Invitation
 

We are very pleased to invite scientists, practitioners and policy-makers interested in relations between socioeconomic and ecological components of urban systems to attend The 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology 2020.

After the succesfull previous conferences in Berlin (2013) and in Shanghai (2016) we meet on 6 to 8 July 2020 in Poznań, green and health-oriented city, with one of the highest quality of life indexes in Poland.

The conference programme covers a wide range of topics related to urban ecological aspects and social components interdependencies in cities.

The leading concept of the SURE2020 conference in Poznań is to provide the welcoming forum for scholars, experts and business and administration professionals to present their research and discuss the ideas, concepts, experiences and different points of view.

As organizers we will do our best to make the conference affordable for participants from all different parts of the World.

For SURE you can expect a very stimulating, fruitful and enjoyable time.
We warmly welcome you to Poznań - Save the date: 6-8 July 2020!

 

prof. Juergen Breuste
SURE President

 

prof. Andrzej Mizgajski
Conference Chairman

 

Conference Topics

  • The metabolism of urban ecosystems

  • Ecosystem services of all ecosystem types - data, indicators, bundles, synergies and trade-offs

  • Biodiversity in urban areas

  • Social awareness of urban ecosystems

  • Ecology of degraded areas

  • Life quality in cities

  • Green infrastructure in the urban areas

  • Nature based solutions for cities

  • Urban water planning

  • Waste management in urban social ecological systems

  • Food production in cities – urban agriculture

  • Developing of low-carbon cities

  • Dynamics of urban landscapes

  • Cities between sprawl and compaction

  • Urban development versus sustainability

  • Urban transition towards the eco-cities

  • Urbanization and its changes in global perspective

CITIES
AS SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL
SYSTEMS

The 3rd World Conference
of the Society for Urban Ecology

 
Journals

The following renowned scientific journals offer special issues for the conference contributions:

Call for session and workshop proposals

for more information contact Katarzyna Fagiewicz, kfag@amu.edu.pl

Call for Session proposals

Sessions provide the platform to discuss interesting topics of conference. The proposed sessions can take traditional forms with 4-5 talks concluding with an in-depth discussion of a specific topics. The available time is 1,5 hour.

The session proposals should refer to the Conference Topics.

The session organizers/chairs are requested to prepare the general concept of the session (200 – 300 words), to invite speakers for their sessions, and to ensure that the registered speakers will submit abstracts before the deadline.

Please submit your session proposal via the dedicated submission platform


Download

   Registration form (MS Word 62 KB)

Deadline: 1 December 2019 

Call for workshop proposals

Work­shops are in­ter­ac­tive ses­sions that re­quire the ac­tive cooperation of par­tic­i­pants. It should be the time to elaborate ideas for new research projects, for building concepts of new publications, as well as for dissemination and co-creation of new approaches in urban ecology as the field of research and implementation.

The workshop organizers/facilitators are requested to prepare the scenario of the workshop, including a description of objectives and expected outcomes (200 - 300 words).

The available time is 1,5 hour, however, in justified cases the Conference Organizers can extend the time to 3 hours.

Please submit your workshop proposal via the dedicated submission platform


Download

   Registration form (MS Word 62 KB)

Deadline: 1 December 2019 

Important dates

NOV
1
DEC
1
FEB
29
APR
30
JUL
6
JUL
8


Committees

Scientific Committee

Jürgen Breuste - University of Salzburg, Austria - chairman

Martina Artmann - Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany

Marcus Collier - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Dagmar Haase - Humboldt University Berlin, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany

Cigdem Coskun Hepcan - Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

Cecilia Herzog - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Cristian Ioja - University of Bucharest, Romania

Tomasz Kaczmarek – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

Junxiang Li - East China Normal University, China

Zhiyun Ouyang - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Salman Qureshi - Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; Pakistan

Henry Garay Sarasti - EcoNat, Colombia

Barbara Szulczewska - Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland

Organizing Committee

Andrzej Mizgajski – Conference Chairman

Katarzyna Fagiewicz – Conference Executive Manager

Leszek Kasprzak

Andrzej Macias

Paweł Churski

Janina Borysiak

Damian Łowicki

Piotr Lupa

Lidia Poniży

Małgorzata Stępniewska

Iwona Zwierzchowska

Zuzanna Woźniewicz

Konstancja Fedeńczak



 
 
Honorary Patronage

of the President of Poznań



 
 

Organizers



 
 

Partners