PhD workshop Uni Bayreuth

October 10/11, 2011: PhD workshop on 'Decision-making, land/water use and ecosystem services' at the University of Bayreuth with researchers from UBT, ETH Zurich and University of Hamburg/MPI Met

Registered participants:

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Koellner (University of Bayreuth)
  
  
• Patrick Poppenborg (University of Bayreuth)
  
  
• Yohannes Ayanu (University of Bayreuth)
  
  
• Bumsuk Seo (University of Bayreuth)
  
  
• Yohannes Kidane (University of Bayreuth)
  
  
• Saem Lee (University of Bayreuth)
  
  
• Bunafsha Mislimshoeva (University of Bayreuth)
  
  
• Laura de Baan (ETH Zurich)
  
  
• Enrico Celio (ETH Zurich)
  
  
• Korbinian P. Freier (University of Hamburg/MPI Met)
  
  
• Johannes Förster
  

Presentations:

A) Remote sensing of biodiversity and ecosystem services (incl. crop classification)

MODIS signal processing to couple with ground LULC observation towards Ecosystem Services evaluation by Bumsuk Seo
Quantifying and mapping ecosystem services and potential impacts of Prosopis juliflora invasion in the Awash basin of Ethiopia by Yohannes Ayanu
Climate change impacts on higher plants distribution and its implication to ecosystem service in the Bale Mountains: outline for planed PhD thesis by Yohannes Kidane
 
B) Decision-making of land users and their impact on economic return / ecosystem services

Experts knowledge for a spatially explicit land use decision model. The case of the Kleine Emme catchment by Enrico Celio
Do environmental attitudes determine agricultural crop choice? An analysis of farmers' land use decision-making with respect to ecosystem services in a South Korean watershed by Patrick Poppenborg
Modelling alternative land-use regimes in semi-arid Morocco: Assessment of perspectives in a changing environment by Korbinian P. Freier (Uni Hamburg/MPI Met)
Comparative Economic Analysis of Environmentally Friendly Agriculture and Conventional Agriculture in Soyang Watershed of South Korea by Saem Lee
 
C) Land use impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Assessing land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: a globally applicable method and its uncertainites by Laura de Baan
Assessing ecosystem services across multiple scales: outline for the PhD thesis by Johannes Förster
 
D) Governance and policy instruments (incl. payments) for ecosystem services

People and forests: Analysis of Willingness to Enroll in “Saving Book Approach” for the reforestation of severely degraded forest areas in the Tajik Pamirs, Tajikistan by Bunafsha Mislimshoeva