The value of our marine environment

During two sunny days in September approximately 150 people gathered in Stockholm to take part in the international conference "The Value of our Marine Environment".

The aim of the conference was to look at ways of integrating the value of marine ecosystem services into decision making, so that policies are designed to achieve sustainable management of these ecosystems.

The conference was being held under the auspices of the Swedish EU Presidency in autumn 2009.

Below you can find the PowerPoint presentations from the conference as well as a PDF-file with abstracts of the presentations, speakers’ profile and a summary of the conference.

The collective value of the ecosystem services of our seas is so great that we cannot afford to lose them. We must act now.

Summary

• Download a summary of the conference (pdf 852 kB)

Photos

• Look at photos from the conference (ppt 14 MB)

Presentations

Wednesday, 16 September

Carl Folke, Professor and Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics:

• Definition, status and trends of marine ecosystem services (pdf 1 MB)

Thorsten Blenckner, Researcher, Baltic Nest Institute:

• Marine ecosystem services – where do they come from, how are they related and what is affecting them? (pdf 880 kB)

Karl-Göran Mäler, Professor and former Director, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics:

• Capturing the value of marine ecosystem services in socio-economic analyses (pdf 140 kB)

Steve Polasky, Professor of Ecological/ Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota:

• Valuing marine ecosystem services in practice (pdf 849 kB)

Anne-Sophie Crépin, Researcher, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics:

• Policy challenges for marine resilience and shift of ecosystems (pdf 312 kB)

Sybille van den Hove, Visiting Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, Autonomous University of Barcelona:

• Deep-sea ecosystem goods and services – A challenge to socio-economics (pdf 1 MB)

Thursday, 17 September

Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency:

• Watch the movie (wmv 77 MB) 

Terry Hughes, Professor and Director, Australian Research Council, Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies:

• Management of marine ecosystem services in practice – experiences from the Great Barrier Reef (pdf 1 MB)

Henrik Österblom, Researcher/Science-policy co-ordinator, Stockholm Resilience Centre and David Symes, Department of Geography, University of Hull:

• Fisheries management in the Baltic Sea – applying best practice (pdf 333 kB)

Christoph Humborg, Researcher, Baltic Nest Institute and Henrik Scharin, Researcher, Swedish Ministry of the Environment:

• Improved water quality in the Baltic Sea – from modelling nutrient loads to policy design for reduced eutrophication (pdf 1 MB)

Per W. Schive, Deputy Director General, Norwegian Ministry of the Environment:

• Integrated and ecosystem-based management of the marine environment of the Barents Sea (pdf 2 MB)

Kirsty Inglis, Marine and Fisheries Economics Unit, Natural Environmental Economics, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

• Ecosystem services and the UK’s approach to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (pdf 380 kB)

Violeta Velikova, Pollution Monitoring & Assessment Officer, the Black Sea Commission:

• The Black Sea easy way to bring the values of marine ecosystems into decision-making (pdf 2 MB)

Peter Gammeltoft, Head of Unit DG ENV.D.2 "Protection of Water and the Marine Environment”:

• Full implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive – the key to unfolding the potential of the EU Maritime Policy (pdf 493 kB)