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Subject: 2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling - Call for Papers
From: BARRETEAU Olivier (Olivier.Barreteau@montpellier.cemagref.fr)
Date: jeu avr 04 2002 - 11:54:50 CEST
>From: Matsinos Giannis <gmats@aegean.gr>
>To:
>Subject: 2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling - Call for Pape
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>Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:54:04 +0300
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>2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling - Last Circular
>Call for papers
>
>The 2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling titled "Modelling
>Natural and Biotic Resources in a Changing Planet" will be held in Lesvos,
>Greece 23-26 June 2002 and has an open call for papers (until May 15).
>Interested scientists (including graduate students) are kindly invited to
>contribute to the scientific program by submitting an abstract. Please
>visit the web page http://resourcemodelling.org/conferences/2002lesvos.htm
>for directions on how to contribute and all registration information.
>
>Our keynote speakers are:
>
>* Prof. Wolfgang Cramer, Department of Global Change and Natural
>Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
>"Assessing global change impacts on ecosystem services: interfacing 'hard
>science' and stakeholders"
>June 24 10:00 am plenary
>
>* Prof. Michel Loreau, Laboratoire d' Ecologie, Ecole Normale
>Superieure, France
>"Modelling Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning; current trends and future
>challenges"
>June 25 10:00 am plenary
>
>* Prof. Marten Schaffer, Department of Environmental Sciences, Aquatic
>Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University,
>Netherlands
>"Non-linear response of ecosystems to global change"
>June 26 10:00 am plenary
>
>Please allow me to inform you about the aims and the audience of the
>upcoming Congress.
>
>The Resource Modeling Association (RMA) was founded in the early 1980s by a
>group of applied mathematicians, applied population biologists, fisheries
>scientists, and resource economists, primarily from the West coast of North
>America to organize annual meetings in order to discuss the application of
>models to resource management. Since then, the Association has extended its
>meeting activities to be international in scope. The RMA has published the
>international journal Natural Resource Modeling since 1986. The RMA also has
>a standing committee on resource policy issues, whose responsibility it is
>to maintain a membership expertise data base. This data base is available to
>organizations trying to identify scientists whom they can consult on
>resource management and policy issues. A newsletter is published three times
>annually with information concerning member activities.
>
>The annual world congresses have taken place in a different continent as
>follows:
>----
>Logan, Utah, USA [2001]
>Wageningen, the Netherlands [2000]
>Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [1999]
>Ensenada, Mexico [1998]
>Hobart, Tasmania, Australia [1997]
>Seattle, Washington, USA [1997]
>Lake Superior, Minnesota, USA [1996]
>Pietermaritzburg, South Africa [1995]
>Juneau, Alaska, USA [1995]
>----
>
>Each year the conference has a main theme of high importance among natural
>resource modellers. Past themes include:
>
>* Spatial and temporal dynamic models for the management of natural
>resources (Logan, Utah, USA [2001) with keynote speakers:
>
>Jon Conrad, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell
>University, "Right Whales in the western North Atlantic: Population Dynamics
>and the Mortality from Ship Strikes and Entanglement in Fishing Gear"
>
>Roger Sedjo, Director of Forest Economics and Policy Program at Resources
>for the Future, "Terrestrial Systems to Mitigate Climate Change"
>
>Richard Lammers, Water Systems Analysis Group, University of New Hampshire,
>"Freshwater Resources at Continental and Global Scales"
>
>Terry Quinn, Fisheries Division, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences,
>University of Alaska, "Ruminations on the Development and Future of
>Fisheries Population Dynamic Models"
>
>* "The Ecology of Scale" (Wageningen, the Netherlands [2000]) with
>keynote speakers:
>
>Jim Reynolds, Duke University, "How to recognize and grasp scale-related
>problems in ecology"
>
>Mark Stafford Smith, CSIRO Australia "Lessons learned from applications
>across scales"
>
>Andrew Skidmore, ITC, Netherlands,"Do scale-related models provide a better
>understanding of phenomena in the real world?"
>
>This year we are organizing a conference under the theme "Modelling Natural
>and Biotic Resources in a Changing Planet" with a clear emphasis on the
>issue of global change both from the natural and the biotic aspect. Even
>the selection of the congress venue (Museum of Natural History of the Sigri
>Petrified Forest) is a standing witness of the planetary change through
>geological times.
>
>Scientific committee:
>
>Rob Alexander, Dept of Applied & International Economics, Massey University,
>New Zealand
>
>Tony Charles, Finance and Management Science, Saint Mary's University,
>Canada
>
>John Hearne, Department of Mathematics, University of Natal, South Africa
>
>Ken Lyon, Department of Economics, Utah State University, USA
>
>Yiannis Matsinos, Dept of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean,
>Greece
>
>Max Rietkerk, Dept of Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University,
>Netherlands
>
>Tony Smith, CSIRO Marine Research , Australia
>
>Andreas Troumbis, Dept of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean,
>Greece
>
>More details regarding the call for papers, schedule etc. can be found at
>the web site http://resourcemodelling.org/conferences/2002lesvos.htm
>
>For any additional information please contact:
>
>Yiannis G. Matsinos
>Assistant Professor
>Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory
>Department of Environmental Studies
>University of the Aegean
>Mytilene 81100
>Greece
>tel. +30 251 0 36228
>fax +30 251 0 36298
>e-mail: gmats@aegean.gr
>