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EU Project SOILSERVICE
investigates the conflicting demands of land use, soil biodiversity and the sustainable delivery of ecosystem goods
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Workshop 1. Soil diversity and ecosystem services - how can we value services and identify threats to soil sustainability? |
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| (Workshop details, pdf), (Information about the workshop, pdf) | |||||||||||||||||
| What? | |||||||||||||||||
| A two-day workshop, organized by SOILSERVICE, a EU-funded project which aims at understanding how economic drivers will change current and future use of soil-related ecosystem services, how they affect diversity and sustainability of agricultural soils and how these processes influence natural processes on land and in water, as well as the conditions of well-being in human society. | |||||||||||||||||
| Why? | |||||||||||||||||
| SOILSERVICE organizes this workshop in order to discuss how to value soil ecosystem services in relation to soil biodiversity, which is affected by land use and other human-induced global changes. The aim is to come up with idea's which can be developed into a high impact paper and which can be implemented in the SOILSERVICE project. | |||||||||||||||||
| Who? | |||||||||||||||||
| In total there will be 35 participants, including (socio)-economists, members of the user community, members of the Commission, policy makers from Member States and ecologists (mainly from the SOILSERVICE project team). | |||||||||||||||||
| When? | |||||||||||||||||
| The program starts on Tuesday 27 January at 14:00 and will end at noon, 29 January. Introductory lectures will be given by invited speakers, followed by discussions in smaller groups and feedbacks in plenary sessions. | |||||||||||||||||
| Where? | |||||||||||||||||
| The workshop will be organized in the Netherlands from 27-29 January 2009. The venue Hotel De Wageningse Berg in Wageningen is centrally located in the Netherlands, 1.5 hr from Schiphol Airport and close to Wageningen and Arnhem.
Contact: Gera Hol (g.hol@nioo.knaw.nl) |
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