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Women in Landscape Ecology: A Global Conversation

Please join us for a special discussion with three prominent landscape ecologists, sponsored by the IALE Diversity and Inclusion Committee:

 Monday 8 March 2021 - International Women's Day
4:00 PM GMT / 9:00 AM Western North America / 5:00 PM CET / 9:30 PM India Standard Time

Panelists:

• Dr. Joy Obando, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

• Dr. Harini Nagendra, Professor and Director, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India

• Dr. Sarah Gergel, Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Summary: On International Women's Day, 2021, this panel of landscape ecologists from around the world who identify as women will discuss challenges, perspectives, lessons learned in their careers, and advice for other women in the field. A short introduction and remarks from each speaker will be followed by a discussion and question-and-answer period. Topics will include advice to early career women in the field, and ways we can make change for the better within IALE and the landscape ecology community. 

Register here for the event. Once you register, you will receive the Zoom webinar connection details.

The IALE Diversity & Inclusion Committee has prepared a Draft Meeting Code of Conduct to apply to all events sponsored by IALE. Download the draft here.

The purpose of the Code of Conduct is to outline the acceptable and unacceptable behavior at the World Congress and all other IALE-sponsored meetings and events, whether virtual in person. We propose that all attendees at future IALE World Congresses will be required to agree to this code of conduct before attending. In addition, as a condition of receiving IALE funding for meetings, regional chapters will be required to agree to the code of conduct and to share it with their meeting attendees.

We would like feedback and comments from IALE members on the draft Code of Conduct. Please submit your comments by 15 March 2021 via this form: https://forms.gle/WNUQvShdPwpV6wPe6  

The IALE Diversity & Inclusion Committee:
Jen Costanza, Chair, Dolors Armenteras, Monika Engerer, Sima Fakheran, Laura Farwell, Amy Frazier, Rob Scheller

Based on the current uncertainties about the evolution of the spreading of the coronavirus and vaccination processes, the IALE-Europe Executive Committee and the Local Organising Committee of IALE2021 congress made a tough decision to postpone the IALE2021 European Landscape Ecology Congress to 2022. 

More information and details can be found on the congress website www.iale2021.eu. 

With the roll-out of our new membership management system, our website gets a new home and a new look. Our newsletter is also moving. For the moment, all new information about IALE World will be concentrated on the website iale.wildapricot.org - soon this page will be available via the well-known URL www.landscape-ecology.org.

It’s time to select the 2020 Landscape Ecology Journal's Best Article Award. The selection criteria and procedures are attached here. Please send your nomination of one article from our journal during 2020 to Jianguo Wu (Jingle.Wu@asu.edu; Editor-in-Chief Landscape Ecology) by January 31, 2021 for consideration, with a brief explanation of why you’re excited about the paper.

The call for papers and posters for Landscape 2021 - Diversity for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture to be held September 20-22, 2021 as online conference is now open.

The conference is organised by the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF).

More information is available at: landscape2021.org

Here is a compact update on the conferences of our partner organisation ESP (Ecosystem Service Partnerhship).

• 3rd ESP Europe Conference, 7-10 June 2021, Tartu, Estonia
  Hybrid event; Abstract deadline: 15 February 2021
  
• 2nd ESP MENA Conference, postponed to Autumn 2021, Rabat, Morocco
• 3rd ESP Africa Conference, postponed to early December 2021, Musanze, Rwanda
• ACES-ESP Conference, 13-16 December 2021, Bonita Springs, Florida, USA
• 4th ESP Europe Conference, Spring 2022, Greece

The IALE Bulletin Vol. 38 No. 4 - Decenber 2020 is online.

Download the new Bulletin here.

This year, many IALE members have gained experience in organising and participating in virtual conferences. A group of active IALE members have compiled their experiences and share  their suggestions for the design of virtual conferences that will likely still dominate in 2021 here.

The Landscape Series from Springer has released many new titles in 2020 from some of our most active members. Check here.