CDR Symposium: Rethinking land degradation and sustainable management


on June 17, at BOKU Festsaal, Gregor Mendel Haus

“Rethinking land degradation and sustainable management”

  • Monday June 17, 2019
  • BOKU Festsaal, 1180, Gregor Mendelstr. 33
  • register: cdr(at)boku.ac.at

A contribution to the „World Day to Combat Desertification”: https://www.un.org/en/events/desertificationday/

  • Morning Session: World Atlas of desertification, presented by the editor, EU JRC Ispra (https://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/)
  • Afternoon Session: Key note: Rethinking Land Degradation and Resilience: Cases from the Sahel. World Café from students for students: Rethinking Together with Experts Land Degradation and SDGs - reflecting Soil and Land, Water, Climate, Resilience, Gender and Education, Mapathon.
  • Evening: Rethinking Future Event @TÜWI.

This Symposium is part of the BOKU lecture Applied Development Research and a cooperation between: BOKU Centre for Development Research and Partners, BOKU ÖH, Austrian Development Agency, Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs and the EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra.

Further information


20.05.2019