van den Hove CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Sybille van den Hove s.vandenhove -at- terra.es Passeig Pintor Romero, 8, 08197 Valldoreix (Barcelona), Spain |
Title of the talk: Ecosystem services: (some) ethical issues (pdf: 1MB)
Biosketch
Sybille's expertise is in science-policy interfaces for environmental governance, participatory approaches to environmental decision-making, integration of natural and social sciences research, and corporate environmental responsibility. Her core area of research is biodiversity policies at international and EU levels.
She is Director and Partner of MEDIAN, a small company positioned at the intersection between scientific research and practical concerns of institutional and economic actors, and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a B.A. in Physics, a MSc in Environmental Economics, and a PhD in Ecological Economics.
Her recent work has focused on biodiversity and climate change policies at international and EU levels. She has also worked on issues such as: radioactive waste management policies, the EU chemical and pesticides policies, sustainability strategies of corporations, developing business biodiversity strategies and institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility.
Sybille is chairing the Steering Committee of HERMES (Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas), a FP6 integrated project on deep sea ecosystems in which she is also in charge of the science-policy interfaces and of the development of socio-economic research. She is the vice chair of the steering committee of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS). She is also chairing the Scientific Advisory Council of the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) network of excellence.
