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Workshops and Forums

Accepted workshops and forums will be final when all the participants have registered to attend EcoSummit.

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Workshops

Assessing stream and floodplain restoration in the Eastern USA as a stormwater management best management practice (BMP)
Drew Altland, Cardno ENTRIX, New Castle, DE, USA
Modelling unsustainability reduction in the current century: Indicators and policies
Simone Bastianoni and Federico M. Pulselli, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Mississippi River ecological restoration: On-the-ground and scaling up to integrated river basin management
Gretchen Benjamin and David L. Galat, Great Rivers Partnership, The Nature Conservancy and University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Merging traditional ecological knowledge with science for ecosystem restoration decision making
Matthew Bethel, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA
Honora Buras, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Training conservation scientists and practitioners for 21st century global challenges
Jessica Blickley, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Kristy Deiner, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Jeffrey Firestone, University of California, Davis, California & Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Mariah Meek, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Management of greenhouse gases: Implications and evaluation of sustainable practices, economic growth, air quality and state, federal and international policy scenarios
Kevin Crist, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
Joseph Fiksel, Center for Resilience, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Urban ecological restoration: Techniques and practices applied to public commons, school sites and library sites
Arlene Hopkins, Skye Labs, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Making sustainability decisions in the electric power industry
Tim Lohner and Diane Fitzgerald, American Electric Power, Columbus, OH, USA
Jessica Fox and Todd Maki, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Neelanjan Patri, Director, Sustainability & Environment Technology, TVA, Chattanooga, TN, USA
Restoration of open landscape habitats in Europe
Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
Stefan Zerbe, Free University of Bozen, Bozen, Italy
Adaptation to climate change – challenges for cities and regions: An international dialogue
Bernhard Müller, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) and Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Let’s bundle in the jungle: The role of ecosystem service stacking in conservation
Amy Rosenthal, Natural Capital Project at the World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, USA
Jason Funk, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC, USA
Challenges for the conservation of ecosystem services in agroecosystems of the Southern Cone of South America
Daniel Somma, Pedro Laterra and María Elena Zaccagnini, INTA, Argentina
Funding Restoration: Private Funding for Ecosystem Restoration
Jerome Tinianow, Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Columbus, OH, USA
What is Green in THIS Century? A Discussion with Stewart Brand
Jerome Tinianow, Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Columbus, OH, USA
Weinland Park in Columbus, USA: One neighbourhood’s perspective on developing ecotechniques for stormwater management
Susan Weber, Integrity Sustainable Planning and Design, Columbus, OH, USA

Forums

Lessons from Silent Spring at 50: An Environmental Ethic for the 21st Century
Patricia M. DeMarco, Rachel Carson Institute, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Food, Water and the Environment
Craig Jenkins, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Business Leaders Forum
Jerome Tinianow, Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Columbus, OH, USA
Diane Fitzgerald, American Electric Power. Brigman, MI, USA
Bioprospecting and Preservation of Ecosystem Pharmacological Services
Jerome Tinianow, Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Columbus, OH, USA
Where Science and Policy Meet: NGO Chief Scientists
Jerome Tinianow, Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Columbus, OH, USA
Food Security and Climate Change
Jerome Tinianow, Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Columbus, OH, USA

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