BC3. Basque centre for climate change – Klima aldaketa ikergai

Programa de seminarios de la UPV y el BC3 2012

El objetivo de este programa conjunto de la Universidad del País Vasco, EHU-UPV, y el BC3 es realizar aportaciones al conocimiento sobre cambio climático en una serie de conferencias a cargo de reconocidos especialistas en la materia.

Se llevarán a cabo alrededor de diez seminarios en 2012. El programa se irá actualizando con información detallada sobre cada uno de ellos.

1. December 14^th
   "The Value of Adaptation: Climate Change and Timberland Management"
   Lecturer: Prof. Christopher Costello - Research Professor at Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (UC Santa Barbara) read more...
2. December 13^th
   "Climate policy negotiations with incomplete information"
   Lecturer: Professor Kai A. Konrad - Managing Director at the MaxPlanck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance ( Munich) read more...
3. November 29^th
   "Impact of climate policy and external shocks on innovation in renewable energy technologies"
   Lecturer: Dr Pia Weiss, Lecturer for Industrial Economics (Nottingham University Business School)
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4. November 22^nd
   "A Water Agency faced with Quantity-Quality Management of a Groundwater Resource"
   Lecturer: Katrin Erdlenbruch (Research Fellow, Irstea, Montpellier, France)
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5. November 15^th Postponed
   "An early warning system for desertification"
   Lecturers: Dr. Javier Ibáñez Puerta - Dpto de Estadística y métodos de gestión en agricultura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & Dr. Jaime Martínez Valderrama - Estacion Experimental Zonas Aridas, CSIC
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6. November 9^th
   "Large Scale Integration of Renewables in Power Systems: Flexibility Assessment and Market Rules Design"
   Lecturer: Fernando de Sisternes (PhD Candidate, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))
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7. October 4^th
   "From Theory to Practice: The Science and Field Implementation of Ecosystem Services" Lecturer: Dr. Rosimeiry Portela (Conservation International CI - Ecological Economist/Senior Director in the Global Change and Ecosystem Services group of the Science + Knowledge Division )
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8. September 24^th
   "Theoretical issues and operational challenges in ecosystem services valuation"
   Lecturer: Dr. Erik Gómez-Baggethun (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
   "Valuing the Water Purification/Filtration Service of Temperate Coastal Rainforests in Southwestern British Columbia: A Stochastic Production Function Approach"
   Lecturer: Dr. Duncan Knowler (Simon Fraser University jointly with Ashley Page)
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9. September 18^th
   "The slash-and-burn solution to climate change "
   Lecturer: Prof. Jacob Phelps (National University of Singapore)
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10. September 4^th
    "Integrated Assessment Modeling: Climate Science and Economics for Low-Carbon Growth Pathways in Mexico"
    Lecturer: Prof. Claudia Octaviano - Phd candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Co-director of the MIT-Electricity Students Research Group MIT-Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
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11. June 21^st
    "Past climate change recorded in polar ice cores " and " Deep ice core drilling, polar ice-sheet flow and its implications for climate change "
    Lecturers: Prof. Kumiko Goto-Azuma (National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan) and Prof. Nobuiko Azuma (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
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12. May 24^th
    "Market-based valuation of transmission network expansion. A heuristic application in GB."
    Lecturer: Prof. Jose Manuel Chamorro
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13. April 11^th
    "Voluntary and Information Based Approaches to Environmental Management: An Impure Public Good and Club Theory Perspective."
    Lecturer: Prof. Matthew Kotchen
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14. April 3^rd
    "Integrating biophysical and socioeconomic issues regarding adaptation to climate change in California."
    Lecturer: Prof. Louise Jackson
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15. March 23^rd
    "Altering Hydrology due to a Changing Climate and the Perception of these Changes: Examples from the Mountains of Colorado and Mongolia"
    Lecturer: Prof. Steven R. Fassnacht
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16. February 22^nd
    "Spatial green accounting for terrestrial ecosystems: from theory to practice"
    Lecturer: Prof. Alejandro Caparrós
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Importante:
Los seminarios tendrán lugar en Sarriko (Lehendakari Aguirre, 83). Todos los meses enviaremos información detallada al respecto por correo electrónico.