Side events:

• ALTER-Net Summer school Alumni meeting/Early career meeting

• organised by João Manuel Garcia Rodrigues and Klara Johanna Winkler
• Room Monica

• Exchange of interest on upcoming calls with presentations by Tiago Freitas (DG R&I) and Hilde Eggermont (BiodivERsA)

• organised by Petteri Vihervaara (SYKE), Philip Roche (Irstea) and Mart Külvik (IAES)
• Room Hippo

• Developing the science-society-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services – learning from EKLIPSE and other processes

• organised by Carsten Neßhöver (UFZ)
• Room Nicolaas

• LTSER platforms as vehicles for scientific inquiries into synergies, conflicts and trade-offs in the relationship between nature and society

• organised by Kinga Krauze (ERCE-UNESCO)
• Room Carthago

Coffee break

Start of the conference: Plenary session facilitated by Alison Hester (JHI) and opening speech by Maurice Hoffmann (Chair ALTER-Net)

Keynotes:

• Prof. John O’Neill (Manchester University)  - Human well-being and environmental goods: what is lost through no net loss?
• Martin Sharman - Science in a post-truth world
• John Linnell (NINA) - Coexisting with wildlife in the Anthropocene: balancing multiple trade-offs in crowded landscapes

Plenary session chaired by Kurt Jax (UFZ)

Keynotes:

• Femke Wijdekop (Senior Expert Environmental Justice at Stop Ecocide) -  Ecocide Law: the duty to care for our common home
• Dries Gorissen (Agency for Nature and Forests) - Participation for social integration
• Eeva Furman (SYKE) - Interlinkages and how to deal with them when aiming to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Coffee break

Parallel sessions:

Session 1: A new valuation school: inclusion of plural values of nature in sustainable resource use decisions (organized by Sander Jacobs, Kati Vierikko and Gabriela Costea)

• Henk van Hardeveld: Towards participatory Multi Criteria Decision Analysis of ecosystem services: the case of Dutch peatlands
• Jen Holzer: Insights from a qualitative evaluation of three European socio-ecological research platforms
• Liliana Solé-Figueras: A review on coastal ecosystem services, are we considering socio-ecological complexity and human well-being?
• Helen Michels: What has nature to offer you? In search of stakeholder preferences in the context of developing a regional vision
• Katja Schmidt: Testing socio-cultural valuation methods of ecosystem services to explain ­land use preferences

Session 2: Partners for nature: towards new models for networked governance (organized by Arjen Buijs and Riku Varjopuro)

• Sylvie Van Peene: Trame verte et bleue (green and blue network): an assessment of the cooperation implemented at the national and regional level and at the scale of territories and projects.
• Eerika Albrecht: Strategies for successful peatlands conservation in Finland - Environmental conflicts and stakeholder argumentation
• Thomas Mattijssen: Self-governance in nature conservation: from benefits to co-benefits of active citizenship
• Leen Gorissen: Innovation inspired by Nature: a powerful way to operationalize nature-society synergies
• Arjen Buijs: Networked conservation? In search of governance models to increase synergies between grassroots and policy efforts for nature conservation
• Dries Gorissen: Consolidation of partnerships for nature and society, the Bosland Model

Session 3: Environment and health in urban environments (organized by Timo Assmuth and Hans Keune)

• Hans Keune: European OneHealth/EcoHealth Community of Practice
• Timo Assmuth: Cultural ecosystem services and urban health: Knowledge and gaps
• Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri: Medicinal plants and ethnobotanical knowledge in urban environments
• Timo Assmuth: Engagement with urban blue structure in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: Obstacles and opportunities

Session 4: Biodiversity research for adaptive management; how to satisfy multiple demands (organized by Geert De Blust and Joan Pino)

• Maarten Stevens/Anik Schneiders: Green Infrastructure as a strategy for halting loss of biodiversity: how to reach 2020 – 2050 targets
• Onno Knol: Bioscore: a species-by-species model to project future changes in biodiversity in Europe
• Paul Pardon: Agroforestry
• Joan Pino: Biodiversity dynamics in forested metropolitan landscapes: the role of landscape context and land use legacy

Session 5: Multiple dimensions of sustainability (ecological, economic, social) (organized by Juliette Young, John Linnell and Jim Casaer)

• John Linnell: Multiple dimensions of sustainability – using wildlife conflicts as an example
• Jim Casaer: The wild boar case in Flanders
• Gracie Verde Selva: Achieving socially equitable conservation through ecological fiscal transfers – what can we learn from the Brazilian Ecological ICMS
• Dave Carss: Sustainable management of Cormorant populations: what might that mean?
• David Ullrich: Anthropogenic services and disservices - a proposal for the analysis of human impact within the ecosystem services framework
• Berit Köhler: A sustainable future of regulated rivers and lakes – what can we learn from the revision of hydropower licenses in Norway?
• Wouter de Groot: The missing pillar: Eudemonic values in the justification of nature conservation

Session 6: Nature-related trade-offs and conflicts between stakeholders (organized by Francis Turkelboom and Eszter Kelemen)

• Francis Turkelboom: When you cannot have it all: Ecosystem services trade-offs in local planning contexts
• Eszter Kelemen: Conflicts over nature’s contribution to people: What can you expect from ecosystem services concepts and tools?
• Klara Johanna Winkler: Thinking humans and nature together in protected areas
• Denisa Badiu: Typologies of environmental conflicts in Romanias protected areas.
• Dave Carss: What’s that got to do with it? The influence of historical legacies on sustainable solutions to European cormorant-fisheries conflicts: considering the past.
• Anne Gerdien Prins: Combining different perspectives to nature to explore opportunities for nature across Europe
• Kerry Waylen: How do European policies shape nature-society interactions? Introducing the MAGIC Approach

Lunch

Coffee break

9.00-10.30

Plenary session chaired by Allan Watt (CEH)

Keynotes:

• Alison Hester (JHI) - Strategies and tools for tackling trade-offs in Scotland
• Sven Lautenbach (University of Bonn) -  Ecosystem services bundles and trade-offs for synergy

Coffee break

Parallel sessions:

Session 1: Valuing and accounting of natural capital: assessing its role in the nature-society interface (organized by Robert Kanka, Konar Mutafoglu and Caroline van Leenders)

• Ngoc Tb Duong: Regulation, practice and risk in the distribution of benefits in PES: an exploration in the payment for environmental forest services program, Vietnam
• Caroline van Leenders: Finance for Biodiversity
• Wouter Van Reeth: Valuing land use change in Flanders: A framework for integrated valuation with two applications
• Konar Mutafoglu: What can nature do for jobs, growth and health in Europe? Linking biodiversity and nature protection to socio-economic objectives in European countries
• Marianne Darbi: Voluntary vs. compliance regimes in environmental governance: The example of biodiversity offsets
• Brenda Maria Zoderer: Uncovering potential conflicts between stakeholder groups: Differences in perception of ecosystem service delivery and socio-cultural values

Session 2: Nature-society interactions in cities: a specific challenge in the ‘Urban age’ (organized by Annegret Haase)

Introduction in the session: Annegret Haase (15 min)

First slot

• Vierikko, K. and Haase, D.: More than just green – biocultural diversity of urban parks in two European capitals (20+5 min)
• Haase, A. and Ali, L.: Effects of greening policies in the context of urban shrinkage and reurbanization: synergies, trade-offs and conflicts (20+5 min)
• Assmuth, T. et al.: Engagement with urban blue structure in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: Obstacles and opportunities (20+5 min)
• Overall discussion: 25 min (chaired by Annegret Haase)
• Wrap-up of the slot: Annegret Haase: 5 min

Second slot

• Short introduction with wrap-up from first slot: Annegret Haase (5 min)
• Dushkova, D. et al.: Chances and challenges for being a green city at the North of Russia under extreme climate conditions and with the legacy of Soviet era (20+5 min)
• Nikodinoska, N. et al.: Economic valuation of ecosystem services provided by green urban areas: a review (20+5 min)
• General discussion: 30 min (chaired by Diana Dushkova)
• Summary and conclusion from the session: Annegret Haase (5 min)

Session 3: ES bundles and multi-functional landscapes – operationalizing synergies and trade-offs (organized by Simone Beichler and Sofie VandeWoestijne)

Introduction in the session

• Simone A. Beichler: Synergies between what, where, why… - a multitude of coalescing, complementing or conflicting approaches?
• Sofie Vandewoestijne: Operationalizing synergies and trade-offs into management and decision-making for effective Nature-based solutions

First slot

• Marion Mehring : Social-ecological Dynamics of Ecosystem Services Supply and Demand – A Functional Relation
• Emilie Pecheur: Ensuring consistency of tools dedicated to biodiversity and ecosystem services: case studies
• André Mascarenhas : Effects of demographic and urban development on ecosystem services: the case of Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal
• Maarten Stevens: Bundles as tailored building blocks for multifunctional landscapes

Second slot

• Marie Fournier: Land use regulation in river restoration projects: towards more synergies between nature and society?
• Dagmar Haase: The nexus between urban shrinkage, regrowth and UES provision: Impacts on governance and planning responses
• Inne Vught: To build or not to build: an ecosystem approach to support decision-making on the potential development of residential development areas

Session 4: Collaborative processes in the field of biodiversity research (organized by Corina Basnou and Györgyi Bela)

• Katarzyna Cieslik: Environmental Virtual Observatories for Connective Action – A Cross-Country Citizen Science Project in Africa
• André Mascarenhas: Assessing and engaging stakeholders in a citizen observatory for Land-Use/Land Cover monitoring
• Leena Kopperoinen: Mapping people’s perceived values of CES is needed to get synergies in spatial planning
• Gÿorgyi Bela: Open and citizen science in sustainability research. Reflections on the responsible research and innovation (RRI) discourse
• Martin Watson: Engaging stakeholders to co-develop synergies and trade-offs
• Maxime Lenormand: Cultural Ecosystem Services: An Empirical approach across European landscapes and beyond
• Wessel Ganzevoort: Motivations for monitoring: What drives volunteer biodiversity recorders?

Session 5: Policy, decision-making and social learning for conservation (organized by Arjen Buijs and Riku Varjopuro)

• Romina Rodela: How is you interventions doing?: Methodological challenges with delivery and evaluation of learning-based interventions
• Sander Van der Jagt: Urban forest governance in Scotland: Lessons from local authorities rising up against the odds .
• Frank Hanssen: Consensus based siting of renewable energy (ConSite)
• Emma McKinley: Resilcoast - Ecosystem Service Values and their role in Policy
• Rik De Vreese: Green Learning Environments for Children with Learning Disabilities
• Peter van Gossum: Putting the ecosystem services approach in policy practice: lessons from the Flemish regional ecosystem assessment
• Anna Salomaa: Increasing the effectiveness of nature conservation through science-policy interfaces

Lunch

Coffee break

Plenary session:

• Keynote speech: Henk van Zeijts (PBL) – European Nature in the plural
• Summary of the outcomes of the parallel sessions
• Panel debate facilitated by Alison Hester
  Panel:
• Raoul Mille (Irstea, international affairs)
• Maurice Hoffmann (INBO)
• Birgit de Boissezon (EC)