1: Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services

Venue:

BRE, Watford

Date: March 7th 2008

Presentations available:

• The role of urban water in the provision of ecosystem services
• How does the 'health' of the water-body impact on service provision?
• What are the implications of this on the social, environmental & economic management of urban spaces?
• Is this knowledge of use to practitioners? Can it be used to inform developments in resource management & policy?

2: From the laboratory to action: science and policy-makers

Venue:

Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.

Date:

May 15th 2008

Presentations available:

• How can natural scientists, social scientists, economists & non-academics better collaborate to sustain ecosystem services?
• Many models, approaches and indicators are already available: why aren't they being used? Bad tools or bad communication?
• Case studies; where research has informed policy development e.g. SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) in Scotland;initiatives that encourage recycling, reuse and waste minimisation

3: Futures & uncertainties 

Venue:

BGS, Nottingham.

Date:

November 3rd 2008

Presentations available:

• The impact of climate change and extreme environmental and socio-economic drivers on urban ecosystem services
• Interactions between the natural and built environment; geomorphology, stormwater management and biodiversity
• Strategies for low impact living e.g. waste management and building design
• Managing urban water-bodies in the face of uncertainty

4: We have the technology; the challenge is decision-making

Venue:

University of Northampton.

Date:

March 19th 2009

Presentations available:

• Do we already have the technologies we need to sustain urban ecosystem services? If so what are these?
• Technologies articulate and imply social relationships: what are the appropriate social relationships and what are the societal impacts of the technologies we use?
• Does our approach to governance influence the development of technology? Or is it the other way round?

5:Managing the land-water duality 

Venue:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

September 18th 2009

Presentations available:

• How do alternative strategies for urban planning, waste, stormwater and ecological provision impact on human health?
• Is encouraging recreation in urban areas a potential hazard to human health?
• If there are any risks, how can these be managed?

6: Weighing-up the benefits 

Venue:

University of Abertay Dundee. Scotland.

Date:

March 8th and 9th 2010

Presentations and photos coming soon:

• UK National Ecosystem Assessment
• Valuing’ ecosystem services in practice
• Community engagement approaches and opportunities
• Researchers and practitioners - working together works!
• Master-planning for Ecosystem Services - workshop
• New horizons - Ecosystem services - a catalyst for interdisciplinary research.
• Environmental Art, communicating culture and ecology
• Taking ISSUES forward