Sep 24 - 28 2019 Central Africa Time
Conferences and Symposia
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Topics and Themes for this conference are:
The science behind restoration
- Principles of restoration ecology
- Linking restoration science and practice (outreach, extension, training)
- Ecological processes, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services
- Standards of practice for restoration
Policy and planning
- Governance and public policy
- Legal and regulatory frameworks for restoration
- International policy and global restoration targets
- Restoring at the landscape scale
- Prioritizing areas for restoration
- Setting appropriate goals
Economics of restoration
- Job creation and livelihoods
- Financing and investment in restoration
- Restoration enterprises
- Ecosystem services and natural capital
- Investing in ecological infrastructure
- Restoration in developing and emerging economies
Social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions
- Stakeholder engagement / community involvement in ecological restoration
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- Restoration in cultural landscapes
- Restoration for socio-ecological resilience
- Ethics and values
- Raising public awareness of restoration
- Art and ecological restoration
Restoration amid rapid environmental change
- Climate change and ecological restoration
- Restoration for resilience to extreme events
- Restoration in the Anthropocene
- Assisted migration
- Restoration for carbon sequestration
- Restoration for water supply and water security
Meeting specific restoration challenges
- Natural regeneration as a restoration strategy
- Genetics as a tool and outcome of ecological restoration
- Seeds and seedling production
- Restoration in agroecosystems
- Wildlife restoration
- Restoring biodiversity
- Soil restoration / plant, soil and water relationship
- Restoration in parks and protected areas
- Fire management in ecological restoration
- Rehabilitation of severely degraded sites / reclamation
- Invasive species management
Restoration approaches for different biomes/ecosystems
- Restoration of wetlands and aquatic ecosystems
- Restoration of coastal ecosystems
- Restoration of temperate and boreal forests
- Restoration of temperate grasslands
- Restoration of tropical savannas and grasslands
- Restoration of tropical forests
- Restoration of drylands and mediterranean ecosystems
- Restoration in urban areas
Monitoring and assessing restoration outcomes
- Monitoring and adaptive management
- Indicators for measuring restoration success
- Failures and mistakes in restoration projects and decisions
Other
- Other aspects of ecological restoration
Regions: Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National