The 2nd International Workshop on Urbanization in Watersheds
October 26-28, 2016
Xiamen,China

Abstract Submission has been extended to September 15, 2016.
http://iwuw.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1

Conference Description

The workshop will focus on a theme of "Towards a Sustainable Urbanization" as an inheritance from the first workshop theme of "Ecological and Environmental Responses". The IWUW 2016 is organized by the Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and will be held on October 26-28, 2016 in Xiamen, China, one of the United Nation’s Livable Cities.
Over half of world’s population is living in urban areas by 2014 (Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations). It is assumed that the degradation of the environment with urbanization simultaneously alters biogeochemical processes in the intra-urban ecosystem and surroundings. The 1st International Workshop on Urbanization in Watersheds (IWUW 2014) proposed to study the ecological and environmental responses to urbanization using the watershed approach, the gradient approach, and their combination. Urban watersheds with intensive human impacts have become an important critical zone (CZ) in the world. Environmental degradation that was an obstacle for developed countries in the past century is now onerous also in developing countries. This workshop aims to become a platform of knowledge exchanges and experience shared among scientists, scholars, and graduates from developed and developing countries.
The academic committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Urbanization in Watersheds invites you to join us on October 26-28, 2016 in Xiamen, China.

Topics of Submission

Theme: Towards a sustainable urbanization
Subthemes: (but not limited)

1. Long-term studies of urban watersheds (hydrology, environmental chemistry, biology, social sciences, etc.)
2. Applying the critical zone observatory approach to urban ecosystems
3. Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) in Urban Ecosystems
4. Urbanization impacts on local, regional, and global biogeochemistry
5. Strategies and policies for urban watershed management

For more information: http://iwuw.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70003