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ILTER Science Workshop - Ecosystem Services - August 2008, Slovakia
Workshop for participants in the ILTER Ecosystem Services Assessment project
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Aug 19, 2008 from 08:30 am to 05:30 pm |
| Where | Slovakia |
| Contact Name | Patrick Bourgeron |
| Contact Email | psbourgeron@plymouth.edu |
| Contact Phone | 603-535-3179 (USA) |
| Attendees |
People involved in the ILTER Ecosystem Services Assessment project |
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ILTER Science Workshop, Slovakia: Interactions among ecosystem services, the dynamic behavior of ecosystems delivering these services, and human outcomes and behavior
The purpose of the one day workshop is to permit to the national representative to assess the progress of work of this first network level project of ILTER.
The overall project will be conducted in four discrete steps:
- Implementation of the ISSE framework for each study site
- Identification of the six critical ES, direction of change, primary drivers of change, public awareness of the ES, and institution(s) that manage the ES.
- Identification of threshold interactions between environmental and socio-economic dynamics at multiple scales, and forecasting the effects of these interactions on ecosystem services and ecological resilience.
- Synthesis within and among biomes of culture-specific socio-economic dynamics leading to increases or decreases in resilience.
It is assumed that, by August, all networks will have completed steps 1 and 2, and that some may have started step 3. The workshop will enable us to assess to what extent the common framework provides an appropriate template to assess thresholds. It will consist of two distinct sessions.
In the morning, we will run a session with all represented networks. Four examples will be presented. They will be chosen to represent the array of problems facing the network in the implementation of the project.
In the afternoon, concurrent sessions (breakout groups) by each selected biome will permit to address the commonalities and differences among the frameworks. Discussions will be directed to identify for all selected critical ES which are the cultural differences that drive their use and management, and their ecological consequences. An attempt will be made to proceed with step 3 (analysis of thresholds).
During an evening session, each breakout groups will report on their results. Specific steps will be decided upon to complete step 3 and proceed with step 4.
Programme
This is the current workshop programme.
Please also read this paper explaining the Ecosystem Services project.
Further reading
Carpenter, S.R., and C. Folke. 2006. Ecology for transformation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21:309-315.
Holling, C.S. 2001. Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems. Ecosystems, 4:390-405.
Kinzig, A.P., P. Ryan, M. Etienne, H. Allison, T. Elmqvist, and B.H. Walker. 2006. Resilience and regime shifts: assessing cascading effects. Ecology and Society 11(1): 20. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art20/
