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The Groundwater and Storage interactions project arose out of a meeting on the shoulder of the Greenhouse Gas Technologies Conference in Amsterdam in 2010. It was decided to concentrate initially on the Australian Flagships projects. On 3 May 2011 Australian researchers and government agencies met and presented their work to date.
In these slides Mark Webster, Divisional Information Officer, Petroleum and Marine Division,
Geoscience Australia, provides an overview on data sharing within the CCS community
Lessons learned on the achievement of the Joint Program of Climate Change Adaption in the Colombian Massif (Andean Belt Constellation Biosphere Reserve - Cauca Basin) with indigenous and peasant communities to affront the effects of climate change. Presented by Luis Alfonso Ortega at the "Perth II: Global Change and the World's Mountains" conference in Perth, Scotland in September 2010.
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2) Forest Entomologist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul, MN, 55155
3) Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension, Rochester, MN, 55904
4) Extension Entomologist, University of Minnesota Extension, St. Paul, MN, 55108
5) Pesticide Education Coordinator, University of Minnesota Extension, St. Paul, MN, 55108
6) Community Forestry Program, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul, MN, 55108
7) Urban and Community Forester, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108
8) Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension, Cloquet, MN, 55720
9) Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension, Mankato, MN, 56001
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Perspectives on Collaborative Research Environments offered by D4ScienceFAO
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More information at: http://d4science.eu/node/173
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Study on community based environmental activities in indonesiaOswar Mungkasa
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Emerald Ash Borer: First Detector Program A Volunteer Early Detection Programnacaa
Abrahamson, M.1; Cervenka, V.2; Gupta, A.3; Hahn, J.4; Herzfeld, D.5;
Holman, K.6; Johnson, G.7, Reichenbach, M.8; Wyatt, G.9;
1) EAB Coordinator, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN, 55108
2) Forest Entomologist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul, MN, 55155
3) Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension, Rochester, MN, 55904
4) Extension Entomologist, University of Minnesota Extension, St. Paul, MN, 55108
5) Pesticide Education Coordinator, University of Minnesota Extension, St. Paul, MN, 55108
6) Community Forestry Program, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul, MN, 55108
7) Urban and Community Forester, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108
8) Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension, Cloquet, MN, 55720
9) Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension, Mankato, MN, 56001
Talk given on June 22nd to the California Emerging Technology Fund on Calit2's effort in partnership with SDSC to provide technology support for investigating how technology can help respond to wildfires.
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity and The Cost of Policy Inaction prentation by Patrick ten Brink of IEEP at the EEB biodiversity seminar 9 June 2008
Perspectives on Collaborative Research Environments offered by D4ScienceFAO
Slides presented at the "4th Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices (GE-BICH-IV)" which took place on 27-30 January 2009 in Oostende, Belgium
More information at: http://d4science.eu/node/173
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This presentation (made for the Nov09 "Thought Leader Summit" WfMC meeting) briefly introduce the EU GENESIS project focusing in particular on dynamic workflow modeling techniques as well as on the general architecture we are working on
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2. • Many UK programmes funding research on
Ecosystems Approach and ecosystem services
• Many of the same end users/stakeholders
• By co-ordinating knowledge exchange:
– Less stakeholder fatigue
– More comprehensive information for decision-makers
– Work together to respond
rapidly to emerging issues
– More impact, less resources
• Stellar Communications
Group – uniting UK ecosystems
research
4. What research did we consider?
Currently active, UK-based research programmes
that promote or draw upon both the Ecosystems
Approach & ecosystem services framework…
5. • Centre for Ecology & Hydrology's (CEH) water and
biodiversity programme
• NERC's Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and
Sustainability (BESS) programme
• Follow-on to the National Ecosystem Assessment
(NEA2)
• DfID/NERC/ESRC funded Ecosystem Services &
Poverty Alleviation programme (ESPA)
• Scottish Government's Strategic Research
Programme (SRP) Theme 1: Ecosystem Services
• NERC's Insect Pollinators Initiative (IPI)
• NERC's Valuing Nature Network (VNN)
7. Improve evidence re:
Which goals are shared?
Size of circle is proportional to no. programmes sharing a goal
relationships between
BESS: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services &
ecosystem processes and Sustainability programme
CEH: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
natural capital biodiversity & water programmes
ESPA: Ecosystem Services & Poverty
stocks/ecosystem service Alleviation programme
flows under different IPI: Insect Pollinators Initiative
NEA2: National Ecosystem Assessment
scenarios follow-on phase
SRP: Scottish Government's Strategic
Research Programme Theme 1:
Shared by BESS x2, CEH, ESPA x2, NEA2, SRP Ecosystem Services
VNN: Valuing Nature Network
x2, VNN,
Policy instruments for
the sustainable
management of
Develop tools to ecosystem services
Understand how different
measure, track & map Shared by CEH, ESPA, IPI, NEA2, social groups value
SRP ecosystem services &
changes in ecosystem
incorporate these values in
services under different decision-making processes
scenarios Shared by ESPA, NEA2,
Methods to value
Shared by BESS, CEH, contribution of natural VNN, SRP
NEA2, SRP capital stocks & ecosystem
services to human well-
being
Shared by NEA2, VNN,
SRP
8. BESS: Biodiversity,
Ecosystem Services &
Sustainability programme
National CEH: Centre for Ecology &
Valuing Nature Ecosystem Ecosystem Services & Poverty Hydrology biodiversity &
water programmes
Network (VNN) Assessment Alleviation (ESPA) IPI: Insect Pollinators
Initiative
(NEA2) NEA2: National Ecosystem
Assessment follow-on
phase
SRP: Scottish Government's
3 shared goals: Scottish 3 shared goals: Strategic Research
• Sustainable management • Sustainable management Programme Theme 1:
of ecosystem services
Government of ecosystem services
Ecosystem Services
• Incorporating different SRP • Incorporating different
values into decision- values into decision-
making making
• Methods for valuing • Relationships between
natural capital & ecosystem processes,
ecosystem services stocks & flows IPI
1 shared goal:
• Sustainable
management of
ecosystem
services
BESS, CEH, NEA2
2 shared goals:
Which programmes share • Relationships between
ecosystem processes, stocks
& flows
most similar goals? • Measuring, tracking and
mapping ecosystem services
9. e.g. Scottish Government,
Devolved
Government funded Administratio
Welsh Assembly
Government, Defra, BIS, DECC,
knowledge exchange ns & Govt.
Depts.
DfT, DARDNI, DFID
e.g. EKN, EMTF, NCI, ClimateXChange, CREW
e.g. regional
Local bodies, local
Research funded Government councils, regional
offices of NE, EA etc
knowledge exchange
e.g. RELU, NERC fellows/interns,
ESKTN, ESRC KE projects like Landbridge e.g.
Agencies & EA, SEPA, NIE
regulators PA, NE, SNH,
LWEC CCW, JNCC
e.g. RSPB,
National Trust
NGOs
Ecosystems e.g. agricultural
research Industry
companies &
unions, professional
programmes bodies, water
utilities etc.
e.g. those involved in
Public & local
landscape level management
communities via partnerships
12. Future opportunities?
• Joint conferences for research users
• Joint training events
• Joint website and/or data sharing
• Combined contacts list
• More cross-programme policy briefs
– Link to ESPA briefs on impact & research into use?
– New policy issues as they arise
• Work together on other ways of getting research
into policy/practice
– Joint films, public engagement activities…
13. NEA follow-on
• Strong synergies with Valuing Nature Network
(already being exploited)
• Major overlap with ESPA goals – worth
investigating synergies?
• Only programme working towards all 5 goals
• So, need to foster links with all programmes
• Given NEA focus on informing policy, make
better use of KE initiatives to draw
this research in
14. Next steps
• LWEC workshop in November (invite only)
• Join in: edit our Wiki
• Or email me or Ruth Welters:
– Missing research programmes, users & KE initiatives
– Collaboration ideas