The main topics will be:

• Global climate dynamics: challenge for conceptual work in landscape science.
• Economy convergence of nature and society under the induced climate pressures and  landscape changes.
• Monitoring as a tool of knowledge basis about landscapes and processes. Historical  human-made landscape changes and future scenarios.
• Landscape geo-biodiversity and indicators of global ecological change.
• Ecological planning, landscape management and green networks in areas of different climate zones.
• Forest- and agro-ecosystems: adaptive management approaches.
• Natural and restored landscapes: their functions/services as subjects of problem-oriented science.
• Open land for food and/or energy production: How to solve interferences with the goals of nature protection?
• Adaptations and functional water management by land use change.