The 1st International Electronic Conference on Land
IECL 2022 has now come to a close!
A huge thank you to our Chairs, Committee Members, Speakers, Sponsors, and Participants, for making this conference a great success!
Welcome to submit papers to conference special issue "Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Land (IECL2022)"
The certificate of attendance can be downloaded via "My certificates" after logging in.
Conference awardees will be selected soon. The Abstracts book of conference is available to browse and download now!
All recordings are available now. Please note that the recordings will remain online till 27 June 2022 and then will be taken down.
Winners Announcement ------ Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
The Best Oral Presentation Award has been granted to:
Analysis of Two Contrasting Scenarios of Land Use Change through an Ecosystem Services Lens
Alessandro Gimona, Marie Castellazzi, Bethany Wilkins, Andrea Baggio-Compagnucci, Paola Ovando and Richard Hewitt
The Gender Gap in Land Sciences: A Review of Women's Contribution to the Editorial Boards of Peer-reviewed Journals
Somayeh Mohammadi Hamidi, Mohammad Rezaei-Pandari, Sima Fakheran and Christine Fürst
The Best Poster Award has been granted to:
The Importance and Characteristics of Landscape Sensitivity Assessment
Ilze Stokmane
Digital Agricultural Management Tools for Efficient and Integrated Policy-Making
Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri, Lydia Papadaki, Tatiana Pliakou and Eleni Toli
Each contribution will receive 500 CHF, We would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.
Publication Opportunities
Papers extended from the abstracts accepted at the conference will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge upon submission to Land.
- The author must have attended the event (i.e., have a completed and paid conference registration).
- Authors must submit the full paper to the conference special issue: "
- " before 30 August 2022.
- Authors must submit in advance the tentative paper title to land@mdpi.com for application.
Please note that other institutional discounts cannot be combined with this discount voucher.
Book of Abstracts
IECL Program
Wednesday 18 May 2022
Thursday 19 May 2022
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
It is a great pleasure to announce the upcoming conference “The 1st International Electronic Conference on Land —Towards Land System Science”, to take place virtually on 17—19 May 2022.
Conference topics we intend to address are the philosophy and key (inter- and transdisciplinary) methodological approaches of land system sciences. We want to shed a light on advances in key research areas, such as land use and land use planning, modeling from ecosystem to landscape and global scales, scaling effects, impacts of global and climate change on land systems and their resilience, global trends, such as urbanization and biodiversity losses and integrative approaches connected with the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Aichi Targets and the Paris Agreement. Instruments, such as the European Landscape Convention, and their relevance for protecting and restoring cultural landscapes, the natural heritage and diversity of land systems are expected to be discussed. Other relevant governance instruments and governance mixes that translate land system science outputs into policies and conventions will be debated regarding their efficiency and success and regarding how to further develop them, for instance, in the light of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and its expected outcomes and impacts.
This meeting aims to bring together the LAND community in its widest sense to discuss these latest advances, with sessions on land system science advances and their societal relevance chaired by leading researchers from across the globe.
In the interests of safety, given the present COVID-19 situation, we have decided to bring the conference to a fully online format. The conference will proceed on the same dates with the same fantastic speakers.
Importantly, we aim to select a high number of oral presentations from early-stage researchers, from their submitted abstracts.
We look forward to seeing you online!
IECL2022 Chair
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Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst is the Editor-in-Chief of Land. She is the professor for Sustainable Landscape Development, Martin-Luther University Halle, Germany. Her main research interests currently lie in integrative landscape modeling and impact assessment by means of a system of systems and in participatory decision processes in urban and regional spatial planning. Her regional research focus lies beyond Europe, in West Africa and Latin America. |
Conference Chairs
Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Department Sustainable Landscape Development, University of Halle, Germany
Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Department Sustainable Landscape Development, University of Halle, Germany
Session chairs
Prof. Dr. Le Yu
Department for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China
SESSION A. Land Systems and Global Change
Dr. Saskia Keesstra
Wageningen Environmental Research, Team Soil, Water and Land Use, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
SESSION B. Soil-Sediment-Water Systems
Prof. Dr. Hossein Azadi
Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium
SESSION C. Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues
Prof. Dr. Heiko Balzter
NERC National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, School of Geography, Geology and Environment, University of Leicester, UK
SESSION D. Land–Climate Interactions
Prof. Dr. Thomas Panagopoulos
Faculty of Science and Technology, Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, University of Algarve, Portugal
SESSION E. Land Planning and Architecture
Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst
Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Dept. Sustainable Landscape Development, University of Halle, Germany
SESSION F. Women in Land Science
Dr. Santruckova Marketa
Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Horticulture, Czech Republic
SESSION G. Landscapes and Societal Challenges
Dr. Mengyao Han
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
SESSION H. Renewable Energy and Land Use
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Burkhard
Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
SESSION I. Ecosystem Services Science for Applications in Planning and Decision Making
Dr. Theo van der Sluis
Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), Dep. Biodiversity and Policy, The Netherlands
SESSION I. Ecosystem Services Science for Applications in Planning and Decision Making
Dr. Henry N. N. Bulley
BMCC, The City University of New York, USA
SESSIONJ. Landscapes Disturbance in Global South
Prof. Dr. Sheona Shackleton
African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Landscapes Disturbance in Global South
Prof. Dr. Cristian Echeverria
Faculty of Forest Sciences, University of Concepción, Chile
Landscapes Disturbance in Global South
Invited Scientific Committee
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Land cover and land use change; environmental remote sensing; effects of global change on ecosystem services
Department of Digital Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
sustainable development; architecture and environment integration; designing environments; data-driven planning and design
Land systems science; land use; GIS; sustainability; environmental change; landscape ecology
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
land use; land consolidation; land governance; community development; rural development; regional development; human geography
Remote sensing; land cover classification; scales of observation; environmental applications
Urban planning; transport; social equity; scholarly impact
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, China,
National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, China
Interaction between land and climate; urbanization effect on urban climate
landscape ecology; ecological effects of major engineering projects (dam construction and road ecology); restoration ecology; environmental and ecological planning
Landscape analysis; valuation; perception issues
School of Management, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Globalization; land-use change; commodity value chains; corporate social responsibility
Land cover classification; leaf area index; fractional vegetation cover; vegetation; agriculture
Land use changes
Agent-based modelling; landscape ecology; land use/cover change modelling; coupled human and natural systems
Department of Geography & Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA
Geographical information science and systems; cyberinfrastructure; land use and land cover; spatial data analysis
Group Aquaterra, Advanced Scientific Research Center, University of A Coruña, Spain
Soil erosion; soil water content; runoff yield; sediment connectivity; predicting models; nutrient delivery; soil organic carbon; land use change; cover crops; woody crops; forest plantation
Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Landscape ecology and management; species recovery and habitat restoration; integration of technology in wildlife research and management
Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, University of Granada, Faculty of Architecture, Campo del Príncipe, Spain
Land use; renewable energy
Faculty of Law and Economics & Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany
Institutional change; institutional economics; environmental and resource economics; governance of natural resources; agricultural and land economics; conservation; technology adoption; sustainable land management
"Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania
Urban ecology; land cover and use; land cover and use changes; landscape ecology; sustainable spatial development; spatial planning; natural protected areas
Spatial analysis; hydraulics; landscape ecology; built environment; environment; urbanism; sustainability management; climate change; sustainability; architecture
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Biomass energy; urban policy; regional and urban economic development
University of Sassari, Italy & University of Cambridge, UK
Biocultural landscape and seascape; historical ecology; natural and cultural landscape and heritage; rural landscape
Canada Research Chair (T2) in the Human Dimensions of Sustainability and Resilience, Department of Geography, Vancouver Island University, 900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6E9, Canada
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Sessions
SESSION B. Soil-Sediment-Water Systems
SESSION C. Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues
SESSION D. Land–Climate Interactions
SESSION E. Land Planning and Architecture
SESSION G. Landscapes and Societal Challenges
SESSION H. Renewable Energy and Land Use
SESSION I. Ecosystem Services Science for Applications in Planning and Decision Making
SESSION F. Women in Land Science
SESSION J. Landscapes Disturbance in Global South
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dr. Per Angelstam
Faculty of Forest Sciences, School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
per.angelstam@slu.se
Transdisciplinarity; Forest Management; Collaborative Learning; sustainability landscape; Ecology
Prof. Dr. Patrick Meyfroidt
Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium
patrick.meyfroidt@uclouvain.be
Remote sensing; Environmental science; land use; ecosystem services; environment; Land Use Science; environmental impact assessment; forestry; forest conservation; redd+; land use change; ecosystems; vegetation; reforestation; Wood Products; Forest Fragmentation
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase
Department of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
dagmar.haase@ufz.de
land-use change modelling; ecosystem services; socio-environmental justice; urban land teleconnections; urban ecology; GIS and remote sensing
Invited speakers
Prof. Dr. Yongguang Zhang
Ecology and Remote Sensing Reseach Group, Nanjing University, China
SESSION A. Land Systems and Global Change
yongguang_zhang@nju.edu.cn
Prof. Dr. Rob Marchant
University of York Heslington, UK
SESSION A. Land Systems and Global Change
robert.marchant@york.ac.uk
Associate Professor Patricia Saco
College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia
SESSION B. Soil-Sediment-Water Systems
patricia.saco@newcastle.edu.au
Prof. Dr. David Lopez-Carr
Department of Geography, University of California, USA
SESSION C. Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues
david.lopez-carr@ucsb.edu
Prof. Dr. Jason W. Moore
Binghamton University, State University of New York, United States
SESSION C. Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues
jwmoore@binghamton.edu
Dr. Nir Krakauer
Department of Civil Engineering, 193 Steinman Hall, City College of New York, USA
SESSION D. Land–Climate Interactions
nirkrakauer@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Luís Carlos Loures
VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal
SESSION E. Land Planning and Architecture
lcloures@ipportalegre.pt
Prof. Dr. Kristof Van Assche
1. Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Alberta, Canada; 2. ZEF/ Center for Development Research, Bonn University, Germany
SESSION E. Land Planning and Architecture
vanassch@ualberta.ca
Prof. Dr. Julia Nerantzia TZORTZI
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
SESSION E. Land Planning and Architecture
julia.georgi@polimi.it
Prof. Dr. Harini Nagendra
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
SESSION F. Women in Land Science
harini.nagendra@apu.edu.in
Prof. Dr. Sam Turner
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
SESSION G. Landscapes and Societal Challenges
sam.turner@ncl.ac.uk
Prof. Dr. Veerle Van Eetvelde
Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium
SESSION G. Landscapes and Societal Challenges
veerle.vaneetvelde@ugent.be
Prof. Dr. Shaojian Wang
School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
SESSION H. Renewable Energy and Land Use
1987wangshaojian@163.com
Prof. Dr. Xudong Wu
School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, China
SESSION H. Renewable Energy and Land Use
wuxudong@bjfu.edu.cn
Prof. Dr. Michael Dunford
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
SESSION H. Renewable Energy and Land Use
m.f.dunford@sussex.ac.uk
Prof. Dr. Davide Geneletti
University of Trento, Italy
SESSION I. Ecosystem Services Science for Applications in Planning and Decision Making
davide.geneletti@unitn.it
Prof. Dr. Louise Willemen
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands
SESSION I. Ecosystem Services Science for Applications in Planning and Decision Making
l.l.willemen@utwente.nl
Prof. Dr. Amos T. Kabo-bah
University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
SESSION J. Landscapes Disturbance in Global South
amos.kabobah@uenr.edu.gh
Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
SESSION J. Landscapes Disturbance in Global South
ramesh.krishnamurthy@ubc.ca
Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Departamento de Biología, Bogota, Colombia
SESSIONJ. Landscapes Disturbance in Global South
darmenterasp@unal.edu.co
Registration
The registration fee includes attendance to all conference sessions.
When registering as an "Academic", please register with your academic email address, as this will accelerate the registration process. If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Participation to the conference is considered final only once the registration fees have been paid. The number of participants is limited: once the number of paid registrations reaches the maximum number of participants, unpaid registrations will be cancelled.
Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 11 April 2022. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
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Early Bird Until 20th January 2022 |
Regular Until 10th May 2022 |
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| Academic | 75.00 CHF | 100.00 CHF |
| Non-Academic | 100.00 CHF | 120.00 CHF |
| Author/Reviewers of Land | 50.00 CHF | 75.00 CHF |
| Society | 40.00 CHF | 50.00 CHF |
| Affiliated Society with Land | 20.00 CHF | 40.00 CHF |
| Topic Board, Review Board, Student, Developing Countries | 20.00 CHF | 40.00 CHF |
| Editorial Board, Guest Editor, Invited Speaker | Free | Free |
Cancellation policy
Cancellation of paid registration is possible under the terms listed below:
| > 2 weeks before the conference | Full refund |
| < 2 weeks before the conference | No refund |
Disclaimer
We will endeavour to present the program advertised. However, MDPI and its partners reserve the right to alter or cancel, without prior notice, arrangements, timetables, plans, or other items relating directly or indirectly to The 1st International Electronic Conference on Land -Towards Land System Science. MDPI and its partners are not liable for any loss or inconvenience caused as a result of such cancellation.
Beware of Unauthorized Registration
Note that Sciforum is the only official registration platform to register to IECL2022. Beware that entering into financial agreements with non-endorsed companies can have costly consequences.
Insurance
The organizers do not accept liability for personal accident, loss, or damage to private property incurred as a result of participation in IECL2022.
Photographs and/or video will be taken during the conference
By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes to help achieve the conference’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications.
Payment methods
Wire transfer, Credit card
Currencies accepted by this event
Swiss francs (CHF) , Euros (EUR) , US dollars (USD) and Chinese yuan (CNY)
Instructions for Authors
The conference "IECL2022 – The 1st International Electronic Conference on Land -Towards Land System Science" will accept abstracts only.
The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Please note that abstract submission and conference registration are two separate processes.
To register for the conference, please follow this link.
To present your research at the event
- Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ on the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
- Indicate what thematic area is best suited for your research.
- Submit an abstract in English - the word limits are minimum 150 words and maximum 300 words.
- The deadline to submit your abstract is 15 March 2022. You will be notified by 31 March 2022 about the acceptance for poster presentation.
- Upon submission, you can write to tell if you wish to also be considered for oral presentation. Following assessment by the Chairs, you will be notified by 20 April 2022 in a separate email whether your contribution has been accepted for oral presentation.
- Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 11 April 2022. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
The typical talk should be within 10 minutes. And there will be Q&A time after all presentations are done in one session.
All presentations must be sent to the conference secretariat in advance so that, in case you are encountering technical difficulties, we could share your slides to the audience.
Poster Information
General information on the posters and poster sessions can be found by clicking here.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference’s esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to launch the Best Poster Awards and the Best Oral Presentation Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 2
The Best Poster Awards have been established to recognize the scientific merit exhibited in poster presentation and preparation.Number of Awards Available: 2
As a sponsor, Land would like to present two awards for the best presentation, as determined by the conference committee. The recipients of the award will each receive CHF 500. We look forward to reviewing your contributions.Terms and Conditions:
Best Poster Awards
As a sponsor, Land would like to grant two awards (each 500 CHF) for the best poster presented at the conference. This prize will be determined by a jury and awarded to the best-designed poster presented live at the conference.
Posters should have the following information:
- Title (with authors and affiliations)
- Introduction/Objectives/Aims
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Contact information
Presentations will be judged on how well they are able to summarize the content of the work and make the observer interested in viewing the poster. Posters will be judged on clarity quality of appearance.
Best Oral Presentation Awards
As a sponsor, Land would like to present two awards for the best oral presentation, as determined by the conference committee. The recipient of the award will each receive CHF 500. We look forward to reviewing your contributions.
Best Oral Presentation Awards Criteria
Presentations will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Originality and novelty of the submitted file;
- Significance of content;
- Scientific soundness;
- Interest to the readers;
- English language and style.
Requirements for Best Oral Presentation Awards:
The presentation should contain the following information:
- Title (with authors and affiliations);
- Introduction, objectives, and aims;
- Methods;
- Results;
- Conclusion;
- References;
- Acknowledgements;
- Contact information;
- A live presentation within 20 minutes.
Evaluation
- Each Evaluation Committee member will assess each entry in terms of the criteria outlined above;
- Total scores for each presentation will be ranked, from highest to lowest;
- If two or more authors get the same score, further evaluation will be carried out;
All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.
Sponsors and Partners
We are happy to invite you and your company to participate in and sponsor our IECL2022 conference!
If you have any questions or wish to discuss options further, please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Secretariat. We thank you for your consideration!
Organizers
Sponsors
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Cosette Yuan
Ms. Hazel Kang
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
Email: iecl2022@mdpi.com
For information regarding submission inquiry and sponsoring opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
