Call for Abstracts

The 2024 Symposium theme is Island Stewards: Caring for Land and Sea. The overarching theme aims to explore the interaction between people, nature, conservation, culture and livelihood. It was selected in recognition of the role of land managers in supporting and developing our unique island lifestyles in a way that sustainably uses natural resources, whilst conserving and protecting the natural values that make each island unique. It seeks to highlight the relationship all island managers have as both users and protectors of an island’s resources.

We are pleased to invite abstract submissions under the following session themes:

  1. Indigenous stewards — managing land and sea

  2. Valuing people and place

  3. Islands as arks

  4. Islands under threat

  5. Land and sea interface

  6. Integrated island management and restoration

  7. Conservation introductions