ESF-Africa Frontier Research Conference
Dynamic Interlinkages between Social and Ecosystem Changes: Towards a Europe Africa Partnership
8-12 November 2010
Programme |
| Monday 8 November | |
| 16:00 - 19:00 | Registration at ESF desk |
19:00 - 19:45 | Welcome drink |
| 19:45 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 9 November | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome Message by the Chairs, Rashid Hassan, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa, ZA, and Marja Spierenburg, VU University Amsterdam, NL and the ESF rapporteur |
| Resilience and vulnerability of social and ecosystems to climate change Chair: Rashid Hassa, CEEPA, ZA | |
| 9:15 - 10:00 | Thomas Elmqvist, Resilience Centre Stockholm, SE Ecosystem services: managing trade-offs between provisioning and regulating services |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Anantha Duraiappah, International Programme on Human Dimensions, DE Valuing Nature: The Satoyama Renaissance |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| Panel I - Chair: Marja Spierenburg, VU University Amsterdam, NL | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Bruce Charles Scott-Shaw, University of KwaZulu Natal, ZA Development and verification of a dynamic grassland biomass model for agrohydrological applications in climate change studies |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Marie-Ange Baudoin, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Opeyemi Eyitayo Ayinde, Tshwane University of Technology, ZA Effects of climate change on agricultural productivity in Nigeria: a co-integration model approach |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch and break |
| Panel II- Chair: Rashid Hassa, CEEPA, ZA | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Lorena Pasquini, University of Cape Town - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, ZA Mainstreaming ecosystem-based climate change adaptation options: decision-making of local municipalities |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Joshia Olesegun Ajetomobi, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, NG Economic impact of climate change on rice culture in Nigeria |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Rob Marchant, University of York, UK Palaeoenvironmental perspectives for sustainable development in East Africa |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Mariana Rufino, Wageningen University, NL Farming communities from Zimbabwe discuss land use to strengthen traditional climate adaptation |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Discussion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Social institutions and ecosystem changes Chair: Marja Spierenburg, VU University Amsterdam, NL | |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | James Murombedzi, United Nations Development Programme, ZB Lecture to be announced |
| Panel III - Chair: Rashid Hassa, CEEPA, ZA | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Lena Bloemertz, Bayreuth University, DE Socioecological dynamics of the Kano Plains, Lake Victoria, KE |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Eric Mwasaha Simeon Deche, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, KE Traditional and recent coping mechanisms as a response by local communities living in stressed environments affected by drought, environmental marginality and emerging impacts of climate change |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Verina Ingram, CIFOR/ University of Amsterdam, NL A sustainable cocktail-Cola, palm wine and eru? |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Sana Abusin, University of Pretoria, ZA Fisheries regulations in developing country, Fisher’s typologies and their behavior |
| 17:45 - 18:15 | Discussion |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster session |
| Wednesday 10 November | |
| Biodiversity, ecosystem change and human wellbeing Chair: Rashid Hassa, CEEPA, ZA | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Charles Perring, Arizona State University, US |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Thembela Kepe, University of Toronto, CA Prickly relations: biodiversity change and the social sciences |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Panel 4 - Chair: Marja Spierenburg, VU University Amsterdam, NL | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Thandiwe Chikomo, Bird Life International Nairobi, KE |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Emmanuel Jonas Kwayu, University of Leeds, UK A total economic valuation of the Mtanza-Msona wetlands: an appreciation of wetlands in a local economy |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Johane Dikgang, University of Cape Town, ZA The valuation of biodiversity conservation by the South African San "Bushmen" community |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Aida Cuni Sanchez, University of Southhampton, UK The baobab tree in Malawi: potential for further utilisation |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Excursion |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner |
| Thursday 11 November | |
| Managing tradeoffs between multiple ecosystem services Chair: Marja Spierenburg, VU University Amsterdam, NL | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Line Gordon, Resilience Centre Stockholm, SE Analyzing relationships among multiple ecosystem services |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Belinda Reyers, CSIR South Africa, ZA Measuring change in ecosystem services: indicators, maps & bundles |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Panel 5 - Chair: Rashid Hassa, CEEPA, ZA | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Julienne Nadege Esseoungou Kwack, CIFOR, CM |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Sahana Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru University, IN Eco-restoration of mangrove forests and sustainable regional development; a case study of the northern Andaman Islands, India |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Paul Lane, University of York, UK Developing Landscape Historical Ecologies in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Drivers of ecosystem and social change Chair - Rashid Hassa, CEEPA, ZA | |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Peter Minang, CGIAR, US Drivers ecosystem change along tropical forest margins |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Eduardo Brondizio, Indiana University, US Determinisms, causalities, and chains: re-thinking ‘drivers of change’ in a complex inter-linked world |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Panel 6 - Marja Spierenburg, VU University Amsterdam, NL | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Lisa Cliggett, University of Kentucky, US From the river to the forest: the political ecological assemblage of Gwembe migrant history |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Birgit Müller, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, DE Polarisation in (post-) nomadic resource use in Eastern Morocco-a conceptual approach to study social-ecological systems of pastoralism |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Joseph Amikuzono, University for Development Studies Ghana, GH Land Degradation in Northern Ghana: Causes and Effects under High Population Pressure and Land Use Competitiveness |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Discussion |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster session |
| Friday 12 November | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Victor Owusu, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, GH Intersectoral labor Mobility and Deforestation in Ghana |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Daniel H. De Vries, University of Amsterdam, NL |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Discussion |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Forward looking session – conference summary |
| 11:15 | Departure |
| List of accepted posters | |
| Abusin Sana | Non-compliance with fishery regulation by fisher typology in Sudan |
| Aneni Thomas | Coomunity based forest management in Wuda-Taye forest reserve, Nigeria |
| Ayinde Opeyemi Eyitayo | Effect of climate change on agricultural productivity in Nigeria: a co-integration model approach |
| Azuwike Dominic Okechi | Fulani Pastoral nomads, Crop Farmers and environmental change in Nigeria |
| Bose Sahana | Eco-restoration of mangrove forests and sestainable regional development: a case study of Northern Andaman Islands, India |
| Chikomo Thandiwe | An assessment of community based environmental perception indicators for biodiversity management in the wetland important bird areas (Ibas) in Kenya |
| De Vries Daniel Hendrikus | Temporal Vulnerability in Dynamic Socio-Ecological Floodplain Systems |
| Doe Sylvanus Sefenu Per | The sustainability of savanna ecosystem services: fire policy challenges, participation and agro-sociological opportunities |
| Freier Korbinian (Peter) | Rangeland Management in Southern Morocco – Investigating the Options for Adaption to Climate Change |
| Hiywot Menker Girma | Forest Conservation versus Conversion under uncertain forest benefits in Ethiopia: The case of Sheka Forest |
| Hooke Janet | Strategies for implementation of spatially-targeted techniques for reduction and prevention of land degradation |
| Kpadonou Rivaldo Babatoundé Alain | Vulnérabilité socio-économique et stratégies d’aptation des populations lacustres d’Afrique sub-saharienne aux risques climatiques: cas des ménages agricoles de la basse vallée de l’Ouémé (Bénin) |
| Muriuki Grace | The role of squattter settlements in rural landscape change; a case study from the Chyulu Hills, Kenya |
| Nelson Valerie | Culture and power in African climate change agricultural adaptation: constructing dominant and alternative narratives |
Partnership
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with ICSU.
