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The conference consisted of plenary sessions for which keynote speakers were invited and thematic parallel sessions where participants presented and discussed papers. The thematic sessions where clustered around the following themes:
Integrating socio-economic and environmental knowledge for spatial planning
Integrating knowledge from different disciplines relevant to spatial planning requires concepts and models to describe the spatio-temporal interactions between different land use functions. Relevant issues are multi agent and integrated assessment modeling and methods of dealing with scale-issues, identifying and modeling vulnerability of people and places, the role of stakeholders in the planning process and perceptions of the use of scientific knowledge, methods to bridge the gap between scientific and personal knowledge, and so forth.Abstracts (loading the list with titles may take a few seconds, please be patient)
Integrated river basin management and spatial planning
Integrated River Basin Management is a concept which explicitly addresses spatial relations between different land use functions within one functional spatial unit. The acceptance of this concept at policy level is evidenced by the recent EC Water Directive. Papers are invited which address methods of analyzing river basin spatial incompatibility in land use functions, theoretical concepts and practical applications indicating how to structure land use functions within catchments, examples of the role of stakeholders and the integration of scientific knowledge in the planning process, and so forth.Abstracts (loading the list with titles may take a few seconds, please be patient)
Planning spatial configurations of ecological habitats
Socio-economic developments increasingly undermine ecological habitats and ecosystem functioning through disturbance, fragmentation, habitat destruction, and so forth. Ecologists will be faced with huge challenges in the next few decades to develop concepts for the spatial structure of different future land use functions which safeguard the functioning of existing ecosystems, or restore the functioning of systems which have already been disturbed. Ways must also be explored which enable the effective integration of these concepts into the planning process.Abstracts (loading the list with titles may take a few seconds, please be patient)
Dynamics in urbanization patterns and spatial planning
Urban sprawl is a major characteristic of spatial developments in western urbanized countries. Many conflicts between other land uses, like agriculture and nature may arise. Papers are invited that address issues like the impact of ICT's, demographic and socio-cultural developments on future urbanization patterns, recent developments in analyses and simulation of urban systems, spatial conflicts between urban and non-urban land uses, the impact of spatial policies on the development of urbanization patterns and so forth.Abstracts (loading the list with titles may take a few seconds, please be patient)
Infrastructure, mobility and land use planning
Transportation infrastructure affects how activities are organized in space. Conversely, this spatial configuration has a lot to do with the level of transportation demand. Responsible for the evolution in land uses and transport systems is a host of factors, like technological innovations, globalisation and the behavior of households and firms. Relevant issues for sessions are developments in long-distance traveling, investments in infrastructure and changes in accessibility, land-use transportation interactions in empirical studies and modeling, the impact of policies on dynamics in mobility and so forth.Abstracts (loading the list with titles may take a few seconds, please be patient)
