The conference concerns issues on water resources and regional agro-climatic potential; preservation of landscape and biological diversity in anthropogenic transformation of the natural environment; soil, land reclamation and environmental safety of agricultural production; meadow ecosystems and problems of intensive fodder production; ecology-safe waste transformation and secondary material resources; fading settlements and modern land-use strategies; transboundary natural complexes, facilities and ecological network; cultural-historical and natural-ethnographic identity of Polesie; cross-border cluster "Europolesie" and prospects of interregional cooperation in environmental management.