martes, 25 de marzo de 2014

Reunión de septiembre en Costa Rica



Como ya lo adelantáramos a fines del año pasado, este año realizaremos nuestra segunda reunión de coordinación en Costa Rica, en el marco de la 7ma. Conferencia Anual del Ecosystem Services Parnership (ESP), entre el  8 y 12 de septiembre del corriente. 

En esa oportunidad VESPLAN estará directamente involucrado en la organización de un simposio, titulado: Vulnerability, conservation and restoration of ecosystem services, and their mainstreaming in public policies of Latin America and the Caribe countries (ver descripción abajo1). Este simposio incluirá unas 7 presentaciones orales de unos 10 minutos cada una.

Además, en el sitio web de la conferencia, podrán encontrar detalles sobre la posibilidad de hacer presentaciones en el marco de otros simposios, o como posters libres.
 El título y el perfil de este simposio fueron seleccionados en función de los intereses particulares de nuestra red, por lo que esperaríamos que los aportes desde VESPLAN representen una proporción importante de las 7 presentaciones previstas. Como ya se anuncia en el sitio web de la conferencia, el deadline para el envío de resúmenes es el 1ro. de mayo.

Les agradeceremos que agenden estas fechas, y nos transmitan: a) el nombre del representante de su grupo que concurrirá a la reunión de Costa Rica, y b) el interés en presentar una comunicación en el marco del simposio descripto.

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The Ecosystem Services Partnership organises the 7th annual ESP conference from 8-12 September 2014, in Costa Rica.  The program consists of a mix of plenary sessions, workshops and open-topic sessions, and special sessions organised by the ESP main partners and sponsors.

Deadlines:
  • 1 March 2014: Submission of abstracts for workshop (for ESP members), special sessions and open topic ideas (for all participants)
  • 1 May 2014: Submission of presentation and poster abstracts
  • 1 July 2014: Early Bird registration (15% discount)

See the ESP Conference website for the most recent information!

1Simposio: Vulnerability, conservation and restoration of ecosystem services, and their mainstreaming in public policies of Latin America and the Caribe countries. Sustainable development of Latin American countries depends on their ability to internalize the relevance of ecosystem services (ES) into land use policies.  Important steps have been achieved within the region for adapting and developing techniques of ES evaluation and mapping, but limitations to ES mainstreaming into public policies still persist (Balvanera et al. 2013). Usual approaches to ES mapping of the current distribution of ES fluxes generally fail to provide what long term decisions require, like their vulnerability under different scenarios and their influence on society well-being. For example, hotspots of current ES provision are not necessarily coupled to hotspots of socioecological vulnerability, and they do not necessarily have the same relevance for those decision makers which are concerned with sustainable human well-being. On the other hand, technical solutions are frequently developed disregarding their suitability within the context of local (usually rural) communities and their particular governance systems. Therefore, this session is open to contributions on (1) different approaches aimed to the evaluation and mapping of ES provided by socioecological systems, with focus on policy-relevant products (e.g. hotspots of socioecological vulnerability, as well as on conservation and restoration needs), and (2) the mainstreaming of the ES approach to land use policies and territorial planning in Latin American and the Caribe regions, with focus on local (rural) communities.

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