The Conference will be international and multidisciplinary. It will focus on applications involving the detection and understanding of long-term changes in natural and disturbed environmental systems. It will review methods of environmental change detection across different disciplines by bringing together scientists and stakeholders concerned with monitoring in terrestrial, freshwater, marine, hydrological, atmospheric, and social systems. The objectives are:

• To assess the value of long-term environmental monitoring for the detection of change in disturbed and natural systems, at a range of scales, in relation to contemporary and future environmental issues;

• To develop integrated approaches to monitoring through programmes which can link the drivers, pressures and responses to environmental change at a range of scales;

• To strengthen links between monitoring, modelling, remote sensing and experimental approaches to the study of environmental change;

• To assess future options and approaches to environmental monitoring for both science and policy, particularly in relation to the early detection of change;

• To promote more effective use of monitoring science by policy makers and the wider public.

DETECTING
ENVIRONMENTAL
CHANGE

Science and Society

17-20 July 2001, London, UK

Incorporating the annual meeting
of the International Long-Term
Environmental Research Network
on Monday 16th July

Change is
one of the few
things in life
of which we can
be certain