International Interdisciplinary Conference on

Land Use and Water Quality

Agriculture and the Environment

Aarhus, Denmark, 3-6 June 2025

 

Photographer: Bente Fyrstenberg Nedergaard

Attention: Abstract submission closes 31 October 2024 has been extended to 15 November 2024!

LuWQ2025

LuWQ2025 is an international and interdisciplinary conference on the cutting edge of science, management and policy in order to minimize the effects of agriculture and land use on the quality of groundwater and surface waters.

Objectives of the conference are:

  • to provide a forum for exchange of scientific knowledge and research to better understand ’systems function’, modelling and uncertainty;
  • to discuss the entire policy cycle for water quality improvement;
  • to intensify contacts, facilitate discussion and build capacity (a) between scientists in the fields of soil/water, agriculture, social sciences, ecology and economy, and (b) between scientists, water managers and policy makers.

Conference is jointly convened by:

LuWQ2025 is the sixth follow-up on the successful earlier LuWQ conferences, LuWQ2022 (https://www.luwq2022.nl) (Maastricht, the Netherlands), LuWQ2019 (Aarhus, Denmark), LuWQ2017 (The Hague, the Netherlands), LuWQ2015 (Vienna, Austria) and the LuWQ2013 conference (The Hague, the Netherlands).

To give you a feeling for the essence of Land Use and Water Quality (LuWQ) conferences… The key strength of the conference is twofold. On the one hand, LuWQ has a well-defined narrow focus on ‘agriculture and water quality’. On the other hand, the conference is broadly oriented with regard to the various professional disciplines related to the conference topics. Based on the experience from previous Land use and Water Quality editions, it is the diversity in professional background of participants which results in a multi-faceted conference program. Consequently, LUWQ offers sessions on a broad variety of topics, all of them however dedicated exclusively to agriculture and water quality.

Organising Committee LuWQ2025
(Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen, Richard van Duijnen, Lærke Thorling, Björn Tetzlaff, Frank Wendland, Susanne Wuijts)

  • Lærke Thorling – Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), GEUS
  • Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen - Department of Ecoscience - Catchment Science and Environmental Management, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark https://ecos.au.dk/en/
  • Susanne Wuijts, Richard van Duijnen - RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Environmental Quality, Bilthoven, the Netherlands http://www.rivm.nl/en
  • Björn Tetzlaff, Frank Wendland – Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany, https://www.fz-juelich.de/en

Jointly convened by

RIVM, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands
DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University, Denmark
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Research Centre Jülich, Germany

RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands

Danish centre for environment and energy baluw

DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University, Denmark

Department of ecoscience blauw

Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany