2017 Ansan International Conference on Urban Forest Greening Cities and Citizen’s Wellbeing will be held at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art on 29th September, and is jointly organized by the Ansan city government, Ansan Evergreen Foundation and ESP Asia Regional office.
The purpose of the Conference is to bring together policy makers, researchers and practitioners from around the world to work cooperatively to address common issues and challenges to achieve the goals of urban forests. The conference will provide a platform to develop a long-term strategy to conserve ecosystem services of urban forests, to establish a collaboration channel for effective policy implementation, and to ensure active public engagement.
The city of Melbourne (Mr. Ian Shears), Chinese Academy of Sciences (Dr. Feng Li), Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (Dr. Toshio Katsuki), Korea University (Prof. Seongwoo Jeon) will provide thematic presentations to share their experiences and to discuss about effective implementation strategies. For further inquiries, please contact at [email protected].