BC3. Basque centre for climate change – Klima aldaketa ikergai

The first edition of the "International Spring University on Ecosystem Services Modeling" will be held from the 11^th to the 22^nd of March at Bizkaia Aretoa in Bilbao.

It is organized by BC3 , The UNESCO Chair on "Sustainable Development and Environmental Education” of the University of the Basque Country and the City Hall of Bilbao, with the collaboration of other international academic and non-profit organizations,and will gather 39 experts on Ecosystem Services Modeling from all over the world.

The International Spring University on Ecosystem Services modeling (ISU-ES) 2013 is the first edition of an annual 2-week intensive course that aims to build a new generation of actors ,in research, policy and management, who can profitably use ecosystem services models to address and solve sustainability problems. The course will follow a problem-based paradigm, learning the most advanced ES modeling techniques from theory and practice using case studies defined by the participants.

BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change is leading the development of some of the most advanced methodologies to quantify and value the flows of beneficial services that natural ecosystems provide to societies. While the methods developed are reaching high degrees of sophistication, the skills required to perform an assessment remain in the hands of only few people. In two weeks of intensive instructions, participants will master the modeling  language that runs the ARIES modeling platform (http://www.ariesonline.org) and learn how to effectively model ES problems of different scope and scale. At their discretion, the participants will have the option of continuing interaction with the ARIES consortium to contribute to the largest worldwide public repository of models and data on ecosystem services. 

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