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International Soil Conference on Sustainable Uses of Soil in Harmony with Food Security
Land Development Department (LDD), a long-standing government agency under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand who runs a well known “Volunteer Soil-Doctor Program” and promotes sustainable soil management for food security and well being of farmers, would cordially invite scientists from developing and developed countries, academia, practitioners, policy makers, and interested persons to participate in the “International Conference on Sustainable Uses of Soil in Harmony with Food Security”. For more information, please click here. Note: "ISC2015 International Soil…
Find out more »2nd Wageningen Conference on Soil Science 2015
Soil Science in a Changing World This conference emphasizes the importance of soil science for combating and mitigating the challenges of our time: food security, water resources, climate change, land functions, ensuring biodiversity and how to govern these issues and create policy for taking effective measures.
Find out more »Exhibition ARTandSOILS
International art exhibition to promote the FAO Int. Year of Soils. 50 artists from 5 nations present their works about soils, soil protection, bio diversity related to different types of soils, wild live under the surface, composting, mycorrhiza, fungi, creating fertile soil in the desert, fighting erosion and desertification, soil protection in the Nepal Himalaya region, soil and water protection by artist recycling of chemical sewage waters of textile industry in Vietnam and many other aspects about soil, vegetation and…
Find out more »Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2015
München wird die DBG Jahrestagung 2015 ausrichten. Infrastruktur, Ambiente und Wissenschaft sprechen für den Standort München: • Audimax, Hörsäle und Seminarräume im Universitätsgebäude, das im Herzen der Stadt und in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Englischen Garten liegt. • Eine Darstellung der wesentlichen Böden Bayerns per Lackprofilsammlung des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt. • Bodenkundliche Exkursionen in die vielfältigen Landschaften Bayerns, von den Alpen und Voralpen bis nach Franken. • Die anzusprechenden Schwerpunkte reichen von der Nutzung der Böden über Forschungsinfrastrukturen bis zu…
Find out more »Bodenschutz Urban
Die UN Generalversammlung hat das Jahr 2015 zum Jahr des Bodens erklärt. Das Projekt Bodenschutz Urban nutzt diesen Anlass, um Bürgerinnen und Bürger verstärkt für Bodenthemen in urbanen Räumen zu sensibilieren. Mehr Informationen finden Sie auf bodenschutz-urban.de.
Find out more »14th World Forestry Congress
The Congress – the first to be held in Africa - is inclusive of people from all countries, regions and sectors, whether they belong to a government organization, NGO, private company, scientific or professional body, a forestry society, or simply have a personal interest in attending. The broad participation and inclusive discussion on forestry issues will facilitate their mainstreaming in global agendas on sustainable development as well as building new partnerships.
Find out more »Pedometrics Conference 2015
Pedometrics is the application of mathematical and statistical methods for the study of the distribution and genesis of soils.
Find out more »Critical Dialogue: Different Urbanisations
Second part of the Critical Dialogues Series: the New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’ The Critical Dialogues Series is conceptualised by Katleen De Flander, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies IASS, Potsdam and co-curated with ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin This second dialogue focusses on the role and limits of import/export of knowledge, technology and urbanisation patterns between different regions of the world, and questions how ‘culturally different’ the processes of urbanisation are/should be. The event will be in English // Admission is free upon registration…
Find out more »5th International Symposium on SOM
SOM 2015 will connect pools with fluxes, living and dead organic matter, organic and mineral compounds, topsoil and deep soil, experiments and modeling, terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems, dynamics and sequestration and surely the scientists investigating SOM from over the world. All this is necessary to elucidate Structure, Origin, Mechanisms of SOM formation and functioning.
Find out more »SUITMA 8
The Institutes of Geology and Geography of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Mexican Soil Science Society invite to participate in the 8th International Conference of the Working Group on Soils in Urban, Industrial, Traffic and Mining Areas (SUITMA), of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). Why? Worldwide urbanization has risen from 25% in 1950 to more than 50% nowadays. By 2030 more than 60% of world’s population will live in cities. In consequence, the soil…
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