Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers
2009 Annual Meeting, March 22-27th
Las Vegas, Nevada
Geographic Contributions to Agro-biodiversity Conservation
In response to the success of the sessions at the 2007 AAG Meetings
in Boston, we would like to hold another series on geographic
contributions to agrobiodiversity conservation.
If your research reflects the call for papers included below, please
send submitted abstracts to co-chairs:
Kimberlee J. Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
Laura R. Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Research on the spatial and temporal dynamics of agricultural
biodiversity and their conservation, both historically and
contemporary, have interested geographers and other related
disciplines for centuries. Viewing conservation strategies through
the lenses of traditional agriculturists and their practices offers a
valuable framework for examination of such topics as: genetic
erosion, traditional germplasm management, gender and agriculture,
agricultural development, domestication, centers of agro-
biodiversity, human ecology of agriculture, and agricultural
evolution. We invite scholars engaged in research that focuses on
some aspect of agro-biodiversity conservation to submit papers for a
session(s) focusing on empirical and theoretical work that engages a
conceptual geographic framework.
Laura R. Lewis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biogeography & Crop Evolution
Department of Geography and Environmental Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
211 Sondheim Hall
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
phone: 410-455-3054
fax: 410-455-1056
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
skype: balkissa_lj
