Solutions for Sustaining Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services

International Conference and Workshop – Salzau Castle and Kiel University (June 7th 2010 – June 11th 2010)

Topics and Themes

Preliminary structure

Topic I. Characterizing and Measuring Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services

Topic Coordinator: Rudolf de Groot

I. A Integrated quantification, modelling, and valuing of ecosystem services

Theme Coordinator: Ralf Seppelt

  1. I.A.1 Linking ecosystem functions and ecosystem services
    Authors: Dagmar Haase, Olaf Bastian, Karsten Grunewald
  2. I.A.2 Linking ecosystem services and biodiversity
    Authors: Joachim Spangenberg, Carsten Neßhöver, Josef Settele
  3. I.A.3 Indicating and characterizing ecosystem service dynamics
    Authors: Michael Glemnitz, Brian Fath
  4. I.A.4 Modelling ecosystem services
    Authors: Roelof Boumans, Bernhard Patten
  5. I.A.5 Linking ecosystem services and human well-being
    Authors: Marion Potschin, Kira Gee, Kevin Summers

I. B Accounting for ecosystem services at the landscape level

Theme Coordinator: Roy Haynes-Young

  1. I.B.1 Potentials of ecosystem service accounting at different scalesAuthors: Giovanni Zurlini, Irene Petrosillo, Tobias Plieninger
  2. I.B.2 Accounting and evaluating interrelated ecosystem services
    Authors: Markus Erhard, Malte Busch
  3. I.B.3 Land cover and spatial heterogeneity: Place-based assessments of ecosystem servicesAuthors: Ulrich Walz, Ralf-Uwe Syrbe
  4. I.B.4 Mapping ecosystem servicesAuthors: Benjamin Burkhard, Peter Verburg

Topic II: Designing Socio-Ecological Institutions

Topic Coordinator: Robert Costanza

II.A Adaptive management of ecosystem services

Theme Coordinator: K. Bruce Jones

  1. II.A.1 Developing integrative decision support instrumentsAuthors: Sven-Erik Joergensen, Carsten Lorz, Bailian Li, Harpinder Sandhu, Karin Nadrowski
  2. II.A.2 Designing and implementing a systematic landscape monitoring approach for quantifying ecosystem services
    Authors: Dixon Landers, Anne Neale, Jim Wickham
  3. II.A.3 Implementing ecosystem services in sustainability management strategies and institutions
    Authors: Katharina Helming, Dieter vd Broeck, Christiane Heiß
  4. II.A.4 People and organizations behind the institutional solutions for ecosystem services
    Authors: Simone Maynard, Andreas Kannen

II.B Environmental, social and economic trade offs

Theme Coordinators: Klaus Müller & Bettina Matzdorf

  1. II.B.1 Public goods, commons and ecosystem services
    Authors: Henrik Vejre
  2. II.B.2 Understanding complex property rights regimes
    Requested authors: Thomas Dietz
  3. II.B.3 Providing economic incentives
    Authors: Tobias Plieninger
  4. II.B.4 Establishing common asset trusts
    Authors: Peter Barns
  5. II.B.5 Supply and demand of ecosystem services
    Authors: Thomas Koellner, Franziska Kroll
  6. II.B.6 Ecosystem Service tradeoffs
    Authors: Janine Bollinger, Wieteke Willemen