ALTER—Net Summer School: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

3rd ALTER—Net Summer School:
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
2 – 14 September 2008
Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France

Full information flyer is available for download HERE.
Application: Deadline for applications: 15 April 2008 Successful applicants will be notified by 15 June 2008
There are no registration fees and accommodation(double rooms with shared bathrooms) and meals are provided. Travel costs must be covered by the participants.
Online information, the preliminary programme and application forms are available at: http://www.alter-net.info/
For more information on ALTER-Net see: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/alter-net/

The Summer School Objectives
The ALTER-Net Summer School shall contribute to durable integration and spread of excellence within and beyond the network, with a view to promote interdisciplinary approaches.

The 2008 Summer School will focus on:

• Biodiversity in Europe - state of the art;


• Monitoring and assessment;


• Critical ecosystem properties to sustain ecosystem services;


• Resilience of social and natural systems;


• Ecological and socio-economic modelling;


• Linking biodiversity research with policy and the public. Approximately 23 experts will give lectures on the themes mentioned above. In the afternoons, working groups will study at different scales an example region guided by tutors. They will discuss implications of findings for actual European ecosystems and their services and compile these in a written report. An excursion will illustrate land-use change in the Provence.