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 invites you to participate in the "BC3 Open Day" that is to be held on the 9th of February.
BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, is a Basque Excellence Research Centre (BERC) created in 2008 jointly by the Basque Government and the University of the Basque Country, that is located since July 2016 in the Scientific Park of Leioa ("Sede" Building).
The objective of this event is to open up the Climate Change Science produced at the center to the University of the Basque Country, with the aim of exploring and promoting potential collaborations among both institutions.
BC3 Seminars: 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, SpainAlev Sorman
Visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Pufendorf Institute at Lund University
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. Therefore the analysis of such complex systems require methodologies capable of analyzing multiple hierarchical levels and operating across multiple scales. The presentation will open with a critique to using unidimensional indicators such as that of the energy intensity and proposes the use of alternative approaches such as the Multi-scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) as a tool that can be used for diagnostic and simulation purposes for an informed decision making process. This seminar will present insights on socio-economic transitions experienced in Europe (EU-15) over a 15 year time period on past and current trends looking into issues of energy from where, in which form, for which socio-economic sector and for what kind of development? Thereafter, to complete the bigger picture, it will ask questions on energy for whom and at whose cost required for discussions on transformation and justice.
BC3-UPV Seminars: “Building Organizational Capacity for Sustainable Innovation”
Bizkaia Aretoa Conference Hall Avda Abandoibarra, 3, Bilbao, SpainDr. Sanjay Sharma
Dean and Professor of Management, Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont, USA
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”
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainProf. Jean-Christophe Pereau
University of Bordeaux
This article analyzes the sustainability of market-based instruments such as tradable permits for the management of a renewable aquifer used for irrigated agriculture. In our dynamic hydro-economic model, a water agency aims at satisfying a food security constraint within a tradable permit scheme in the presence of myopic heterogeneous agents.
We identify analytically the viability kernel that defines the states of the resource yielding inter-temporal feasible paths able to satisfy the set of constraints over time and the associated set of viable quota policies. We then illustrate the theoretical results of the paper with numerical simulations based on the Western La Mancha aquifer.
Klimagune Workshop 2017 “Climate change and public engagement”
Bizkaia Aretoa Conference Hall Avda Abandoibarra, 3, Bilbao, SpainKlimagune Workshop 2017, organised by BC3 and the University of the Basque Country, is an innovative science-policy forum for stakeholders interested in climate change, including scientists, managers at different scales, private companies, communication professionals, non-governmental organisations for the environment, society and development, and citizens in general.
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
First Lead Author Meeting for the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, 7-14 June, Bilbao
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainBC3 will host the First Lead Author Meeting for the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories that is to be […]
Workshop Transrisk “Assessing Uncertainties and Risks in the Transition to Low Carbon and Sustainable Societies”
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, […]
BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School 2017: “Climate Change in an Era of Uncertainty”
Miramar Palace Paseo Miraconcha, 48, San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, SpainThe objective of the summer school is to offer an updated and recent view of the ongoing trends in Climate Change research in an annual basis. The BC3 Summer School is organized in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (Fundamentos de Análisis Económico I) and is a high quality and excellent summer course gathering leading experts in the field and students from top universities and research centres worldwide.
