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Public Participation GIS and Ecosystem Services

May 10, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm +04

About the Event:
 
The ecosystem services concept has become a key tool in strategies for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, effective in terms of raising public awareness for the environment and its values as well as informing planning and decision-making. Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) approaches for ecosystem services are a particularly vibrant field at the international level as they allow for integrating information on perceived ecosystem services with biophysical data (e.g. on biodiversity, erosion processes) and expert-based management plans. The new project GAtES, a four year cooperation between AUA and University of Hohenheim (Germany), is taking up these new ideas. It aims at supporting the Armenian academic community in acquiring knowledge on the ecosystem concept and PPGIS-based methods and how they can be used in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
 
The talk gives an introduction to current developments in the field of ecosystem services and PPGIS and provides an overview of the GAtES project.
 
About the Speaker:
 
Claudia Bieling holds the Chair of Societal Transition and Agriculture at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture, University of Hohenheim, Germany. Her work is rooted in transdisciplinary sustainability research and focuses on the interface of ecological and social dimensions in land-use and food systems. She works with the concepts of cultural landscapes and social-ecological resilience and draws on empirical research experience in a variety of collaborative projects (with a focus on Central and South-Western Europe).
 
Claudia Bieling publishes extensively on land management and sustainability and edited two books with Cambridge University Press (“Resilience and the Cultural Landscape” in 2012, “The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship” in 2017). She serves as an associate editor for the journal “Conservation Letters”.
 
Claudia Bieling holds a postdoctoral degree (“Habilitation”) in landscape management and a PhD in forest and environmental policy (both from University of Freiburg, Germany). She received her diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.) in forest sciences from University of Göttingen, Germany.
 
Language: English

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Date:
May 10, 2018
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm +04
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