Spring 2012 Newsletter | ialeUK - International Association for Landscape Ecology

Editorial

It has been a busy couple of months for those of us interested in things at a landscape scale. Not only have the Nature Improvement Areas been launched in England, but the ialeUK committee have been thinking long and hard about what we do and how we do it!

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ialeUK Conference 2012 Edinburgh

Marc Metzger

Preparations are in full swing for the 2012 conference Landscape Ecology: Linking Environment and Society, which will take place in Edinburgh 4-6 September. We received 75 abstracts from 25 countries and 5 continents, and the selection of the 24 oral, and 9 flash presentations has not been easy! We are now fine-tuning the programme, which will be online in the next few days.

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IALE 2013 European Congress, Manchester

Jonathan Porter

ialeUK and IALE Europe invite you to Manchester for the IALE 2013 European Congress. This major international event will examine how and why European landscapes are changing and how landscape ecology can help us to plan for the future at local to global scales. The event will run from 9-12 September 2013 in Manchester.

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ialeUK - A Hub of Activity

Richard Smithers

With landscape-scale thinking and landscape ecology now centre-stage at the science-policy interface, I suggested at an ialeUK committee meeting earlier this year that it would be good to think through what more we might do to achieve our core aims (http://iale.org.uk/mission)...

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PhD workshop: Integrating scientific research and policy with spatial data

Monique Gulickx

In total, 9 PhD students from various parts of the UK (Warwick, Sheffield, London, and Reading), Ireland (Dublin), and even The Netherlands (Wageningen and Amsterdam) came to the University of Reading to explore how research can best inform policy and practice and some of the key issues relating to spatial data and GIS applications.

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Developing UK indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Richard Smithers

Two short surveys are being conducted by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and AEA for a project on developing UK indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. The surveys take 10-15 minutes to complete and deadline for submission is 7 June 2012.

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Scottish Natural Heritage Mapping Tool

Phil Baarda

Scottish Natural Heritage is developing an interactive land use mapping tool, and we'd like you to let us know how useful it is, and what we can do make it more so.

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Defra announce launch of the Ecosystems Knowledge Network website

Paul Mahony

Defra have announced (28/5/12) that the Ecosystems Knowledge Network website is now online.

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Nature Improvement Areas start their work

Chris Young

As we went to press for Winter 2012 Defra announced the 12 areas that were successful in the bidding to become Nature Improvement Areas. These will have a significant impact on many organisations over the next few years and with the funding arrangements now agreed projects are starting to evolve from ideas on paper through to on the ground actions.