Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management
News and activities
Overview
+++ December 2011-March 2012: Eberswalde Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management is engaged in nature conservation in Central America +++
+++ November 2011: Stakeholder workshop for climate-adapted conservation plan for the County of Barnim +++
+++ In September 2011 centre researchers have actively participated in three international conferences and presented six oral papers as well as two posters: 41st Annual Meeting of the German Ecological Society (GfÖ), Oldenburg; BES Annual Meeting, Sheffield; Freiburg Conference Forest biodiversity in a changing climate. Understanding conservation strategies and policies, Freiburg +++
+++ June 25 and 28 2011. Discussions and consultations with Chinese delegations. +++
+++ In the week from June 20-25 2011, Xavier Escute, from Barcelona, Spain (Obra Social de CatalunyaCaixa. Area de Territori i Medi Ambient), coach with the European Coaches Network, together with staff of the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management has given the module Adaptive Conservation Site Management +++
+++ 22 June 2011 +++ The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, in collaboration with the Faculty of Forest and Environment Workshop, offers a workshop on the Globio methodology, given by Wilbert van Rooij (Aidenvironment) +++
+++ 8 June 2011 +++ The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management has been launched +++
Eberswalde Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management is engaged in nature conservation in Central America
Peter Hobson, Steffen Reichle, Pierre Ibisch and Laura Geiger together with staff of the GIZ programme BIOMARCCIn November/December 2011, as well as in February/March 2012, members of the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management carried out various activities in Central America.
In the beginning of December, in Costa Rica, a four-people-team, led by Pierre Ibisch and Peter Hobson, worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The team ran a MARISCO workshop on the vulnerability of two coastal protected areas to climatic change. Together with Costa Rican scientists and the teams of the the Cahuita and Manuel Antonio National Parks, situated at the Caribbean and the Pacific respectively, in a first workshop a systemic problem analysis was accomplished. In the first days of March an event on the development of strategies of adaptation to climate change has followed.
The associated researcher and Ph.D. student of the Centre, Laura Geiger, travelled directly from Costa Rica to Guatemala, where the Centre works for the environmental organisation OroVerde about risks and their management in the rainforest National Park Sierra del Lacandón (Petén, Maya Biosphere Reserve).
Pierre Ibisch and Peter Hobson visited the national park in early March and gathered important insights especially related to fire-related risks and the potential of succesional agroforestry, which applies principles of econics.
Pierre Ibisch and Peter Hobson in Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Petén, Guatemala
Pierre Ibisch with Julia Carabias,who received the Alexander von Humboldt price, and participating Mexican authorities and scientists in Guadalajara (photo Luis Ignacio Iñiguez Dávalos)Pierre Ibisch, in December 2011, followed an invitation to Mexico, where the University of Guadalajara arranged a first “International Colloquium on Biodiversity, Natural Resources and Society”. The colloquium was conducted as part of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the second largest in the World after Frankfurt on the Main. In this year, Germany has been the Guest of Honour of the fair that ended on the fourth of December. Pierre Ibisch was invited as well in the context of the awarding of the newly donated Alexander Von Humboldt Price to the Mexican scientist and conservationist Julia Carabia.
Alexander von Humboldt visited Mexico more than 200 years ago and gave vital impulses for the development of science in this country. With the invitation the University of Guadalajara strives for the reactivation of scientific cooperation with German scientists in the field of nature conservation and natural resource management. Pierre Ibisch gave a lecture on the topic of biodiversity conservation under global change. After the colloquium he conducted cooperation talks with representatives of the Mexican Academy and visited the scientific station in `Las Joyas‘ in the Manantlán Biosphere Reserve, home of a wild archetype of maize.
Manantlán Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Stakeholder workshop for climate-adapted conservation plan for the County of Barnim
On behalf of and in collaboration with the Nature Conservation Authority of the County of Barnim as well as the Faculty for Landscape Management and Nature Conservation of the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, the CEEM contributes to the development of a concept for a climate-adapted conservation plan for the County of Barnim which is based on the principles of adaptive management.
On November 3rd, 2011 a stakeholder workshop was
conducted including relevant actors from different sectors such as forestry, water management, agriculture and nature conservation. Following the Open Standards for the Practice of
Conservation a situation analysis was developed, discussing the direct threats of Barnim's conservation targets as well as identifying underlying causes leading to the direct threats.
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Oldenburg meeting of the GfOe: Centre speakers together with colleagues from Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development and Potsdam University, September 8.+++ In September centre researchers have actively participated in three international conferences and presented six oral papers as well as two posters: 41st Annual Meeting of the German Ecological Society (GfÖ), Oldenburg; BES Annual Meeting, Sheffield; Freiburg Conference Forest biodiversity in a changing climate. Understanding conservation strategies and policies, Freiburg +++
Check out the abstract book of the Oldenburg conference.
Discussions and consultations with Chinese delegations
On June 25 and 28 2011, staff of the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management discussed various issues such as analyses of protected area vulnerability against climate change and close-to-nature forestry with two groups comprising scientists, practicioners and decision makers from protected areas and authorities of Jiangxi Province, as well as from Beijing University of Forestry, CRAES and the Chinese academy of science. The groups were accompanied by representatives of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).
Chinese delegation with Eberswalde staff and representatives of BfN, CIM and GIZ on the Eberswalde 'Forest Campus'
June 22, 2011 at Eberswalde
The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, in collaboration with the Faculty of Forest and Environment Workshop, offered a workshop on the Globio methodology, given by Wilbert van Rooij (Aidenvironment).
Target group: doctoral and master students
The global model of biodiversity called „Globio“ is a tool for supporting, consulting politics on global and national level. It is a modelling framework which is suitable for:
1) Estimation of anthropogenic influences on biodiversity in the past, present and future
2) Assessment of importance of single influences
3) Assessment of trends assuming different scenarios
4) Estimation of impacts of political actions, e.g. climate change mitigation, declaration of protected areas and plantings of forests
The anthropogenic influence on biodiversity is measured by biodiversity indicators, the mean species abundance and the expansion of ecosystems. Globio is based on origin-impact relations which were taken from literature. Due to the fact that Globio uses spatial data about environmental variables, no accurate data of species and their distribution are necessary.
Diverse assessments were implemented with Globio, e.g. the Global Biodiversity Outlook and the Global Environment Outlook. In the one-day workshop the students will learn basics of modelling with the model Globio. The docent of the workshop is one of the co-developers of this model and now working for the organisation 'Aidenvironment' in the Netherlands. He specialised in modelling biodiversity. Previously he worked for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Organisation where he worked intensively with the model and already organised several training courses.
Use the following link for more information about Globio: http://www.globio.info/.
More information about the workshop lecturer Wilbert van Rooij you can find here: http://www.aidenvironment.org/.
Invitation Globio Workshop final.pdf
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The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management has been launched
Signing the Memorandum of Understanding. President Prof. Vahrson (Eberswalde) together with the founding directors, Dr. Hobson (left) and Prof. Ibisch (right).
The founding directors of the new centre with members of the advisory board (from the left: Dr. Peter Hobson, Ilke Tilders, Prof. Pierre Ibisch, Sascha Mueller-Kraenner).
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June 8, 2011 at Eberswalde
The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management is officially launched.
Faculty of Forest and Environment Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development - Pfeilauditorium
June 8, 2011
10:00-10:05
Prof. Dr. Peter Spathelf, Welcome on behalf of the Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
Introduction
10:05-10:20
Dr. Wilhelm-Günther Vahrson, President, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
Welcome address
10:20-10:40
Dr. Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Senior Advisor, The Nature Conservancy, Europe
Ilke Tilders, Foundations of Success, Europe
Greeting addresses
10:40-11:00
Dr. Pierre Ibisch, Professor for Nature Conservation, Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development / Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management
What is econics?
11:00-11:20
Dr. Peter Hobson, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Management,WrittleCollege/ Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management
Econics: principles into practice using forest management as an example
Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding
11:30 Closing
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