IHDP International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Chagne - A Joint Programme of ICSU ISSC and UNU

IHDP Open Meeting 2009 - 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change - 26-30 April 2009; Bonn, Germany - The Social Challenges of Global Change

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Resources and Ecosystem Services

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

How do we deal with limitations of resources and ecosystem services?

Improving quality of life still means increasing resource consumption. Production patterns focus on increasing production and efficiency gains, but not on sustainability. Efficiency gains often are counteracted by rebound effects, and are limited by resource availability.

This day contains sessions that discuss the science of approaches to the human dimensions of resource limitations and ecosystem services in consumption and production.

Programme

Plenary Session - Resources and Technological Innovation

Overview

Session Chair:

Frans Berkhout
Director, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Chair, IHDP Industrial Transformation

Plenary Speakers:

Christopher Bunting Secretary General, IRGC, Switzerland	Richard Tol Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland
Michael Müller Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Germany	Ernst von Weizsäcker Scientific Committee Member, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), Germany
Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart and Director, DIALOGIK, Germany

Special Sessions

Overview

Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments to Climate Change and Extreme Events Organised by UNU-EHS and IHDP	Integrated Risk and Governance Organised by the IHDP IRG Pilot Project
Sustainability Transition - Current progress, and agenda for action Organised by the IHDP IT project	Global Change and Human Health: Prepareness and Surveillance Organised by the ESSP Joint Project, GECHH, IHDP GECHH Advisory Group, and IGU Commission on Health and the Environment