Requested plenum lectures

During the first day of the workshop, public lectures will be given at the University of Kiel. They will on the one hand introduce the theme to a wider audience, including practical environmental managers and stakeholders, and on the other, introduce the participants to the focal workshop topics, questions and problems.

Public lectures on June 7th (working titles):

• Introducing the concept of ecosystem services: Biophysical conceptions
  Speaker: Rudolf de Groot
• Introducing the concept of ecosystem services: Economic and social conceptions
  Speaker: Robert Costanza
• Beyond GDP: Ecosystem services as components of progress, wealth and well-being
  Requested speaker: Jean-Louis Weber
• Bringing the ecosystem services concept into international policy: Experiences and reflections on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
  Speaker: Carsten Neßhöver
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• Ecosystem services in practice: Potentials and limitations in environmental management
  Speaker: Christina von Haaren
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• Quantification, Modelling and Valuing of Ecosystem Services: Some thoughts on the perspectives of the concept
  Speaker: Ralf Seppelt
• Accounting for ecosystem services at the landscape level
  Speaker: Roy Haines-Young
• Adaptive management of ecosystem services
  Speaker: Irene Petrosillo, K. Bruce Jones
• Environmental, social and economic trade offs
  Speaker: Bettina Matzdorf, Klaus Müller

Lectures at Salzau Castle (working titles):

• Problems and solutions found in the RUBICODE project
  Speaker: Paula Harrison & Pamela Berry
• Ecosystem Services: Focal questions and policy response options
  Speaker: Marion Potschin
• How to integrate ecosystem services in environmental management?
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• Political concepts of applying the ecosystem service approach
  Requested speaker: Rainer Muessner

After the workshop, we are happy to offer a course on “Fuzzy Modelling Approach to Characterizing and Measuring Ecosystem Services”, which will be organized by Prof. Dr. Bailian Li from the University of Riverside in California. The course will take place at the Ecology Centre of Kiel University. For the course, an additional registration fee of about 200,00 € will be necessary. Interested participants should register for the course before March 2010.