Seminar: Managing ecosystem services from Tropical forests (Costa Rica)
25 al 30 de julio de 2016, Liberia, Costa Rica
Presentations Posters Videos (Interviews) Photos PDS projects Participants Speakers
Organizers Program Suggested readings Announcement Venue and logistic information Second session – Chile
Presentations
Alberto Mendez
“Monitoreo y seguimiento pago de servicios ambientales. Territorios indígenas. Costa Rica”
Arturo Sanchez
“An introduction to Ecosystem Services”
Felisa Cancado Anaya
“Conflictos ambientales y cambio climático: un análisis de la ecologia política”
Jorge Mario Rodríguez Zúñiga
“Payment for Environmental Services in Costa Rica: Key institutional and Policy features”
Juan Robalino
“Econometric modeling of the impact of forest conservation policies on the provision of ecosystem services”
Marcella Ohira
IAI
Mario Espirito Santo
“Polinizadores y servicios ecosistémicos”
Natalia Norden
“Ecological succession and ecosystem services”
Sandra Duran
“Biodiversity and ecosystem services”
Posters
Estimating Leaf area index as an indicator of ecosystem services and management functions using remote sensing techniques – Leila Taheriazad
Principal research projects – Paula Palma
Country Brief Costa Rica – Luis Rivera
Ecosystem services: A biophysical quantification for Guanacaste Conservation Area in Costa Rica – Marissa Castro
Experiencia en Ecuador: programa socio Bosque(PSB) – Rossana Torres
Socio-ecological approach of the ecosystem services: integrating awareness and potential for transformation – Yumi Oki
Herramientas para Modelado Espacial de Servicios ecosistémicos: tendencias espacio-temporales, reflexiones conceptuales y desafíos a futuro – Vivian Ochoa
Cambios en el uso de suelo, SE y biodiversidad: el rol de la heterogeneidad ambiental – Sofia Nanni
Las consecuencias del cambio de uso del suelo en localidades del norte del Gran Chaco Argentino – Laura Sacchi
What do we really know about the Brazilian Amazon forest carbon stocks? – Graciela Tejada, Eric Görgens, Jean Ometto.
Experiencias de trabajo: bosques y sus servicios ecosistémicos en Bolivia – Karen Udaeta
Ilustre Municipalidad de Freirina Región de Atacama – Katherine Moreno Alfaro
Simulating deforestation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, under changing government policies and socioeconomic conditions – Kayla Stan
Cambios funcionales de los ecosistemas en respuesta a la expansión de la ganadería intensiva sobre bosques de Bolivia – Daniel Villarroel Torrez; Esteban Jobbagy
Servicio ecosistémicos en el santuario nacional Los Manglares de Tumbes – Daniel Flores
Estimandolaimportancia económica delos Servicios Ecosistémicos a través delos gastos de defensa? – Claudiano Carneiro da Cruz Neto
Interviews with participants
Presentations
Photos
Field trip
Lessons
PDS projects
Six collaborative groups were established at the PDS in Costa Rica. These groups have been working on the development of their projects during the period between the first and the second session of the PDS (July 2016 – May 2017). A senior tutor/mentor was assigned to each group to support the work of the teams.
Team 5. Ecosystem services and well-being: a literature review
Team 6. Conservation strategies based on cattle ranchers’ perceptions of ecosystem services
Participants
Alfredo Blanco
Ana Sofía Nanni
Claudiano Carneiro da Cruz Neto
Cristian Díaz Quesada
Daniel Hugo Flores Caballero
Daniel Villarroel Torrez
Gilmar Navarrete Chacón
Graciela Tejada Pinell
José Angel Jiménez Fajardo
Karen Yoana Udaeta RodriguezSIMBIOSIS S.R.L. y Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA)
Bolivia
Bioprofile
Katherine Moreno Alfaro
Kayla Dawne StanUniversity of Alberta
Canada
Laura Valeria Sacchi
Marissa Castro Magnani
Moara Almeida Canova Teixeira
Paula Palma MolinaCentro para el Impacto Socioeconómico de las Políticas Ambientales, CESIEP
Chile
Bioprofile
Sofia Lizarraolde Oliver
Vivian Ochoa CardonaInstituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
Colombia
Bioprofile
Xinia Brenes Arce
Speakers
Adrián Rodríguez
Alberto Méndez Rodríguez 
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Felisa Cancado Anaya
Jorge Mario Rodriguez ZúñigaFONAFIFO
Costa Rica
CATIE
Costa Rica
Luis Rivera
Marcella Ohira
Mário Marcos do Espírito Santo
Mauricio Vega-Araya
Natalia NordenInstituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
Colombia
Bioprofile
Sandra DuránOrganizers
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, Professor, University of Alberta
Ana Cristina Castro – Logística
Adrián Rodríguez, Director, Agricultural Development Unit, UN ECLAC
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
Marcella Ohira, Director for Capacity Building
Mariana Toledo, Assistant for Capacity Building
www.iai.int
Suggested readings
Costa Rica’s Payment for Environmental Services Program: Intention, Implementation, and Impact
G. ARTURO SANCHEZ-AZOFEIFA, ALEXANDER PFAFF, JUAN ANDRES ROBALINO, AND JUDSON P. BOOMHOWER.
Conservation Biology 2007
Baseline assessment for environmental services payments from satellite imagery: A case study from Costa Rica and Mexico
M. Kalacskaa, G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifaa, B. Rivarda, J.C. Calvo-Alvaradob, M. Quesada.
Journal of Environmental Management 88 (2008) 348–359
Estimation of fluence rate from irradiance measurements with a cosinecorrected sensorL.O. Bjorn
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 29 ( 1995 ) 179-183
Symposium-in-Print
Quantifying Ligth and Ultraviolet Radiation in Plant Biology
Lars Olof Bjorn and Thomas C. Vogelmann
Photochemistry and Photobiology, 1996, 64(3): 403-406
Principles and Nomenclature for the Quantification of Light
Lars Olof Björn
Quantification of Light
Linking Earth Observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: Local to ecosystem perspectives
A. Lauscha, L. Bannehr, M. Beckmanna, C. Boehmc, H. Feilhauer, J.M. Hacker, M. Heurichf, A. Jung, R. Klenke, C. Neumann, M. Pause k, D. Rocchini, M.E. Schaepman, S. Schmidtlein, K. Schulz, P. Selsam, J. Settele, A.K. Skidmore, A.F. Cord
Ecological Indicators 70 (2016) 317–339
Monetary accounting of ecosystem services: A test case for Limburg province, the Netherlands
Roy P. Remme, Bram Edens, Matthias Schröter, Lars Hein
Ecological Economics 112 (2015) 116–128
Developing spatial biophysical accounting for multiple ecosystem services
Roy P. Remme, Matthias Schröter, Lars Hein
Announcement
The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Canada’s University of Alberta, Costa Rica’s Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), National Forest Financing Fund (FONAFIFO) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) announced a Professional Development Seminar (PDS) on Managing Ecosystems Services from Tropical Forests.
The PDS was funded by the IAI with resources from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The seminar involved two sessions, each one a weeklong. The first session were held 25-30 July 2016 in Liberia, Costa Rica; the second session were held in 2017 in Santiago, Chile. Between sessions, participants have interacted among themselves and with IAI staff and seminar instructors through Internet-based tools.
Description
Understanding ecosystem functioning is fundamental to preserve the goods and services necessary for human populations. This is particularly critical in Latin America, where high population’s densities are concentrated in urban areas, poverty incidence is high in rural areas and managing ecosystems is very complex. Tropical forests are among the most important providers of goods and services and are the basis for the livelihoods of millions of people worldwide. There is a great need for training managers, policy makers, and scientists to help quantify and manage ecosystem services, as well as for learning from local communities and decision-makers that have gained significant experience on designing and carrying out conservation programs across the Americas.
Full Announcement in English (PDF)
Full Announcement in Spanish (PDF)
Venue
DoubleTree by Hilton
Avenida Vitacura 2727, Las Condes – Santiago, Chile
Phone: 0056 2 2587 7000