13.9. Arets
Keynote Presentations from the 4th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 17 September 2009
Speaker: Eric Arets
eric.arets -at- wur.nl
ALTERRA, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Title of the talk: Competing claims and tools for biodiversity assessments (pdf: 5MB)
Summary of the discussion by Oana Musceleanu (pdf)
Recommended background literature on this presentation:
- Alkemade JRM, van Oorschot M, Miles L, Nellemann C, Bakkenes M, ten Brink B (2009) GLOBIO3: A framework to investigate options for reducing global terrestrial biodiversity loss. Ecosystems 12:374-390. doi:10.1007/s10021-009-9229-5
- Braat L, ten Brink P (eds), with Bakkes J, Bolt K, Braeuer I, ten Brink B, Chiabai A, Ding H, Gerdes H, Jeuken M, Kettunen M, Kirchholtes U, Klok C, Markandya A, Nunes P, van Oorschot M, Peralta-Bezerra N, Rayment M, Travisi C, Walpole M (2008) The cost of policy inaction. The case of not meeting the 2010 biodiversity target. Alterra-raport 1718. Wageningen UR, Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/economics/pdf/copi.zip
- Nellemann C, MacDevette M, Manders T, Eickhout B, Svihus B, Prins AG, Kaltenborn BP (2009) The environmental food crisis - The environment's role in averting future food crises. United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arenda, United Nations Environment Programme, Norway. http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/food-crisis/
- Brink B ten, Alkemade JRM, Bakkenes M, Clement J, Eickhout B, Fish L, de Heer M, Kram T, Manders T, van Meijl H, Miles L, Nellemann C, Lysenko I, van Oorschot M, Smout F, Tabeau A, van Vuuren D, Westhoek H (2007) Cross-roads of life on Earth: Exploring means to meet the 2010 Biodiversity Target. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Montreal, Canada and Bilthoven, The Netherlands. http://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/2007/CrossroadsofPlanetEarthsLife.html
- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2006) Global Biodiversity Outlook 2. Montreal, Canada. http://www.cbd.int/doc/gbo/gbo2/cbd-gbo2-en.pdf
For further information please visit this website:
- EC website on Nature and Biodiversity - The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/economics/teeb_en.htm
