Roundtable Discussion: The IPBES Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Speaker: Dr. Eduardo S. Brondizio
Professor, Department of Antropology, Indiana University
Director, Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL)
Board member, Ostrom Workshop
Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
1:00-2:30 PM
Turlington Hall 3006
University of Florida
Global assessment (GA) of biodiversity and ecosystem services of the IPBES critically assesses the state of knowledge on past, present and possible future trends in multi-scale interactions between people and nature, and is timed to assess the current (2011-2020) and inform the next (2020-2030) generation of Strategic Plans.
Brondizio has served on numerous international scientific bodies including the Science Committee of the Future Earth program and the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP). Brondizio has 3 decades of research on human-environment interaction in the Amazon, and contributions to regional and global assessments. He is currently co-chair of the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Brondizio is co-Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability.
All are welcome to attend.