24th Colloquium June Liège Belgium

24th Colloquium of the Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Sustainability of Rural Systems: Balancing Heritage and Innovation, 17-22 July 2016, Belgium

  • 17-22 July 2016 Liege, Belgium
  • Presentations, Workshops, Excursion, Special Session on RE
  • Call for abstracts

24th Colloquium of the Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Sustainability of Rural Systems: Balancing Heritage and Innovation, 17-22 July 2016, Belgium

  • 17-22 July 2016 Liege, BelgiumLogo Liege call 2016
  • Presentations, Workshops, Excursion, Special Session on RE

The thematic sessions will address the following six themes:

  • New technologies and the new rural ways of life
  • Agronomic innovations and their social and environmental impacts
  • From ecosystem services to agroservices
  • Energy issues in rural areas
  • Multifunctional forests and countryside
  • Tourism and recreation

Please pay special attention to session No. 4: Energy issues in rural areas

Fieldwork: Three days of fieldwork will deal with the above themes and include one-day discussion at the Libramont agricultural, forestry and agri-food fair that welcomes more than 200,000 visitors each year.

Abstracts: Abstracts of no more than 300 words in length should be sent to Charline.Dubois@ulg.ac.be by March 1st 2016

Registration fee: 500€ (Participation of the Conference and Fieldwork, Conference materials, Daily Coffee Breaks, Daily lunches, Welcome Reception and Conference Dinners) Early Bird: 390€ (by April 15th) Early Bird: PhD Student and scholar from UN developing regions 300€ (by April 15th)

Proceedings: Are planned in two special issues of Belgeo and BSGLg in 2017. Both Belgian journals are peer reviewed and indexed by Scopus. Details relating to submission will be circulated later. The book of abstracts will be published on-line.

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