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Purpose: In Spring 2013, the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation together with partners will organize a three-day symposium that unites local resource managers, researchers, educators, island leaders, policy makers, and other leading conservation practitioners to present and analyze real world resilience case studies. Central to the symposium is understanding resilience the ability of ecological and social systems to absorb, resist, or recover from stressors and adapt to change while maintaining critical ecosystem functions and benefits.
Island ecosystems present unique challenges for conservation due to distinctive ecological and evolutionary processes and vulnerability to threats. In this symposium we will explore case studies that exemplify responses to disturbance of change in order to elucidate patterns and processes that foster resilience. Through sharing lessons learned and fostering networks of island managers that are addressing similar challenges, the symposium will deepen manager insight into how to promote the resilience of coastal systems, particularly in tropical small island nations, as well as strengthen networks among island leaders, international scientists, and policy makers, paving the way for ongoing collaboration in the future.
Program: The program will consist of invited talks, shorter case study presentations, panel discussions, poster presentations and working groups. Invited talks will frame and synthesize issues, while the panels will afford managers across many sites the opportunity to share their experiences. Those interested in presenting short talks or posters on specific case studies on ecological resilience, social resilience, or the interaction between the two are invited to submit an abstract (see below). Sessions will culminate in moderated panel discussions and workshops. We will collate the case studies from presenters and posters, as well as from people who are not able to attend the event, in a searchable sourcebook on the symposium website.
Special sessions: Symposium participants will work in breakout groups that will define ecological and social research needs, as well as information needed for managers and policy makers at local to global scales. We will also convene a session exploring challenges in the funding arena, including that of supporting interdisciplinary studies.
Outcomes: Based on contributions and outputs from symposium sessions, we will produce a sourcebook, available online, that will be a comprehensive source of information on ecological and social resilience on islands, with cross-cutting analyses, recommendations, and next steps.
Broader impacts: In addition to strengthening networks among local managers, island leaders, international scientists, and policy makers, we envision contributing to global action on the ground by informing ongoing and planned reef resilience and research and conservation initiatives as well as strengthening local-level voices in the international policy process. The outputs from symposium activities, particularly the briefs, will contribute substantively to the preparatory process for the Third UN Global Conference for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in 2014, to the Island Biodiversity Programme of Work of the Convention on Biodiversity, and the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) as well as other relevant policy outlets.
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AdresseAmerican Museum of Natural History (Afficher)
West 77th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
New York City, NY 10024
United States
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