International Association for Landscape Ecology Conference, Salzburg, Faculty of Natural Science, Hellbrunner Str. 34

 

The organisation of a European landscape oriented IALE Conference is a unique opportunity to bring new insights into landscape ecology, to debate and reflect on the specific challenges of these landscapes, and to identify future needs for research and education. It is intended that this Conference will attract researchers and planners in Europe, but also all those who are interested in sharing other perspectives that may contribute to a definition of functions, values and problems of their features.

The Conference will therefore contribute to a better understanding of the landscape ecological characteristics of the European landscapes and future management options for maintenance and enhancement of the inherent capital. The IALE EU Conference 2009 in Salzburg is dedicated to the topic of "European Landscapes in Transformation - Challenges for Landscape Ecology and Management". This overall topic is subdivided into seven symposium headlines which are tailored to a particular audience within the overall topic. Altogether, we see people from the domain of landscape ecology, landscape perception, conservation, modelling, statistics and related fields as the audience for this European conference.

Three well known keynote speakers of international reputation in landscape ecology will introduce the conference subjects:

• Dr. Maguelonne Dejeant-Pons (France),
• Prof. Dr. Almo Farina (Urbino, Italy)
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Elmquvist (Stockholm, Sweden).

The main topics of the European IALE Conference 2009
1. Topic: "Transformation of rural - urban cultural landscapes in Europe - Integrating approaches from ecological, socio-economic and planning perspectives"
2. Topic: "Landscape multifuncionality in the eye of the stakeholders"
3. Topic: "Landscape functions in a changing environment"
4. Topic: "Planning-Based Approaches for Supporting Transitions towards Sustainable Landscape Development"
5. Topic: "Integrating landscape history in landscape planning"
6. Topic: "The third and forth dimension of landscapes"
7. Topic: "Ecosystem Services at the landscape scale"