IALE 2011 - The 8th IALE World Congress

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture
- Cultural landscape: Dynamic relationships between nature and society
- Integrating landscape ecology with sustainability: Meeting the challenges of humanity
- Landscape change and modeling in quickly developing regions
- Habitat and bio-conservation
- Long term ecological research at multi-spatial scales
- Landscape and urban planning: the role of human beings in nature
- Urbanization …how can Landscape Ecology inform “Start Growth”
- Creation of landscapes

Hot topics:
l Endangered Landscapes (and why they shall be conserved)
l Landscape Economics
l Visualising Landscape dynamics
l Maintain mental landscapes
l LE and climate change adaptation
l Maintaining indigenous knowledge
l Sense of place
l Sustainable energy and sustainable landscapes
l Make sense out of all case studies
l Biofuels as drivers of Landscape transformation
l Ecosystem/Landscape Services
l Monitoring Landscape Change
l Landscape adaptive capacity
l Science impact in landscape governance