Conferences organized by Center INENCO for the last 10 years: 1. International Workshop: "Environmental Management in the Baltic Region"
Leningrad, USSR, November 21-24, 1989.Five sessions were the focal point of the Workshop: Session 1. " Environmental Problems and Socio-Economic Processes in the Baltic Region" Session 2. "Monitoring Needs and Conditions" Session 3. "Scientific Knowledge, Decision-Making and Public Acceptance" Session 4. "Systems Analysis and Modeling" Session 5. " Low Waste Territories: Approaches and Perspectives" You can order the Workshop Proceedings for $20 via e-mail malkina@mail.admiral.ru 2. International Workshop: "Key Problems of Global Ecology and Requirements to Observation"
Leningrad, USSR, November 19-24, 1990. Five sessions were the focal point of the Workshop: Session 1. "Key Problems of Global and Regional Ecology: Scientific, Social, Economic and Political Aspects" Session 2. " Global and Regional Ecology Impact Assessment" Session 3. " Data Collection and Analysis: Global and Regional Aspects" Session 4. " Priority Issues in Global and Regional Ecology Modeling" Session 5. " Global Ecology Safety: Proposals for Future Research and Development, Global Change Regional Centers". You can order the Workshop Proceedings for $20 via e-mail malkina@mail.admiral.ru 3. International Workshop: "Ecological Problems of Large Metropolitan Areas: Key Indicators, Modeling and Decision-Making"
St.Petersburg, Russia, February 17-21, 1992. Four sessions were the focal point of the Workshop: Session 1. "Problems of Sampling and Monitoring, Including Remote Sensing" Session 2. "Modeling and Interpretation of the Results" Session 3. " Key Indicators of Urban Environment and Health Quality" Session 4. " Information Systematization and Database Management" You can order the Workshop Proceedings for $20 via e-mail malkina@mail.admiral.ru
4. INDEX97 Conference The 1st International Conference INDEX97 "Environmental Indices: Systems Analysis Approach" was organized by the Center for International Environmental Cooperation (INENCO) of Russian Academy of Sciences and sponsored by the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) and Russian Fund for Basic Research (RFBR). ENVIRONMENIAL INDICES
Editors: YURI A. PYKH, D. ERIC HYATT, and ROMAN J.M. LENZ The scale and diversity of environmental problems facing humanity today is unprecedented. It is evident that human activity impacts on the environment in no less damaging a way than millions of years of evolution prior to the era of homo sap/ens. . . . Climate change, loss of biodiversity, pollution of rivers and seas - all of these are becoming the problems of global sounding and their aggregated impact can destroy the natural resources of our planet.
Concerned organizations in many different countries now understand that new
Workshop INDEX98 "Environmental Indicators and Indices" was an offspring of INDEX97 Conference on environmental indicators and indices and took place in Nature Parc Soelk Valleys, Styria, Austria, July 10-14, 1998. The goal of the workshop was to identify general principles for good quality of indicators and indices, which can either be used to enhance quality and accessibility of existing indicator sets or in the delineation of new indicators and indices, especially for sustainable development.
INDEX-98 Workshop analyzed and discussed state-of-the-art of environmental
Submissions and the results of the working groups were published as a special issue of the Journal of Ecological Modeling.
The Symposia "Environmental Indices: Theoretical Background and Systems Analysis Approach" was organized by Center INENCO within the framework of VII INTECOL Congress that took place on July 19-25, 1998 in Florence Italy. The Symposia was convened by Prof. Irina Malkina-Pykh (Center INENCO, Russia), Prof. Yuri A. Pykh ( Center INENCO, Russia) and Prof. Roman J.M. Lenz (Institute for Applied Research, FH Nürtingen, Germany). The second International Conference INDEX99 "Indices and Indicators of Sustainable Development:
Systems Analysis Approach" held on July 11-16, 1999 in St.-Petersburg, Russia, by the St.-Petersburg
Scientific Center and the Center for International Environmental Cooperation (INENCO) of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. INDEX99 was organised to explore both the state of the art in theoretical
development of sustainable development indicators/indices and their practical implementation and
application.
The mentioned themes were organized in plenary and thematic sessions. In Plenary Session the invited
speakers presented the general vision on the state-of-the-science in the area of sustainable development,
indicators and indices, and laid out major challenges as well as the existing tools and methods for SD
index development. Session "Systems Analysis Approach for SD Indices Design" was focused on the
application of mathematical models and systems analysis tools for the development of SD indices.
Session "Environmental Indicators in the Framework of SD Indicators" was focused on the development
and application of ecological indicators in measuring progress towards ecological sustainability. Various
methodologies for the development of the environmental media indices are presented. Session
"International Consensus and the Evolution of Standards" presented the results of the international efforts
towards measuring sustainability. 8. INDEX 2000 Workshop
Second workshop on Environmental Indicators and Indices was an offspring of INDEX `97 and `99
conference on environmental indicators and indices and took place at Nuertingen Baden-Wuerttemberg,
Germany, July 16-19, 2000. The goal of the workshop was to identify general principles for good quality
of indicators and indices, which can either be used to enhance quality and accessability of existing
indicator sets or in the delineation of new indicators and indices, especially for sustainable development.
The workshop was intended to bring together specialists and practitioners in a more discussion like form.
The workshop was dedicated about 1/2 of it's time to discussions and working groups.
The conference analysed and discussed state-of-the-art of environmental indicators/indices in its whole range - from ecological systems` indicators to possible indicators and indices for decision making and the main topics of the workshop were:
9. Regional GOFC Workshop Remote Sensing of Forest Cover in Western Russia and Fennoscandia: Integrating Satellite and in-situ Observations. June 25-27, 2001 Center for International Environmental Cooperation of Russian Academy of Sciences (INENCO Center of RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia
The regional Workshop on Remote Sensing of Forest Cover in Northwestern Russia and Fennoscandia has been held in St. Petersburg, Russia from June 25 to June 27, 2001. This workshop is in support of Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC, http://www.gofc.org/gofc), which is a panel of the Global Terrestrial Observing System. GOFC's overall objective is to improve the quality and availability of satellite observations of forests at regional and global scales and to produce useful, timely, and validated information products from these data (together with in-situ observations) for a wide variety of users. GOFC is being implemented concurrently as three specific but highly interrelated components: land cover characteristics and changes; forest fire monitoring and mapping; and forest biophysical processes. At the same time, GOFC is also sponsoring regional meetings and networks to reflect the specific information requirements of different forest biomes. To date, a number of regional topical forest workshops have already been held. The first GOFC workshop on Boreal Forests was held in Novosibirsk (Academgorodok), Russia in August 2000. One of the recommendations from that workshop was to have a series of more focused, regional meetings. The goal of this regional GOFC workshop was to promote a coordinated effort among scientists in the region towards building an observational boreal forest network which would result in operational monitoring of forest cover and forest cover change, and to make data and information on forests usable and accessible. The workshop examined current uses of remote sensing in studies of forest cover and carbon exchange in the region, evaluate existing data sets useful for validation and interpretation of remote sensing data products, identify future needs of different user groups, and plan future interdisciplinary research and exchange activities. The workshop also discussed forest inventory, monitoring, management, and conservation. We explored current gaps in our knowledge of land use and the carbon budget in this region, including understanding of changing disturbance regimes and driving forces of land use change. The workshop has been hosted by the Center for International Environmental Cooperation (INENCO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Financial support for the workshop is being provided by NASA and by the International START Secretariat. Attendance at the workshop was by invitation only.
Organizing committee (alphabetical order): Garik Gutman - Manager, Land Cover-Land Use Change Program, NASA, USA Tuomas Häme - VTT Automation, Remote Sensing, Finland Alexander S. Isaev - International Forest Institute, Moscow, Russia Olga N. Krankina - Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, USA Gennadiy V. Menzhulin - INENCO Center, St. Petersburg, Russia Yuri A. Pykh - INENCO Center, St. Petersburg, Russia John Townshend - GOFC Chairman, University of Maryland, USA Tom Stone - The Woods Hole Research Center, USA Related Web Sites: Global Observation of Forest Cover project ( http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/gofc/ )Land Cover-Land Use Change-NASA ( http://lcluc.gofc.nasa.gov )START ( http://www.start.org/ )Modeling Carbon Dynamics and Their Economic Implications in Two Forested Regions: Pacific Northwestern USA and Northwestern Russia ( http://sequoia.fsl.orst.edu/lter/research/hjarel/russia.htm ).
10. 2nd ANNOUNCEMENT INDEX2001 Congress SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
The Italian Environmental Protection Agency (ANPA) accepted the invitation of INENCO
3rd International Congress on
October 2-5, 2001
URGENT - Postponement of INDEX 2001
Organised by
Supporting Organisations:
Alexander B. Kurzhansky (RAS, Russia) D. Eric Hyatt (EPA, USA) Roman J.M. Lenz (Nuertingen University, Germany) Scientific Secretary (INENCO - Russia) M. Giuseppina Farrace & Carlo Jacomini - Congress Technical Secretary (ANPA - Italy)
The second International Conference INDEX99 "Indices and Indicators of Sustainable Development: Systems Analysis Approach" held on July 11-16, 1999 in St.-Petersburg, Russia, by the Center for International Environmental Cooperation (INENCO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. INDEX99 was organised to explore both the state of the art in theoretical development of sustainable development indicators/indices and their practical implementation and application. The INDEX99 Proceedings are in press.  "Countries, with the assistance of International Organisations, where required, should (…) develop,apply and institute the necessary tools for sustainable development with regard to (…) Quality - of - Life indicators covering, for example, health, education, social welfare, state of the environment, and the economy"(Chapter 35). Setting targets for sustainable development includes formulating action-oriented specifications for desirable quality of life. Quality of life is a complex subject, which has provoked a considerable amount of academic and public debate over its definition and measurement. Research on quality of life and human needs must often have an interdisciplinary approach. Conventional disciplinary research on dependencies between individuals in time and space should be supplemented with a development of scientific tools for synthesising knowledge. While current research is usually devoted to analysing reality in more detail, policy-makers working with environment and development issues need overviews and integrated knowledge. They must know how different pieces of information are linked to each other in a coherent framework. Here, science should devote more resources to the development of time-space-specific conceptual framework models and tools for impact analysis. These models and tools would also be suited for making the best use of existing knowledge within different scientific fields. With these tools, it will be easier to allocate resources where QOL can be most effectively improved with limited resources. Therefore, indicators should preferably measure in simple quantitative and qualitative terms how systems performance over time is related to goals of specific environmental programs and projects and related activities. These goals could be minimum levels or visions. Although the topic has been studied under the heading of social indicators research, level-of-living or well-being research, no agreement exists over the types of indicators to be used, or the criteria to be incorporated at any particular scale of study. Indeed, some researchers have suggested that a definitive list of dimensions is impossible to achieve. In part, this lack of agreement may reflect the disparate nature of research about quality of life. The tendency towards a 'separatist' approach to the subject - within the fields of economics, sociology, and ecology in academia, and the development and use of indicators for public planning and assessment - is more a function of the lack of a clear conceptual framework for the subject, rather than the lack of interdisciplinary research. Objectives
Participants are invited to submit abstracts of their papers on these and closely related topics for plenary
and parallel sessions, as well as proposing panel discussions and round table themes.The International
Organising Committee will review all applications. The full texts of oral presentations and abstracts of
poster reports will be published in the Proceedings of the Congress. The working language of the congress will be English. 3- Parione, Pigna, Ponte, Regola, S.Estachio (all join) 4- Trastevere 5- Campitelli, Ripa, S.Angelo, Testaccio (all join) Albergo del Sole -- good location, but somewhat of a hike ... perhaps somewhat "plain" Tel ++39-06-68806873/6879446 or 68805258/6893784 Fax ++39-06-6893787 * E-Mail:sole@italyhotel.com website: http://www.venere.com/it/roma/sole/ Albergo della Lunetta -- apparently a HOSTEL, but seems to have suites also ... good surroundings, but a decent "hike" to Conference tel: 06 686 10 80 fax: 06 689 20 28 ROME HOSTEL URL: http://www.europeanhostels.com/fall/listings/italy/rome.asp Albergo Pomezia -- good surroundings, but a decent "hike" to conference tel: 06 686 13 71 fax: 06 686 13 71 MIGHT be somewhat of a hostel ... at least somewhat plain Hotel Arenula -- Great location. Usually full. Tel. +39/6/85301758 Fax + 39/6/85301756 email: http://www.europeanhostels.com/fall/listings/italy/rome.asp website: http://www.romeguide.it/ALBERGHI/h_arenula/ Hotel Carmel -- great location (often full) about 150K lira + email: hotelcarmel@hotmail.com ph: 06 5809921 fax: 06 5818853 Hotel Cisterna -- close (good proximity) Tel. +39/0685301758 Fax +39/0685301756 Email: ilsogno@romeguide.it website: http://www.romeguide.it/Cisterna/Cisterna.html HOTEL CAMPO DE' FIORI -- appears close;recommended by several travel groups Campo de' Fiori Via del Biscione 6 Tel. 68 80 68 65 oder 6874886 Fax: 68309036 oder 68 76 003 Hotel Mimosa -- not very close, but theoretically do-able; recommended by several travel groups as "a good buy" ph: 06 68801753 fax: 06 6833557 about 150K-170K lira Hotel Piccolo -- not so close ... perhaps more expensive than appears ph: 06 6892330 about 120K-160K lira Hotel Trasteverde -- good location, mainly residential but not far from good stuff ph: 06 5814713 fax: 06 5881016 150K lira + Hotel San Paolo -- outside option; 10 minutes from main train station, but ... ph: 06 4745213 fax: 06 4745218 email: hsanpaolo@tin.it PLACE FOR ORGANIZERS TO ARRANGE FOR GROUPS & BLOCKS OF ROOMS: http://www.HotelsItaly.com/groups.phtml NICE BED & BREAKFASTS: B&B Gianicolo http://www.venere.com/it/roma/gianicolo/ Via N. Fabrizi 11/B - 00153 Roma Tel: 065813235, Fax: 065813235 Lungotevere Mellini B&B http://www.venere.com/it/roma/lungoteveremellini/ B&B Campo de'Fiori http://www.venere.com/it/roma/aziz/ Monte del Gallo (Apartment / B&B) - CLOSE TO ST. PETER'S http://montedelgallo.com/ Rampa A. Ceriani, 15 - int. 2 - 00165 Roma Car Entrance: via della Cava Aurelia 155/a Tel. +39 06 633019 Fax +6638410120 2 close B&B / Apartments -- managed by single service: pictures & reservations online (not named): http://www.venere.com/it/roma/rsh/trastevere191/ http://www.venere.com/it/roma/rsh/trastevere192/ MISC. HOTELS / B&Bs / APARTMENTS -- somewhat close to Conference: http://www.mindspring.com/~giovanna/rome/trastevere.html http://www.romepower.com/inglese/appartamenti/trastevere-testaccio/apptrastevere.htm http://web.tiscali.it/undergroundtour/rentals_family_accomodation_trastevere.htm KEY GUIDES TO ROME ACCOMODATIONS: http://rome.hotelguide.net/ http://www.rome4u.com/hotels/shouse/location.html http://www.webtourist.net/italy/rome/hotels.html INTERACTIVE HOTELS / LOCATIONS BY MAP GUIDES: http://www.hotels.com/servlet/SearchHotel/217/41.9/12.48/Rome http://www.ehi.com/travel/ehi/italy/hot_map1.html http://rome.funtastikeurope.com/Rome/RomeHotel.html ALTERNATE LOCATIONS: SUMMIT **** via della Stazione Aurelia, 99 Tel. 6808010 00165 Gianicolense VILLA PAMPHILI **** via della Nocetta, 105 Tel. 5862 00164 Gianicolense BLANC ET NOIR *** piazza Scansano, 8 Tel. 659749 00149 Portuense Nessun Hotel (look up) http://www.venere.com/it/roma/rinascimento/index.html.en http://www.venere.com/it/roma/rm_centro.html.en MULTIPLE HOTELS THROUGHOUT ROME - "REGARDLESS OF LOCATION!" - Direct http://p1000.netravel.co.il/t4t/Hotel.asp?HOTEL_ID=9351 http://www.hotelsonline.com/directory/index.php3?p=214 MISC. USEFUL SITES: http://www.romepower.com/index2.htm - good site, includes airport transportation options, much more http://www.virgin-vacations.com/EU_FROE.ASP - Rome Fly & Hotel 7day/6nights on Virgin Atlantic
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