IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Party Webinar - June 24, 15:00-16:00 CET Landscape ecology and the covid-19 pandemics: How can landscape ecology contribute to stop the spread of human diseases and to create safer environments for human communities? The debate around the COVID-19 pandemic has raised several questions regarding how zoonoses are transmitted from ecosystems to humans, how diseases spread within human societies, over regions and across continents, and how effective are measures that countries and communities adopt to fight pandemics. Most of these issues have a strong spatial socioecological component. Landscape ecology, both conceptually and methodologically, has the potential to play an active role in explaining, describing and forecasting the emergence and spread of zoonoses, to inform decision-making on sustainable measures to minimize their spread and to build spread safe landscapes. This is a research opportunity for landscape ecology but mostly it is an opportunity for landscape ecologists to be actively involved in the development of solutions for evolving societal problems. These are the main issues to be addressed by the IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Party in this webinar, the first of a series dedicated to emerging issues in landscape ecology and society, with the contribution of outstanding scientists with a global and integrative perspective of science and society (see flyer attached). We will inform you soon about the webinar platform. On behalf of the IUFRO LE WP, João Azevedo -- João Azevedo Prof. Coordenador Escola Superior Agrária/Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Address: Campus de Santa Apolónia 5300-253 BRAGANÇA PORTUGAL Phone: (+351) 273 303 341 e-mail: jazevedo(a)ipb.pt web: http://www.esa.ipb.pt/cv/jazevedo/