Climate change, urban sprawl, agriculture abandonment, intensification of forestry and agriculture, changes in energy generation and use, expanding infrastructure networks, increased habitat destruction and degradation and other processes of change occur at faster rates.These processes affect structure, disturbance regimes, productivity, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity in forest ecosystems and landscapes at increasing rates. Rapidly changing landscapes therefore expand the frontiers of the current and future activity of scientists and managers.This IUFRO Landscape Ecology international conference aims to bring together scientists, planners, and managers in order to share science and experiences on approaches, methods and tools to assess change, to forecast change in structures and processes, and to optimize goods and services provided at multiscale-multifunctional levels under a context of change.Topics 1-Scaling in landscape analysis 2-Patterns and processes in changing landscapes 3-Disturbances in changing landscapes 4-Biodiversity conservation and planning in changing landscapes 5-Monitoring landscape change 6-Tools of landscape assessment and management 7-Management and sustainability of changing landscapes 8-Urban Forestry in changing regions(source: www.ipb.pt)