8th IALE World Congress

Details of the 2011 World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology

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When	Aug 18, 2011 12:05 AM to Aug 23, 2011 12:00 AM
Where	Beijing, China
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The theme of the world congress is landscape ecology for sustainable environment and culture. The goal of the congress is to highlight the frontiers of the science of landscape ecology and promote communication and understanding between different cultures. The meeting will bring participants from all over the world to discuss landscape change due to intensified influences of nature and human society. It will include discussion on landscape resilience and adaptive capacity, application of landscape ecology in understanding cultural landscapes, biodiversity responses to climate change, landscape economics, adaptive management and etc.

Among possible topics are:

Resilience and adaptive capacity of socio-ecological landscape systems
Accommodating biodiversity responses and engineering restoration in adapting to climate change
Landscape economics: valuing ecosystem services at the landscape scale
Adaptive landscape management: Rethinking monitoring approaches, indicators, and the role of models
Landscape ecology and its application in understanding cultural landscapes and the maintenance of indigenous knowledge
Landscapes and humans: linking landscape pattern perception and human well-being (includes urban areas)
Sustainable energy and sustainable landscapes
Landscape genetics (application of network theory, conservation and connectivity)
Multi-functional landscapes
Landscape ecology of ecosystem disturbances
Landscape ecology and coastal and marine sustainability.

Intensive training courses are usually held before or after the congress with a maximum of 3 days.

For more details see the conference website (link below)

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