The
Conference is a virtual conference with papers on the web and their discussions
conducted via electronic mailing lists.
Organizers
The conference is jointly
organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS) of the
United Nations University (Tokyo) and the UNESCO Microbial Resources
Centre (MIRCEN-Stockholm) under the framework of UNU/IAS programme
on "Eco-restructuring for Sustainable Development". This conference is
an activity of one of its projects called "Zero Emissions" (UNU/ZERI) which
advocates zero waste and discharge concept where wastes and by-products
are to be utilized and augmented into income-generating and waste minimization
activities. The conference focuses on bio-systems that utilize organic
wastes.
Conference
Secretariat
UNESCO Microbial Resources
Centre,
Arvikagatan 26, 12343 Farsta,
Sweden.
E-mail: foo@swipnet.se
url: http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25860/jacky |
Purpose
The purpose of the conference
is to permit access via Internet to a comprehensive documentation of
past and current work on integrated bio-systems; to enable authors
to share their experiences and to interact with participants; and
to foster the development and cooperation in projects that may result from
this Conference.
The conference also intends
to draw the attention of funding agencies to their potential roles in funding
projects on integrated bio-systems because of their increasing importance
as a solution to ensure livelihood and food security of farmers and the
poor as well as in providing an ecologically sound environment and to contribute
to sustainable eco-development.
The Internet Conference will
permit free access to information to the general public, academic institutes
and any organization that is concerned with improving the environment,
sustainable development, food security and production, alleviation of poverty,
natural resource conservation, waste management, aquaculture, natural resource
management, etc. |
Scope
of Conference
The scope covers the science,
technology and practice of integrated bio-systems in agriculture,
aquaculture, horticulture, forestry, industry, built structures and in
natural ecosystems. The conference will emphasize on the use of integrated
bio-systems in human activities and their roles in creating a better environment
and to sustain development. The
main conference sessions are :
* Integrated bio-systems
for agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture and forestry
* Integrated bio-systems
for treatment and utilization of industrial/municipal solid wastes and
wastewaters
* Integrated bio-systems
for management of natural resources
* Integration of bio-systems
into built structures
In
nature, seasonal changes may effect the availability of a resource and
a change in the population of a species that use it as a food source may
occur. The faith of this population is often controlled by nature. Human
beings however are capable of greater control of their lives and activities,
and are able to cause greater changes to the environment due to their activities.
There are many consequences, one of them is the accumulation of by-products,
solid and liquid wastes. Integrated bio-systems can be designed to enhance
recycling of organic nutrients from by-products and wastes into biological
sinks and food chains. The result is the creation of an ecologically sound
and healthy environment.
General
Registration and How to Participate
1) Registation is free of
charge. To register and to receive future announcements and information,
send an email to: LISTSERV@MSIAS.IAS.UNU.EDU and us ethe LISTSERV subscription
command:
SUB IAS-WG08 yourfirstname
yourlastname, organization
e.g. sub ias-wg08 Jacky
Foo, UNESCO MIRCEN
2) The Internet
Conference provides the following to all participants:
- full
text of papers
- mailing
lists for discussion with the authors
3) The paper discussion with
the author(s) will be conducted via mailing list(s) and it may last for
3-4 weeks depending on the intensity of interactions. You
can participate via e-mail or via the web. Details
will be announced by e-mail via the mailing list "IAS-WG08" or provided
in the scientific programme.
Call
for Papers
You
are invited to make a presentation at the Internet Conference. Your presentation
may be an unpublished paper or a published paper that describes or proposes
integrated bio-system(s) within the scope and sessions of the conference.
In the literature, systems have been designed technically for a wide variety
of purposes, e.g. energy and primary food production, solid
wastes and wastewater treatment and utilization. Some of the examples
are fish-bivalve polyculture systems for aquaculture; crop-mushroom-compost
systems for agriculture; integrated agriculture- aquaculture systems (e.g.
rice-fish systems); aquaponics and wetland systems for wastewater treatment
and utilization; water quality management; solid waste treatment and utilisation
(e.g. municipal solid waste-vermiculture-compost-duck systems, and livestock
manure-biogas- crop/horticulture systems); etc.. It may cover aspects
related to providing a greater understanding of such systems in relation
to socio-economics, the role and functions of microbes, materials balance
and nutrients flows, transfer of toxics in the food chains, economic analysis
and assessment of whole systems, ecological bioremediation, etc.
Other systems may have a wider landscape applications, including resource
management in coastal zone aquaculture, agro-forestry, lowland-upland,
urban-agriculture, lakes, villages, communities, industrial and recreation
parks, cities) and those at a regional level. |
Instructions
for Submission of Abstracts
An abstract should not be
longer than 55 lines (65 characters per line) and to include (a) title,
author(s) name(s), postal address, and other electronic addresses.
Please send your abstract(s)
to: foo@swipnet.se . All abstracts will be reviewed by the planning committee.
Deadline: two months before
the date of your presentation. |
Submission of Manuscript
Upon approval of abstracts,
authors will be requested to submit the full paper of minimum 5 pages.
Manuscript should be written in English. This may be an unpublished paper
or a published article. Unpublished papers should be submitted in
one of the following ways; html file, MS Word 7 document or on a homepage.
Papers should be presented in English.
Illustrations and photos
showing existing facilities of pilot research or practice are essential
and encouraged; assistance to scan materials (photo, published works, other
illustrations) will be provided if needed (contact foo@swipnet.se for help).
For submission of published works, authors must obtained permission from
the respective journals or authorities due to copyright problems. Deadline:
one month before the date of presentation. |
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