Dear Colleagues,

The Global Change Research Symposium is back! Ten years after the successful meeting held in September 2014, Southern Italy, a new Symposium will be organized in Beijing, China from October 16 to 19, 2024.

The Call for Abstracts is open at the following link:

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=w40yxt-vzkCEbTJu6thtScreQCIXjrRPooWeIYM7KTBUOUwyVjhZR0U2S0dZS1lJUExCQzlJVDFURy4u

Contributions are expected on one or more of the following topics:

1. Urban forests and green spaces as nature-based solutions

2. Smart technologies and remote sensing applications

3. Smart solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation

4. Smart solutions for natural risk management and healthy/resilient cities

5. Ecosystem services, human wellbeing and restoring urban ecosystems

6. Smart solutions for mitigating soil, water, and air pollution

Keynote speakers include top-level scientists and experts, such as:

· Prof. Riccardo Valentini, IPCC, University of Tuscia, Italy

· Prof. Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, USA

· Prof. Puay Yok Tan, National University Singapore, Singapore

· Prof. Cheng Wang, Chinese Academy of Forestry Science, Beijing, China

· Prof. Wendy Chen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

· Prof. Giovanni Sanesi, DISSPA - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

· Prof. Xingyuan He, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science, China

· Prof. Xiangrong Wang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

· Prof. Richard Hauer, University of Wisconsin, USA

· Prof. Rik De Vreese, European Forest Institute, Belgium

· Prof. Somidha Saha, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to August 15, 2024, however we encourage you to submit your abstract as soon as possible.

For further details about the event please visit the website: https://www.globalchange2024.com/ More information about the registration, special issues on scientific journals and field trips will be available by mid-July.

We look forward to seeing you in Beijing this October!

Prof. Raffaele LAFORTEZZA, Prof. Giovanni SANESI and Prof. Chengyang XU

Organizers of the Global Change Research Symposium 2024