Woodscapes Conference in Poland

The international conference “Wooded rural landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe: biodiversity, cultural legacy and conservation,” organized by University of Rzeszów (Poland) and Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, has been held in Rzeszów and Bükk National Park on 20-25 September 2017.

The aim of the meeting was to identify major problems of wooded rural landscapes in this part of Europe, particularly it was focused on wooded pastures in the Carpathian region. Amongst other things, the event provided possibility to discuss about local knowledge, land economy and policies existing there in terms of agriculture, forestry, nature conservation, tourism and spatial planning processes.

You can visit here the website. and the book of abstracts related to the conference is available here.