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• July 7-11, San Diego, CA, USA
  http://www.esri.com/events/uc/index.html ESRI International User Conference 2003

• July 9-11, 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~ssdbm03/
  SSDBM2003, 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management

• July 12-14, Okinawa, Japan
  http://www.iscgm.org/html4/index_c1_s1.html#doc2_org.iscgm.schedule.gmf03 Global Mapping Forum 2003 in Okinawa (GMF03), sponsored by the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping. The objective of the Forum is to exchange ideas, experiences and information among data users and data providers concerning global or regional scale geographic information.

• July 13-17,
  Darwin, Australia International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress
  International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress. A special session on Africa is being planned for 2003. The proposed theme for this session is, "The Changing Landscapes Of Africa". The session is also intended to be a starting point for an Africa-Chapter of IALE. All those with interest in landscape analysis, resource data and projects in Africa are encouraged to be part of this process. If you are interested in the special session and Africa-IALE, contact:
  
  Henry N.N. Bulley CALMIT
  University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  Tel: 402-472-4973
  Email: hbulley@calmit.unl.edu

• July 20-22, 2003, Portland, Oregon
  http://www.urisa.org/PPGIS/ppgis.html
  2nd Annual Public Participation GIS Conference (PPGIS) Portland State University

• July 20-24, Maputo, Mozambique
  http://www.pitt.edu/~icpm/icpm.html
  The Fourth International Conference on Public Management, Policy, and Development
  (The President of Mozambique is a confirmed speaker at the conference) http://www.pitt.edu/~icpm/pressreleasefrench.html (francais) Conférence Internationale sur la Gestion Publique, les Politiques et le Développement
  The Mozambique conference is sponsored by the International Consortium on Public Management, Policy and Development. Its mission is to strengthen and promote public sector involvement in sustainable community development. This mission is achieved via a forum to facilitate institutional linkages, research, dialogue, and cooperative activities among professionals in government, academia, business, and nonprofit groups. http://www.pitt.edu/~icpm/tracks.html
  Track 4: Natural Resources and Food Security Reviewing policy innovations in forests and water management, policy and effect of international trade in achieving food security.
  Track 5: Infrastructure and Public/Private Partnerships Integrating physical and social infrastructure needs and priorities, leveraging resources, investing, privatization, and joint ventures.
  Track 6: Technology and Development Utilizing science and computers, evolving skills and training person to achieve societal sustainable development. Registration/payment due by May 16, 2003.

• July 20 - 25, Cambridge, U.K. (by invitation only)
  http://www.cambridgeconference2003.com/index.htm National Mapping - Shaping the future. A newsletter, giving more details about the conference, has been sent out to potential delegates. Ordnance Survey hosted the first two conferences (1995, 1999), which by design aims to get together the senior people in national mapping to discuss, in a relatively informal setting, the challenges facing national mapping around the world. In recent years, the conference has also, not surprisingly, focused on SDI's, training, public private relationships etc. for senior representatives of national mapping organisations of the world. Each time, about 200 delegates from 70 to 80 countries were represented at the conference

• July 21 - August 1, Durban, South Africa
  http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/rgi/irc2003/IRC2003.htm International Rangeland Congress August 4 - 11, 2003, Bloemfontein, South Africa Water Conservation Technologies for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (WCT). This event is organized jointly by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Water Research Commission of South Africa (WRC), South Africa's National Department of Agriculture (NDA) and the ARC-Institute for Soil, Climate and Water (ISCW). This event was initiated by ISCW and the Optimizing Soil Water Use (OSWU) Consortium which is part of the Systemwide Soil, Water and Nutrient Management (SWNM) Programme of CGIAR.

• 26 July - 1 August
  International rangelands conference in Durban, South Africa
  http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/rgi/irc2003/IRC2003.htm
  People's livelihoods and regional stability are often threatened by demands on the natural resources of rangelands by different groups. Conflict over landuse exists, for examples, between conservationists and pastoralist, pastoralists and crop farmers, water provision and pastoralists. Ways of resolving this conflict and avoiding it in the future will be explored.

* Dates and events are subject to change