Agenda

Monday, October 31st
4: 00 - 6:00 P.M. Registration, institutional cafeteria,CATIE
6: 00 - 7:00 P.M. Inauguration ceremony offered by the co-sponsors and inaugural speech, given by Ing. Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica
7: 00 - 8:45 P.M. Dinner
Tuesday, November 1st
8:00 - 8:30 A.M. Opening remarks, Dr. Pedro Ferreira
8:30 - 9:30 A.M. Invited keynote speaker; Jeffrey Sayer (confirmed)
Session I: “Policy challenges in linking ecology to economics: A socioeconomic approach to the management of ecosystem services” Chair: Dr. José Joaquín Campos,
9:30 - 10:15 A.M Invited speaker: Robert Constanza ( confirmed )
10:15 - 10:45 AM Assessing the provision of environmental services (ES): what are ES and where do they come from? (Gunars Platais) ( confirmed )
10:45 - 11:00 AM Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 AM Basic economic considerations in the construction of a payment for environmental services (PES) scheme. (F. Alpízar)
11:30 - 12:00 AM

Solving the monitoring problem? The use of a land use change index as a tool for applying a payment for environmental services (J. Gobbi)

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Plenary discussion
  Lunch break
Session II: “Harnessing the environmental services of tree cover in agricultural landscapes” Chair: Dr. John Beer
2:00 - 2:45 PM

Invited speaker: Sara Scherr ( confirmed )
2:45 - 3:15 PM Opportunities for conserving biodiversity within pastoral landscapes in Central America : Lessons from the FRAGMENT project (Celia Harvey)
3:15 - 3:45 PM

Analysis of how livestock farmers make decisions in land use changes for generation of environmental benefits.(Muhammad Ibrahim)

3:45 - 4:00 PM Coffee break
4:00 - 4:30 PM Environmental services of coffee agroforestry systems (Philippe Vaast).
4:30 - 5:00 PM Plenary discussion

 

Wednesday, November 2nd
Field trip:
Cases of Environmental Services in Human-Dominated Systems in the Reventazon Model Forest
Thursday, November 3rd
Session III. “Forests Matter: Environmental Services as a Mechanism to Help us Conserve them” Chair: Dr. Bryan Finegan .
8:30 - 9:15 AM Invited speaker: Markku Kanninen ( confirmed )
9:15 – 9:45 AM Key results and challenges in linking forests to carbon sequestration (Lucio Pedroni and Bruno Locatelli)
9:45 - 10:15 AM

Implementation of a forest based payment for environmental service scheme: the experience and replicability of FUNDECOR´s case in Costa Rica (Franz Tattenbach) ( confirmed )

10:15 - 10:30 AM Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 AM

Beyond environmental service payments: Community - based forest enterprise development for boosting benefits of small producers in eco - markets, (Dietmar Stoian)

11:00 - 11:30 AM Lunch break - “Payment for environmental services – FAO's contribution to reaching the millennium's development goals (MDGs)”

Session IV: “Scale issues in the management of ecosystem services: From the landscape to the farm” Chair: Dr. Dr. Alan Bojanc, FAO

1:00 - 1:45 PM

Invited Speaker: " Environmental services as a tool for integrated resource management and financing at different scale levels." (Rudolf de Groot) ( confirmed )

1:45 - 2:15 PM Model forest and environmental services (JJCampos)
2:15 - 2:45 PM

Where and when to use environmental service payments for biodiversity conservation: a conservation ecologist's viewpoint (B.Finegan et al.)

2:45 - 3:15 PM Coffee break
3:15 - 3:45 PM
Experiences and potential of PES for watershed management in Central America (F. Jiménez)
3:45 - 4:45 PM Plenary discussion
4:45 - 5:00 PM Closing session