Course
Payment for freshwater ecosystem services course
07/06/10 11:20
Curso
de Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais
Projeto
Conservador das Águas
O Departamento de Secretaria do
Meio Ambiente da Prefeitura Municipal de
Extrema-MG, apresenta o Curso de Pagamento
por Serviços Ambientais - Projeto Conservador das
Águas. O Curso será realizado no Departamento de
Secretaria do Meio Ambiente de Extrema-MG, no dia
23 de abril de 2010.
Vagas Limitadas !!!
Apenas
30 participantes !!!
Inscrições
e programação no site
www.infobibos.com/psa
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Climate adaptation course: South Africa
07/06/10 10:44
Are
you or members of your team needing new knowledge
and skills to address climate considerations in the
work that you do? Are you looking for professional
training in the area of climate adaptation to meet
new demands / opportunities and progress your
career? The
Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG)
at the University of Cape Town, the Oxford office
of the Stockholm Environment Institute
(SEI Oxford)
and the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership
(GCAP)
are offering a 4-week course to meet emerging
professional needs in the areas of climate data and
information use, climate risk and vulnerability
assessment, adaptation planning and decision
support in policy and practice.
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Adaptive management webinar
03/05/10 10:04
Webinar Short
Course on Adaptive Management of Natural Resources
Presented by Drs. Jim Nichols, and Julien Martin, June 7-11, 2010
The US Geological Survey and the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission are offering a free short course, designed to
expose scientists and managers to the basic components and process of
adaptive management. This approach is relevant to any sort of
management decision that is repeated over time and may be useful in
some cases with spatially replicated, one-time decisions. We begin
with a discussion of structured decision making, an umbrella process
of which adaptive management is a special case. We then focus on the
key elements of structured decision making and adaptive management:
objectives, potential management actions, models of system behavior,
optimization methods, and monitoring programs. We discuss approaches
for selecting appropriate objectives and show how general objectives
can be formalized into explicit objective functions. We discuss
management actions for different classes of problems. We describe the
development of models designed to project the consequences of the
potential management actions on system behavior. We will briefly
discuss optimization methods to identify decisions that are optimal
with respect to the management objectives. Because estimates of system
state are typically needed for informed management, we provide a
general approach to developing a monitoring program, as well as
discuss the specific roles of resulting data in the decision process.
Finally, we show how these components combine in the adaptive
management process. We argue that this process is ideal for management
in the face of uncertainty and provides a natural mechanism for the
conduct of science useful to management. Throughout the course, we
will illustrate general approaches and concepts with a specific
application involving possible management of disturbance of nesting
golden eagles in Denali National Park. Read More...
Presented by Drs. Jim Nichols, and Julien Martin, June 7-11, 2010
The US Geological Survey and the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission are offering a free short course, designed to
expose scientists and managers to the basic components and process of
adaptive management. This approach is relevant to any sort of
management decision that is repeated over time and may be useful in
some cases with spatially replicated, one-time decisions. We begin
with a discussion of structured decision making, an umbrella process
of which adaptive management is a special case. We then focus on the
key elements of structured decision making and adaptive management:
objectives, potential management actions, models of system behavior,
optimization methods, and monitoring programs. We discuss approaches
for selecting appropriate objectives and show how general objectives
can be formalized into explicit objective functions. We discuss
management actions for different classes of problems. We describe the
development of models designed to project the consequences of the
potential management actions on system behavior. We will briefly
discuss optimization methods to identify decisions that are optimal
with respect to the management objectives. Because estimates of system
state are typically needed for informed management, we provide a
general approach to developing a monitoring program, as well as
discuss the specific roles of resulting data in the decision process.
Finally, we show how these components combine in the adaptive
management process. We argue that this process is ideal for management
in the face of uncertainty and provides a natural mechanism for the
conduct of science useful to management. Throughout the course, we
will illustrate general approaches and concepts with a specific
application involving possible management of disturbance of nesting
golden eagles in Denali National Park. Read More...
Adaptation course
26/03/10 09:08
I am pleased to announce the upcoming II International course “Adaptation to climate change: the role of ecosystem services” which will be held at CATIE (www.catie.ac.cr), Costa Rica, from November 1 to 5, 2010, and will be hosted by CATIE´s Climate Change Program.
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11/03/10 00:57
You may be interested
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Climate adaptation/mitigation course
11/02/10 07:33
Climate
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African university adaptation training grants
09/02/10 10:33
Building
climate change adaptation capacity at African
universities URL: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/news/africa-climate-20091207
New York: The Open Society Institute invites a range of proposals to build climate change adaptation capacity at African universities. We seek to support the development of African intellectual and institutional capacity to address the scientific, economic, sociological, and political issues, among others, that Africa faces in order to adapt successfully to the significant threat climate change poses on the African continent. OSI would like to acknowledge the valuable inputs received from climate change adaptation experts, scholars, professionals, practitioners, and funders in shaping the vision for this work. Read More...
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Forests and climate adaptation course
04/01/10 10:37
I wanted to let you
know that the first US Forest
Service International Programs International
Seminar on Climate Change and Natural Resource
Management (www.fs.fed.us/global/is/climatechange/)
will be held
May 9 - 30,
2010 in
collaboration with the University of California at
Davis. The application deadline is February
8, 2010 and full details on the seminar and the
application can be found below in the two
attachments. Read
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07/06/09 09:04
The Climate Systems
Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town and
the Stockholm Environment
Institute, partners in weADAPT and the Global Climate
Adaptation Partnership, are offering a 2-week
“winter school” in the use of climate
information for developing adaptation
strategies, plans and policies. The winter
school will take place from 13 to 26 July 2009,
and is designed to provide a balance between
seminar style teaching and hands-on training,
supported by leading climate scientists and
adaptation experts, using the weADAPT platform
for developing the curriculum. We aim to provide
an overview of the latest relevant climate
science as well as working through sector
specific case studies and experiences of the
application of this knowledge in acting to
reduce risks. The winter school is supported
financially by UNITAR and SENSA.
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