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2008 Asian Wetland Convention and Workshop
announces the
2008 Asian Wetland Convention and Workshop
Announcement of the First (2008) SWS Asia Chapter's Asian Wetland Convention and Workshop at the Taiwan Journal.
THE YEAR 2008 is Declared as the YEAR OF THE WETLANDS in TAIWAN.
-CPA
Venue: National Taiwan University Hospital International Convention Center, Taiwan
Date: October 23- 26, 2008
Welcoming Party: Taipei Wildbird Society
Organizers
Secretariat: Dr. Wei Ta Fang (Taiwan)
Workshop Chair: Dr. Sam S.S. Lau (Hongkong SAR)
Regional President of SWS Asia Chapter: Prof. Isidro T. Savillo
The Society of Wetland Scientists Org. Executive Board under the leadership of Dr. Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, U.S.A.- President, SWS Org., U.S.A.
Host: Director- General Charles Chin- Rong Lin, Construction and Planning Agency (CPA), Ministry of Interior, Taiwan.
With special participation of Distinguished Taiwanese Government Officials.
We are inviting wetland scientists from the Asian region as well as wetland scientists around the World who have interest in Asian Wetlands to attend the 2008 Asian Wetland Convention and Workshop sponsored by the Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of Interior, Taiwan and the SWS Asia Chapter. We expect your participation as oral and poster presentors and workshop participants as well as audience to the various topics involving wetlands.
The Titles/Themes for Sessions, Symposia and Workshops include the following:
1.Legal and Policy Instruments for Sustainable Management of Asian Wetlands
2.Co-Management of Wetlands: Conceptual Evolution in the Asian
Countries
3.Understanding Lakustrine and Palustrine Systems And Management
Alternatives
4. Partnership and Networking Potentials
5. Wetland Hydrology
6. Role of Environmental Education, communication and awareness raising strategies in conservation of Asian Wetlands
7. Application of Wetland Science and research in sustainable
management of wetlands in Asia
8. Wetland knowledge management, its gaps and application to wetland conservation in Asia
9. International Conventions and Wetland Resources Management in Asian Countries-Case studies
10. Wetland conservation for sustainable agriculture
11. Wetlands - our ecological heritage
12. Socio-economic and cultural relationships of wetlands
13. Geographical Information System and wetland management
14. Role of educational institutions for promoting public involvement
15. Awareness - stake - participation - conservation relationships
16. Wetland restoration/rehabilitation
17. Constructed wetland systems for rural waste water management
18. Institutional/School wetlands for better learning
19. Climate change and wetlands (Wetlands to tackle climate change)
20. Wetlands and livelihood issues - Fisheries, aqua-crops, useful products, etc.
21. Eco-tourism in wetlands
22. Wetlands biodiversity
23. Bird migration in Asian wetlands
24. Economic valuation
25. Fish Population/Biology and Ecology in Mountain Wetlands
26. Wetland transboundary monitoring
27. Wetland biodiversity conservation and its sustainable use
28. Wetland soil and its functions
29. Wetland adaptive management and climate change
30. Gender and Wetlands
31. Wetlands and Human/Avian Health and other health related issues
32. Wetlands and New Rice Varieties and other commodities
33. Understanding the Muck and the Peat and Its Biodiversity Significance
For the Workshop:
1.Coral Ecosystems as Part of Estuarine and Marine Wetland Ecosystem: Sustainable Management Strategies
2. Wetland Management
Please prepare your abstracts and full length papers for publication and submit them to the Secretariat (email address: wawaf@hotmail.com) or to the Regional President of the SWS Asia Chapter (email address: isidro_savillo@yahoo.com) as soon as possible. In case of problems, contact the above mentioned personnel. Thanks a lot.
"I am excited to see in the future the proposed "Wetland Corridors" a project of Dr. Wei Ta Fang which will adjoin wetlands of neighboring cities in Taiwan and will be another wonderful ecological tourism spot for the country. I am grateful for the support of Miss Chen Chu, the honorable Mayor of Kaohsiung City and all the rest. I am also happy to have with us as Workshop Chair, Dr. Sam S. S. Lau, who contributed much in the making of the top scenic wetland spot in Hong kong: the Mai Po Marshes/Nature Reserve. I am also glad to read Dr. Woei -horng Fang's book on "A Guide to Threatened Birds of Taiwan." Dr. Wei Ta Fang also wrote a Chinese version of a book on Taiwanese Wetlands. Such great concerns by these great fellows in the conservation of nature." - Prof. Isidro T. Savillo, Regional Pres., SWS Asia Chapter
*modified 04/28/08
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