Middle-European IALE Conference 2010
September 3-7, 2010
Brno/Prague, Czechlands (Czech Republic)
The Middle-European IALE Conference 2010 is dedicated to 10-anniversary of the Czech Regional Organization of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (CZ-IALE) and focused on „Landscape structures, functions and management: response to global ecological change“.
Well known keynote speakers of international reputation in landscape ecology, macroecology and social ecology will introduce the conference subjects:
Prof. Dr. Paul Opdam (Wageningen, Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Marcel Rejmanek (Davis, U.S.A.)
Prof. Dr. David Storch (Prague, CR)
Prof. Dr. Dusan Drbohlav (Prague, CR).
The other keynote speakers share with the rest of 9 symposia in the frame of our conference:
R. Bunce, A. Farina, R. Jongman, N. Mitchell, K. Prach or E. Konkoly-Gyuro.
Dear colleagues, students, professionals in ecology, interested persons in landscape ecology!
It´s a great pleasure for me to invite you on behalf of the CZ-IALE as organizer of the next landscape-ecological conference (2010), within the Middle-European areas of Moravia, Silesia and Bohemia, Czech Republic.
We prepare the conference during the year of 20th anniversary of „velvet revolution“ in 1989 that brought freedom to our region after 40 years of political totality. Another point could be mentioned: our conference has a link to another landscape-ecological conference in the territory „Nature and Culture in Landscape Ecology. Experiences for the 3rd Milennium“. It was held in Prague (1998) at the occassion of the 650th anniversary of the Charles University foundation and number of persons from the IALE participated in it – Zev Naveh, Richard Forman, Bob Bunce, Henri Décamp, Adolfs Krauklis, Andrzej Richling…
Our offer reflects small temporal gap (2010) as an opportunity to bridge over the sequence of two IALE important actions: the European Conference in Salzburg 2009 and the World Congress in Beijing 2011. The proposed theme of the conference, „Landscape structures, functions and management: response to global ecological change“, follows the IALE website discussion as a starting point
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The choice of the conference venue in Brno, famous city of Moravia, is aimed to demonstrate that territory of the Czech Republic in its South-Eastern part exhibits well the impact of global warming through the climate shift towards continentality. Excursions into various directions in Moravia and the post-conference field trips in Bohemia could illustrate those phenomena.
I believe that our part of Central Europe crossing the hydrological „roof of the continent“ will attract people with creative transdiciplinary perception of landscapes.
Pavel Kovář,
on behalf of the CZ-IALE and Organizational Board of the Conference
About CZ-IALE
CZ-IALE is a regional organization of International Association for Landscape Ecology.
CZ-IALE is a voluntary organization whose members are scientific and educational experts, students and amateurs interested in landscape ecology. The mission of CZ-IALE is above all a support of landscape ecology development and communication procurement among interested experts, educators, managers and landscape planners.
CZ-IALE organizes regular conferences, field practices and seminars on up-to-date topics and publishes Books of abstracts from such events. The organization issues 2 to 4 Bulletins for members with information about local and foreign activities and new publications announcements or reviews. Since 2008 CZ-IALE also issues fully reviewed scientific Journal of Landscape Ecology with international scientific board, focused on actual problems of landscape ecology, mainly in Central Europe.