Call for abstracts - download pdf with overview of working group calls

Working group convenors of the conference invite you to submit abstracts (max. 300 words) for the April 2012 conference in Wageningen, The Netherlands. 20 different working groups will be organised during the conference. Below and on the left of this page you can find an overview of the working group calls or download a pdf with an overview of the working group calls.

At this moment not every working group text is definitive. On the website we will update the texts and list of convenors a.s.a.p.

The deadline for submission of abstracts will be 20 December 2011. Use conference form for abstracts and send it by e-mail to the contact person of the working group you are submitting to.

Mid January the working group convenors are inviting abstract submitters to write a conference paper. The deadline for submitting the conference paper is 1 March 2012.

WG1 Green care

WG2 Agri tourism: Critcal Perspectives on Dilemmas and Opportunities

WG3 Exploring ‘civic food networks’ and their role in enabling sustainable urban food systems

WG4 Rural education   

WG5 Environmental services

WG6 Economic impact at the farm level

WG7 Business models; farm enterprise development models

WG8 Entrepreneurial skills and competences: challenges and opportunities

WG9 Learning for innovation – new challenges in an urbanizing world

WG10 Regional branding; the socio-economic impact at the regional level

WG11 Urban, peri-urban and regional planning

WG12 Land-use transformations

WG13 What are the challenges of future urban agriculture?

WG14 Public food procurement

WG15 Consumers, multifunctional agriculture and urban dynamics

WG16 Multifunctionality, rural policy and governance

WG17 Social exclusion and poverty in rural areas

WG18 Migration and mobility

WG19 Transition approaches

WG20 Multifunctional agriculture as a coupled human-natural system

 
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