Topics

The major topics of this year’s Emerging Issues along Urban-Rural Interfaces conference are:

  • Human influences on ecosystems (direct and indirect stressors).
  • Restoring/rehabilitating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems ltered by urbanization.
  • Evaluating changes to ecosystem goods and services along urban-rural gradients.
  • Monitoring and predicting human influences on landscapes and ecosystems.
  • Alteration of natural disturbances due to urbanization.
  • The relationship(s) between land-use policies and ecological processes/disturbances along urban-rural interfaces.
  • Science delivery and exchange of information for natural resource professionals, policymakers, and private citizens.
  • Spatial/scale aspects of land-use change.
  • Application of ecological research in land-use planning.
  • Ecosystem impacts on human communities (e.g., human health, economic well-being, political action).
  • Urban forestry and urban agriculture.

 

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