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Proceedings of the International Conference on

GEO-INFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND
MANAGEMENT (SLM)

Enschede, 17 - 21 August 1997

ITCAnim
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The International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) hosted the conference in its new building in Enschede, The Netherlands, from 17-21 August 1997.

This conference was organized under the aegis of Subcommission F (Land Evaluation) of the International Soil Science Society, in preparation of the 16th I.S.S.S. World Congress of Soil Science in Montpellier, France, in August 1998. 

The Conference on Geo-Information for Sustainable Land Management was attended by 180 participants and addressed the following themes:

1 Concepts of Sustainable Land Management   
2 Planning of Sustainable Land Management: User Needs and Possibilities
3 Land-Use Systems Approach to Sustainable Land Management
4 Integrating Biophysical and Socio-Economic Sustainability Analyses
5 Geo-Information Infrastructure for Planning of Sustainable Land Management

Intro Paper to the SLM Conference by Klaas Jan Beek, Kees de Bie and Paul Driessen

The Conference consisted of plenary sessions, keynote adresses by invited speakers of international repute, and contributed papers and posters. A one-day excursion was held to demonstrate land management at various scales in The Netherlands.

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Convener:
 Klaas Jan Beek
E-mail: Beek@itc.nl
Fax: +31(0)53.4874399		 Editorial
Committee:
 Klaas Jan Beek
Kees de Bie
Paul Driessen		 Pages by:
deBie@itc.nl
(02 Apr 1998)