ESF Research Conferences

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
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 - 14:15Lorena Pasquini, University of Cape Town - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, ZA
Mainstreaming ecosystem-based climate change adaptation options: decision-making of local municipalities
14:15 - 14:30Joshia Olesegun Ajetomobi, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, NG
Economic impact of climate change on rice culture in Nigeria
14:30 - 14:45Rob Marchant, University of York, UK
Palaeoenvironmental perspectives for sustainable development in East Africa
14:45 - 15:00Mariana Rufino, Wageningen University, NL
Farming communities from Zimbabwe discuss land use to strengthen traditional climate adaptation
15:00 - 15:30 Discussion
15:30 - 16:00Coffee 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 BloemertzBayreuth 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 - 22:00Poster 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 - 17:00Birgit 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 - 17:15Joseph 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 - 22:00Poster session
Friday 12 November
9:00 - 9:15Victor 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 - 10:00Discussion
10:00 - 11:00Forward looking session – conference summary
11:15
Departure


List of accepted posters
Abusin Sana
Non-compliance with fishery regulation by fisher typology in Sudan
Aneni ThomasCoomunity 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 OkechiFulani 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 HendrikusTemporal 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 AlainVulnérabilité 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