25.03.2010 - 26.03.2010 | Bremen - Tagung

Second International Conference on Implications of GM Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales

The conference aims at compiling methods and strategies, which address the issues related to large scale cultivation of GM plants. Topics include empirical work related to risk assessment, theoretical concepts, as well as methodological aspects facing large spatial and temporal dimensions. Strategies to assess and manage GMOs shall be linked and compared with the regulation and management of systemic risks in other fields of science and technology.

The conference meets a current and growing discussion in science and administration: Ecological, agricultural and economic implications of genetically modified organisms (GMO) at large spatial scales.

How can effects with ample spatial extent be assessed in risk analysis, approval procedure, and monitoring?
A platform is provided to collate concepts, management strategies and methods in the field of ecological risk assessment of GMO.
It is intended to bring together the state-ofthe- art in the relevant disciplines and,
moreover, to introduce innovative methods that enhance the progress in assessing large scale implications of GMO cultivation. Strategies to assess and manage GMO will be linked and compared with the regulation and management of systemic risks in other fields of science and technology.

The conference continues the prosperous exchange started at the first GMLS conference in 2008.

Venue

University of Bremen, Germany
Conference hall: Hörsaal GW 1
Universitätsallee

Organising Committee

Broder Breckling (University of Bremen; University of Vechta),
Wolfgang Büchs (German Ecological Society, SG Agroecology),
Christiane Eschenbach (University of Kiel, Germany),
Florian Keil (Institute for Social Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main),
Hartmut Meyer (German Ecological Society, SG Genetic Engineering and Ecology),
Gunther Schmidt, Winfried Schröder (University of Vechta),
Richard Verhoeven (University of Bremen),
Wiebke Züghart (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation)

Contact

PD Dr. Broder Breckling
University of Vechta
Chair of Landscape Ecology
Eichendorffweg 30
49377 Vechta
E-Mail: bbreckling@iuw.uni-vechta.de
Tel. 0049 4441 15 480

Richard Verhoeven
E-Mail: verhoeven@uni-bremen.de
Tel. +49 421 592238

For further information and programme please consult the website.