ABSTRACT AND THEMES

REGISTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS

PROGRAM

ABSTRACT AND THEMES

Climate change and biodiversity crisis are intricately linked and interdependent and the preservation of our biodiversity requires an integrated approach to both challenges. Urgent policy action is needed to address direct (e.g. land use change, urbanisation, pollution) and indirect drivers (e.g. economic policies, governance systems) to prevent or reverse biodiversity loss, and to allow ecosystems to recover and to be restored.

This requires combining research approaches and methods in innovative ways, working across a broad range of disciplines as well as involving decision-makers.

This convention, organised by the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity and the Blue-Green Biodiversity Initiative of Eawag and WSL, will stimulate exchanges between researchers, practitioners and policy/decision-makers, in order to foster actionable research and promote implementation of measures to prevent or reverse biodiversity loss.

The convention is organized into six main themes:

• Blue/Green
• Global change/Mitigation
• Indigenous/Western Knowledge Systems
• Natural processes/Human management
• Nature/Culture
• Science/Policy

REGISTRATIONS

The deadline to register is April 30^th.

The registration fee is 250CHF.
The accommodation in the shared rooms at the Monte Verità center are around 80-100CHF
per night.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

For organizational reasons, it is necessary to register and pay the conference registration fee before to book accommodation at Monte Verità.
Instructions for registrations

You can either overnight directly at the Monte Verità centre, or in another hotel in the nearby Ascona village (15/20 minutes on foot from Monte Verità Centre).
Accommodations

By registering and paying your fees, you accept the terms and conditions of our cancellation policy.
Cancellation policy

CONTRIBUTIONS

We are inviting you to submit your contributions to the conference. Contributions of early career researchers are very much encouraged, particularly for oral presentations and for leading discussions.

Please submit your contributions using this form latest by Sunday, 2nd of April 2023.

Note that the convention is organized into six main themes:

• Blue/Green
• Global change/Mitigation
• Indigenous/Western Knowledge Systems
• Natural processes/Human management
• Nature/Culture
• Science/Policy

The following formats are available:

Presentation:

• “classic” conference presentation, 12 minutes + 3 minutes of Q&A
• Short / Ignite Presentation: share your ideas on 3 slides max, 4 mins + 1 min Q&A
• Poster: introduce your work / idea on a A0 Poster, we will have a dedicated poster session

Discussion group:

A subject that you wish to be discussed and explored in depth during several days of the conference. Each day would have 2-3 hours for discussion, and so one subject could be discussed for a total of around 10 hours. This will allow for significant progress in the subject area and lay of solid groundwork for any subsequent work. We believe this would result in a conference paper.

Science Café:

Short discussion on a specific topic, participants rotate between topics.