Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to invite you to the Second Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics (CEMEPE) and to the SECOTOX Conference that will be jointly held in Myconos island, Greece, from June 21 to 26, 2009. The conference is organized by the Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, the Sector of Industrial Management and Operations Research, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, in collaboration with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Department of Pollution Control Technologies, TEI of West Macedonia and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

The conference is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas and knowledge between diverse groups of the scientific community concerned by current issues in environmental science, engineering, and management. The organizing committee is in contact with international scientific journals and selected articles from the conference proceedings will be published in special issues after they are reviewed. The conference participants will be informed regarding these issues via e-mail.

All professionals, researchers, environmentalists and policy makers involved or interested in the area of the conference are invited to present papers relating to the conference topics. Indicate your preference for an oral or poster presentation. Authors are requested to submit abstracts by e-mail as a Word file attachment to the Symposium Secretariat, by January 7, 2009.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference secretaries: Vicky Manakou, Tel. +30 24210 74282, Mobile: +306973328909, Fax: +302421074276, E-mail: vmanak@uth.gr, Katerina Papaoikonomou, Tel. +30 24210 74459, Mobile +30 6972551322, Fax +30 24210 74276, E-mail: epapaoik@uth.gr.

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Athanassios Kungolos
University of Thessaly

Konstantinos Aravossis
National Technical University of Athens

Avraam Karagiannidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Petros Samaras
TEI of West Macedonia