Conference on land and water degradation, Magdeburg, Germany

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is organising an international conference on land and water degradation from 6 to 9 September in Magdeburg, Germany.

This conference will address the need to improve the practical and theoretical understandings of land and water degradation processes, in particular the physical, chemical and biological deterioration of soils and water bodies in various regions of the world. This event will also bring together scientists from various disciplines with different methodological backgrounds.

Topics on the agenda include:
- nutrient dynamics in the land-sediment-water system;
- buffer strip and floodplain functions for catchment health;
- physical, chemical and biological processes of soil degradation;
- methodological approaches to estimate and regionalise nonpointsource pollution;
- spatial heterogeneity, variation and prediction of land degradation;
- methods to review outcomes of mitigation strategies and catchment management;
- regional studies of land and water degradation, especially in industrialised and urbanised areas, cold climates and Mediterranean regions.For further information, please visit:
http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=16521(opens in new window)