Sustainable Land Reclamation
     
within the
2006 IASME / WSEAS International Conference on
ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS and
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EEESD'06)
Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, July 11-13, 2006
http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2006/greece/energy

 

Topics:

  • Causes and consequences of land degradation

  • Design and nature

  • Landscape reclamation and sustainable development

  • Sustainable soil and vegetation management

  • Biodiversity restoration

  • Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems

  • Protection and restoration of the coastal environment

  • Desertification

  • Global climate change and simulation of carbon & nitrogen cycles

  • Brownfields and other derelict land

  • Reforestation

  • Rural landscape conservation and cultural heritage

  • Applications: GIS, Geostatistics, Constructed wetlands, Habitat conservation, creation and repair, Land use/cover change, Visual impact assessment, Water in landscape reclamation
     

Organizer:

Prof. Thomas Panagopoulos, Algarve University, Dept. Landscape Architecture
Campus de Gambelas, Faro 8000 Portugal, http://w3.ualg.pt/~tpanago/
Phone: +51-289800900 ext 7607, Fax: +351-289818419
Email: tpanago@ualg.pt

Program Committee:

Thomas Panagopoulos, Algarve University, Dept. Landscape Architecture, Campus de Gambelas, Faro 8000 Portugal, Email: tpanago@ualg.pt

Jon Burley, Michigan State University, School of Planning, Design, and Construction, 110 UP & LA Building, East Lansing, Michigan U.S.A. 48824, Email: burleyj@msu.edu

Gideon Oron, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Sede-Boker 84990, Israel, Email: gidi@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Jose Beltrao, Algarve University, Dept. Agronomy, Campus de Gambelas, Faro 8000 Portugal, Email: jbeltrao@ualg.pt

Christian Opp, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Fachbereich Geographie, Marburg/Lahn 35032, Germany, Email: opp@mailer.uni-marburg.de

Ioannis Ispikoudis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece, Email: ispik@for.auth.gr


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Brief Biography of the Organizer:

Prof. Thomas Panagopoulos received the B.Sc. in Forestry from Aristotle University, the M.Sc. in Renewable Natural Resources from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, the Ph.D. from Faculty of Geosciences Aristotle University. He has published more than 50 papers in Journals and Conferences.
Thomas Panagopoulos is a faculty member in the Landscape Architecture department at the Faculty of Natural Resources in the Algarve University, Portugal where he has been Department Head and Landscape Architecture Degree Director, and presently coordinating research works on natural, rural and industrial landscape management and reclamation. He is coordinator of various pos-graduate and undergraduate studies.
He was responsible for teaching the following courses: Landscape Reclamation, for Landscape Architecture in Algarve University, Computer Assisted Design, Geographic Information Systems, Informatics for Biotechnology, Silviculture, Technical Design for Environmental Engineering, Geostatistics for the Master in Water Resources and he is collaborating with the Huelva University (Spain) for organizing the GIS in golf course management for the Master in Sustainable Golf Course Management,
He is Fellow of the International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO), of the World Association of Soil & Water Conservation (WASWC), of the Research Network Minesite Recultivation (ReNet) and the Global Network for Environmental Science and Technology (GlobalNEST).