SOILBIOENGINEERING AND LAND MANAGEMENT NEW CHALLENGER
Objectives
• Provide a global venue, with scientific sessions and world-known speakers, for professionals, decision makers, researchers and students from diverse backgrounds, including the earth sciences, bioengineering, landscape architecture, natural resources and land management and public policies;• Discuss new developments in the science and practice of low-cost, effective solutions, in bioengineering;
• Identify biodiversity and ecosystem aspects useful to establish the ecological status of landscapes;
• Promote tools for a more appropriate land management, especially in urban and peri-urban areas;
• Provide practical solutions to the imbalances between Nature and Humanity, in communion with the results of Rio +20 Summit, to be held in June 2012.
• Amplify knowledge and experience of EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and other policies involved in soil restoration and landscape management.
Scientific areas:
1. Landscape and Land Management2. Slope Stabilization & Restoration
3. Fluvial and Coastal Stabilization & Restoration
4. Ecological Quality and Biodiversity
5. Rainwater Harvesting
6. Recuperation and Renaturalization of Degraded Areas
7. Requalification and Rehabilitation in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas
8. Greenways
9. Policy Implementation for Land Restoration and Conservation
Official languages:
• English• Portuguese
• Spanish
| Call for Abstracts • Abstracts: 1 page A4, Arial 11, Text (maximum: 250 words, excluding title and references), Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), Scientific Area and Keywords; • Format: only .pdf or .doc files. • Deadline: March 25, 2012 MAIS INFORMAÇÕES: http://www.cascaiswf2012.org/ | |||||||||||
