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EVENT NOTIFICATION
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26-29
September 2006 |
Place: |
University
of Bari, Italy |
Title: |
IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Group conference:
“Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes:
Consequences of Human Management”
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Forest landscapes are multi-functional systems,
and ecological functions are influenced by natural
and cultural patterns. Managing forest landscapes
is therefore a complex process of understanding
the critical patterns of the landscape and their
reciprocal interrelationship and interdependency.
This Conference will contribute to explore the
theme of how culture affects forest landscapes
and, in turn, how landscapes are influenced by
humans.
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Date: |
9-13
October 2005 |
Place: |
University
of Bonn, Germany |
Title: |
The
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change Research Community
“Global Environmental Change, Globalization
and International Security: New Challenges for
the 21st Century”
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Date: |
20-24
September 2005 |
Place: |
Ioannina
Epirus (Greece) |
Title: |
Biodiversity
conservation and sustainable development in mountain
areas of Europe:
The challenge of interdisciplinary research |
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description: |
For centuries agriculture has played a multifunctional
role in defining and sustaining mountain biodiversity
in Europe through the management of habitats,
species and landscapes. With significant agricultural
adjustment and contraction now in prospect, there
is
potential for major impacts on mountain biodiversity.
Some of these changes may be deleterious, e.g.
loss of locally-adapted species and semi-natural
habitats; others beneficial, e.g. new successional
pathways providing opportunities for restoration
of some elements of the pre-agricultural, wilder
landscapes.
The focus of the conference will be to examine
both the socio-economic drivers of agricultural
change across upland Europe and the ecological
effects of these new agricultural practices on
landscapes and biodiversity.
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Date: |
7-9
September 2005 |
Place: |
Trier,
Germany |
Title: |
Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing
in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation
and Desertification.
State of the Art and Operational Perspectives
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This conference intends to promote scientific
exchange between specialists working on the interface
of remote sensing, geoinformation processing,
desertification/land degradation research and
its socio-economic implications. Although it is
targeted at the scientific community, contributions
with application perspectives are of crucial importance,
and we expect to have international bodies, such
as the UNCCD, LADA or LUCC involved in steering
the event. Thus, both an overview of the current
state of the art as well as operational opportunities
will be presented, which is especially important
to initiate a transfer of expertise from the scientific
community to clients interested in applying these
techniques. In this context, participation of
scientists from most affected countries is highly
desired and will be financially supported for
eligible applicants.
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Date: |
05-07
September 2005 |
Place: |
Luxembourg |
Title: |
"European
Union Expansion: Land Use Change and Environmental
Effects in Rural Areas" |
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description: |
This
conference will examine and document how EU expansion
(past and future) is a catalyst for land use changes
and the environmental impacts in rural areas resulting
from these changes. Given the linkages between political/economic
change with land cover dynamics and environment,
this conference will bring researchers active in
this arena together to explore the effects of land
use change in the rural sector on the terrestrial
environment in the new setting of the EU. One aim
of the conference is to develop active linkages
among the participants to increase the probability
of future collaborative research among the participants.
The conference will be centred on four themes:
1. Learning from past European land use change.
In Europe, over the last 300 years, land cover alterations
have been documented. Examine the physical (constraints/opportunities)
and human (social, demographic, and policy) drivers
of change and their impacts on the terrestrial environment;
2. Probable future land use change and impacts on
the terrestrial environment such as landscape functionality
alterations (water storage, filtering, etc.), erosion/deposition,
sediment delivery alterations, biodiversity, and
spatial attributes. Their impacts on the delivery
of key ecosystem goods and services;
3. Identify the social/economic and physical drivers
affecting contemporary land cover change. Evaluate
their effects on specific aspects of the terrestrial
environment;
4. Development of policy for long-term monitoring.
Likely future land cover changes and critical data
need to assess their environmental impacts.
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Date: |
31 May - 3 June 2005 |
Place: |
Borås (Sweden) |
Title: |
Forest SAT 2005. Operational Tools in Forestry Using Remote Sensing Techniques |
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Date: |
31
March - 4 April 2005 |
Place: |
Budapest,
Hungary |
Title: |
EPBRS Meeting, supported by BioPlatform on: Landscape
scale biodiversity assessment, the problem of
scaling.
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The aim of the meeting is to focus on
• the ecological research problems raised
by the different scales of biodiversity (with
an emphasis on landscape scale), and
• the interaction of policy and social scales
with biodiversity conservation.
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Date: |
29
March - 2 April 2005 |
Place: |
Portugal - Faro |
Title: |
European IALE Congress 2005 -Landscape Ecology in the Mediterranean. Inside and outside approaches. |
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The 2005 European Congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecology, to be held in Southern Portugal, will focus on Mediterranean landscapes. These are rich and diversified cultural landscapes, with high levels of multifunctionality and supporting relevant natural and cultural values.
Deadlines
Submission of abstracts - May 31, 2004
Notification of Acceptance of abstracts - September 30, 2004
Pre-registration - October 1, 2004
Early registration - December 31, 2004
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Date: |
7-23
March 2005 |
Place: |
E-conference |
Title: |
"Landscape scale biodiversity assessment:
the problem of scaling"
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description: |
This e-conference will focus on the issue of
the ecological research problems raised by the
different scales of biodiversity (with an emphasis
on landscape scale), and the interaction of policy
and social scales with biodiversity conservation.
The results of the Electronic Conference will
be presented at the EPBRS delegates meeting in
Budapest, Hungary on the 31st March to the 4th
April 2005.
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Date: |
24-28
January 2005 |
Place: |
Paris |
Title: |
International Conference ”Biodiversity, Science and Governance"
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Organized by France and sponsored by UNESCO,
the Conference Biodiversity : science and governance
is in response to an announcement made by the
President of the French Republic at the Evian
G8 summit in June 2003. This project, which was
initially proposed by the Minister for Research
to his counterparts at the G8 during informal
meetings of the Carnegie group (Ministers for
Research G8), now involves a much wider international
community and, inter alia, major programmes and
conventions such as the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) and the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) as well as the NGOs involved in
research such as the World Conservation Union
(UICN).
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