|
Seminars |
Summary |
Location |
Date |
Leaders |
Key
Participants |
What
is deliverable? |
| Frameworks and
approaches in ecosystem service research |
Key questions
for policy-makers in the conservation of ecosystem
services and the threats posed by environmental change |
York |
6th - 7th February 2008 |
White, Holt |
Principal
organiser and all co-organisers, Jim Boyd and Irene Ring |
Review 1,
mapping alternative frameworks and approaches,
illustrating commonalities, strengths and weaknesses |
|
Linking biodiversity, processes and services |
Quantification of the role of biodiversity in regulating
ecosystem processes, and providing ecosystem services in
coastal wetlands |
Aberdeen |
8th - 10th July 2008 |
Solan, Bulling |
Principal organiser and all co-organisers, MarBEF |
Review 2, concerning links between ecosystem
biodiversity, processes and services, for wetland
systems and the relative advantages of
biodiversity-oriented vs service oriented
approaches including issues of spatial and temporal
scale |
| Temporal and
spatial issues in service delivery |
Identification
of time-space-scale relationships between biodiversity,
ecosystem functions and ecosystem services, via a
service led approach |
York |
13-14 January 2009 |
Cinderby,
Smart |
Principal
organiser and all co-organisers |
| Holistic
approaches for measuring ecosystem provision |
Holistic
interdisciplinary indicators of ecosystem services
sustainability, e.g. ecosystem health, and their
application to coastal wetlands |
Plymouth |
TBC |
Fisher,
Raffaelli |
Principal
organiser and all co-organisers, Murray Rudd |
Review 3,
covering approaches for tracking ecosystem service
delivery performance in wetland systems, and the
potential of holistic approaches that couple social and
ecological systems |
| Economic
valuation of coastal wetland services |
Valuation of
ecosystem services in coastal areas, and consideration
of the equitable distribution of these benefits within
and between generations |
UEA,
Norwich |
8-10 June 2009 |
Austen, Beaumont |
Principal
organiser and all co-organisers, Irene Ring |
Formal
assessment of the benefits provided by exemplar coastal
wetlands, including Scottish and English coastal
estuaries and the Norfolk coastline |
| Ecosystem
services: the next generation |
Development of
an interdisciplinary research agenda, identifying
research priorities for sustaining future ecosystem
services from biodiversity in coastal wetlands |
York |
TBC |
White, Huby |
Principal
organiser and all co-organisers, key stakeholder groups:
Natural England, SNH, JNCC, Defra, CEFAS, EA, SEERAD |
Policy paper
for Science |
