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2017 SENA Workshop in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

UB2017 SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP: A JOINT EFFORT BETWEEN TWO PROJECTS

Approximately 65 participants will assemble to advance the development of new products, synthesizing data and expertise in human and natural systems. For more details, Please visit:

http://lees.geo.msu.edu/research/UB2017/

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Call for Papers – A Special Issue of Landscape and Urban Planning (LAND)

Special Issue on “Evolving Landscapes under Institutional Change, Globalization, and Cultural Influence in Contrasting Urban Systems”

Guest Editors: Peilei Fan (fanpeile@msu.edu), Jiquan Chen (jqchen@msu.edu), and Jingle Wu(Jingle.Wu@asu.edu)

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Call for Papers of Special Issue – Ecological Indicators

Call for Papers of Special Issue on From urban sprawl to compact green cities – indicators for multi-scale and multi-dimensional analysis

Lead Guest Editor:

Dr. Martina Artmann, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Dresden, Germany

Guest Editors:

Dr. Luis Inostroza, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical University Dresden, Germany

Dr. Peilei Fan, School of Planning, Design, and Construction & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, USA

 

For more detailed information, Please check:

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ecological-indicators/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-of-special-issue-on-from-urban-sprawl-to-com/

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SENA Workshop #2

The second SENA workshop has been successfully held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, from Nov. 4 to Nov. 6, 2015. Scientists, local experts, policy makers, and students from Cambodia, Laos PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, the United States, and Vietnam have gathered at the Palace Hotel Saigon in HCMC and discussed sustainable development of major cities in SENA.

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Attendants were divided into four working groups for the discussion. The first group focused on Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City of Southeast Asia. The second group focused on Hanoi, Vientiane, and Yangon of Southeast Asia. The third group focused on Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Lanzhou, Hohhot, and Urumqi of China. The last group focused on five Siberian cities and Ulaanbaatar. All groups produced a final power point report of their common views on:

  1. The major causes of urban expansion in the past thirty years.
  2. The impact and consequences of urbanization.
  3. Possible development scenarios in future.
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