The 2020 Summer School is cancelled. Themes for next year may include:

• An introduction to the 2020 ALTER-Net summer school – Allan Watt
• Why should we conserve biodiversity? – Martin Sharman
• Ecosystem services – Emilie Crouzat
• Can the ecosystem service and nature’s contributions to people concepts help engage stakeholders and local decision-makers? – Berta Martin Lopez & Francis Turkelboom
• Climate change, biodiversity and intergovernmental processes – Wolfgang Cramer
• Policy making and planning in an uncertain future – Marc Metzger
• Biodiversity conservation and conflict – Steve Redpath
• Biodiversity and transformational change in the rural environment – Nicolas Dendoncker
• Transformational change: an environmental psychology perspective – Melissa Marselle
• The honest broker in practice – Roger Pielke Jr.
• What role for forestry in a future Europe – Raoul Mille
• Should we price nature to save it? – Erik Gomez-Baggethun

The structure of the school will be similar to the 2019 Programme:

The 2019 Summer School programme will include the following talks, presentations, and events:

Day 1: Arrival and Introductions

• Welcome and introductions (Allan Watt)
• Biodiversity and ecosystem services: an introduction to the summer school (Allan Watt)
• The history of Peyresq - village walk (Jean Vancompernolle)
  
  

Day 2: Poster Presentations and Discussions

• Poster presentations and introduction to project (Martin Sharman & tutors)
• RESCHEDULED: Policy making and planning in an uncertain future (Marc Metzger)

Day 3: Ecosystem Services, Policymaking, and Scenarios

• RESCHEDULED: I met a traveller from an antique land (Martin Sharman)
• Trade-offs, synergies and bundles: insights from ecosystem service assessments in mountain systems (Emilie Crouzat)
• Excursion: Hike to countryside to visit local stakeholder shepherds

Day 4: Ecosystem Services, Local Decision-makers, Nature and Cities

• Does the ecosystem service concept help local decisionmakers? (Francis Turkelboom)
• Cities and nature: common past, common future? (André Mascarenhas)

Day 5: Climate Change, Nitrogen and Biodiversity Conflicts

• Climate change, biodiversity and intergovernmental processes (Wolfgang Cramer)
• Nitrogen: godfather of pollution or answer to world food shortages? (Mark Sutton)
• Biodiversity conflicts (Steve Redpath)

Day 6: Case Study Field Trip

• Case study field trip (Frédéric Guiter, Nicolas Dendoncker, Emilie Crouzat and Marie Vandewalle)

Day 7: Stakeholder Engagement, the Science-Policy Interface, and IPBES

• Stakeholder engagement in biodiversity conservation (Juliette Young)
• Working with scientists and policymakers (Rob Brooker)
• IPBES and the science-policy interface (Adam Vanbergen)

Day 8: Ecosystem Assessment, Farmers, and Planetary Boundaries

• Ecosystem assessment, valuation etc. (Sander Jacobs)
• Do you want to save biodiversity? Save farmers first! (Nicolas Dendoncker)
• Planetary boundaries (Andrea Downing)

Day 9: Valuing Nature and Transformation Towards Sustainability

• Should we price nature to save it? (Erik Gomez)
• Transformations towards sustainability (Sybille van den Hove)

Day 10: Concluding Sessions

• Working group sessions
• Presentation of the working groups, reflections on the summer school (conveners, etc.), and feedback sessions

Day 11: Departure