The establishment of convention centers, such as Yerba Buena, acted as a feeder into the local tourist economies and helped transform San Francisco into a convention-tourist economy, underpinning much of the great success of the restaurant and hotel industries.
They also provide a legal framework for the establishment of local conventions (Djiré 2004; Granier 2006; PACT 2008) and therefore represent a good opportunity for pastoralists to implement local rules regarding the management of strategic resources (pond, grasslands, vaccination parks, prescribed burning).
The latter discovery proved to be a major factor in the establishment of the Convention of the Law of the Sea (1982), which calls for the sharing of these resources among developed and developing nations alike.
During the 1970s the United States and the Soviet Union also facilitated the establishment of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (1972).
But the rules of collecting changed in 1992 with the establishment of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which offers financial compensation for natural products and seeks to conserve biological diversity, use natural products sustainably, and fairly share products made from gene stocks.
1992: The first president George Bush attends the Rio Earth Summit, and supports the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to reach a global agreement to end global warming.
The Electoral Reform Society, a progressive group that wants to modernize Britain's ancient (and largely unwritten) constitution, is calling for the establishment of a "constitutional convention," drawing from a wide range of parties and interest groups.
While discussing the establishment of a UN convention on violence against women, we were given an important reminder that violence against women transcends national boundaries and is prevalent in our own country.
The 20th century saw an even greater widening of the coin-collecting fraternity, with the establishment of coin shows, numismatic conventions, international conferences, academic symposia, and a proliferation of local clubs.
He said: "The establishment of a Scottish Fair Work Convention signals a new approach to fair pay and industrial relations in Scotland.
