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Graduate Symposium 2024: Subthemes

The abstract must be submitted to the email address symposium.sgsr@uog.edu.gy on or before
July 30, 2024.

The topics listed under this sub-theme are intended to give a broad understanding of environmental change and its impact on technological developments, food production systems, sustainable livelihood, and legal ramifications. The specific topics are the following:

  • Climate Change and Resilience 
  • Transformational Development 
  • Modelling in response to vulnerability and resilience to climate change 
  • Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change 
  • Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Hazard 
  • Urban and Rural Disparities – Environmental Perspectives 
  • The Impact of Climate Change on Food Production and Food Security 
  • Responses to Climate Change and Rural Poverty 
  • Climate Change and its Impact on Livelihood 
  • Environmental Justice and Resource Use 
  • Biodiversity

Social change is perceived as a change mechanism to counteract vulnerability and build resilience to such aspects as poverty and depravation, reinforce sustainability characteristics and adapt measures for improved livelihoods. Under this sub-thematic area, the following topics are identified:

  • Vulnerability and resilience as change events of sustainability
  • Mitigation measures for building resilience to social change impacts
  • Child and family resilience, adaptation, and sustainability of education
  • Innovative, resilient measures as mechanisms to change and vulnerability
  • Demographic, gender and change perspectives of an aging population
  • Vulnerability and resilience as challenges and opportunities for societal progress
  • Vulnerability and resilience as changing parameters of health and longevity
  • Human Capital and Change for Sustainable Development
  • Crime
  • The role of the University in Social Changes or the Drivers of Social Change

  • Spatial Disparities and Human Development - Economic Perspectives
  • Regional and National Economic Response to Climate Change
  • Regional and National Economic Response to Education
  • Costs of promoting resilience and reducing vulnerability among
  • Caricom States
  • Assessing cost-benefit of investment in climate-smart technologies
  • Indigenous People and Livelihood
  • Climate Stressor
  • Building Resilience in Indigenous Communities
  • Foreign Direct Investment and the Impact on the Production Sector
  • Migrant Labour
  • Blue Green Environment

    • The focus of this sub-theme is to allow researchers and practitioners to deliver presentations on science and technology topics that promise to improve livelihoods with respect to change, vulnerability and resilience community concerns.  The main discussion should consider.

    • The roles of science technology in response to Climate Change
    • Deployment of Adaptive-Orientated Technologies
    • Digital technology as a change mechanism for vulnerability and resilience
    • Alternative Technologies in Response to Climate Change
    • Cyber Security
    • Planning Law as a Response to Regional Development
    • GIS and Remote Sensing as tools for addressing the challenges of climate change
    • Innovative Technologies in Biology and Agriculture
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • How Social Media is Changing the Social Intelligence or making persons less Socially Intelligent

    The general sub-theme is proposed to accommodate the concept of change across all thematic areas and is cross-cutting.

    • Resource Use and Impact on Vulnerability and Resilience
    • Bridging the gap between Policy, Implementation and Decision-making
    • Emerging Trends in Research and Policy Development
    • Comparative Studies/Research
    • The roles of science and technology in higher education as transformative tools for sustainability
    • Comparative Research
    • Eco-Intelligence