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ICARUS is delighted to invite your participation in the second ICARUS meeting to be held at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment on May 5 through 8, 2011. ICARUS-II follows on the highly successful ICARUS-I meeting organized in February 2010 at the University of Illinois. The theme of the ICARUS-II meeting is “Vulnerability and Adaptation: Focus – Marginal Peoples and Environments.” The ICARUS-II main conference will be accompanied by additional workshops on vulnerability and adaptation research methods, policy interventions, and state of adaptation research. The meeting and workshops are intended to expand and deepen dialogue and research on the subjects of climate vulnerability and adaptation. ICARUS is particularly interested to draw young scholars and advanced graduate students into the discussions at our meetings. Vulnerability and adaptation are key concepts in the social science literature on climate change. They have long inter-linked histories. Scholars of development, disaster management and mitigation, hunger, famine, and migration, and ecological systems have contributed insights on the meanings and drivers of vulnerability. Development of systematic ideas about adaptation continues to occur in a variety of fields – in both the ecological and the social sciences. The ways these writings are applicable to understanding and intervening in climate-related stresses, crises and responses remain vigorous arenas of query and debate. In recent years there have been many calls (by IPCC, NSF, Stern Review and others) for greater social science engagement in climate research. ICARUS responds to these calls.