3rd International conference on management of natural resources, sustainable development and ecological hazards

Background

The success of the two previous International Conferences on Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards (Ravage of the Planet), held in Bariloche, Argentina (2006) and in Gordons Bay, South Africa (2009), has led the organisers to reconvene the meeting in Malaysia.

The conference will discuss the objective of reaching sustainability in the framework of all different disciplines in order to arrive at optimal solutions. Hence this meeting is essentially transdisciplinary in order to find appropriate sustainable solutions, i.e. those involving collaboration across a wide range of disciplines. Like the first two, the aim of this conference is to take stock of our situation and try to facilitate constructive principles and policies for a way forward.

Conference topics

The re-encounter
- Science and Humanities
- Art and sciences
- Science and ethics

Political and social issues
- Social and sociological issues
- Environmental legislation and policy
- International agreements

Planning and development
- City planning
- Regional planning and economics
- Spatial planning
- Sustainable transport
- Resource management
- Toursim and the environment
- Waste management

Safety
- Risk analysis, assessment and management
- Information and communication issues
- Transportation problems
- Emergency response
- Disaster prevention, control management and protection
- Protection of cultural and historical heritage

Health risks
- Water, air and soil problems
- Radiation fields
- Food contamination
- Housing and health
- Social and ecnomic issue
- Exposure and epidemiology

New technologies
- The impact of new technologies
- Energy-efficient technologies
- Eco-architecture

Learning from nature
- Design in nature
- Nature and architecture
- Solutions from nature
- Evolutionary studies

Ecology
- Natural resources management
- Biodiversity
- Sustainability indicators
- Environmental risk
- Recovery of damaged areas
- Ecosystems modelling
- Agricultural and forestation issues
- Landscape

Energy
- Renewable energy
- Nuclear energy
- Hydrocarbons
- Production of new energy
- Economics and political issues

Water Resources
- Water management and planning
- River basin and watershed management
- Sustainable water use
- Arid region problems
- Pollution monitoring and control

Air
- Air quality management
- Global and regional studies
- Climatology

Soil
- Agricultural issues
- Contamination
- Underground resources
- Remediation