Conferences

Conferences in planning

• 26 - 27 April 2012Expert workshop in Burlington, Vermont PES: MAKING IT WORK - Actors and factors influencing the success of PES
  Expert workshop organized by the CIVILand-Team, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), with support from GUND Institute, Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont
  The workshop will bring together state and private sectors to compare their perspectives and to identify enabling conditions for establishing and maintaining effective PES schemes.

CIVILand Conferences

2011

• 10 – 12 November 2011International Conference in Berlin: “Payments for Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions”. Post conference update is now available.
• 14 – 15 April 2011Symposium at Cardiff University: Towards ‘The big environmental society’?
  Civil society, private sector and the state in landscape governance, nature conservation and ecosystem service management. A transdisciplinary British-German Symposium.
  Click here for updates on the symposium.

Attended conferences

2011

• 7 December 2011Colloquium for Environmental Communication at the University of Lüneburg
  Thomas Krikser gave a lecture on environmental communication at the colloquium he attended at the University of Lüneburg.
• 14 December 2011 PhD Workshop at the Forschungsstelle für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität, Berlin
  Kristin Nicholas participated in the PhD workshop of the Forschungsstelle für Umweltpolitik at the Freie Universität in Berlin.
• 15 November 2011 Erfolgsorientierte Honorierung im Grünland – Erfahrungen aus der Praxis, Freising
  Susanne Trampnau participated in the workshop organized by the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute of Agroecology, Organic Farming and Soil Conservation.
• 10 – 12 November 2011Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimension, Berlin
  This international conference on Payments for Ecosystem Services was organised by the CIVILand team. Some CIVILand research results were presented during this event. Bettina Matzdorf gave a presentation titled “The Relevance and Role of Civil Society in PES Schemes - A Case Study Analysis of PES schemes in Germany and the U.S.”. Claudia Sattler’s presentation was on the research topic "Multi-Classification of Payments for Ecosystem Services”.
• 4 November 2011Gund Tea at the University of Vermont, USA
  Thomas Krikser gave a presentation titled “Foundations and their Contributions to Solutions for Environmental Issues” at Gund Tea, a biweekly event at the University of Vermont.
• 4 – 7 October 2011 4th ESP International Conference - Ecosystem Services: integrating Science and Practice, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  Bettina Matzdorf attended the conference organized by Ecosystem Services Partnership in Wageningen and gave a presentation titled “The relevance of the Ecosystem Service concept for water and biodiversity policy-making in the EU and the US – A comparative case study”.
• 21 – 23 September 20112. Deutscher Landschaftspflegetag 2011 - Perspektiven für Kulturlandschaften, Bergisch Gladbach
  Sarah Schomers attended the 2nd German Landscape Conservation event in Bergisch Gladbach, which was organized in cooperation with the Rheinland Landscape Association (LVR).
• 14 – 17 September 2011European meeting of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  Claas Meyer presented a poster at this meeting in Plovdiv.
• 8 - 10 September 201110th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Geneva
  Jens Jetzkowitz attended the annual conference organized by the European Sociological Association in Geneva. He presented the preliminary research results of subproject 2 and chaired a session on environmental justice at this conference.
• 4 – 7 July 2011Social Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship in Civil Society, Roskilde, Denmark
  Thomas Krikser gave a presentation titled “Community Foundations as social entrepreneurs?” at this conference.
• 25 – 29 June 2011United States Society for Ecological Economics 2011 Conference: Building a Green Economy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
  Claudia Sattler gave a presentation titled “Civil society´s engagement in payments for ecosystem services” at the USSEE 2011 conference in Michigan.
• 5 – 8 June 2011 ISSRM 2011 The 17th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management - Integrating Conservation and Sustainable Living, Madison, Wisconsin
  Claudia Sattler attended the ISSRM symposium in Madison, Wisconsin, where she gave a lecture titled “Civil Society as a Steward for the Provisioning of Ecosystem Services”.
• 25 - 27 May 2011Training Course at ZALF
  Claas Meyer, Kristin Nicolaus and Sarah Schomers attended the training course "How to publish in peer reviewed journals" at ZALF. The course explained in an effective and structured manner, ways to successfully publish in international journals. Apart from the helpful tips to structure and style scientific articles, the introduction of publishers’ and editors’ views on the publishing process was of particular interest.
• 14 – 15 April 2011Towards ‘The big environmental society’? Civil society, private sector and the state in landscape governance, nature conservation and ecosystem service management. A transdisciplinary British-German Symposium, Cardiff, Wales
  This symposium at Cardiff University was organized by the CIVILand team. All members of the CIVILand team participated in this event. Kristin Nicolaus and Thomas Krikser both presented some of their research findings in relation to the symposium’s focus.
• 8 April 2011PhD Away Day – PhD seminars at the Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff, Wales
  During her research visit at Cardiff University, Kristin Nicholas gave a presentation titled “Participation in the designing of payments for ecosystem services (PES): A comparison of PES design processes in Germany and Great Britain” on the PhD Away Day at the Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning.
• 1 April 2011Market-based Instruments (MBI) for Ecosystem Services and Nature Protection, Potsdam
  Sarah Schomers took part in the workshop in Potsdam that was organized by the Ecosystem Services Research Group.
• 29 March – 03 April 2011“Ecosystem services and Ethics”
  Bettina attended the workshop “Ecosystem and ethics” on the Island of Vilm, organized by Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig and University of Greifswald.
• 26 Januar 2011Mehr Wert für Regionen – wenn Landwirtschaft, Naturschutz und Tourismus clever kooperieren, Berlin.
  Susanne Trampnau was in attendance at the accompanying event of the Future Forum on Rural Development that was organized by the German Association for landscape conservation (DVL).
• 10 - 14 January 2011IASC 2011, Hyderabad, India
  Claas Meyer participated in the IASC annual conference, where Andreas Thiel presented their joint paper. The paper is titled “Institutional change in water management cooperation: implementing the European Water Framework Directive in the Eastern German Odra basin”.

2010

• 13 -16 December 2010Payments for Ecosystem Services – Towards an Implementation Strategy
  Sarah Schomers participated in the international workshop that was hosted by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), the CBD Secretariat, the Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade (IUW) at the university of Hanover and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). She presented the research concept of CIVILand.
• 17 – 20 November 2010ARNOVA 2010 Conference: Governments and the Voluntary Sector: Redefining the Relationships? Washington D.C., USA.
  Thomas attended the Arnova 2010 Conference in Washington, D.C., where he presented a poster titled Development and Professionalization. The early Stages of Community Foundations in Germany.
• 04 -13 October 2010 Claas Meyer took part in the Marie Curie Training Course.
• 18 – 21 September 2010 Technical Specialized Meeting between Brazil and European Union on Environmental Research – Towards a New Perspective of Bilateral Cooperation between Brazil and the European Union in Environmental Research “Amazon Forest and Sustainable Development” in Manaus, Brazil.
  Bettina Matzdorf was invited as a scientific expert to take part in discussions on environmental research in the parallel sessions of this meeting. She also gave a presentation to introduce CIVILand’s research work.
• 17 September 2010 Sarah Schomers took part in the Uni-Park networking meeting at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich.
• 16 -18 September 2010 7th Meeting of the Junior Scholars of Environmental Sociology (NGU) in Freiburg to the topic of “Decisions with environmental impacts between freedom and coercion”
  Kristin Nicolaus participated in the 7th Meeting of the Junior Scholars of Environmental Sociology (NGU) in Freiburg, where she presented the theoretical approach of her thesis in a discussion.
  The event was opened with a lecture by Karl-Werner Brand, who is engaged in the framework of individual and social decisions that have environmental implications. Scientists and scholars working with an environmental focus from various institutions in Germany presented their research work and discussed methods in environmental social sciences.
  The presentation and lecture will soon be posted here.
• 5 -11 September 2010 World Water Week 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden.
  Claas Meyer participated in the World Water Week 2010 as a junior rapporteur. As a junior rapporteur, Claas worked with one of the four Rapporteur Teams under the topic of “Balancing competing demands”. The Rapporteur Teams presented their findings and engaged the audience in an interactive moderated discussion during the “Reporting Back” segment at the Closing Plenary. Videos of the presentations and discussions.
• 7- 8 July 2010 Coaching on “Participation Research”
  On July 7 & 8, one of the junior research groups of the Social Ecological Research programme Besatzfisch organized some coaching on "Participatory Research". In attendance were two of our team members, Sarah Schomers and Kristin Nicolaus. The coaching was led by Dr. Olivier Barreteau of Cemagref (Research Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, France).
• 22 – 26 June 2010“Ecosystem Markets – Making them Work”, Raleigh-Durham
  Claudia Sattler attended the conference “Ecosystem Markets” in Raleigh-Durham NC (USA) on 22 -26 June 2010.
• 7 -11 June 2010 Workshops on Ecosystem Services, Kiel und Bad Salzau
  Jens Jetzkowitz and Bettina Matzdorf participated in the workshop in Bad Salzau in June 2010. Both Jens und Bettina held lectures at this workshop. Bettina and Professor Klaus Müller were also session leaders at this workshop.
• 25 -26 March 2010Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), „Modellbildung und Simulation in der Umweltsoziologie“, Potsdam-Institut für Klimaforschung (PIK), Potsdam
  Claudia Sattler participated in the conference organised by the German Sociological Association (GSA) in March 2010 in Potsdam. She also gave a lecture on participative modelling in the design of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) “Partizipative Modellierung beim Design von Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)”.
• 22 March 2010Conference on Compensation Integrated Production at the representation to the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Berlin
  On 22 March 2010 Jens Jetzkowitz attended the conference on compensation integrated production in Berlin.
• 15 -16 March 2010 DGfE-Annual Conference, Mainz
  On 15 – 16 March 2010 Thomas Krikser took part in the annual conference organised by the German Society for Educational Science in Mainz.
• 9-10 March 2010 “Konzepte für neue Landschaften – Nachhaltigkeit in Biosphärenreservaten”(Concepts for new landscapes – sustainability in biosphere reserves) at the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn
  Bettina Matzdorf gave a presentation on the visualization of future landscape “Visualisierung künftiger Landschaften” at this conference in Bonn.
• 21 -23 February 2010 Expert workshop on “Ecosystem Services” in Vilm
  Bettina Matzdorf participated in the expert workshop organised by BfN(Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), Bonn, UBA, Vienna and BAFU, Switzerland in Vilm. She also gave a presentation titled: “Konzept zur Bewertung der Ökosystemdienstleistungen von ‘High-Nature-Value’ Grünland”( Approach to assessing the ecosystem services of 'High-Nature-Value' grassland).
• 21 – 22 January 2010 Governance of Natural Resources in a Multi-Level Context, Leipzig
  In January 2010 Bettina Matzdorf attended the GoverNat organised conference in Leipzig.

2009

• 11 -12 December 2009 „Perspektiven integrierter Modellierung von Mensch-Umwelt-Systemen“, Karlsruhe
  Claudia Sattler gave a presentation at the workshop in KIT – Karlsruher Institute for Technology in December 2009. The title of the presentation was „Anforderungen an die Modellierung durch Multifunktionalität und Vielfalt der Zukunftsoptionen“ (Requirements for modelling under multi-functionality and the diversity of future options).
• 6 November 2009 2nd International Conference of the Section Umweltsoziologie (Environmental Sociology), Leipzig
  Jens Jetzkowitz took part in the 2nd international conference of the section environmental sociology in Leipzig. He was also chair for two work units.
• 27 October 2009Perspectives on Institutional Economics (IAMO), Halle
  On 27 October 2010 IAMO organised a workshop in Halle. Claas Meyer und Sarah Schomers were in attendance at this workshop.
• 8 - 9 October 2009Joint Conference organised by the Kommission für Bildungsplanung, Bildungsorganisation und Bildungsrecht and the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Evaluation (Commission for Educational Planning, Educational Organization and Education Law and the German Society for Evaluation) in Münster
  On 8 - 9 October 2009 Thomas Krikser attended the joint conference organised by the Commission for Educational Planning, Educational Organization and Education Law and the German Society for Evaluation. He also gave a lecture on the transfer conditions of indicators titled “Transferbedingungen von Indikatoren”.
• 8 -9 October 2009 Fall conference of the work group “Umwelt, Natur, Gesundheit”(Environment, Nature, and Health) (Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen/ Federal Association of German Foundations)
  Sarah Schomers and Kristin Nicolaus attended the fall conference organised by the work group „Environment, Nature, and Health).
• 3 - 5 September 2009 Creating a new prosperity: Fresh approaches to ecosystem services and human well-being” organised by the Royal Geographical Society, London
  On 3 - 5 September 2009 Bettina Matzdorf took part in the conference organised by the Royal Geographical Society in London.
• 16 -17 July 2009 “Social Entrepreneurs: Status Quo 2009”, Berlin
  Thomas Krikser participated in the conference “Social Entrepreneur:Status Quo 2009” in Berlin.
• 23 June 2009“Marktbasierte Instrumente für Ökosystemdienstleistungen – Triebkräfte, Wirkungen, Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten am Beispiel von Klima- und Naturschutz in mitteleuropäischen Kulturlandschaften” (Market-based instruments for ecosystem services - driving forces, effects, design options in the example of climate protection and nature conservation in Central European cultural landscapes), Berlin
  On 23 June 2009 Claudia Sattler and Bettina Matzdorf took part in the interdisciplinary workshop at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Conferences

Conferences in planning

• 26. - 27. April 2012
  Expert workshop in Burlington, Vermont PES: MAKING IT WORK - Actors and factors influencing the success of PES