ticipants were charged with developing an education-training network
methodologies and program elements that would support an applied scientific
discipline as it develops. These will only be successful and sustainable
if they are integrative with respect to the biophysical, socioeconomic, and
cultural factors that combine everywhere to affect land-use practices. This
will require new ways of conducting education and training programs as the
old ways have failed to fully meet many of the needs of humankind. This
also will mean resisting the appeal of reductionism, rewarding the accomplishments
of interdisciplinary scholarship, and opening the university
structure to students with diverse talents and needs.