Ecological Landscaping Conference October 27, 2007

Ecologically-based landscaping guidelines and practices are needed to help solve urban environmental problems such as those related to storm water run-off, nutrient cycling, waste generation and disposal, air and water pollution, pest control and loss of beneficial biodiversity. Widespread adoption of holistic, ecosystem approaches to urbanized landscape design and management can help foster social, economic and environmental stewardship and sustainability among human inhabitants of urbanized environments.

This conference will bring together a diversity of people interested in the environmental and sociocultural aspects of urbanized landscapes and provide a venue for sharing, discussing and synthesizing information about the study and practice of urban landscape design and management. A key focus will be on fostering discussion of issues from multiple disciplinary and management perspectives.

The central objective of the conference is to explore how ecological and sociocultural principles derived from basic research can guide on-the-ground practices of sustainable urbanized landscape design management and the development of public policies that foster such practices (Fig. 1). This conference will be distinguished from others by its emphasis on implementation and integration of scientific principles into the real-world design and management of urbanized landscapes.

Official Website: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/ulep/Conference.htm