Society for Urban Ecology World Conference 2013: Progress in urban ecology and ecological challenges in urban development

The following symposium has been organized.

S1- Urban Green and Urban Development – Multifunctional Urban Green Infrastructure: theory and practice: J. Breuste, J. Li, M. Artmann

S2- Methodological approaches for dealing with socio-ecological complexity of urban areas: Timon McPhearson

S3- Modelling of urban ecosystems – new approaches: Dagmar Haase, Salman Qureshi

S4 – Understanding the nexus of Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: M. Schewenius, E. Andersson, N. Frantzeskaki

S5 -The Nature of Cities: The diverse roots of coupled social-ecological research that leads to design of urban environments: David Maddox

S6 – Comparative ecology of cities: Charles Nilon - pending

S7 – Cities under change – a social-ecological approach to urban adaptive capacity and governance: Björn Nykvist

S8 – Young Researchers/Student Symposium: Future of urban ecology: Fernando Castillo, Neele Larondelle, Angela Reeve, Martina Artmann

S9 – Latin-American cities, Urban Ecology & the Sustainable Development in the 21st Century: Ana Carolina Herrero

S10 – Urban biodiversity: challenges for nature in settlement areas: Esther Verjans

S11 – The challenges of urban versus rural development and its application to urban ecology: Ignacio J. Diaz-Maroto

S12 - Urban Bodiversity, Management and Governance: Leonie K. Fischer, Ingo Kowarik