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Third International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution
Lucknow, India, 29 November - 2 December 2005
More detailed information on the event and the supporting scientists can be found at the website: http://geocities.com/isebindia/
The Third International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution is related to EURASAP not only thematically, but through the participation of a number of distinguished European scientists (EURASAP members) in the International Advisory Committee.
Professor Nigel Bell from Imperial College, UK; Professor J.-P.Garrec from Forest Research Centre of Nancy, France; Dr Andreas Klumpp from the Institute for Landscape and Plant Ecology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
As in the past, the Third International Conference (ICPEP-3) will be jointly organized by International Society of Environmental Botanists (ISEB) and National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow, India. This Conference aims to provide an international forum for serious discussions and deliberations on the burning problem of environmental pollution and the role of plants in pollution indication and remediation and such related issues as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, climate change and effects of pollution on agriculture, food productivity, forestry and human health. Some 300 eminent environmental scientists, academicians, young research students, NGOs, government officials, and managers of industry are expected to participate in this prestigious multi-disciplinary Conference. Over 100 distinguished environmental scientists and students from overseas, both developed and developing countries, are expected to attend this conference.
India, with a population well over a billion people, is home to one-sixth of the humanity. It is a developing country, where its teeming millions suffer from poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition resulting in severe degradation in environmental quality and ill health. However, with its strong industrial base, sound infra-structure and phenomenal progress in science and technology, it is poised to become a developed country in not too distant future. It is, therefore, ideally suited to host a conference of this type and magnitude. Because of its sheer size and population, what India does today, will have its impact on the entire planet tomorrow. This is more likely in the areas of environment, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Entire global community, therefore, has a vested interest in supporting and sustaining any move for protection of environment and biodiversity conservation in this country. Taking cognizance of this, International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), Paris has taken a lead over other similar organizations by promising to extend its full support and to co-sponsor ICPEP-3.
Of the two organizers of ICPEP-3, International Society of Environmental Botanists (ISEB), is a non-profit non-governmental scientific Society based at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India. ISEB aims to promote the cause of environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, pollution abatement and sustainable development by focusing and highlighting the role of plants in attaining the aforementioned objectives. National Botanical Research Institute, the other organization, is one of the most prestigious, and internationally reputed, inter-disciplinary plant science Institute of India and a constituent of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi. Director of NBRI, Dr. P. Pushpangadan is also the President of ISEB
An International Advisory Committee with some of the most reputed and highly distinguished environmental and plant scientists has been constituted to guide and advise in planning and organizing this Conference.
Contact
National Botanical Research Institute
Rana Pratap Marg
Lucknow-226001, India.
E-mail: isebnbrilko@satyam.net.in
Phone: +91-522-2205831 to 35
Fax: +91-522-2205836 / 2205839
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