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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:10:33 +0000
Subject: 1st Announcement and Call for Abstracts - 2014 Green Infrastructure Conf - Tampa
Green Infrastructure and Water Management
in Growing Metropolitan Areas
14 – 16 January 2014
Patel College of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, U.S. A.
Call for Abstracts
Green infrastructure can be an effective and efficient means of managing stormwater flows
and pollutant loading. Beyond these core functions, green infrastructure offers multiple
ecosystem services and health and well-being benefits– offering a significant advantage
over conventional gray infrastructure . Despite these noted benefits, municipal leaders
face significant challenges when attempting to implement green infrastructure strategies
in new and existing development.
Green Infrastructure in Growing Metropolitan Areas
will address the challenges and opportunities surrounding green infrastructure. The event
will bring together scientists, engineers, urban planners, and urban natural resource
managers to highlight the latest developments in the science behind of green
infrastructure, illustrate new and innovative policy, demonstrate innovative engineering
techniques, and outline emerging urban design models useful in protecting the water
resources within the world’s growing metropolitan regions.
Practitioners and researchers from across the full range of engineering, urban and
landscape design, natural resource management and social science disciplines are invited
to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The abstracts should cover one out
of the four conference topics:
1. Defining the Benefits of Green Infrastructure:
Theme will focus on scientific foundation of the use of green infrastructure in managing
urban water, including surface water and ground water recharge, as well as identify the
gaps in our present knowledge.
2. Barriers to Green Infrastructure Implementation:
Theme will focus on scientific inquiry and cost-benefit analysis that address the
perception that performance is unknown, concerns about regulatory agency acceptance of
green infrastructure, maintenance requirements and costs, conflicting legal mandates, and
the lack of staff expertise.
3. Funding Green Infrastructure Design, Implementation and Maintenance:
Theme will focus on investigations into the true economic costs and benefits of
transforming a municipal gray infrastructure system into a mixed gray-green system and the
implementation costs, as well as long-term maintenance costs of green infrastructure.
4. Implementation Strategies for Governments, Communities and Developers:
Theme will address the organization and implementation of public policy, including land
planning regulation and green infrastructure site development procedures.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Green Infrastructure in Growing Metropolitan
Areas scientific committee. The authors of the accepted abstract will be notified by
October 15, 2013. The authors must confirm their attendance by registering for the
conference by December 15, 2013. The accepted and confirmed abstracts will be published in
the conference proceedings of the "Green Infrastructure and Water Management in
Growing Metropolitan Regions Conference". After the conference, selected abstracts
will be invited to contribute a full-paper to a special edition of a journal.
Conference Organizers:
University of South Florida’s Patel College of Global Sustainability and the University of
Florida IFAS with additional financial support from the U.S. Forest Service.
Abstract Submittal:
Download abstract template and submit abstract Here or go to
http://usfweb3.usf.edu/PGS/abstractform.aspx
Important Dates:
September 15, 2013 Deadline to Submit Abstracts
October 15, 2013 Notification of Abstract Acceptance
December 15, 2013 Deadline for Early Registration
January 6, 2014 Deadline for Registration
Registration & Logistics:
Click http://patel.usf.edu/patel-center/2014-green-infrastructure-conference/ (contact
skoures(a)usf.edu if you have trouble viewing website)
Contact:
For questions and conference details please contact Bessie Skoures at skoures(a)usf.edu
Rob Northrop
Extension Forester
Urban and Community Forestry
University of Florida/ Hillsborough Co. Extension
5339 County Road 579
Seffner, Florida 33584
813-744-5519 x54106 <tel:813-744-5519%20x54106>
Value the Individual - Enrich the Community - Restore the Forest