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Thursday October 25, 2007
Anette Reenberg

Welcome (not restricted)

Theme 1

Contemporary approaches to land systems science.
Speakers in this session presented – based on their broad experience – recent developments within land systems science and identified visions and future challenges for the land systems research community.


Sandra Lavorel

Functional approaches to quantifying the response to land use change of multiple ecosystem service delivery

Marie-José Gaillard (presented by Bent Odgaard)

Novel approaches to long-term reconstruction of past landscapes and land use as an aid to present and future landscape management

Karlheinz Erb

Global human appropriation of net primary production: population, affluence, technology, trade - and biodiversity

Tom Veldkamp

Advances in Land Models

Ruth DeFries

Non-linearities in land systems for sustainable land use decisions

Theme 2

Interdisciplinarity in land system science: different cultures, agendas, success criteria, mutual interactions and meanings.
The presentations in this session placed emphasis on challenges related to interdisciplinary land systems research. The presenters discussed – using examples from their individual disciplinary background – what they require in terms of level of documentation and standards to confirm research hypothesis.


Finn Arler

Interdisciplinarity - Why it is so difficult and yet so rewarding...

Kjeld Rasmussen

Land system science: crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences

Lowe Bôrjeson

Land systems science and history

Eric Lambin

Land change and infectious diseases: the emerging discipline of spatial epidemiology

Jakob Magid et al.

Thinking outside the box … – 10 years of practical experiences in interdisciplinary education and research

Friday October 26, 2007
Theme 3

Strategic management goals and valuation of landscapes.

Frank Ewert

Managing land use in Europe under changing climate and market conditions

Vivian Kvist Johannsen

Management and forests in landscapes - the biofuel production case

Jannick Schmidt

LCA as a means to assess land use implication of new production priorities

Ole Hjorth Caspersen

Effective Governance for Sustainability - Landscape Character Assessment at the Municipality level in Denmark

Jesper Fredshavn

Indicators and methods to assess biological qualities

Organising committee

Concluding remarks