Regions                                                                                 ---> News from the Regions

To join IALE or to renew the IALE membership please contact the according IALE region (see the list below). If your country has no region, consider to ask a continental region (esp. Europe).

AFRICA

IALE-Africa interim EC
(by 11/2012):
Henry N.N. Bulley, Central Connecticut State University, USA (Chair) hbulley@ccsu.edu
Jane Bemigisha - IFS Eastern Africa Hub (Coordinator) bemigisha@alumni.itc.nl
Patrick O'Farrell, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services, CSIR, South Africa
Eric Khamala, RCMRD, Kenya Grace Nangendo, WCS, Uganda
Roger Sayre, GEO/USGS, USA
Francis Adesina, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Peter Kyem, Central Connecticut State University, USA
Dominique Mvunabandi, Karisoke Research Center, Rwanda
Bryan Pijanowski, Purdue University, USA
Majaliwa Mwanjalolo, MUIENR, Uganda
Paul Musali, Makerere University, Uganda
IALE Coucil representative:
Website: http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/Africa-IALE/default.htm

ARGENTINA

Executive Committee ASADEP-IALE (IALE Argentina)
President: Silvia D. Matteucci
Secretary-General: Patricia Kandus
Secretary- of Institutional Relationships: Daniel Somma
Treasurer: Julietta Bono
First Commitee member: Rubén Quitana

Substitut Second Commitee member: Luciana Ghermandi
Website: http://www.asadep.org.ar

AUSTRALIA

Executive Committee IALE Australia:
Chair: Richard Hobbs
Secretary: Diane Pearson
Treasurer: Julian Gorman
Editor of bulletin: Amy Hahs
Other committee members: Clive McAlpine
Website: http://www.iale.cdu.edu.au/iale_oz

BRAZIL

Executive Committee Brazil
President: Danilo Boscolo
Vice-President: Alexandre Camargo Martensen
First Secretary: Rozely Ferreira dos Santos
SecondSecretary: Giordano Ciocheti
Third Secretary: Alexandre Uezu
First Treasurer: Simone R. Freitas
Second treasurer: Erica Hasui
Website:

CANADA

The Canadian regions isn't active at the moment. Most Canadian members are also members of IALE-US.

CHINA

Executive Committee IALE China Branch
Chair: Bojie Fu
Honorary Chair: Duning Xiao
Vice chairs: Yanglin Wang, Qiong Gao, Guicai Li, Zhiyung Ouyang, Yuanman Hu
Secretary general: Liding Chen
Vice secretary general: Hui Zeng, Xiuzhen Li, Genxu Wang, Jun Gao
Contact address: Xiuzhen Li
journal: lALE China Branch Newsletter

CZECH REPUBLIC

Executive Committee Czech Republic
Chairman: Zdeněk Lipský, Charles University in Prague, zdeneklip@email.cz
Vice-chairman: Ivo Machar, Palacky University in Olomouc, machar@pdfnw.upol.cz
Treasurer: Linda Drobilová, Mendel Univesity in Brno, nepojmenovatelna@gmail.com
Secretary: Zbyněk Ulčák, Masaryk University in Brno, ulcak@fss.muni.cz
Committee-Members: Antonín Buček, Mendel University in Brno, bucek@mendelu.cz
Dušan Romportl, Charles University in Prague, dusan@natur.cuni.cz
Jan Skaloš, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, jskalos@seznam.cz
Website: http://www.iale.cz

DENMARK

Executive Committee Denmark:
Chair: Jesper Brandt
Secretary/Treasurer: Anton Stahl Olafsson
Board Members: Jesper Brandt, Lone Kristensen, Ole Hjorth Caspersen, Bernd Muenier, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Andreas Christensen, Eva Ritter, Lars Kristian Laustsen, Claus Helweg Ovesen
Website: http://www.landskabsoekologi.dk

ESTONIA

Contact person: Ülo Mander

IALE-EUROPE

President: Teresa Pinto-Correia
Treasurer: Emilio Padoa-Schioppa
Secretary general: Veerle van Eetvelde
Vice Presidents: Jürgen Breuste, Janez Pirnat, Isabel Loupa Ramos, Jonathan Porter
IALE concil representative: Hubert Wiggering
Website: http://www.iale-europe.eu/

FRANCE

President: Philip Roche
Secretary: Yannick Delettre
Treasurer: Sylvie Vanpeene
Website: http://www.imep-cnrs.com/ialeFrance/IALE2007.html

GERMANY

Executive Committee German region:
Chair: Jürgen Breuste
Secretary: Uta Steinhart
Treasurer: Ulrich Walz
Vice Presidents: Felix Müller, Roman Lenz, Jürgen Breuste, Hubert -Wiggering
Website: http://www.iale.de/main/english.html

ITALY

Executive Committee Italian Region
President: Riccardo Santolini
Vice President: Maddalena Gioia Gibelli
Secretary: Emilie Padoa-Schioppa

Treasurer: Alberto Massa Saluzzo

Members: Gerardo Barancucci, Gianumberto Caravello, Carlo Ferrari

Website: http://www.siep-iale.it/

JAPAN

Chief secretary: Mahito Kamaha
Contact person: Nobukazu Nakagoshi
Secretary: Michiro FUJIHARA
Website: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jale/

NETHERLANDS

WLO (Dutch Association for Landscape Ecology) Executive Committee
Chair: Matthijs Schouten
Vice Chair: Georgette Leltz
Secretary: Inkie Goijer
Website WLO: http://www.landschap.nl

POLAND

Executive committee of the Polish Region (PAEK)
President: Dr Maciej Pietrzak
Vice-president: Dr Jerzy Solon
Secretary: Dr Agata Cieszewska
Treasurer: Dr Andrzej Macias
Board members: Dr Grazyna Bezkowska, Dr Wieslaw Ziaja, Dr Jaroslaw Balon
Website: http://www.paek.ukw.edu.pl/paek_english.htm

PORTUGAL

Executive Committee of the Portuguese region:
Direction board
Chair: João Azevedo
Vice-chair: João Honrado
Vice-chair: Isabel Loupa Ramos

General Assembly
President: Nuno Cortez
Vice-President: Teresa Pinto Correia
Secretary: Sónia Ribeiro

Audit committee
Chair:  Ana Firmino
Vice-chair:  Maria da Graça Saraiva
Vice-chair: Helena Menezes

Website: http://www.apep.pt
Contact: apep@apep.pt

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Chair: Maria Kozová
Vice chair: Tatiana Hrnciarova
Vice chair: Jan Otahel
Secretary: Pavlina Misikova
Treasurer: Katarina Pavlickova

SWEDEN

Chair: Bo Eknert, Department of Physical Geography and Quarternary Geology, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Secretary: Marcus Hedblom
Treasurer: Christer Ihse
Members: Ulla Moertberg, Anna Allard, Aina Pihlgren, Rikard Dahlén
Website: http://www.iale.se

SWITZERLAND

Join IALE EUROPE Website: http://www.iale-europe.eu/

UKRAINE

Executive committee of the Ukrainian Region 
Chair: Michael Grodzinski
Vice chair: Marine Elbakidze
Secretary: Daria Svidzinska
Treasurer: Lyudmyla Bilous
Website: to be created soon
Contacts: mgrodz@ukr.net

UNITED KINGDOM

Executive Committee UK-IALE
Chair: Richard Smithers
Treasurer: Peter Carey
Membership secretary: Bella Davies 
Web Manager: Jonathan Porter
Newsletter Editor: Christopher Young
Student enquiries: students@iale.org.uk
Website: http://www.iale.org.uk/

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Executive Committee US-IALE
President 2009-2010: Dean Urban
Secretary, 2009-2011: Colleen Hatfield
Treasurer, 2010-2012: Robert M. Scheller
Councillor-at-Large, 2009-2011: Michael Wimberly
Councillor-at-Large, 2010-2012: Janet Franklin
Councillor-at-Large, 2010-2012: Ed Laurend
Student Representative, 2009-2011: Tabitha Graves
Student Representative, 2010-2012: Jessica Price
US-IALE Membership Secretary:
Appalachian Laboratory
301 Braddock Road
Frostburg, MD 21532
memsec@al.umces.edu
Web site: http://www.cof.orst.edu/org/usiale

VIET NAM

Executive Committee:
President: Prof dr Nguyen Thung Hung
General secretary: Dr Tran Van Y
Treasurer: Dr Tran Ty