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94th ESA Annual Meeting
Description:
With fossil fuels waning, a public awareness of global warming and
biodiversity issues increasing, and new green technologies breaking into
public markets, the world is poised for planning sustainability of a
global society. The location of the 2009 meeting, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, is a fitting forum due to the city’s forward-thinking
sustainable initiatives (e.g., Albuquerque Green and Smart Communities
Network). It is also fitting that a theme of sustainability follows one
of ecological education (ESA 2008), arguably the most important part of
sustainable planning. Although a wealth of ecological knowledge is
available, there remains a disconnection between knowledge and
application. For example, large areas of the landscape are being
developed for biofuel agriculture with little regard for the effects on
landscape processes.governments, land owners, and developers.
