ESF Research Conferences

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
Using the concept of  vulnerability to understand climate change impacts and adaptation strategy in rural Benin

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
Climate and Biodiversity Change

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
An Assessment of community-based environmental perception indicators for biodiversity management in the wetland important bird areas (IBAS) in Kenya

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
Forest certification: a tool for managing tradeoff between multiple forest ecosystem services in a context of Timber concession in the Congo basin region

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
Temporal Vulnerability in Dynamic Socio-Ecological Floodplain Systems

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