Kerner von Marilaun Workshop 2009:
Landscape-Based Cultural Ecosystem Services
Organizers: |
• University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna Prof. Andreas Muhar • University of Arizona, USA
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| Co-Sponsors: | • Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research • US National Science Foundation
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| Partner institutions: | • International Council for Science (ICSU)
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| Date: | 2.-6. November 2009
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| Venue: | Lunz am See, WasserKluster Lunz
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| Attention: | This is a non-public event |
Downloads
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KvM 2009 Landscape-Based Cultural Ecosystem Services Factsheet |
Aims of the workshop:
Scientists, policy makers and the general public now agree that human wellbeing depends on sustaining the health of the earth’s ecosystems. This relationship has recently been emphasized by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (United Nations) under the rubric of “ecosystems services”.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment explicitly acknowledges “cultural services” of ecosystems, however, most of the research concerning the operationalization of the Ecosystem Services concept has focused on ecosystems and services that are essential for meeting the most critical human needs, including clean air, clean water, productive soils, and the provision of food, fuel and fibre. From the perspectives of environmental policymakers and natural scientists these are the very tangible and direct services of ecological systems that can be measured, modelled and valued to guide and justify public policy choices. In the field of cultural ecosystem services many research questions have still been left open and need to be addressed.
Kerner von Marilaun-Workshop 2009 will bring together invited researchers from different disciplines such as ecology, sociology, psychology and economics to assess and document the state of science relevant to the general conceptualization of the man-nature relationship in the context of sustainable development, and in particular to the management of landscape-based cultural ecosystems services.
Based on existing research, participants will work collaboratively to identify and articulate the linkages between the condition of ecological systems and the landscape features that are important determiners of the levels of aesthetic, recreational, heritage, spiritual and other important cultural values. An important product of the workshop will be the identification and prioritization of new science needs, and the development of an agenda for accomplishing the integrated interdisciplinary research needed to support effective management of landscape-based cultural services in the context of a comprehensive ecosystems services management program, as well as an agenda for joint scientific publications.
