26.04.2018 - 27.04.2018 National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Central Botanical Garden Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Decorative Gardening Republican Scientific and Practical Seminar “State and Prospects for the Development of Green Construction in the Republic of Belarus” Dear colleagues! We invite you to take part in the Republican scientific and practical seminar “Status and Prospects of Development of Green Construction in the Republic of Belarus”, which will be held in the Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, April 26-27, 2018. The main areas of the seminar: ecology of large cities and industrial centers, ways of its optimization; species composition and condition of urban green spaces, ways and means of increasing their sustainability and durability; biodiversity of the plant world and prospects for its use in the practice of green construction of the Republic of Belarus; diseases and pests of green spaces and measures to contain their spread; invasive processes and their danger to green construction; modern technologies for the production of planting material for ornamental plants; problems of domestic nursery production; new directions in landscape architecture and phytodesign. To participate, please send the registration form and abstracts of the report as an attached file by email by March 10, 2018: minsk2018seminar@mail.ru . After March 15, 2018, the second information letter with the preliminary program of the seminar will be sent out. Up-to-date information will be available on the website http://cbg.org.by . Abstracts of the reports will be published by the beginning of the seminar in a collection, which will be assigned an ISBN index, and posted in RSCI. Working languages of the seminar: Russian, Belarusian. Forms of participation: oral report or poster. Organizing committee address: 220012 Republic of Belarus, Minsk, st. Surganova 2v, Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Contact persons: Ph.D. Natalia Leonidovna Belousova, tel. +375 17 284 16 78, Ph.D. Natalya Mikhailovna Lunina, tel. +375 17 284 14 82, Ph.D. Ivan Kazimirovich Volodko, tel. +375 17 284 14 79. The preferred form of communication is e-mail:minsk2018seminar@mail.ru. Requirements for the materials provided The materials should be sent to the address of the organizing committee as an attached file by e-mailminsk2018seminar@mail.ru. File formats: doc, rtf. The file name must begin with the first author's last name, written in Russian. Page parameters: A4 sheet size (210x297 mm), left margin - 30 mm, other margins - 20 mm. Text: Times New Roman font, font size 12, single spacing, paragraph indentation 1 cm without automatic word wrap. Underline the name of the speaker of the article materials. Sample design of materials TITLE OF THE REPORT Ivanov I.I.1, Petrov P.P.2 1Name of the organization, city, country, e-mail of the speaker 2Name of the organization, city, country TITLE OF ARTICLE Ivanov I.I.1, Petrov P.P.2 1Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, e-mail 2Center for Systems Analysis and Strategic Studies, Minsk, Belarus Abstract text. The volume of the text of the materials is up to 2 pages. The organizing committee of the conference reserves the right to reject materials that do not correspond to the main thematic areas of the seminar, are not formatted according to the rules and were received after March 10, 2016. Sincerely, the organizing committee of the Republican scientific and practical seminar “Status and Prospects for the Development of Green Construction in the Republic of Belarus” minsk2018seminar@mail.ru