AQUACROSS FINAL CONFERENCE
Ecosystem-Based Management for the Protection of Aquatic Biodiversity – Practice and Lessons Learnt
10 October 2018, 12:30 – 17:30 and 11 October 2018, 9:00 – 17:00
Les Ateliers des Tanneurs, 58-62 Rue des Tanneurs, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
The EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy aims to tackle the loss of species and habitats and establish targets to preserve and restore biodiversity. However, our rivers, coasts, and seas - home to an array of species and habitats and providing numerous ecosystem services - are under significant threat from human activity.
What is the status of implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for aquatic ecosystems and is ecosystem-based management a potential tool for protecting them?
These and other questions were addressed at the AQUACROSS Final Conference on 10-11 October 2018 in Brussels, an interactive event on ecosystem-based management of aquatic ecosystems. Ninety key leaders and experts from science, policy and business came together to:
- Engage with policy makers
- Share views and experiences
- Learn from case studies
- Discuss opportunities for ecosystem-based management
- Expand their network of biodiversity protection experts
- Update their knowledge of environmental policy for aquatic ecosystems
- Shape future research for the management of aquatic biodiversity.
Session 1 - Framing the Challenge and Response
The status of and threats to European waters
Stéphane Isoard, European Environment Agency
The need for an integrated, ecosystem-based approach to management
Jane Madgwick, Wetlands International
Introduction to the AQUACROSS project
Manuel Lago, Ecologic Institute
Session 2 - Establishing objectives: Taking into account biodiversity targets for the sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems
Identification and integration of policy objectives: top down versus bottom-up – lessons learnt from the AQUACROSS case studies
Lina Röschel, Ecologic Institute
Bringing in stakeholders’ perspectives when establishing objectives: lessons learnt from the AQUACROSS case studies
Pierre Strosser, ACTeon
Accounting for stakeholders’ views and policy coherence: experience from application to aquatic biodiversity protection in the 12 OECD principles on
water governance
Francisco Nunes Correia, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon
Session 3 - Understanding the socio-ecological system: How to assess the supply and demand for biodiversity and aquatic ecosystem services
Addressing the links between human activities, pressures, biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in aquatic ecosystems: Introducing the
AquaLinksTool
António Nogueira, University of Aveiro
Florian Borgwardt, BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Insights into the demand side of the socio-ecological system from a pressure-oriented, freshwater view - experiences from FP7 MARS project
Sebastian Birk, University of Duisburg-Essen
Experiences in developing assessments from the supply side: How to capture the influence of ecosystem state on capacity to supply ecosystem
services
Leonie Robinson & Fiona Culhane, University of Liverpool
Session 4 - Interpreting the future: the importance of scenarios for decision-making
Scenarios for ecosystem-based-management in aquatic ecosystems: AQUACROSS case studies and beyond
Sonja Jähnig, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, IGB
Global-scale scenarios and models for aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services
Jan Janse and Rob Alkemade, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment
Agency
Inter-sectoral assessment of management scenarios based on ecosystem services
Martin Pusch, IGB
The AQUACROSS Information Platform: managing the data for the development of AQUACROSS Case Studies
Juan Arevalo, IOC-UNESCO
Session 5 - Enabling factors to make ecosystem-based management happen for biodiversity conservation in aquatic ecosystems
Practical evidence from the implementation of ecosystem-based management in the North Sea
Gerjan Piet, Wageningen Marine Research
Critical evaluation of AQUACROSS stakeholder processes: lessons learnt
Pierre Strosser, ACTeon
Pre-conditions for the design and implementation of ecosystem-based management in aquatic ecosystems
Gonzalo Delacámara, IMDEA Water
Session 6 - Opportunities for the protection of aquatic biodiversity beyond 2020
No presentations. Opening statements, panel discussion and interactive exchange with key experts from policy, science and business
Questions or feedback with respect to the conference? Please do not hesitate to approach Ecologic Institute’s team via email at conference@aquacross.eu
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