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INVITATION
The
inaugural International Conference on Built Environment in Developing
Countries (ICBEDC 2007) which was held in December 3rd-4th, 2007 at
Universiti Sains Malaysia, had attracted 125 papers from all over the
world, mainly researchers and academia from Developing
Countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Republic of Iran, Indonesia, Oman,
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, Holland and
many more. The conference was organized in 6 parallel sessions of
specific sub-themes for the duration of the 2 days.
Following the outstanding success of the 1st ICBEDC2007, we, the
organizers, the
School
of
Housing
, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains
Malaysia
, is organizing a higher impact follow-up conference. The theme of the 2nd
ICBEDC2008 is “Sustainable Built Environment: Bridging Theory and
Practice”. By adopting this theme, we are reinforcing our commitment
in promoting sustainable practices in the development of the built
environment in developing countries as we are still very much in the
process of seriously adopting and implementing the prophesy of a truly
sustainable environment. Issues on global warming, growing scarcity of non-renewable energy
resources, loss of biodiversity, shortage of water supply and the long
term degradation of the ecosystem along with health and poverty problems
are among the most important issues which represent a growing and
escalating risk for human societies and their economy.
We are here therefore delighted to invite you to attend the
ICBEDC 2008 in
Penang
,
Malaysia
. We look forward to offering researchers and practitioners a platform
for presenting research and academic papers and exchanging as well as
critically discussing new frontiers from research on practical
implementation and theoretical knowledge in the domain of sustainable
built environment.
Associate
Professor Dr. Abu Hassan Abu Bakar
Conference
Chairman
2nd
International Conference on Built Environment in Developing Countries
School
of Housing, Building and Planning
Universiti
Sains Malaysia
11800
USM, Penang
MALAYSIA
Email:
icbed2008@gmail.com
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