IALE 2022 European Congress: New call for abstracts!

We are pleased to announce the new call for abstracts for the IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress (July 11-15, 2022). The IALE 2022 Congress is IALE 2021+1, originally scheduled in 2021 but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call is reopen for all researchers, policy makers and practitioners with a special interest in landscape ecology.

IALE 2022The congress will have an European focus but we look forward to welcoming participants from around the world. Congress is organised by Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw in partnership with European and Polish Associations for Landscape Ecology (IALE-Europe and PAEK).

The venue will remain the Old Library of the University of Warsaw, Poland. The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 28, 2022. Notifications about abstract acceptance will be sent at the end of February 2022. The Abstract Submission Form with detailed instructions can be found on the congress website at: https://www.iale2022.eu/programme/call-abstracts.html. We are waiting for your submissions and see you next year in Warsaw!

Goal of the IALE 2022 European Congress

IALE 2022 European Congress aims to highlight landscape ecology as the transdisciplinary platform linking past, present and future. This approach is especially needed now when the world is facing global challenges such as climate crisis, biodiversity loss, environmental pollution, mass migration and urbanization. A holistic, landscape approach to the complex cultural-environmental systems – which is the essence of landscape ecology – provides the perfect framework for combining transdisciplinary tools and perspectives to better understand the diverse phenomena and processes around us and to predict and properly manage them. That is why we want to learn from past experience and knowledge to take responsibility for shaping sustainable landscapes and societies of the future.

To achieve this aim we invite both researchers and practitioners from all landscape-related disciplines, including environmental and social perspectives, to share their experience and interact within the broad, international community of all those interested in landscape related issues. We believe that landscape ecology – as the study of multifaceted interactions in geographical space – has the potential to integrate not only natural sciences and humanities but also researchers and policy-makers, which is the key to implement the Congress theme into practice.

Themes of the IALE 2022 European Congress

The general congress theme – making the future, learning from the past – will be discussed through the four interconnected thematic groups covering the whole range of issues relevant for landscape ecology:

Past…

Heritage, Reconstructing, Understanding, Drivers and actors of change, Transformations, Nature restoration, Mapping, Paleoecology, History, Memories, Legacies, Identity, Connectivity…

Learning…

Communication/transferring knowledge, Coproduction of knowledge, Multi-/inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Dialogue, Education and awareness, Going to dialogue with landscape, Perception, Learning by doing, Monitoring, Multi-perspectivism, Evaluation of policies/measures…

Future…

Modelling and scenarios, Transitions, Facing/meeting challenges, Aspirations, Expectations, Technology/new tools, Virtual, Artificial intelligence/big data, Social media, Landscape genetics, Solutions, Novel (eco)systems, Innovation, Regeneration, Sustainability, Resilience, Security, Measuring landscape…

Making…

Practice, Policy, Design, Identity, Place making, Governance, Management (natural/heritage), Co-benefits, Stewardship, Protection, Conservation, Ecosystem services, Impact assessment, Impact and effect, Conflict solving, Mitigation, Well-being, Valuation, Implementation…

For more information

  • Go to: iale2022.eu
  • Abstract submission’s start: November 3, 2021
  • Abstract submission’s deadline: January 28, 2022
  • Contact: congress(at)iale2022.eu