The First Plenary Meeting of World Association of Soil and Water Conservation and the International Conference on Combating Land Degradation in Agricultural Areas (LANDCON 1010)
（The 1st Announcement）
I INVITATION
You are cordially invited to participate in the The First Plenary Meeting of World Association of Soil and Water Conservation and the International Conference on Combating Land Degradation in Agricultural Areas (LANDCON 1010) to be held in in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China from October 11th to 15th, 2010.
Land is foundation of human survives and development, but the Land degradation is intensifying in many parts of the world because of the unreasonable land use and global climate change. According to the FAO’s estimation in 2008, there 1.5 billion people, or a quarter of the world’s population, depend directly on land that is being degraded. Land degradation could induce the deterioration of the ecological function and productivity of land directly through soil erosion, desertification, salinization, loss of bio-diversity and so on. Furthermore, the land degradation has already threatened and is threatening the socio-economic and culture development at regional and global scales.
Fortunately, the increasing attention has been paid in combating land degradation all over world, such as the Soil and Water Conservation Engineering in the Upper and Middle Reaches of Yellow River since 1980 and “Grain for Green Project” of China，ACIAR-AusAID Landcare Project in Australia, the GEF UNEP/FAO program on Land Degradation Assessment in Dryland Areas (LADA) and EU FP6 Integrated Project on Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land (DESIRE).
We sincerely hope that you will join us in making LANDCON 2010 a success. We look forward to welcoming you to LANDCON 2010 and Xi’an, China.
II THEMES
Situation and evolution of land degradation
Mechanism and driving factors of land degradation
Control measures of land degradation
Evaluation of land degradation and land management on environment
Land degradation and regional social-economic sustainable development
Effect of global change on land degradation
And other relative topics.
III ORGANIZATION
1 Sponsors
World Association of Soil and Water Conservation（WASWC）
Soil and Water Conservation Society of China（CSWCS）
2 Organizers
Bureau of science and technology for resources and environment, CAS
Soil and Water Conservation Department, MWR
Northwest A&F University (NWAFU)
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS & MWR
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau
Beijing Normal University
Institute of Eco-Environmental and Soil Sciences of Guangzhou
Research team of the Major State Basic Research Development Program: Soil Erosion Processes and Their Adjusting and Controlling Mechanisms in the Main Soil Erosion Regions of China
Research team of theNational Key Technology R&D Program in the 11th Five year Plan of China: Key Technology of Integrated Measures of Soil And Water Conservation in the Loess Plateau
Research team of theEU FP6 Integrated Project: Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land - a global approach for local solutions (DESIRE)
3 Host
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS & MWR
IV VENUE AND DATE
Data: October 11-15, 2010
Venue: Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China
V SECRETARIAT
Secretariat of LANDCON 1010
Contact us:
Secretary: Mr. Fei Wang
Address: Institute of soil and water conservation, CAS & MWR
Xinong Road 26, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
Post Code: 712100
Tel: +86 29 8701 9829，+86 1377211 9949
Fax: +86 29 8701 2210，+86 29 8701 9829
E-mails: wafe@ms.iswc.ac.cn, landcon1010@gmail.com
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