NEMASA Workshop

NEMASA
Konan-IIASA Joint Workshop on Natural Environment Management and Applied Systems Analysis

September 6-8, 2000, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

Aim of the NEMASA workshop

The management of the natural environment, especially in practicing advanced agriculture, is one of the challenging problems faced by modern societies. Many techniques in applied systems analysis are promising to this end. The purpose of this workshop is to present new concepts and methodologies for the environment management, and to offer an open forum for exchanging ideas between various research disciplines; especially, between agro-environmental and applied systems analysis research, and between researchers and practitioners.

Scope of the NEMASA workshop

The NEMASA workshop aims at covering the following areas:

New trends in natural resource management and environmental modelling:
- Global and regional land use analysis with reference to crop and livestock production systems, and soil and water management,
- Watershed (catchment) and forestry management,
- Evaluation of the landscape and bio-diversity,
- Impact assessment of climate change on agriculture and aquaculture, and of agriculture on the environment,
- Integrated modeling and assessment including bio-economic modeling, spatial analysis using GIS, and LCA,
- Methodologies for data acquisition and handling, including remote sensing,
- Environmental or ecological risk assessment.
New trends in methodology of applied systems analysis:
- Computational intelligence,
- Data mining,
- Digital signal processing,
- Multi-objective decision analysis,
- Data envelopment analysis,
- Group decision using IT (Information Technology).
Human interactions and policy analysis in environmental decision making:
- Institutional analysis of public and common-pool resource problems,
- Agri-environmental policy analysis,
- Multiple stakeholders and conflict resolution,
- Sustainable management of natural resources,
- Rural development and urbanization,
- Farming systems analysis and participatory research,
- Ethical and educational issues in natural resource management.

The organizers encourage presentations of very recent results, especially innovative methods, tools and applications relevant for analysis of either global or universal problems for which standard methods and tools of operations research do not offer a satisfactory solution.

Interested scientists and practitioners are encouraged to submit contributed papers. An edited volume of the workshop proceedings with full papers will be published shortly after the Workshop. Furthermore, a volume with extended abstracts of all accepted papers will be prepared. Full papers will be included in the proceedings only if the paper will pass the usual review procedure and if it will be presented during the workshop.

Participation in the NEMASA workshop

Strong international participation is encouraged for this workshop so that participants can introduce and be introduced to various research perspectives and approaches in the above listed research and applications areas. We are counting on a strong delegation from Japan and we are also inviting leading researchers from other countries to present their methods, applications and tools. Additionally, this open invitation for preregistration is posted on the Web in order to reach those prospective participants who are not yet aware of this workshop.

The number of participants of the workshop must be limited, therefore participation is by invitation only. The invitations for the workshop will be emailed before July 1, 2000 to authors of accepted presentations. It is likely that a number of persons who will preregister will exceed the maximum number of participants. In such a case preferences will be given to those who:

have an affiliation in a country that is a member of IIASA,
offer to give a presentation that fits best the areas summarized above. Therefore an extended abstract is a key element of the preregistration.

Registration fee

The registration fee covers:

daily bus-transfer between the conference hotel in Vienna and Laxenburg,
lunches in the IIASA's restaurant during the workshop days,
a Heuriger (a famous traditional Austrian evening),
refreshments during the scheduled breaks,
volume of extended abstracts.
volume of proceedings with a selection of full papers.

The registration fee is 3000 AS (the exchange rate on May 18, 2000 was about 14.5 AS for 1 US$, please check e.g. Oanda for current and historical exchange rates).

The registration can be paid by cash on the first day of the workshop only by participants, who are first authors of accepted papers. All other participants should pay the registration fee in advance (by August 28 at latest) by a credit (Master or Visa) card. Please send a fax with your authorization to charge your credit card to:
Ms Helene Pankl, IIASA, fax no: +43-2236-807.466
Please specify:

the amount,
the card number,
the name of the card holder (exactly as written on the card),
expiration date.

Possibilities of financial support

The organizer can provide moderate support for covering local expenses to participants who are not able to cover such costs from other sources, and who are a first author of an accepted paper (i.e. only one person for each accepted paper can receive such financial support). Unfortunately, due to the strict rules of the sponsor of the Nemasa workshop, no support can be offerred for participants, who do not contribute a presentation for this workshop. Only in exceptional cases will support be offered to participants from countries that are not members of IIASA. Unfortunately, no support can be provided for covering travel expenses.

Registration

Prospective participants are kindly requested to complete as soon as possible (but not later than June 20, 2000) the preregistration procedure which is composed of two elements:

filling in a preregistration form,
submission of an extended abstract of the proposed contribution.

The invitations for the workshop will be emailed before July 1, 2000 to authors of accepted presentations.

Dates, organizational details
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