INVITATION
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The Internet Conference on Ecocity Development (Feb-June 2003) is a
post-conference activity of the 5th International
Eco-city Conference (Shenzhen, China 19-23 Aug 2002). Its objective is
to enable participants who met in Shenzhen to continue their dialogue on
one of the most important global issues that concerns 50 % of the world
population - urban and ecocity development. It will also enable people
who did not travel to Shenzhen to discuss papers and to join the
dialogue. You can also present new papers.


You are invited to join all six symposia that deal with wide range of
topics covered by about 200 abstracts and papers and available at
http://www.ias.unu.edu/proceedings/icibs/ecocity03/ (under
construction).

Between Feb-June 2003, you can discuss papers and issues in one or more
sessions on:

Symposium 1 Eco-city planning and management
   Sympo.1-A : Management experience on city-level
      - case studies of sustainable urban development
   Sympo.1-B : Contemporary eco-planning methodology
        and instruments: application experience, need for further
        improvement, harmonization and adoption.
   Sympo.1-C : Economic implementation and public participation.

Symposium 2 Eco-settlement and eco-building

Symposium 3 Peri-urban ecosystem and solid waste management
   Sympo.3-A : Peri-urban Agriculture
   Sympo.3-B :  Integrated approaches to urban and peri-urban areas
           and the impact of urban growth in the Pearl River Delta area
   Sympo.3-C : Urban waste management
   Sympo.3-D : Peri-urban forestry and vegetation, integrated planning
   Sympo.3-E : Urban impacts and the peri-urban environment

Symposium 4 Integrative urban water management

Symposium 5 Industrial Ecology

Symposium 6 Human Ecology and Capacity Building for eco-culture

For updates and news with information on how to participate and
resources, please join to read/receive annoucements from :
http://segate.sunet.se/archives/et-frej.html (english)
http://segate.sunet.se/archives/et-oden.html (chinese)

Or contact me.

Regards
Jacky Foo (Coordinator)
Internet Conference on Ecocity Development (2003)
http://www.ias.unu.edu/proceedings/icibs/ecocity03