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News Call for abstracts for the 10th International Meeting on Soils with Mediterranean Type of Climate

This conference will take place in Beirut, Lebanon in 22-26 June 2009. It is organised by the National Council for Scientific Research (Lebanon).

Themes:

  •   Case studies that could contribute to conference sessions
    • • Soil classification and mapping
    • • Impact of climate change on soil behaviour and productivity
    • • Soil resilience to drought and desertification
    • • Land degradation
    • • Land quality in the framework of soil contamination and decontamination
    • • Secondary soil salinity and soil salinity management
    • • Effective irrigation and fertilization of Mediterranean soils within the context of integrated production
    • • Soil as component of organic farming in the Mediterranean context
    • • Organic amendment to enhance carbon sequestration using composted materials and domestic solid and liquid wastes
    • • Natural and man made hazards associated to soil hydrological, physical and physicochemical properties : Mass movement, soil erosion and sedimentation
    • • Soil forest ecosystems and forest fires
    • • Use of Remote Sensing and GIS for the studies of soil characteristics, soil erosion and mass movement
    • • Management of soil information
15 February 2009: Deadline of abstract submission and registration

Contact information Scientific Committee: Prof. Mouin Hamzé (CNRS Lebanon): Chairman, Secretary General, National Council for Scientific Research, P.O. Box 11/8281, Riad El Solh, 1107 2260 Beirut, Lebanon / Organizing Committee: Dr Talal Darwish (CNRS Lebanon): Chairman, CNRS, Director, Center for Remote Sensing, P.O. Box 11/8281, Riad El Solh, 1107 2260 Beirut, Lebanon (email: tdarwich@cnrs.edu.lb)
Phone: +961 1 840260; Fax: +961 1 822639 / Tel: +961 4 409 845/6 ; Fax: +961 4 409 847
News type CallForPaper
File link http://www.sciencedev.net/Docs/lebanon%20conference.PDF
Source of information Sécheresse.info
Keyword(s) remote sensing, GIS, drought, desertification, irrigation, erosion, sedimentation, mapping, land degradation, fertilization
Subject(s) AGRICULTURE , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , TOOL TERMS
Relation http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/events/10th-international-meeting-soils-mediterranean
Geographical coverage Lebanon
News date 15/01/2009
Working language(s) ENGLISH , FRENCH
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