The Operational Research Society
Special Interest Group on Agriculture and Natural Resources Call for Abstracts
Frank Parkinson Room, University of Reading, 2nd April 2009
Making better decisions for the management or governance of the agricultural and related natural resource industries
We invite contributions to this meeting of broadly relevant works.
There is no restriction on techniques or class of problem solved, but the work will be of an applied nature, and that may involve a considerably innovative approach.
To raise the profile of these contributions, abstracts they will be published in the Journal of Agricultural Science, subject to editorial review. They must be of completed or near completed work and prepared in the correct style (see Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge generally, but a similar preprint of proceedings is available http://hdl.handle.net/1826/2471). An abstract should be 350- 400 words of text and may, in addition, contain some equations, and at least one reference, for example to a more detailed presentation of the author’s work. Microsoft Word is preferred.
Those wishing to contribute should send an abstract to:
D L Sandars (Agriculture and Natural Resources’ Meeting) Natural Resources Management Centre, Building 42a, School of Applied Science, Cranfield University Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL
E-mail: daniel.sandars@cranfield.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0) 1234 752971
by Monday, 2nd March 2009.
Each talk will be of 15 minutes duration, followed by 5 minutes discussion. We will endeavour to select a balanced programme of contributions from those offered. This event is timed to exploiting synergies with the Agricultural Research Modeller’s meeting in London (contact Les Crompton, University of Reading, l.a.crompton@reading.ac.uk) the following day. If you have to travel a distance why not stay a night and do both?
Depending on numbers we may recommend that the talks form part of the latter event in London rather than the proposed standalone event in Reading.
T. U. Rehman & D. L. Sandars; 9th September 2008
