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03/12/2018 - 03/16/2018 | Berlin

Landscape 2018 – Frontiers of agricultural landscape research

The aim of the conference is to present recent advances in landscape research to enhance the development of sustainable agricultural land use and landscape strategies. The particular objective is to bring together key findings from relevant disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches as well as from basic and application-oriented research.

Landscape 2018 – Frontiers of agricultural landscape research.

Agricultural landscapes are shaped by human activities and are subject to permanent change through the interplay of natural processes, land use and societal developments. Knowledge about the underlying processes of landscape dynamics at all relevant spatial and temporal scales is the prerequisite for sustainable landscape management.

The aim of the conference is to present recent advances in landscape research to enhance the development of sustainable agricultural land use and landscape strategies. The particular objective is to bring together key findings from relevant disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches as well as from basic and application-oriented research. Furthermore the conference focuses on recent scientific work related to Landscape Functioning, Land Use and Governance and Landscape Synthesis

This international conference takes place from 12th to 16th March 2018 in Berlin, Germany and in addition to a wide range of workshops and presentations also offers excursions for all participants.

The event is hosted by Katharina Helming from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg, Brandenburg, which also provides one of the conference chairs; Frank A. Ewert (ZALF) alongside Mark Rounsevell (IMK-IFU, KIT, Garmisch, GER).

Plenary Keynote Speakers are Yiqi Luo (Northern Arizona University; USA), Sandrine Petit (INRA, France) and Marcel van Oijen (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH); Edinburgh).

The regular registration ends on 28th February 2018.

Press representatives are cordially invited to attend the conference free of charge. For accreditation, please send an email to: public.relations@zalf.de.

More information can be found at www.land2018.eu

Information on participating / attending:
Fees:

​Regular registration (after 12 January 2018) 400 €

​Conference Dinner ​50 €

Field trip​ 30 €​

​Satellite Workshops (Mon and/or Fri, per day) ​30 €

Date:

03/12/2018 08:00 - 03/16/2018 19:00

Registration deadline:

02/28/2018

Event venue:

Adlershof con.vent
Rudower Chaussee 17
12489 Berlin
Berlin
Germany

Target group:

Journalists, Scientists and scholars

Email address:

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Biology, Environment / ecology, Geosciences, Oceanology / climate, Zoology / agricultural and forest sciences

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

01/24/2018

Sender/author:

Hendrik Schneider

Department:

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

no

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event59482

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attachment icon Landscape 2018 Press Release, 19 December 2017

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