1. Ecosystem Services Partnership | www.es-partnership.org | info@es-partnership.org | 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2014 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Session 30 ‘Value integration in science and policy’ Introduction

2. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! TWG “6D” Value Integration Value integration is the methodological challenge of consistently combining a diversity of value systems in resource use decisions. Contact Sander Jacobs Coordination Erik Gómez-Baggethun Nicolas Dendoncker Sander Jacobs Hans Keune Joachim H. Spangenberg Members: Trsista Patterson, Johannes Langemeyer, Paola Arias, Alexander Rincón, Jakub Kronenberg, Carl Obst, Bhim Bahadur Ghaley, Dixon H.Landers, Takahiro Ota, Sean Kennedy, Robert Costanza, Nuno Oliveira, Kati Vieriko, Leon Braat, Kai Chan, Robert T. winterbottom, Dagmar Mithöfer, Alessandro Galli, Louise Willemen, Alessandro Gimona, Anne Böhnke-Henrichs, Luke Brander, Helen King, Bernd Hansjuergens, Harpinder Sandhu, Francis Turkelboom, Matthias Schroter, David Barton, Fanny Boeraeve, ….

3. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Vision A world where the multitude of values of nature held by peoples is respected, where natural resources are used within local and planetary boundaries and where benefits and burdens from the use of nature are equitably spread within and across societies and generations. Mission Promote principles of strong sustainability and environmental justice in valuation methodologies, advance the science and practice of ecosystem service valuation, and create awareness on the social, ecological, and economic implications of valuation choices. Concrete goals 2014 establish the WG, define vision and mission, organise a session in Costa Rica. Further on: Grow the WG, link with relevant groups within and outside ESP,…

4. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Special Issue in ECOSER ESP WG Value Integration, OPENness project Focus on methodological challenge of consistently combining a diversity of value systems in resource use decisions. Official call will follow soon!!

5. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! The Costa Rica Session Allegedly neutral technical choices on valuation affect the final outcomes, and the effectiveness to produce sustainability. Today’s aim is to gather building blocks for a framework for integrated valuation of ecosystem services.

6. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Session outline 13h30 – 15h10: Part 1 The importance of value integration: introduction and case studies (Chair: David Barton) (7 talks of 12’ each: 10’ presentation + 2’ questions of clarification) Sander Jacobs – Research Institute Nature and Forest INBO Introduction: The importance of value integration: aims of the session Kati Vierikko – University of Helsinki Bottom-down with values – a conceptual framework for mapping values and ecosystem services of an urban pond in Helsinki, Finland Takahiro Ota - Ritsumeikan University Exploring potential factors affecting the long-term change in the monetary value of coastal ecosystem services: A case in Japanese coastal areas Joachim H. Spangenberg - UFZ Farmers’ value assessments – a case study from Scania, Sweden Anna Phelan - Queensland University of technology Evaluating social sustainability of regional communities affected by major gas projects from an ecological economics perspective Lola Flores - Earth Economics Integrating Ecosystem Services: accounting for natural capital and return on investment analysis Berta Martin-Lopez - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Human preferences towards biodiversity and ecosystem services: a comparative analysis of monetary and non-monetary valuation techniques

7. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! 15h10 – 15h30: Coffee Break 15h30 – 17h00 Part 2 Methodological perspectives and conclusion: Building a framework for value integration (Chair: Nicolas Dendoncker) (4 talks of 12’ each: 10’ presentation + 2’ questions of clarification) David Barton - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research framework for integration of valuation methods to assess conservation policies: methodological approach to using “hybrid” valuation methods in the assessment, design and implementation of incentive-based conservation policies Fanny Boeraeve – ULG-Gembloux How (not) to perform integrated ecosystem service valuations Pricing gorillas in the mist Bernd Hansjürgens, Augustin Berghöfer - UFZ Can deliberative methods of biodiversity valuation improve knowledge integration? Nicolas Dendoncker - University of Namur Reconciling views and values of ecosystem services for sustainability? Thoughts and tools from the Belgium Ecosystem Services Community of Practice 16h20 – 17h00 Discussion / conclusion: Building a framework for value integration