Emerging Issues 3 Conference
Date: Apr 11 - Apr 14, 2010
Location: Atlanta, GA
Cost: Visit conference website for more details
Audience: Individuals and groups with interests in the following:environmental/natural resource policy and economics, land-use planning, water, air, and land pollution, ecosystem services, forestry and wildlife management(urban-rural), ecosystem management, environmental justice, landscape aesthetics, ecology, and management, and urban forestry and urban agriculture
Description: This conference seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to share current research results and to identify knowledge gaps regarding the interaction between urbanization, land-use change, and natural resources. In particular, approaches that focus on integrating socioeconomic and ecological research will be highlighted. Topics Include: • Human influences on ecosystems (direct and indirect stressors). • Restoring/rehabilitating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems altered by urbanization. • Evaluating changes to ecosystem goods and services along urban-rural gradients. • Monitoring and predicting human influences on landscapes and ecosystems. • Alteration of natural disturbances due to urbanization. • The relationship(s) between land-use policies and ecological processes/disturbances along urban-rural interfaces. • Science delivery and exchange of information for natural resource professionals, policymakers, and private citizens. • Spatial/scale aspects of land-use change. • Application of ecological research in land-use planning. • Ecosystem impacts on human communities (e.g., human health, economic well-being, political action). • Urban forestry and urban agriculture
Sponsor: Auburn University and USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
Contact: Dr. David Laband, Conference Coordinator, 334-844-1074, labandn@auburn.edu
For more details visit the website: http://emergingissues.interfacesouth.org/
