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SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY - 20th ANNUAL MEETING - 24-28 JUNE 2006
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
San Jose, California, USA
www.conservationbiology.org/2006
All too often, conservation efforts are impeded by real and perceived boundaries such as scientific discipline, organizational affiliation, taxonomic expertise, geography, and politics. SCB's 2006 annual meeting, Conservation Without Borders, will identify and strengthen links across ecological and sociological boundaries that are likely to increase our success both as individuals and as a community. Simultaneously, the meeting will acknowledge the importance of local context for achieving conservation goals and drawing ecological inferences. Social sciences and marine conservation issues (including the Third International Symposium on Marine Conservation) will be highlighted and integrated throughout the meeting program. We look forward to welcoming conservation professionals from around the world to California and to sharing global perspectives with our local community.
Conservation Without Borders will emphasize four major "threads." These
are broad topic areas, not mutually exclusive, that will be woven throughout
the meeting program. Although the call for proposals for symposia, workshops,
and organized discussions will be open, proposers will be asked to describe
how their theme relates to one or more of the threads. The list of suggested
topic areas for abstracts also will reflect these threads.
- Local-level and regional-level conservation. Many conservation challenges are addressed around the world but typically at relatively small scales, often using local knowledge. Examples include but are not limited to ecological restoration, management of non-native species, incentives for conservation by private landowners, and conservation in agricultural landscapes.
- Marine and freshwater conservation. Certain conservation issues are distinct to a given realm. Other issues are germane to both aquatic and terrestrial realms, but the conservation community has not fully explored ecological or sociological linkages. The meeting will examine both categories of issues.
- 21st century conservation. Is there a need to change major paradigms of conservation? Many conservation priorities and agendas were established in a world with fewer humans and different climatic and land-use patterns than today. The emergence of urban ecology illustrates a shift in conservation and management perspectives that may warrant greater attention. The 2006 meeting will address management of lands and waters in the face of climate change, application of conservation science to decision-making, and improved communication within and beyond the conservation community.
- Transboundary conservation. Many organisms and ecological processes cross political borders and management jurisdictions. Can we study and conserve them more effectively? How can we direct management toward large-scale processes without excluding local ecological and human communities?.
Students are especially welcome to participate in the 2006 meeting. SCB's Student Affairs committee works diligently to promote a supportive environment for graduate and other students by creating opportunities for interaction with professionals and administering a student awards program. Student volunteers will increase their potential to network with prominent conservation figures and to receive discounts or waivers on meeting fees and training sessions on communications and other key issues.
For more information on the 2006 annual meeting and opportunities for participation, please contact
Erica Fleishman, Chair, Steering Committee
Center for Conservation Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
(650) 725-9914 - FAX (650) 723-5920
2006@conbio.org * www.conservationbiology.org/2006
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