Rapid urbanization exerts significant stress on natural ecosystems regionally and has become one of the major drivers of global climate changes. At the same time, urban spatial sprawl and expansion of urban civilization impact greatly on the regional biodiversity and cultural diversity, which has attract more and more attentions from ecologist, sociologist, economist and urban planners. Urban landscape research uses a broad perspective to study urbanization and its interaction with natural ecosystem and human society. It is believed possess of the big potential to provide new theories and methods for urban sustainable development.
Responding to German-Sino Year of Sciences and Education 2009/10, Sino-Europe Workshop of Urban Landscape Research——Landscape and Environment Planning Workshop supported by Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will be held in Xiamen in 2010. The workshop will be concerned with the multi-disciplinary understandings on and the conceptual, scientific, design approaches to urban land use. The further cooperation between China and Europe countries is also discussed and pursued during the workshop.
1．Important dates
6th – 9th April, 2010
Calendar as followings:
6th April, 2010 registration
7th – 8th April, 2010 report and discussion
9th April, 2010 study tour
2．Venue
Institute of urban environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 1799 Jimei Road. Xiamen, P R China)
3．Sponsors
Bureau of International Co-operation, CAS
National Natural Science Foundation of China
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
4．Organizer
Institute of Urban Environment, CAS
5．Participants
40 overseas and native researchers will be invited for exchanges in urban landscape research, 15 of them comes from Europe.
6．Programs
English asofficial language is used to Academic exchange with the given themes. The further arrangement and the expert/speaker list will be informed in the second round notice.
28th Jan, 2010 First round notice
1st Mar, 2010 Second round notice
10th Mar, 2010 report title and abstract submit
30th Mar, 2010 report PPTs submit
7．Themes
The report PPT should be provided before 30 March, 2010, and will be printed for the participant. The topics might include but are not limited to:
Session 1: Landscape Ecology and Urbanization
-- Dynamic mechanism of urban landscape evolutions during urbanization
-- Ecological functions of urban landscape during urbanization
-- Eco-stress effects of urban landscape changes
Session 2: Urban Landscape and culture
-- The modes of landscape beauty and aesthetics in diversification of culture
-- Non-ecological functions of urban landscape during urbanization
-- Human habitats and Cultural landscape preservation
Session 3: Urban Landscape planning
-- Landscape as resource for a sustainable development
-- Landscape as object of resource management
-- Landscape assessment in urban planning
8．fees
The Organizer will support accommodation, meal and study tour for participants.
9．Production
(1) The related academic exchanges and discusses to promote the understanding of urban landscape;
(2) The further cooperation plans and specific actions
10．Contact us
Address: Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1799 Jimei Road, Xiamen, P R China 361021
Persons: Dr. Dewei Yang or Mr. Yonghong Gan
Tel: +86 592 6190679 or 6190672
Fax: +86 592 6190977
Email: dwyang@iue.ac.cn or yhgan@iue.ac.cn
Web: www.iue.cas.cn/
