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The fifth issue of PANORAMA (August 2021) - the  Newsletter of the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology (IRALE) - is online.

Topics of the current issue: Landscapes in three-dimensional space, invasive species, the semi-arid biogeographic zone in India.

Download IRALE News 5 here.

IALE Chile elected a new executive committee.

President: Sonia Reyes
Vice-president: Massimo Palme
Secretary: Paula Kapstein
Treasurer: Francisco de la Barrera
International Delegate: Daniel Rozas

Congratulations to all newly elected and re-elected delegates in IALE-Chile!

The lastest IALE Bulletin - Volume 39 No. 1-2 | August 2021 - is online.

Download the Bulletin here.

The fourth issue of the IRALE Newsletter (July 2021) highlights the Indian desert ecosystems. Download IRALE News 4 here.

The IALE affiliated open access journal Land has received a new impact factor. According to the Journal Citation Reports/®/ in June 2021, the Impact Factor of Land is now 3.395. IALE congratulates the editorial board for their successful work in developing a journal on landscape ecological themes.

Land publishes work on and use/land change, land management, land system science, landscape, soil-sediment-water systems, urban contexts, urban-rural interactions, land–climate interactions, etc.

IALE members receive a discount on he article processing charges (APCs) - more information here.

Dear IALE Community:

We are excited to announce the results of our elections!  

Dr. Markéta Šantrůčková (Research Institute for Landscape and Horticulture in Czechia) and Dr. Weiqi Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) will be joining us as IALE Vice Presidents. Dr. Cristian Echevarrias (Faculty of Forest Sciences, University of Concepcion, Chile) will continue for another term as VP.

Congratulations, all, and welcome!  

We had a good election turnout of around ~30%.  Once again, Werner Rolf (Department of Life Science Systems at the Technical University of Munich) provided super valuable assistance.  Thanks, Werner!  Also thanks to the election committee for identifying and recruiting an excellent slate of candidates.

And a final THANK YOU to our outgoing VPs, Dr. Liding Chen (The Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences) and Dr. Sima Fakheran (Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran).  Your leadership and commitment to all things landscape ecology will be missed.

Yours,

Robert Scheller, IALE President

The first international FEdA conference “Biodiversity and Human Well-Being – Europe’s Role in Shaping Our Future” will take place from 25–27 January 2022 as a digital-only conference.

FEdA is the Research Initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity (Forschungsinitiative zum Erhalt der Artenvielfalt) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It promotes the analysis of biodiversity and the development of innovative measures to protect and improve ecological diversity.

Here you find the save-the-date letter with further information on the scope of this event.

Submit your email at https://www.feda.bio/en/2022-conference/ or reply to mail@feda.bio to stay informed about the event.

This is a reminder that the IALE Diversity & Inclusion Committee has prepared a Draft Meeting Code of Conduct to apply to all events sponsored by IALE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Llw8Uok-i3x6evWaK4-jaDkMjSy-Q9Nol5M0E17uYF4/edit

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 as many IALE members as possible, and we have only heard from a few so far. Please submit your comments by 1 August 2021 via this form: https://forms.gle/WAQaS PwpV6wPe6 

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

The third newsletter of the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology (IRALE) is online. Including: Expert View on IRALE by Christine Fürst, a portrait of the Himalayas and insights in the work of Sanjay K. Uniyal on traditional knowledge for managing bio-cultural landscapes.

IRALE News 3 _ June 2021.pdf

The International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) is excited to announce the 2023 IALE World Congress will take place in Nairobi, Kenya (see Magical Nairobi), from 10^th – 15^th, July 2023.  The IALE World Congress occurs every four years and is the premier event for landscape ecologists worldwide to address topics in landscape ecology that range from local to global in scale. During the World Congress, landscape ecologists from public, private, and non-profit sectors will address a broad spectrum of environmental challenges and their potential solutions. The 2023 World Congress will be a hybrid (online/in person) event and it is for the first time being hosted in the Global South. 

The World Congress theme is ‘Transboundary Resource Management, Climate Change and Environmental Resilience’.  The World Congress will include plenaries, symposium, oral sessions, posters sessions, a social dinner, and field trips. It is jointly hosted by Kenyatta University (KU), Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), National Museum of Kenya (NMK), Institute of Climate Change and Adaptation Institute, University of Nairobi (UON), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and in collaboration with the African-Chapter of IALE (Africa-IALE).

Nairobi is an exceptionally beautiful and exceptional city (see Magical Nairobi).  The planned post conference excursions include: Nairobi National Park,  Karura Forest Nature trails, The National Museums, Kakamega forest (‘Time has stood still for the Kakamega Forest, a remnant of the rain forest that stretched all across Central Africa’) and Watamu Marine National Park and Reserve (a complex of marine and tidal habitats along the Kenya’s north coast with rich and diverse bird life, fish, turtles and dugongs). Furthermore, Kenya is well known for the Great Rift Valley (Great Rift Valley).  July is an excellent time to visit Kenya because it is the dry season and wildlife will be easier to see.

Watch here for more information soon: www.landscape-ecology.org

The IALE World Congress is being organized by the Local hosting committee (Kenya), Africa-IALE and IALE World.