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BES/EEF Annual Symposium
Ecology without frontiers: Environmental challenges across Europe
April 5 - 7 2004 at Exeter University, UK
Speakers are by invitation but delegates are welcome to submit posters for the meeting. Delegates from low income European and Central Asian countries can apply for a grant to help with meeting costs as can students and unemployed postdocs. Students and unemployed postdocs need to apply for a grant by Friday 27 February 2004. The University of Exeter website has information about the University and maps of the campus.
Symposium Organisers:
James Bullock (CEH Dorset, UK)
Phil Hulme (CEH Banchory, UK)
David Stanners (European Environment Agency, Denmark)
Objective:
To address ecological issues which are important at the European scale, taking a pan-European perspective to problems and their solution, and integrating the role of policy and socio-economic drivers with ecological science.
Remit:
The symposium will take a specifically European perspective on applying ecology to environmental issues. It will consider environmental problems which affect Europe as a whole and are trans-boundary in their impacts, and it will deal with approaches to solving these problems which are pan-European. To achieve this, we have speakers from many European countries. We will also have offered posters so delegates can present their work on European environmental issues.
Symposium Timetable:
There will be scene-setting talks on European environmental problems, ecology and environmental regulations. Then we will have talks on particular ‘headline’ environmental issues. Each will be reviewed by an invited speaker who will give a pan-European overview. They will specifically address the problem in terms of its consequences and solutions and how these both vary across European states and the ecological (most importantly), political, social and economic links. For example, atmospheric pollution is a European issue in terms of diffuse impacts across several states of pollutants originating from point sources and European actions to limit outputs and impacts. Common threads running through all invited talks will be impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, sustainability, socio-economic drivers, policy, legislation and engagement with stakeholders.
Monday 5th April
*Session 1 - Setting the Scene*
09:00 Welcome. James Bullock
09:10 Opening address: the European environment. David Stanners, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen
10:00 Biogeography and biodiversity of Europe. Allan Watt, CEH, UK
10:50 Coffee
11:20 Governing change: environmental law and policy in Europe. María José Meseguer, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente, Spain
*Session 2 - Land Use Change*
12:10 Agricultural reform and the rural environment: the ecological effects of agri-environment schemes. David Kleijn, Wageningen University, Netherlands
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Agricultural intensification and the rural environment in the new EU Member States. Martin Zobel, Tartu University, Estonia
14:50 Urbanisation and its environmental consequences. David Jeffrey, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
15:40 Tea
16:10 Tourism and ecotourism. Sylvie Blangy, Tuktu, France
*Session 3 - Biological Introductions*
17:00 Genetically modified organisms: assessing and managing environmental risks across Europe. Christian Damgaard, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark
18:00 Poster Session
20:00 Dinner
Tuesday 6th April
09:00 Biological invasions in Europe: current threats, research needs and policy implications. Phil Hulme, CEH, UK
*Session 4 - Pollution*
09:50 Transboundary pollution: managing pollution in the Danube River Basin. Helmut Kroiss, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
10.40 Coffee
11:10 Large-scale movement of atmospheric pollution: the nitrogen case. Jan Willem Erisman, Energy Research Centre, Netherlands
12:00 Quantifying the European carbon balance. Han Dolman, Alterra, Wageningen Netherlands
12:50 Lunch
14:00 Environmental impacts of climate change. Wolfgang Cramer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
*Session 5 - Exploitation of Natural Resources*
14:50 Fisheries and exploitation of the marine environment in Europe. Cornelius Hammer & Christopher Zimmermann, Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany
15:40 Tea
16:10 Deforestation vs afforestation: sustainable exploitation of Europe's forests. Timo Karjalainen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland
17:00 Water resources in Europe: environmental consequences of their development. M. Ramón Llamas, Royal Academy of Sciences, Madrid, Spain
*Session 6 - Conservation of Biodiversity*
17:50 Managing Europe's protected areas. Peter Skoberne, Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy, Slovenia
18:45 Poster Session
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday 7th April
09:00 European ecosystems at risk: conservation and restoration of montane habitats. Georg Grabherr, Vienna University, Austria
09:50 European ecosystems at risk: conservation and restoration of wetlands. Angheluta Vadineanu, Bucharest University, Romania
10:40 Coffee
11:10 Species conservation without boundaries: wolf conservation across Europe. Luigi Boitani, University of Rome, Italy
*Session 7 - Overview*
12:00 Managing the environment across international boundaries: an overview of North American environmental problems and policy. Hans Herrmann, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montréal, Canada
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon Excursion
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