Biohydrology 2013 addresses many contemporary issues surrounding water scarcity, climate change and increase pressure on land.
The conference focusses on the interaction between biological and hydrological systems, including positive impacts such as water harnessing and flood mitigation, and negative aspects including threats to food production, water repellency and environmental degradation through unsustainable land use practices.
Experts from hydrology, ecology, soil science,geography, biology, forestry and engineering will meet together in a forum designed to get different disciplines working together.

http://www.biohydrology2013.de/index.html

The conference SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION, for climate, food security and ecosystem services is hosted by the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland and the Agricultural University of Iceland and held in cooperation with several international and Icelandic institutions. The conference will review the state of science, identify tools for enhancing Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) sequestration and recommend means to bridge the gap between science, policy and action. Among topics to be discussed are land use and land restoration practices that enhance SOC, how to verify carbon sequestration and linkages with UN-FCCC and post-Kyoto goals, agreements, and negotiations. The question of how to increase flow of climate linked funding for restoration of soil and land quality will also be explored.

http://scs2013.land.is/

The 2013 Land & Development conference offers insightful presentations on the Greater Golden Horseshoe development market. The program will include 12-month review of the market and forecast on where land values are going and what developments are on the horizon for 2014 and beyond. What developers and investors are active today, tomorrow and who are they? What are their strategies and how will their behavior impact the market?
The conference will focus on both residential and commercial development activity. Mixed use developments, low rise residential, and land banking will also be key themes throughout the program. We are very excited to bring forward a program in 2013 that will focus on: financing; large/mega development projects throughout the GGH; construction costs; community/neighborhood developments; the explosion and implosion of employment, growth, and development nodes in the region; priorities and planning policies; infrastructure and its impact; and ancillary forces that will impact our region and in turn the development community.

http://www.realestateforums.com/landconference/en/

CIG Annual Conferences are a series of annual conferences organized by the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), which provides a platform for the geomatics professionals, researchers, scientists, students and others from Canada and other countries around the world to exchange advances in geospatial information science, technology and practice as well as land surveying engineering. The last annual conference was held in Toronto, Canada in 2007, which marked the 100th annual conference.
Global change is one of most important and active research topics worldwide. Earth observation science and technology has proved a very powerful means to study global changes. The International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes is designed to advance research and development as well as encourage innovative applications of geomatics technologies in global change studies, to meet the scientific, technical, and business needs of the remote sensing and photogrammetry, surveying and mapping, as well as geosciences, marine science, forestry, renewable energy, environment, transportation, and disaster management communities. The Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC) conference series has been a bi-annual event since 2006, endorsed by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), the International Cartographic Association (ICA), the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE). The first three events were held in Madrid, Spain (2006), Chengdu, China (2009), and Munich, Germany (2011).

http://www.conferences.cig-acsg.ca/

LuWQ2013 is an international and interdisciplinary conference on the cutting edge of science, management and policy to minimise effects of agriculture and land use changes on the quality of groundwater and surface waters.

http://www.luwq2013.nl/

The 12th North American Forest Soils Conference is being held in Whitefish, MT at the Grouse Mountain Lodge. It will examine the role of forest soils in providing ecosystem services and is an opportunity for researchers, government officials, and forestry industry personnel to interact and learn about forest soils research and discuss where it will take us in the future. Conference sessions will feature keynote addresses; oral and poster presentations relevant to theme areas; area forest tours of National Forest and Forest Industry lands; a dinner banquet; and close with a two-day, post-conference field trip to observe impacted area soils, landforms, tribal nursery operations, and regional research projects.

http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/iftnc/nafsc/

The Conference on Desertification and Land Degradation 2013 (DesertLand) will act as a platform and a catwalk for showing actions that have been taken and projects undertaken since RIO 1992? (RIO+21) for combating desertification and land degradation!
Among the objectives of the DesertLand conference is taking stock of not only the current scientific knowledge but also of the current strategies of management of areas affected by drought (water scarcity) and by degradation of land (water erosion, wind erosion, physical and chemical degradation) and pastures, and this at a national, regional and community level. Downscaling is the issue!

http://www.desertland.eu/

Meet the diverse range of players necessary to make mixed-use development work. You will find partners for new projects, practical examples of what is working in today’s economic climate, and the cutting-edge research on demographic and financing trends for which ULI is known. Partnerships have expanded beyond traditional private developer and city hall to include educational institutions, health care providers, sports franchises, art facilities, and others. Programming focuses on what factors drive demand for new development, where and how new partners will be found, how deals are structured, and practical examples of elements that will enable you to create truly successful places.

http://placemaking.uli.org/

Land and Marine practitioners, professionals, academics and students, covering from communal title issues such as Scottish Crofting tenure, to the most up to date and challenging issues of multiple ownership sites and new extraction issues such as shale fracking. The marine theme should be of keen interest to all marine practitioners, academics and students, including hydrographic and marine environment specialists. Property specialists will find sessions addressing the impact of environmental legislation on the property sector of particular interest.

http://www.casleconferences.co.uk/glasgow.html

The objective of INTERDROUGHT is to serve as a platform for presenting and debating key issues and strategies relevant for increasing the yield and stability of crops under drought conditions by genetic and crop management approaches. Great advances have been made in recent years in understanding the molecular basis of plant responses and plant tolerance to drought stress. Hundreds of drought responsive genes have been identified and the function of some of these has been resolved at the cellular level. However, there is a huge gap between the molecular level science and the interpretation and application of this knowledge at the whole plant level in the field. There is an increasing demand in both public and private research sectors for crosstalk between disciplines involved with the molecular science and those involved with whole plant problems aimed at solving issues at the farm and field level in order to advance practical solutions to drought prone farming. INTERDROUGHT-IV offers a unique and timely platform for this purpose.

http://www.interdrought4.com/