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A SCIENCE POLICY SYMPOSIUM for Freshwater Life

“Water Lives: new scientific horizons for biodiversity and water policy”

Preliminary programme

return to Day 1 - Wed 29 January 2014 

Day 2 - Thur 30 January 2014

9:00 Wrap up from the first day and introduction to programme of 2nd
Klement Tockner (Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries - IGB)

Session 4: Two parallel working groups

9:30 Session 4a: Making the WFD fit for future: Integrating climate and land use change in the the WFD
Chair: Martin Kernan (University College London - UCL)

Intro: Peter Gammeltoft (European Commission, DG ENV)

Inputs:
How to reach the goals of the Water Framework Directive? The role of time and riparian land use (WISER-project)
By Daniel Hering (University Duisburg-Essen)
Presentation (4.6 MB)
Stakeholder reply by Roger Owen (Head of Ecology at Scottish Environment Protection Agency)

Presentation (2.9 MB)

Restoration under global change (REFORM-project)
By Harm Duel (Deltares)
Presentation (5 MB)
Stakeholder reply by Jenny Mant (River Restoration Centre, UK)
Presentation (5.6 MB)
Session 4b: Meeting EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy targets for freshwater life
Chair: Klement Tockner (IGB)
Intro: Francois Wakenhut (European Commission, DG ENV)

Inputs:
The role of freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas and the Natura 2000 network: designing an optimal network to address gaps in protection, now and under climate change (BioFresh-project)
By William Darwall (IUCN)
Presentation (2 MB)

Setting priorities in conservation and restoration in the Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot (BioFresh-project)
By Jörg Freyhof (Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries - IGB)
Presentation (5.5 MB)

Stakeholder reply by Maria Stoumboudi (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research)



   
10:30 Coffee break

Session 4: Two parallel working groups (continue)

11.00 Session 4a: Making the WFD fit for future: Integrating climate and land use change in the WFD
(continue)

Guiding principles for management of freshwaters (recommendations for RBMPs)
(REFRESH-project)
By Peeter Noges (Estonian University of Life Sciences)
Presentation (836.7 KB)
Stakeholder reply by Geoffrey Phillips (Environment Agency UK)
Presentation (1.2 MB)

Can we still use the reference condition to underpin the WFD
(REFRESH-poject)
By Richard Johnson (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Presentation (2.6 MB)
Stakeholder reply by Jorge Rodriguez Romero (European Commission, DG ENV Water)

Discussion
Session 4b: Meeting EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy targets for freshwater life
(continue)

New strategies to fight invasive alien species in freshwater ecosystems (EASIN-project)
By Ana Cardoso (European Commission, DG JRC)
Stakeholder reply by Patrick Murphy
(European Commission, DG ENV)
Presentation (4.1 MB)

From Nutrient Limitation to Recreation: Putting Ecology into Ecosystem Service Mapping
(OPENNESS-project)
By Laurence Carvalho (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology UK)
Presentation (5.3 MB) 
Stakeholder reply by Anne Teller (European Commission, DG ENV Biodiversity)



Discussion
   
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Session 5: Synergies between the WFD and the Biodiversity Strategy and cross-cutting issues

13:30 Report back from Chairs of session 4a and 4b
14:00 Panel discussion on main findings and possible synergies between biodiversity and water policy.  Formed by a representative of DGENV, a NGO, a scientist and a national respresentative.
Chair: Klement Tockner (IGB) & Martin Kernan (UCL)
Moderator: Paul Jepson (University of Oxford)

Panelists:
    - Francois Wakenhut (European Commission, DG ENV)
    - Peter Gammeltoft (European Commission DG ENV)

    - Horst Korn (EPBRS/Federal Agency for Nature Conservation)
    - Ana Cristina Cardoso (European Commission, DG JRC)
    - Maria Stoumboudi (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research)
   
15:30 - 16:00 Final Coffee
16:00

End of Symposium

BioFresh (Co. 226874) and REFRESH (Co.244121) are funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme

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