Welcome

RegioResources 21 started in 2012 to establish a permanent cross-disciplinary dialogue on sustainability features in planning, decision and policy making on multiple scale levels. The conference series intends to provide an overview on the most recent questions and innovative solutions and to facilitate the intellectual exchange and methodological transfer between different disciplines addressed in regional resource management, planning, decision making and policy support. The 2012 conference will be organized by Global Land Project and the European Land-use Institute as an endorsed project in GLP.

Aims and scope 2012

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The current world population is estimated to be 6.96 billion people (United States Census Bureau; July 1, 2011). Despite population growth is assumed to decline, the expected world population will amount to 7.5 - 10.5 billion people in 2050. The sustainable management of resources at different scales and the sustainable provision of ecosystem services to society are therefore the most urgent contemporary questions. Sustainable resource management and provision of ecosystem services however, demand not only for a close look to the natural potential of ecosystems to provide resources and services also under climate change. Even more important is the question how to improve the involvement of land-users, land-owners and land-planners with different knowledge background and different interest in a sustainable regional development that takes also care of potential future needs in natural resources and ecosystem services.

RegioResources 21-2012 picks up the question how to enable and ensure the involvement of different land-use and land-planning actors at regional scale and especially in the context of rural-urban interactions by advanced participation approaches including visualization techniques. Focus is laid on (a) the presentation and demonstration of new or further developed participation and visualization methods, tools and techniques, (b) on experiences in their application (examples, case studies, lessons learnt), and (c) on the discussion of advantages and disadvantages of such approaches including the identification of further development needs and application areas. Cordially welcome are scientists with diverse background from natural, applied, and social sciences to participate at and to enrich our cross-disciplinary dialogue.

The presentations given at the conference are invited to participate at a common publication (special issue intended at Elsevier).

Where and when?

The conference RegioResources 21 will be held from (May, 21-23, 2012) at Dresden University of Technology, Dept. of Forest-, Geo- and Hydrosciences, Tharandt. The conference venue is Dormero Hotel "Königshof" at Dresden.

Conference topics / sessions (preliminary proposition)

The below listed topics are a preliminary proposition. The mission of the 2012 conference is to give space not only for presentations but also for the demonstration of tools, for intensive discussion and for developing common conclusions for a potential synthesis paper.

I - Participation in sustainable resource management and ecosystem services assessment
conceptual frameworks, models / agent-based modeling, participation techniques actors and scale levels rural-urban interactions experiences, case studies and lessons learnt

II - Visualization tools and techniques
"the power of pictures" - theoretical basis / research on the use of visualization approaches case studies / experiences in the application of visualization techniques 2D/ 3D visualization - demonstration of visualization tools

III - Special sessions
RegioPower - A regional IT-based platform for bringing resource needs and land-based resource production together European Land-use Institute - member meeting REGKLAM - Climate Change and regional resource management - challenges and adaptation opportunities

Who?

Conference organization team
Dr. Christine Fürst, Susanne Frank, Lars Koschke, Anke Witt, Rene Schulze, TU Dresden

Scientific committee
Dr. Dawn-Cassandra Parker, CA
Prof. Dr. Christina von Haaren, D
Prof. Dr. Marion Potschin, UK
Prof. Dr. Carsten Lorz, D
Prof. Dr. Franz Makeschin, D
Dr. Christine Fürst, D
Prof. Dr. Dolf de Groot (ESP)- inquired, Nl
Prof. Dr. Felix Kienast (IALE), CH
Prof. Dr. Ljusk Ola Eriksson (ForSys) - inquired, Se
Dr. Carol Großmann / Prof. Dr. von Teuffel (FTP) - inquired, D
Prof. Dr. Annika Kangas (ForSys), Fi
Dr. Katharina Helming, D
Dr. Sandra Luque, F
Dr. Sasa Orlovic, RS
Jan Bondaruk, P
Dr. Rolf Baur, (UNEP), D