak signals and emerging issues in ecological transition”. The course will take place in Bordeaux, FRANCE, from 03-07 July 2017. Registration deadline is 09 April 2017.
The Summer School's conferences, field trips and round tables are excellent opportunities for PhD students to engage into highly interactive exchanges with experts on integrative ecology! The ecological transitions are not straightforward paths where well-known problems have to be addressed. Climate-induced ecological changes as well as changes in consumption patterns have led to emerging issues. They may often manifest before full development as weak signals, remaining largely ignored by scientists and managers due to specific path-dependency metrological choices (involving different spatial and temporal scales) but revealing important trends. Moreover, it is often difficult to distinguish them statistically from ambient noise, or from random fluctuations of well-known signals. The scientific expertise of such emerging issues requires new diagnostic tools. Whistleblowers are the social actors involved in raising awareness of emerging issues to push them to the fore of the collective action. To apply, please register on the Summer School website before 09 April 2017: http://cotesummerschool.u-bordeaux.fr/en/. Registration terms, programme updates and information on our speakers are also available on the website. For more information about COTE: http://cote.labex.u-bordeaux.fr/en/. We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to potentially interested applicants. For any questions, please contact us at: [email protected] Best regards, COTE Cluster of Excellence Managers Team
