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<div> Thanks for sending out the draft proposal. If at all possible, I'd like to chat to all of you about the possibility of articulating some of these discussions with the work that is taking place through the Knowledge Hub for Rural Development
at Wits Rural Facility. Most especially, I think you would be interested in the projects we have on retheorising rural-urban gradients, comparatively, across sites in the US (Baltimore, and elsewhere) and China, projects led by my wife, urban ecologist Melissa
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<div>We are working mainly from the perspective of social-ecological systems, and mainly with urban ecologists. Two of the most influential thinkers in the field will be at Wits Rural next year, but also giving keynote presentations on the main campus. One
of them, Steward Pickett, head of the Ecological Society of America and the Baltimore Long Term Ecological Research site, is very well known of course.</div>
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<div>I have some additional comments on your draft proposal but will send those under separate cover.</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>David Bunn<br>
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<div id="divRpF172822" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Claudia Gastrow [Claudia.Gastrow@wits.ac.za]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 October 2014 15:10<br>
<b>To:</b> sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Sugarman] Urban Workshop proposal<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Hi all<br>
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Please find the latest version of the proposal for next year's workshop on urban issues attached. We are still trying to determine dates, with May seeming the be what people are gravitating towards. June and July have come up as possibilities, but these would
be extremely difficult for many people on the South African side, and so don't seem to viable except as last resorts. Please would anyone who has a preference send a message to the list. The proposal is still open to some revision if there is an issue that
people feel has been left unaddressed. <br>
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Claudia<br>
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