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Programme for key-note lectures (Beatrix theatre)
Monday 26 July
| 09.45 h. |
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Wetlands: rich biodiversity
in spite of intense human use?
Peter A. Burrough (Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht
University) |
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Professor of Physical
Geography and Geographical Information Systems, Faculty of
GeoSciences, Utrecht University.
Current research interests include the development of
mathematical and computer tools for modelling dynamic
spatial processes in natural and human-affected landscapes;
the development of statistical and fuzzy tools for handling
inexact geographical objects and hydroecological studies
related to land degradation, nutrient transport in large
European catchments, water and plant relations in natural
habitats. |
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Sustainable
agriculture and wetlands.
Frank Rijsberman and Sanjini de Silva (IWMI, Sri Lanka) |
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Director General,
International Water Management Institute, PO Box 2075
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
f.rijsberman@cgiar.org,
http://www.iwmi.org/.
Professor at UNESCO-IHE, International Institute for Water
Education (Delft, the Netherlands) and Wageningen University
and Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands). He has a PhD in
Water Resources Planning and Management from Colorado State
University, USA. |
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| 11.45 h. |
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Sustainable water
management by using wetlands in catchments with intensive
land use.
Chengqing YIN and Baoqing SHAN (SKLEAC, Beijing, China) |
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Dr. Chengqing YIN is the academic director and professor of
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry,
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS,
Beijing, P.R.China.
He has a Ph.D. degree from SUNY College of Environmental
Science and Forestry, USA. He was awarded the Biwako Prize
for Ecology in 1995 by the Shiga Prefacture Government,
Japan. |
Tuesday 27 July
| 08.30 h. |
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Biogeochemistry in Wetlands: A Global Perspective
Curtis J. Richardson (Duke Univ. Durham, NC, USA) |
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Dr. Curtis Richardson is
Director of the Duke University Wetland Center and
Professor of Resource Ecology at Duke's Nicholas School
of the Environment and Earth Sciences, where he directs
wetland science and management research.
He is a Fellow of the Society of Wetland Scientists, the
Soil Science Society of America, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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| 13.45 h. |
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Plant
Survival in Wet Environments: Resilience and Escape.
Michael Jackson (Univ. of Bristol, UK, Utrecht
University, the Netherlands) |
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Mike Jackson is the FC Donders Professor in Plant Stress
Biology at The University of Utrecht and a Research
Fellow of the University of Bristol (UK). He is also a
Fellow of the Institute of Biology and of the Institute
of Horticulture. Research interests currently centre on
developmental adaptations to flooding and submergence
particularly where these underpin escapist strategies
and involve the action of plant hormones. |
Thursday 29 July
| 08.30 h. |
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Wetland
conservation and management: Questions for science and
society in
applying the ecosystem approach to protect a diminishing
resource.
Edward Maltby (RHIER, Virginia Water, UK) |
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Edward Maltby is Director of the Royal
Holloway Institute for Environmental Research and
Professor of Environmental and Physical Geography in the
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of
London. He heads the Wetlands Ecosystems Research Group.
Research worldwide focuses on wetland
processes and ecosystem functioning, linking science to
policy and developing improved methodologies to support
conservation and management. He has served as chair for
the IUCN wetlands scientific advisor committee and chair
of the IUCN commission on Ecosystem Management.
Coordinator of a series of EU wetland research programs,
UK government nominated expert to the Convention on
Biological Diversity on the ecosystems approach and
member of drafting group on inclusion of wetlands within
the EU water Framework Directive. |
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Restoring wetland
biodiversity in highly disturbed landscapes.
Joy Zedler (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)
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Joy Zedler is the Aldo
Leopold Chair of Restoration Ecology and Professor of
Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she
directs graduate and undergraduate student research in
wetland ecology, involving wetlands of Wisconsin and
salt marshes of southern California.
Current research focuses on invasive species,
restoration of biodiversity, functioning of diverse
vegetation, and the importance of topographic
heterogeneity in restoring species-rich vegetation.
Zedler serves on the governing boards of both The Nature
Conservancy and Environmental Defense. |
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