Call for abstracts for the International conference: ILDAC2015 - ‘Integrated Land & Water Resources Management in the Dry Areas under Climate Change’

OBJECTIVES

• Updates on climate change and projections.


• Present recent development in land and water resources management in the drylands.


• Provide forum for debate and exchange among all stakeholders working for drylands development.
• Learn from the local experiences in combating land degradation and desertification.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The conference is open to all those who are interested in drylands: researchers, university professors, students, development agents, experts, policy makers, NGOs and civil society, regional and international organizations, etc.

THEMES

Theme 1: Climate change

- UNFCC and IPCC reports 
- CC projections/scenarios and downscaling
- CC adaptation strategies

Theme 2: Water resources mobilization and management

- Surface and groundwater mobilization
- Non-conventional resources (desalination, treated wastewater, gray water, etc.)
- Water use efficiency/productivity and irrigation methods
- Water resources modeling
- Extremes: drought, flooding, etc.
- CC impacts on water resources

Theme 3: Land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation

- Process and indicators of land/vegetation degradation
- Carbon sequestration
- Ecosystem services
- Remediation practices and strategies to combat land degradation and desertification
- CC impacts

Theme 4: Geo-information and Remote Sensing technologies

- Change detection of land degradation
- Land Use/Land Cover mapping
- Databases and information sharing
- Telemetry
- Geo-information based decision making systems

Theme 5: Socio-economic aspects and integrated approaches

- Valuation of land degradation
- Land degradation impacts on livelihood
- Cost benefit analysis of remediation practices
- Mainstreaming CC in planning strategies
- Integrated participatory approaches for sustainable development