ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE ON INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY
jsauburn@ucdavis.edu
Fri, 10 Dec 93 00:22:32 PST
ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE ON INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY
The Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP) and
INFORUM, an International Forum for the Development of
Sustainable Land Use Systems are inviting anyone interested
the development of physical, biological, social, and
economical indicators of sustainability to participate in an
electronic conference from January 17 to April 15, 1994.
The purpose of the electronic conference is to:
a) develop case studies describing the process followed to
identify potential indicators, evaluate and select appropriate
indicators, and use indicators in different types of
analyses involving tradeoffs between short-term productivity
and long-term sustainability. These case studies will be shared
among conferees and also used as resource materials for a
workshop to be help in Washington DC in May, 1994.
b) involve others in planning the May 1994 workshop
Registration for the electronic conference is now open. The
electronic conference room has a bulletin board (BB), a table,
and a file cabinet (FC). The BB and Table are listservers that
will relay posted information to your e-mail box. The FC is set
up to receive longer documents that can requested on an individual
basis.
The first step is to subscribe to the BB and Table so that you will
receive copies of the notes posted by people registering for the
conference and can participate in the discussion at the Table. To
subscribe send an electronic mail message where the first two line
of text (not the subject line) reads:
SUBSCRIBE INDICATORS BB
SUBSCRIBE INDICATORS TABLE
Send this 2-line message to the following address:
ALMANAC@PARTI.INFORUM.ORG
You should receive a confirmation from the Almanac server. If you
do not receive a confirmation in 48 hours, send an e-mail message
to the address: ALMANAC.TOPIC@PARTI.INFORUM.ORG and your address
will be added manually to the lists.
The next step is to register for the conference. Send an e-mail
message with your name, institution, telephone, fax, e-mail
address, and a few lines describing your particular interest in
sustainability indicators. Send this e-mail message to:
INDICATORS_BB.TOPIC@PARTI.INFORUM.ORG
Note the underline between INDICATORS and BB! The note you send to
this topic will be relayed to everyone who has subscribe to the BB.
posted by Jill Auburn at the request of Bob Hart, Inforum
(bob_hart.inbox@parti.inforum.org)