Expected contribution to URBIO2010

Main theme: Urban Biodiversity in the Ecological Network

1. Planning and design of an ecological network in an urban area

• Concepts and methods for network planning and design
• Problems and solutions for practice
• Actual plans in cities of the world

2. Urban biodiversity in water network in the watershed

• Natural water-flow network; streams and rivers
• Artificial water-flow network; irrigation ponds and channels, and drainage channels
• Water-flow network as a corridor of organisms and materials
• Water quality and biodiversity

3. Ecological functions of terrestrial-water ecotone in an urban area

• Biodiversity at riverside, dune, estuary and bay in/beside an urban area
• Water purification
• Civil engineering works for disaster prevention and biodiversity

4. Urban expansion and biodiversity

• Forests and croplands enclosed/remained in an expanded urban area
• Artificial forest as restoration activities
• Re-networking with the forests surrounding urban area
• Ecology-based planning and design for new town and industrial areas
• Restoration at exploited and reclaimed areas

5. Urban biodiversity and climate change

• Urban climate as the harbinger of global change
• Design of urban landscape for climate mitigation
• Adaptation strategy to climate change
• Carbon project, market and biodiversity

6. Road side trees, green roof and green wall

• Ecological functions of urban landscape
• Vegetation patches as step stones for wild creatures
• Green way planning in an urban area
• Sustainable design of cities and buildings

7. Valuation and monitoring of biodiversity and ecological services in cities

• Measurements of status and trends in urban biodiversity
• Assessment of ecological services and human well-being − Change and response in an urban area
• Monitoring of biodiversity at urban levels
• Index on Cities' Biodiversity
• Measurements and mapping of status and trends in urban biodiversity
• Economic valuation of ecosystem services provided by biodiversity to quality of urban life

8. Conflicts between people and urban biodiversity

• Alien species in an urban area and measures
• Pests in an urban area and measures
• Urban culture for wild partners

9. Environmental education in an urban area

• Quasi-nature for urban people
• Nature-friendly river
• Planning and design of biotopes in park and school, and their usages
• Educational pathways and nature experience areas for urban ecology and biodiversity
• Arts for urban biodiversity

10. Urban people participation in the activities for conservation and restoration

• Incentives to improve urban biodiversity
• Biodiversity and business
• Role and responsibility of professionals, engineer and landscape architect
• Collaboration among different sectors
• Workshop as a device of public involvement
• Responsibility and leadership of urban people to surrounding ecosystems