BC3 Seminars: “How decision analysis theory can be used for river management”
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainDr. Simone Langhans
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
River assessment and management are challenges to scientists and practitioners alike. Rivers, being highly complex ecosystems, are difficult to characterize with adequate indicators and predicting outcomes of river management actions are, therefore, sophisticated and affected by large uncertainty. Moreover, many stakeholders with potentially diverging interests are involved or affected by river management decisions. Although different approaches to river assessment and management exist, there is a need for a concept that accounts for these difficulties. Decision analysis theory provides appropriate techniques for developing an integral river management concept. In this talk, I will explain the different elements of such a river management concept, i.e. objectives, results of river state assessment, potential management actions, and predictions of system response to management actions, and illustrate the details with different examples from Switzerland and New Zealand.
BC3 Seminars: Species distribution modelling of freshwater organisms
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainDr. Sami Domisch
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
Species occurrence information consists in general of heterogeneous data, ranging from point records that provide accurate information in geographic and environmental space, to coarse expert range maps accounting for dispersal barriers or historical biogeographic limits. Combining both data types in a species distribution model (SDM) framework using newly-developed (1 km) freshwater-specific environmental variables allows to make fine-grain and improved estimates of species distributions. I will demonstrate how the freshwater-specific variables can be easily created for any given region, and present the modelling framework using the North American freshwater fish fauna as a case study. The predictions highlight diversity patterns and hotspots along the stream network, further contributing to the understanding of the current-day environmental factors that shape the distribution of freshwater fish ranges, with the potential in ultimately aiding conservation and management efforts.
BC3 Seminars: Conservation Legacies: Understanding the Social-Ecological Impacts of International Biodiversity Aid
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainDaniel Charles Miller
Assistant Professor at Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES)
Financial support is critical to achieving global biodiversity conservation goals. However, information about the allocation and the effectiveness of biodiversity aid, the largest source of funding for international conservation, remains lacking. This seminar presents new research on the impacts of international aid for biodiversity conservation in tropical countries. It describes findings from a global study of the effect of conservation funding on threatened species and then focuses on a case study of a conservation aid project implemented in Benin’s W National Park, one the largest protected areas in West Africa. Specially, it examines how the European Union-funded ECOPAS project (Ecosystèmes Protégés en Afrique Soudano-Sahélienne) affected mammal species abundance and the ability of households around the Park to access natural and financial capital. Using a mixed methods approach based on a quasi-experimental research design, the study reports on these impacts and explores the key role of contestation over property rights in shaping them. The presentation concludes by placing findings from the W region in broader international context and by sketching out future research directions
BC3 Open Day
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainBC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change-k, Otsailak 9an ospatuko den "BC3 Ate Irekiak" jardunaldian parte hartzera gonbidatzen zaitu.
BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, 2008 urtean Eusko Jaurlaritzak eta Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateak elkarrekin sortutako Basque Excellence Research Centre (BERC)-a da. Uztailak 2016tik aurrera BC3-a Euskal Unibertsitateko Zientzia Parkean dago kokatua.
Jardunaldi honen helburua, BC3-k burutzen duen klima aldaketaren zientzia Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko kideei aurkeztea da, beti ere bi erakundeen arteko kolaborazioak zeintzu izan daitezken aztertu eta sustatzeko asmoarekin.
BC3 Mintegiak/ “Societal and Energy Metabolism as a Tool for Transformation: Understanding the Challenges of Energy-Society Relations”
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainBC3 Seminars
Levels of complexity achieved by societies today have only been possible because of the abundance and readily usable primary energy forms whose exploitation provides huge surpluses of energy flows. However, the bonanza of the past is over and we are facing a global crisis with many challenges to overcome. Socio-economic systems are ever increasingly constrained by biophysical limits, with peaking fossil reserves, decreasing energetic returns and climate change impacts.
BC3-UPV/EHU Mintegiak: “Building Organizational Capacity for Sustainable Innovation”, Dr. Sanjay Sharma (Dean and Professor of Management, Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont, USA)
Bizkaia Aretoa Conference Hall Avda Abandoibarra, 3, Bilbao, SpainThis BC3-UPV/EHU Seminar entitled "Building Organizational Capacity for Sustainable Innovation" will be addressed by Dr. Sanjay Sharma, Dean and Professor of Management, Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont and will offer an overview of the phenomenon of organizational sustainability, of major research streams in this domain, and a framework to guide capacity building for sustainable innovation in organizations.
BC3-UPV/EHU Seminars:”Groundwater Management in a Food Security Context”, Prof. Jean-Christophe Pereau, May 25
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainBC3-UPV/EHU Seminars:"Groundwater Management in a Food Security Context", Prof. Jean-Christophe Pereau, May 25
This article analyzes the sustainability of market-based instruments such as tradable permits for the management of a renewable aquifer used for irrigated agriculture.
Klimagune Workshop 2017 “Klima aldaketa eta parte-hartzea”
Bizkaia Aretoa Conference Hall Avda Abandoibarra, 3, Bilbao, SpainKlimagune Workshop 2017 topaketa zientifiko berritzailerako foro izan nahi du eta klima-aldaketarekin lotuta dauden hainbat profil bildu nahi ditu, hala nola, zientzialariak, maila ezberdinetako kudeatzaileak, enpresa pribatuak, komunikazio-arloko profesionalak, ingurumen, gizarte eta garapenarekin lotutako gobernuz kanpoko erakundeak eta herritarrak, orokorrean. BC3k eta Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateak elkarlanean antolatutako ekimena da Klimagune Workshop. Ekimen honen helburua da ezagutza, proiektuak eta garapenak partekatzea aurrerapen zientifikoen eta praktikoen mailan, Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoan zein hortik kanpo alor horretan lanean diharduten ikerketa-talde eta erakundeen arteko sinergiak eta lankidetzarako esparruak sortzea oinarri.
BC3 Seminars: Beyond Quantum Biomimetics
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainJavier Martinez
I will divide the presentation in two main parts. The first one is an overview about my work during the PhD along the line of Quantum Biomimetics. This concept, englobes a set of quantum algorithms designed to emulate specific biological properties or processes at a quantum scale. Afterwards, I will cover the main ideas in the field of complex networks, and include a final discussion on the possibility of employing network science to study the dialogue between environmental, social and economical phenomena
Transrisk Workshop-a
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainWorkshop: Assessing Uncertainties and Risks in the Transition to Low Carbon and Sustainable Societies 3rd and 4th July 2017 Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Bilbao, […]
