Free Access to Special Issue of Biological Conservation

Due to the forthcoming SCB meeting in South Africa, we are very pleased to offer you free access, until the end of July 2007, to the Special Issue of Biological Conservation titled: Conservation in Areas of High Population Density in Sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 34, Issue 2.
We hope this service will be valuable for your work.

EcoSummit 2007: Beijing Ecological Declaration

In Beijing in May this year, 1400 leading environmental scientists from 70 countries met at EcoSummit 2007. Elsevier was the main sponsor for this event. The scientists discussed how ecology can help mitigate global climate change and ecosystem degradation, and find ways to improve human well-being in the context of the UN Millennium Development Goals. They sought ways of sharing their ecological knowledge with the world’s peoples and decision makers. Read more about this in the Beijing Ecological Declaration.

The U.V. Helava Award

The U.V. Helava Award is a prestigious Award established in 1998 by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and is sponsored by Elsevier. The Award is presented to the authors who publish the best paper exclusively in the ISPRS Journal and within a four-year period.
The winners of the third Award are Michael Bleyer and Margrit Gelautz with their paper on A layered stereo matching algorithm using image segmentation and global visibility constraints.

New Journal: Journal of Hydro-environment Research

In July 2007, Elsevier will publish the first issue of a new journal titled: Journal of Hydro-environment Research. The journal is a collaboration between Elsevier, the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering (IAHR), and the Korea Water Resources Association (KWRA). Published on a quarterly basis, the journal will provide an international platform for the dissemination of research and engineering applications on water and hydraulic problems in the Asia-Pacific region. For the full press release please see Elsevier.com

Visit the Elsevier Booth (#501) at ESA/SER Joint Meeting
5-10 August 2007, San Jose, CA, USA

Have a look at a wide selection of journals such as Biological Conservation, Ecological Modelling, Ecological Economics and many more. Or browse our recent book titles.

New Books

Visit Elsevier’s Environmental Science & Ecology Bookstore

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