Alicante, Spain, 13 - 15 April 2011 The conference objectives have integrated thermodynamics, ecology and economics into “ecodynamics”. The aim of the conference is to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary communication between scientists, engineers, economists and professionals working in ecological systems and sustainable development. Emphasis will be given to those areas that will most benefit from the application of scientific methods for sustainable development, including the conservation of natural systems around the world. The conference objectives have evolved over the years, seeking to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics into “ecodynamics”.
ECOSUD is a challenge for the creation of a new science in line with Prigogine’s statement that “at all levels we observe events associated with the emergence of novelties and narrative elements, which we may associate with the creative power of nature”.
Conference Topics
• Greenhouse issues
• Ecosystems modelling
• Mathematical and system modelling
• Natural resources management
• Environmental indicators
• Sustainable development studies
• Recovery of damaged areas
• Energy and the environment
• Socio-economic factors
• Soil contamination
• Waste management
• Water recovery
• Environmental management
• Modelling of alternative futures
Papers presented at ECOSUD 2011 will be published by WIT Press in a volume of WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment(ISSN:1743-3541). In addition to being distributed to delegates at the time of registration, the hardcover volume will be publicised directly to researchers and institutional libraries and distributed widely through the international book trade.
The papers will also be archived online in the Transactions of the Wessex Institute collection (http://library.witpress.com). The collection provides the international scientific community with immediate and permanent access to individual papers presented at WIT conferences. WIT Press is committed to offering authors the option to make their work freely accessible to colleagues through their Open-Access service.
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