Hi Folks,
We are putting together a special symposium on poverty and landscape ecology for next year's Landscape Ecology meeting and are still looking for a couple more participants. The symposium is entitled "Aligning Conservation and Poverty Alleviation at the Landscape Scale: Trade-offs and Opportunities" (see abstract below) and we are hoping to convene an exciting group of scholars who are doing empirical work at the interface of landscape ecology and poverty. The symposium will be held at the annual meeting of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) in Snowbird, Utah from April 12-16, 2009 (http://www.usiale.org/snowbird2009/). IALE is a great conference: fairly small (~300-400 people) and usually quite open to interdisciplinary studies and approaches. We don't have travel funds to offer, but IALE does have good student travel awards as well as a foreign scholar award. Please contact me soon if you are interested or would like more information as we need to submit the proposal Sept. 15th. Best, Jeanine Rhemtulla Fabrice DeClerck Jeanine Rhemtulla Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Geography McGill University 805 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6 tel: 514-577-5437 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******* Symposium Proposal US-IALE 2009 Annual Symposium "Coupling Humans and Complex Ecological Landscapes" Snowbird, UT - April 12-16 Convenors: Jeanine Rhemtulla1 and Fabrice DeClerck2 1Dept. Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6; tel: 514-577-5437; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2CATIE 7170, Turriabla, Costa Rica; ph: 507-558-259; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Title: Aligning Conservation and Poverty Alleviation at the Landscape Scale: Trade-offs and Opportunities Abstract: Are conservation and poverty alleviation compatible goals in human-dominated landscapes? Many of the world's poorest peoples live in biodiversity-rich areas, but little is known about the interactions between poverty and ecosystem structure and function, especially at the landscape scale. In this symposium, we present a series of empirical studies examining: the effects of poverty on landscape composition and configuration; the interactions between poverty and stocks and flows of ecosystem services; and the trade-offs and opportunities for aligning poverty alleviation and ecological conservation in complex human-dominated landscapes. Presentations will include case studies from both tropical and temperate regions, marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
