U-GEC Conference
Last Updated: 2008-06-18
International Forum of GEC and Land Use
Change in Peri-Urban Area:
Dialogue and Experience of Asian Cities
November 29, 2008
National Taipei University
67 Minsheng E. Rd., Sec.3
Taipei, Taiwan 104
About
Conference
The conference is a dissemination event of PU-GEC Project, which will
take place in Taipei, November 29 2008, at the National Taipei University.
The primary focus of PU-GEC project is to frame the relationships between
land use change in peri-urban areas with the global environmental change
issues. One of the goals of the project is to present experiences in Asian
communities. This event will provide an opportunity to bring together
research findings on peri-urban issues in Asian cities from a variety
of perspectives.The event is organized and divided into three parts:
Welcome reception dinner on Nov. 28, 2008
Forum
(Nov. 29, 2008)
The Forum is organized into a one day conference. Prof. Ian Douglas
and Prof. Karen Seto are invited to deliver keynote speeches for the
forum. Prof. Seto is currently the chair of Scientific Steering Committee
of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) project
of IHDP. Prof. Douglas has Chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee
of the Peri-Urban Environmental
Change (PU-ECH)
project of SCOPE. The research findings from the first year of PU-GEC
project and experience from other Asian cities will also be presented
by the project PI and collaborators.
Field
trip (Nov. 30 ~ Dec.1, 2008)
The event is organized as a two-day field trip to Taipei County and
Taoyuan County, the case study site of PU-GEC project. Participants
will not only be exposed to the ecosystem functions and services of
Taipei’s peri-urban areas but also experience the severe urban
sprawl impacting the study area.
Workshop
(Dec.2, 2008)
The workshop on Ecological Development of Chinese Coastal Cities to
be held after the field trip is an extension project on Comparative
Study on Ecological Development of Chinese Coastal Cities by Prof. Wang
Rusong, which is a part of the SCOPE project of Ecopolis development
to meet the challenge of global environmental change. The workshop
is mainly for delegates from various coastal cities of China.
The conference is
targeted mainly to the scientific community in the field of spatial
planning and resource management and anyone interested in understanding
the relationship between peri-urbanization and issues of global environmental
change, but also to experts from planning agencies with interest in
or in charge of land use planning and controls in peri-urban areas.
Paper presentations are for invited speakers only.