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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTInternational Conference on
MULTIFUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPES
Roskilde, Denmark, October 18-20, 2000visit the conference-website:
http://www.geo.ruc.dk/vlb/conference.htmor read the following information:
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International Conference on
"Multifunctional Landscapes" - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Research and ManagementCentre for Landscape Research
University of Roskilde, DenmarkA joint venture of the research projects “Boundaries in the Landscape”, “Land Use History and Plant Diversity” and “Value, Landscape and Biodiversity” under the Danish research program “Man, Landscape and Biodiversity”
Roskilde, October 18-20, 2000
Conference Theme
At present, the landscape is a popular topic, not only in an academic but also in a broader context. People have strong ties to landscapes and use them in various ways. From a human perspective, many of the earth’s landscapes are used more intensely than ever before in the history of earth, and landscapes are increasingly used simultaneously for several purposes. Thus there will be high demands on the landscapes of the future, which will have to serve the following functions: ecological (as an area for living), economic (as an area for production), socio-cultural (as an area for recreation and identification), historical (as an area for settlement and identity), and aesthetic (as an area for experiences). Depending on people’s different ways of using the landscape, it has a different meaning for them. In this regard, landscape is a very complex phenomenon. Single disciplines can only discover and describe small parts of the landscape as a whole. To understand and deal with landscape in its full complexity, discrete disciplines have to work together in order to address this challenge.Accordingly, the conference will give participants an opportunity to explore various approaches. Members of such disciplines as sciences, humanities, and social sciences as well as architecture and the arts will meet. The conference seeks to bridge the gap between different approaches and to create a common ground for future landscape research. It is the conference’s aim to bring the difficulties and problems in present landscape research to the fore and to present strategies for coping with them. The lectures and workshops aim to formulate common recommendations for future landscape research in the next millennium. Ultimately, the results of the conference will be presented and published as the Recommendations on Interdisciplinary Landscape Research.”
Preliminary Program:
The conference program includes three days of lectures and discussions in workshops (October 18-20, 2000) and one day for a pre-conference excursion (October 17, 2000).Tuesday, 17 October 2000: “Meeting the multifunctional landscape”
13:00 – 17:00 Pre-conference excursion for all conference participants
17:00 – 20:00 Registration of conference participants
18:00 Excursion dinnerWednesday, 18 October 2000: “Presenting the challenge”
08:00 – 09:00 Registration of conference participants
09:00 – 09:15 Opening of the conference
09:15 – 10:00 Opening lecture
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee
10:15 – 12:00 Plenary session (keynote speakers)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Opening of poster session (on display every day)
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel sessions (contributed papers)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee and opening of the photo exhibition (on display every day)
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel sessions (contributed papers)
18:30 Informal dinnerThursday, 19 October 2000: “Debating the landscape”
09:00 – 11:00 Workshops with lectures and opponent lectures (coffee in-between)
11:00 – 12:00 Discussions in parallel subgroups of the workshop
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Discussions in parallel subgroups continue
15:30 – 17:00 Poster session, coffee break in-between, reporters of the subgroups prepare preliminary conclusions of the discussions
17:00 – 19:00 Break for refreshments
19:00 Conference dinnerFriday, 20 October 2000: “Presenting the recommendations”
09:00 – 10:00 Discussion groups continue
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee
10:15 – 12:00 Summery of workshops, presentation and discussion of the recommendations
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Plenary session (keynote speakers)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 16:30 Closing session, summery of recommendations (keynote speakers)
Structure of the workshops
There will be six different workshops (see list below), which will consist of a short introduction followed by a main lecture addressing the topic of the workshop and will be followed by an opponent lecture. The main lecturer and the opponent lecturer will be selected among internationally known academics. Names will be announced in the second announcement (February 2000). Participants who are interested in the topics of the main lectures are welcome to present further opponent lectures.
After the main and opponent lectures, the participants in each workshop will be separated into smaller subgroups with about 5-10 participants. The subgroups will discuss the main and opponent lectures and make additions or changes to a draft proposal of the recommendations, which have been prepared in advance. In each subgroup, a researcher from one of the three projects under the “Man, Landscape and Biodiversity” program will be secretary for the discussion and the report of the subgroup’s findings on the final day of the conference.Time frame of the workshops
The main lectures will be distributed to the opponents in July 2000. In September 2000, a booklet with lectures, opponent lectures, and a draft of the recommendations will be mailed to all registered participants of the conference. In this way, all participants will have the opportunity to respond with further opponent lectures. Provided the contributions pass an international review-process they will be included in the final publication of the conference.
Description of preliminary workshops
Workshop 1: The landscape – from vision to definition
Everybody has their own ideas about what landscape is, yet these ideas are very different. Even in an academic context, a variety of different concepts and approaches to landscape exist. What is landscape? Still today a transdisciplinary theory about landscape is lacking. In the workshop the different disciplines’ approaches to and theories on landscape will be discussed, in order to discover differences and similarities. Is it possible to find a transdisciplinary approach to landscape which has a broad theoretical foundation? What should such a theory encompass?Workshop 2: Monitoring of terrestrial landscapes
During recent years, programs or proposals for programs on general landscape monitoring have been set up in many developed countries. Basically they seem to concentrate on land cover and land use changes and their effects on biodiversity and cultural landscape values. Methodologically they tend to emphasise on a repeated and detailed area-wide monitoring of stratified sample areas in the order of less than 5-10 km². The workshop will discuss general rules for stratification and content of monitoring programs for terrestrial landscapes. Which types of interdisciplinary co-operation are necessary to meet the challenge of establishing a stable and efficient terrestrial landscape monitoring system?Workshop 3: Biodiversity versus landscape diversity
The workshop will discuss the concepts of biodiversity and landscape diversity and the relation between the two. Time will be taken to discuss which geographical scales are useful for the study of biodiversity in relation to landscape diversity: which types of metric are relevant for the description of biodiversity and its relation to landscape diversity. How are different metric systems of biodiversity and landscape diversity related to vernacular value-laden perceptions of nature and landscape?Workshop 4: Complexity in the management of landscapes
Regulation and management of landscapes are complex tasks, which are connected with many variables and difficulties. The workshop will discuss legal, economic and political problems herein. How is landscape represented and handled in the legal system? How should landscapes be managed, when political and legal boundaries (e.g. property rights) divide landscapes into units that fundamentally contradict the regulatory interest in those landscapes? What kind of participation processes do we need?Workshop 5: Normative rankings of landscapes
The question of how landscapes are ranked in our ethical value systems is of fundamental importance when considering juridical, administrative and political aspects of landscape management. What are the implications, when different value theories are applied to the landscape? The workshop will illuminate and discuss the normative questions involved in the ranking of different possible futures of a landscape. Among the important questions are: Do landscapes have a requirement for ethical consideration of their own? What is valuable about (bio)diversity? What is “quality of nature?” What does justice say about the distribution of welfare goods in the countryside areas?Workshop 6: Ecological aspects of cultural landscapes in a historical perspective
To understand the content of nature in present landscapes, it is necessary to analyse the interplay between man and nature over time. How is contemporary plant diversity in habitats influenced by human exploitation over time? What influence has the past land use on the present physical aspects of landscapes? Further elements of discussion will be the variation in settlement development related to socio-economic and ecological factors and the significance of historical events for landscape and vegetation development. Floristic and genetic diversity related to landscape fragmentation and island biogeographical dynamics will also be expanded on.
Conference Publication
After the conference the different recommendations of the subgroups/workshops will be summarized and published. The papers presented will be reviewed for an international publication.International Ph.D. Course
In conjunction with the international conference on “Multifunctional Landscapes,” the Department of Geography and International Development Studies together with the Department of Environment, Technology and Social Studies, University of Roskilde, are organising an international Ph.D. course on “Studying Multifunctional Landscapes.” This course, which will be given from October 15 to 22, 2000, is intended for Ph.D. students within the broad field of landscape research, which includes topics from various disciplines (e.g. biology, geography, landscape architecture, social science, philosophy etc.). It is the purpose of the course to make the participants acquainted with international scientific conferences and to introduce “landscape” as a multidisciplinary research subject and bridge the gap between different disciplines and traditions in science. Participation in the international conference on “Multifunctional Landscapes” is included in the Ph.D. course.
More about the Ph.D. course here: http://www.geo.ruc.dk/vlb/phd_course.htmPreliminary Conference Registration:
Attendees who wish to submit a paper are asked to return the attached registration form as soon as possible (best before January 15, 2000, in regard to the further planning) or download it from our homepage (http://www.geo.ruc.dk/vlb). Registration should include name, full address of the participants, and title of the paper/poster to be presented. With the second announcement of the conference (in February 2000) a more detailed program will be presented. A final registration will be possible together with the second announcement, onward to July 1, 2000 (for later registration an extra fee will be charged).Conference Fee and Payment: Normal fee/Student fee
Full participation (registration before July 1, 2000) DKK 1.200 / DKK 600
Full participation (registration after July 1, 2000) DKK 1.500 / DKK 750
Participation without meals (before July 1, 2000) DKK 600 / DKK 300
Participation without meals (after July 1, 2000) DKK 900 / DKK 450
Pre-conference excursion (before July 1, 2000) DKK 150 / DKK 75
Pre-conference excursion (after July 1, 2000) DKK 200 / DKK 100Full conference participation includes 3 days lunch, 1 informal dinner, 1 conference dinner, refreshments during the breaks, and conference booklet. Participation without meals includes conference dinner, refreshments during the breaks, and conference booklet. The fee for the pre-conference excursion includes excursion dinner.
Conference fee does not include accommodation. Payment has to be done in Danish currency (DKK 100 is about Euro 13 or US$ 14). For participants of the Ph.D. course “Studying Multifunctional Landscapes” the full conference participation (including excursion) is included in the course fee.
The conference is sponsored by the four Danish State Research Councils for Natural Science (SNF), Social Science (SS), Humanities (SHF), and Agricultural & Veterinary Sciences (SJVF).
Practical Information
Conference Venue:
University of Roskilde, Universitetsvej 1, P.O. Box 260,
DK-4000 Roskilde, DenmarkConference Language: English
Organised by:
Centre for Landscape Research, University of Roskilde,
Prof. Jesper Brandt, Bärbel Tress, Gunther Tress
Building 19.1, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark,
Phone: (+45) 4674 2601 or (+45) 4674 2776,
Fax: (+45) 4674 3032,
E-mail: [log in to unmask],
Internet: http://www.geo.ruc.dk/vlbFurther Information:
For more information about the conference, please visit the conference-website on:
http://www.geo.ruc.dk/vlb/conference.htmConference Deadlines:
January 15, 2000: Preliminary registration for papers
February 2000: Second announcement
July 1, 2000: Submitting lectures for workshops
July 1, 2000: Latest registration for normal conference fee
August 1, 2000: Submitting abstracts for posters and contributed papers--
Jesper Brandt, Baerbel Tress, Gunther Tress,
University of Roskilde, Denmark
Department of Geography
Centre for Landscape Research
Building 19.1, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde
Phone +45 46742776, Fax +45 46743032, [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
http://www.geo.ruc.dk/vlb/home.htm