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SAVE THESE DATES!!!!!
5th International Canopy Conference 2009
Forest Canopies: Conservation, Climate Change, and Sustainable Use
October 26-31 2009 Bangalore INDIA
Download the brochure 
Forest canopies are the least explored habitats in the world. They
not only support high terrestrial biodiversity, but also represent a
critical interface between the atmosphere and the earth. Forest
canopies also provide goods and services to support diverse human
activities. Thus interactions between forests and humanity offer
opportunities to explore sustainable use of such resources,
particularly for sustaining local livelihoods. Sustainability is vital
for environmental policies to foster conservation, sustainable use and
mitigation/adaptation to climate change. This demands the integration
of canopy science with physical science, social science and information
technology.
The 5th international canopy conference in 2009 will
bring diverse professionals together to build inter-disciplinary links
in canopy science to foster increased understanding of this unique
subset of forest ecosystems. ATREE (Ashoka Trust for Research in
Ecology and the Environment) is the major supporting institution for
the conference, with Convenors Dr. Soubadra Devy (soubadra@atree.org) and Dr. T. Ganesh (tganesh@atree.org).
Dr. Kamal Bawa and Dr. Margaret Lowman will serve as co-chairs. The
goal of the conference will be to highlight the respect to important
global challenges, especially climate change, sustainability, and
conservation. The conference will provide an opportunity to build
networks across continents, to facilitate capacity-building, and to
address issues requiring information from multiple sites, within
countries and across continents. The proceedings of the conference will
be published in an edited volume, with a subset of papers published as
a special issue of an international journal. Special sessions will be
held on: Education; Climate Change; Ecosystem Services and
Sustainability Initiatives; Innovative Tools; and an Emerging Issues
Round Table discussion.
Special features of the conference include:
- All-day field trip to view Indian forests and inspire discussion
- Canopy film festival (similar to the successful programs from the 1st conference)
- Canopy awards ceremony
- Student session
- Publiclecture to promote canopy education
- Opening Plenary talk by Thomas E. Lovejoy, President, H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Save these dates! A timeline leading up the conference will be:
- Call for symposia - January 2009
- Call for abstracts - March 2009
- Registration by 10 April 2009
- More information will be posted on www.atree.org
Please contact Soubadra or Ganesh (emails above) with suggestions
for speakers that may represent new, unpublished, innovative canopy
projects around the globe.