van den Hove CV
Keynote Presentations from the 5th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 14 September 2010
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Speaker: Sybille van den Hove sybille -at- median-web.eu Visiting Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona & Director, Median SCP, Carrer Vista Alegre 20, 08197 Valldoreix (Barcelona), Spain |
Title of the talk: Deep-sea ecosystem goods and services: A challenge for natural and social sciences (pdf: 6MB)
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, strategic planning of environmental research, and corporate environmental strategies. Her current core areas of research are biodiversity policies at international and EU levels, socioeconomic aspects of biodiversity change and science-policy interfaces. She has also worked on issues such as: climate change policies at EU and international level, radioactive waste management policies, the EU chemical and pesticides policies, sustainability strategies of corporations, developing business biodiversity strategies and institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility.
Her background is high-energy physics and ecological economics. She is Director of MEDIAN, a small research, teaching and consulting company, and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is involved in several FP6 and FP7 research projects including HERMES, HERMIONE, Rubicode, SCALES and BioStrat. Together with Allan Watt she is coordinating the FP7 project SPIRAL "Science-Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity: Research, Action and Learning". She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) network of excellence. From 2003 to 2009, she was the vice chair of the steering committee of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS).
