A special International Geographical Union - Land Use Land Cover Change (IGU-LUCC) Programme for Young Researchers working on Land Use/Cover Change in the Asia-Pacific Region is being sponsored by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) and the Land Use/Cover Changes in Temperate East Asia (LUTEA).

The Programme is intended to promote research capacity building of young scholars working on land use/cover change research in the Asia Pacific Region. Although anyone who identifies as a 'young researcher' is welcome to attend, APN Supported Participants in the Young Researchers Programme will receive assistance, at least in part, for travel expenses and Symposium/Conference fees.

The Young Researcher's Programme will be conducted in conjunction with the IGU-LUCC'97 Open International Symposium and the IGU'97 Commission on Sustainable Rural Systems Conference, both held in Australia in early July, 1997. It will commence on July 2 at the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Anaylysis Network (ACASIAN), Griffith University.

The Programme includes the following activities that contribute to the above objective:

a. An introductory lecture on research for global land use/cover change

b. A workshop on GIS and databases for land use/cover change research.

c. Sessions dealing with information bases for land use/cover change research.

d. Sessions dealing with processes and driving forces of land use/cover changes.

e. Sessions dealing with sustainability of land use systems.

f. Excursions specially designed to study actual land use/cover changes and their implications.

Programme schedule (Arrivals should be scheduled for l July):

2 July - Opening at Brisbane, including Introductory Lecture and Workshops

3 - 4 July - IGU-LUCC'97 Symposium at Griffith University, Nathan, QLD

5 July - Study Trip from Brisbane to Coffs Harbour

6 July - Study Trip from Coffs Harbour to Armidale

7 - 10 July - IGU'97 CSRS Conference, University of New England, Armidale, NSW

11 July - Study Trip from Armidale to Sydney

12 July - Closing at Sydney

Applications for APN-Supported Participants:

Applications are invited from any young researchers (Postgraduate Students and Post-Docs, etc) working on land-use/cover change in the Asia-Pacific Region, who will present a paper at the IGU-LUCC'97 Symposium.

Abstracts of papers proposed for presentation at the IGU-LUCC'97 Symposium must be included with applications for selection as APN-Sponsored Participants if they have not already been submitted for acceptance at the Symposium.

A Curriculum Vitae (ASCII format, if at all possible) should be included in the application, which should also contain a description of any research projects, including dissertation research, presently being undertaken.

Qualifying persons will be granted some degree of assistance for travel expenses and fees required to participate in the IGU-LUCC'97 Symposium and the IGU'97 CSRS Conference, depending on the number of applications accepted and the policies adopted by the APN.

Announcement of successful applicants and the degree of assistance that will be offered will be made in mid-May in order that travel arrangements can be made intime to take advantage of discount fares.

Applications should reach the local IGU-LUCC'97 organiser by 5 May, 1997: >P> Professor Lawrence Crissman Local Organiser of the IGU-LUCC'97 Faculty of Asian and International Studies Griffith University Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia Tel.+61-7-3875-5137 Fax.+61-7-3875-7956 E-mail: LUCC97@ASIAN.gu.edu.au

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