The Philippine Environmental Science Association (PESA), in partnership with the Pampanga State Agricultural University  (PSAU), and the University of the Philippines Los Baños – School of Environmental Science and Management (UPLB-SESAM),  is organizing the 9th Annual Conference on Environmental Science (ACES). The meeting will be conducted via a virtual  platform from 3 – 4 May 2021. 

This year’s international conference will feature the theme “Ecological Restoration: Assist Nature’s healing to ensure human  survival’, in line with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration which runs from this year through 2030. 

The conference looks forward to active exchanges among scientists, students, and practitioners toward the betterment  of our environment. Presentations that feature multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary researches that promote holistic  approaches to addressing current environmental issues are highly encouraged. Abstracts of original work that focus on the  following topics:

• Environmental conflict negotiation and resolution (e.g., community-based approaches,  environmental mediations, environmental impact assessment, risk reduction and mitigation,  policy studies, etc.) 
• Restoration of inland water systems (e.g., pollution mitigation, lakes/rivers/wetlands studies,  integrated water resource management, fisheries, risk reduction and mitigation, policy studies,  etc.) 
• Rehabilitation of degraded soils (e.g., rehabilitation of abandoned mines and other degraded  areas, impacts and mitigation measures of soil erosion and sedimentation, soil and water  conservation measures, sustainable and organic agriculture, land use and land cover change, risk  reduction and mitigation etc.) 
• Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity Loss (e.g., biodiversity conservation, risk reduction and  mitigation, policy studies, etc.)