Preliminary conference themes

• Biodiversity and its loss, processes and drivers, threats and opportunities
• Human overexplotation of natural resources and living systems
• Ecological complexity and non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• Ecosystem evolution, functioning and resilience, system-ecological approach
• Ecosystem services, potential, demands and flows today and in the past
• Integration of ecosystems protection and sustainable use of their services
• Nature conservation policies, system-ecological and participatory approaches
• Human ecology, socio-ecological systems and indicators of their sustainability