Időpont:
2012. április 01. vasárnap - 2012. április 04. szerda
Helyszín: Wageningen, Hollandia
In May 2007, a major demographic milestone was passed. For the first time, the earth’s population became more urban than rural. This process of urbanization will accelerate in the decades to come: most of the growth in the world population – to 9 billion people in 2050 – will occur in urban areas. By 2050, the urban population will be approximately twice the size of the rural population.
However, this does not mean that urban areas are or will become more important than rural areas. On the contrary, they have always relied heavily on each other, and will become even more mutually reliant during an era of rapid urban population growth. Cities will continue to need resources such as food, fibre, clean water, nature, biodiversity and recreational space, as well as the people and communities that produce and provide these products and services. Hence, key questions for the coming decades are how, where and by whom these products and services for the urban area will be produced and provided, and if and how this can be done in manner that is considered to be socially, economically and ecologically sustainable and ethically sound.
Working group convenors of the conference invite you to submit abstracts (max. 300 words) for the April 2012 conference in Wageningen, The Netherlands. 20 different working groups will be organised during the conference. Below and on the left of this page you can find an overview of the working group calls. At this moment not every working group text is definitive.
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Green care (social farming; farming for health)
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Exploring ‘civic food networks’ and their role in enabling sustainable urban food systems
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Rural education (farm and countryside education; farm-to-school)
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Environmental services (nature and landscape management; biodiversity schemes; water management
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Economic impact at the farm level
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Business models; farm enterprise development models
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Entrepreneurial skills and competences: challenges and opportunities
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Learning for innovation – new challenges in an urbanizing world
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Regional branding; the socio-economic impact at the regional level
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Urban, peri-urban and regional planning
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Land-use transformations
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What are the challenges of future urban agriculture?
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Public food procurement
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Consumers, multifunctional agriculture and urban dynamics
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Multifunctionality, rural policy and governance
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Social exclusion and poverty in rural areas
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Migration and mobility
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Transition approaches
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Multifunctional agriculture as a coupled human-natural system
The deadline for submission of abstracts will be 20 December 2011. Use conference form for abstracts and send it by e-mail to the contact person of the working group you are submitting to.
Mid January the working group convenors are inviting abstract submitters to write a conference paper. The deadline for submitting the conference paper is 1 March 2012.
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