IUCN World Conservation Congress: Conservation Campus: Tools and Techniques for undertaking and using ecosystem assessments

6th - 15th Sept 2012, Jeju, South Korea

The SGAN Secretariat convened and facilitated a one day capacity building conservation campus on undertaking and using ecosystem assessments through developing skills for measuring and valuing ecosystem services. The Secretariat worked with a number of partners from related initiatives – e.g. the Ecosystem Service Partnership, The Natural Capital Project, TEEB, UNEP and IUCN – to deliver the training through a combination of presentations, interactive exercises and facilitated discussions.

The meeting's objectives were:

The overall objective was to build capacity for undertaking and using ecosystem assessments, with a specific focus on tools and techniques for measuring and valuing ecosystem services. To be achieved through:

1. Improving awareness of widely recognized and understood tools and techniques
2. Providing practical training in how to use these tools in an ecosystem assessment, through hands-on exercises using data from real case studies.
3. Establishing their usefulness in decision-making processes and demonstrating how they can be used to translate science into policy-relevant information.

Presentations

Introduction