Webinar // How Science Informs Policy: Soil-Water-Climate Nexus
UNU-FLORES, in collaboration with PRISMA – Centre for Sustainability Assessment and Policy on behalf of TU Dresden, is delighted to present the 54th session of the Nexus Seminar Series with lecturer Dr Lulu Zhang, Associate Programme Officer, UNU-FLORES. Through the specific example of integrated watershed management in China, this lecture showcases a successful example of how science informs policy.
July 19 2:50 PM GMT+2
Lecturer: Dr Lulu Zhang, Associate Programme Officer, UNU-FLORES
Background
Managed watersheds provide many ecosystem services to meet human needs for water, food, timber, and energy while supporting critical ecological functions that benefit humanity. These benefits, for example, include nutrient cycling, water filtering and purifying, carbon storage, flood and erosion/sedimentation control, and biodiversity preservation. The quality and quantity of ecosystem services provided by a watershed significantly depend on land-use decisions involving soil, vegetation, and water conservation at a landscape scale. Due to environmental, social, and economic concerns, watershed management strategies have to consider complex scientific and public policy issues.
Environmental resources are not isolated from one another but exist in an interconnected manner. This interconnectedness is particularly evident when resource management practices are applied in watersheds. In regions with natural constraints, such as drylands, sector-oriented resource management may substantially decrease ecosystem services. The specific case of integrated watershed management in China will cover monitoring data, consolidating process-based knowledge, and translating evidence into policy-relevant recommendations to policymakers, which showcase a successful example of how science informs policy.
In conclusion, multifunctional land-use is proposed as a holistic watershed management approach to balance and manage competition of ecosystem services and minimise dysfunctions with minimum trade-offs through working on the nexus of environmental resources or the Resource Nexus.
Registration
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Nexus Seminar Series
UNU-FLORES, in collaboration with PRISMA – Centre for Sustainability Assessment and Policy on behalf of TU Dresden, is delighted to present the Nexus Seminar Series. The joint seminar series, which launched in 2015, features lectures by senior scholars that highlight all dimensions of research on the Nexus Approach, ranging from hands-on implementation strategies to theoretical debates. The Nexus Seminars serve not only as a platform for scientific exchange and cooperation between UNU-FLORES and TU Dresden but also a medium for the partner institutions to discuss their research with a broader audience.
Taking place once a month during the academic semester, each seminar is open to the public and held alternatingly at UNU-FLORES and TU Dresden. Under current circumstances, the Nexus Seminar Series takes the digital form through online webinars.
Please, find all past Nexus Seminars here.
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