Events
The Department of Geomatics and Land Management, Makerere University invites you to the 1st Conference on Advances in Geomatics Research to be held from the 3rd – 4th of August 2011 at the CEDAT Conference Hall – Makerere University Kampala, Uganda.
The theme of the conference is “Geomatics Research for Sustainable Development”. The theme seeks to bring to the fore Geomatics research and...
Postmodern trends in mountain communities and other places with natural and cultural features of high value have resulted in the existence of a high mobility of people, goods and capital that have decided to choose them as a place of temporary residence and/or permanent. This phenomenon refered as lifestyle migration or amenity migration has a variety of implications depending on the country...
The CIALCA Consortium and the CGIAR Consortium Research Programme (CRP) on the Humid Tropics have the pleasure of announcing an international conference on the 'Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of sub-Saharan Africa', to be convened in Kigali, Rwanda from 24-27 October 2011.
The conference aims to take stock of the state of the...
IPROMO’s theme this year is “Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Management in Mountains” and will focus on specific hazards (slope instabilities and landslides, shallow soil movements, floods including glacial lake outburst floods, wildfires, avalanches and snow hazards and earthquakes) and examples of natural hazard protection (sustainable agriculture, pasture and forestry practices, policies on...
The ICMED-2, continues the series of ICMED, following with ICMED-1 in 2002. During 2002, declared the International Year of Mountains (IYM) by the United Nations General Assembly, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and State Forestry Administration of China (SFAC), jointly held the First International Conference on Mountain Environment and Development. In order to implement Chapter 13 of...
The development of rural tourism in the last two decades and the experience that Romania has achieved in this area have drawn the attention of researchers and academics from the country and from abroad and together with the managers of tourist and agritourist guesthouses they attempt to provide solutions to the problems, numerous and difficult, facing tourism.
Hence, prestigious institutions in...