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EcoSummit 2012 - Ecological Sustainability
Restoring the Planet's Ecosystem Services

We would like to thank everyone that joined in Columbus for the EcoSummit 2012. Please keep your eye on this website for post-conference information and information regarding the EcoSummit 2016.

View the Closing Ceremony Remarks by Conference Chair William J. Mitsch.


EcoSummit 2012 will bring together the world's most respected minds in ecological science to discuss restoring the planet's ecosystems. Come hear Pulitzer Prize winners E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond, Kyoto Prize winner Simon Levin, Stockholm Water Prize laureates Sven Jørgensen and William Mitsch, and many others in the first conference ever linking the Ecological Society of America (ESA), The International Association for Ecology (INTECOL) and the Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER).

We expect 1500 to 1600 delegates from 75 countries to come to Columbus, Ohio, USA, for EcoSummit 2012 to hear 10 plenary presentations from the world's premier ecologists and environmental scientists and practitioners, and 600 invited presentations in 65 symposia from around the world, and to participate in 21 forums and workshops on practical issues related to improving our environment. In addition, there are another 850 general sessions and poster presentations during EcoSummit 2012.

The symposia, general sessions, posters, and workshops cover a wide variety of ecological topics, over the entire week of the conference in parallel sessions including:

  • ecological restoration and ecological engineering
  • estimating ecosystem services
  • global change issues including climate change effects and the future of food security
  • lake, wetland, river, forest and agro-ecosystem management
  • corporate involvement in the environment
  • sustainable economics and business practices

Ecosystems such as streams, rivers, inland and coastal wetlands, grasslands, and forests provide numerous services that fundamentally support human health and well-being. This international conference will explore innovative science-based strategies that are socially and culturally acceptable to create, manage, and restore these ecosystems, ensuring that society has access to all these ecosystem services. Our aim is to provide a high-profile platform for dialogue among researchers, planners and decision-makers to develop a better understanding of the complex nature of ecological systems and the means to protect and enhance their services.

Topics

  • Sustainability and Resilience
  • Ecosystem Creation and Restoration/Ecological Engineering
  • Global Change
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Biodiversity and Biological Conservation
  • Climate Change
  • Ecological Complexity
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Ecological Economics
  • Ecological Modelling
  • Biological Invasions
  • Ecosystem Health
  • Environmental Policy
  • Ecological Knowledge
  • Coastal Problems Caused by Upland Pollution Sources
  • Watershed/River Catchment Management
  • Ecohydrology

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