Call for Papers - NEW DEADLINE!!!!From Friday, 28 May 2010 00:00 To Sunday, 30 May 2010 00:00 CHINA Suzhou "Harmony and Prosperity - Traditional Inheritance andSustainable Development." is the theme of IFLA's 47th World Congress which will be hosted, in Suzhou on May 28th to 30th 2010, by the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA) with the support of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the P.R. of China and the Department of Construction of the Province of Jiangsu and organized by Suzhou People's Government.
Landscape professionals and students are invited to submit abstracts relating to the following seven sessions:
1. Protection of Natural and Cultural Resources Strategy, methodology, policies, laws and regulations dealing with protection of natural and cultural resources. 2. Eco-system Rehabilitation/Restoration/Development Developing and implementing plans to rehabilitate, restore or create functional ecology-based landscape systems, ranging from small scale projects within communities and villages, to larger scale projects, such as brown-fields, urban green spaces and urban-rural green space systems. 3. Landscape Planning and Design Contemporary planning processes and designs for landscape projects such as parks, plazas, institutions, campuses, residences, garden expos, sports and recreational facilities and waterfronts, etc. 4. Landscape Architectural Education Goals, guidelines, standards, courses, teaching methods and accreditation and links to licensing of practitioners. 5. Sustainable Landscape Construction and Technology Recent research and applied technology in sustainable practices for such projects as wetland treatment, water-saving irrigation, high-tech waterscape and lighting, rainwater collection, storm water management, and energy conservation, for both landscapes and structures, especially within parks. 6. Landscape Stewardship and Management Laws, regulations, standards and guidelines for landscape stewardship and management at local, national and international levels. 7. Landscape Planting Planting design and materials selection, and standards and guidelines for plant materials installation, and landscape maintenance and management. Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 January 2010 Submitted digital abstracts must be in English, 500-700 words in length, and include a title, session title, resume of the first author and five illustrations. Illustrations may be photos, graphics, or other images. Paper Submission Deadline: 31 March 2010 Abstracts will be selected through a refereed process. The authors whose abstracts are selected will be notified to digitally submit their complete papers of up to 2? 500-3,000 words in length and less than 12 illustrations ( photos in jpg in 200 dpi). Final session speakers will be selected from submitted papers, but all papers will be published in the proceedings in May 2010. |
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