● 会议名称（中文）： BIOECON第11届年会

● 会议名称（英文）： ELEVENTH ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE

● 所属学科： 生物学　 
 
● 会议类型： 国际会议 

● 会议论文集是否检索： 不详 

● 开始日期： 2009-9-21

● 结束日期： 2009-9-22

● 所在国家： 意大利 

● 所在城市： 国外   

● 具体地点： 威尼斯

● 主办单位： Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

● 全文截稿日期： 2009-5-20

● 会务组联系方式

联系人： Andreas Kontoleon 
联系电话： +39-041-2711461
E-mail： ak219@cam.ac.uk

● 会议网站： http://www.bioecon.ucl.ac.uk/index.html

● 会议背景介绍：  

The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei announces the Eleventh International BIOECON Conference on“Economic Instruments to Enhance the  Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity”. The Conference will be held at the Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, in Venice, Italy, on September 21st-22nd, 2009.
The Conference is targeted to researchers, environmental professionals, international organizations and policy makers who are interested in working in the management and conservation of biodiversity.
  The Conference is focused on identifying the most effective and efficient instruments for biodiversity conservation, such as auctions of biodiversity conservation contracts, payment–for–services contracts,taxes, tradable permits, voluntary mechanisms and straightforward command and control. Special emphasis will be given to policy reforms aimed at increasing the commercial rewards for conserving biodiversity, increasing the penalties for biodiversity loss and circulating information on the biodiversity performance requirements of firms. An increasing number of businesses, which were responsible for biodiversity loss in the past, are now supporters of biodiversity conservation. Markets
for organic agriculture and sustainably-harvested timber are developing at double-digit rates, while rapid growth is observed in the demand for climate mitigation services, such as the protection of forests and wetlands to absorb carbon dioxide. Bio-prospecting, the search for new compounds, genes and organisms in the wild, is another biodiversity business on the rise. 

● 征文范围及要求：

Papers are specifically invited on the themes of:
• Assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity conservation instruments, taking
into account spatial and governmental considerations;
• Development of new, incentive-compatible instruments to conserve biodiversity;
• Evaluation of the costs of conservation policies versus the costs of ‘business-as-usual’ within an existing policy framework (e.g. agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure, climate change, etc) that causes ongoing losses of ecosystems and biodiversity.
• Determination of the factors – including the choice of policy instruments – that increase or
decrease a farmer’s or public body’s motivation to conserve biodiversity on their land;
• Application to strategies and projects of the ecosystem services approach for assessing and
valuing environmental impacts;
• Benefit transfer methodologies to assess the socio-economic and monetary value of
ecosystems services;
• Applications of economic instruments to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of
biodiversity, with particular emphasis on case studies in biodiversity hotspots.