CIGR Newsletter No 58
O T H E R A C T I V I T I E S
ISOMUL Workshop on "Collaborative Planning for the Metropolitan Landscape"
This conference will be held from 20-22 June, 2002 in Bellingham, USA. It is sponsored by the Land Use Planning Group of Wageningen University, and the Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University.
Further information is available on the internet at http//www.ac.wwu.edu/~huxley/ISOMUL/. Or contact: Bradley F. Smith, Dean, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA. Or: Hubert N. van Lier, Prof. Emeritus, Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University, Gen. Foulkesweg 13, 6703 BJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands. E-mail: ISOMUL@wwu.edu.
2nd International Conference on "New Trends in Water and Environmental Engineering for Safety and Life: Eco-compatible Solutions for Aquatic Environments"
This conference will be held from 24-28 June 2002 in Capri, Italy. It is intended to give a scientific and technological insight into new methods of protecting and maintaining water bodies, from the point of view of both human life and environmental safety.
The conference, held in English, will, in sessions on "Water Resources Management", on "Protection from Water-related Threats", and on "Urban Hydraulics" deal with: :
For further information contact: Capri 2002 Organizing Committee Secretariat, c/o CSDU & Terr@A, Politecnico di Milano, DIIAR Sez. Idraulica, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy); Fax: +39/02-2665731, email: info@capri2002.com; URL: http://www.capri2002.com/
ASAP 24th Biennial Conference with the International Society for Animal Hygiene "Finding the Balance - Profitability with Responsibility"
This joint conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production and the International Society for Animal Hygiene will be held 7-11 July 2002 in Adelaide, Australia.
It will address the need of livestock production systems to be profitable, ecologically sustainable and able to meet the ever-increasing expectations of consumers:
For more information, see the ASAP web page at http://www.asap.asn.au/conference/index.html
18th ICID International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage: Food Production Under Conditions of Water Scarcity, Increasing Population and Environmental Pressure
The conference will take place from 21-28 July 2002 in Montreal, Canada. The main issues will be:
Contact address: International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), 48 Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110021, India; Tel: +91-11-611 5679/6837; Fax: +91-11-611 5962; email: icid@icid.org; webpage: www.icid.org
The Second World Engineering Congress 2002 Engineering Innovation and Sustainability: Global Challenges and Issues
The congress will be held from 22-25 July 2002 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is organised by the Ministry of Finance, Public Utilities & Industrial Development, Sarawak, the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, Putra University Malaysia, the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Islamic Countries, and the Malaysian Council of Engineering Deans. There will be a special subconference on Biological, Agricultural and Food Engineering, which covers a range of up-to-date agricultural issues.
Please direct inquiries for further information to the Secretary of the Organising Committee: A/Prof. Dr Bujang Bin Kim Huat, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Tel: 603 - 89486101 ext. 2091/2121/2017, Fax: 603 - 89488939; email: bujang@eng.upm.edu.my
Annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Forestry
This conference, to be held from 9-11 October, 2002, in Witzenhausen, Germany, is organised by the Universities of Kassel, Berlin, Göttingen, Hohenheim, and Bonn. Its motto will be "Challenges to Organic Farming and Sustainable Land Use in the Tropics and Subtropics."
The principal language will be English.
For further information please contact: ATSAF c/o Universität Hohenheim (430), 70593 Stuttgart, T: +49(0)711-4706900
F: +49(0)711-459-2652, e-mail: info@tropentag.de; URL: http://www.tropentag.de/ or http://www.atsaf.de/
3rd International Symposium "AGROENVIRON-2002: Sustainable Agro-Environmental Systems- New
Technologies and Applications"
The Symposium will take place in Cairo, Egypt, from 26-28 October 2002.
For further information contact Prof. Sami Abdel-Rehman, Symposium Secretary General, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 23 Joseph Brows Tito st., El Nozha El Gedida, Cairo, Egypt, P.O. Box 1564 Alf-Maskan; Tel: (202) 296 4386 - 297 5688, Fax: (202) 296 4387 - 296 4385; e-mail: sirahman@intouch.com
International Symposium on "Machinery and Mechatronics for Agricultural and Bioproduction Systems"
The Symposium will be held in Chiayi, Taiwan, from 3-7 November 2002. The Symposium is organized by the Chinese Institute of Agricultural Machinery, Taiwan and co-sponsored by the Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery and the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery. A platform will be provided to exchange ideas, scientific results, and practical experience in the field of machinery and mechatronics for agricultural and bioproduction systems.
For information contact Dr. C.H.Ting, Dept. of Bio-mechatronic Engineering, National Chiayi University, e-mail: c.ting@mail.bme.ncyu.edu.tw or www.bme.ncyu.tw/ismab
