“Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities”
3rd SCIENCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 2015 CONFERENCE
Aarhus, Denmark, 1-2 October 2015
Environmental monitoring and assessment is fundamental to the understanding of our ecosystems, to prevent adverse effects on ecosystems and human health, as a basis for policies, and as a tool to follow the outcome of regulations. Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (DCE), Aarhus University has a long tradition in combining monitoring and research to inform policy-making, both nationally and internationally. Together with Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER), Aarhus University invited researchers and practitioners to discuss the future challenges and opportunities for environmental monitoring and assessment, with the aim of:
• Discussing and sharing ideas on future methods and technologies
• Document and discuss the value of combining research and monitoring
• Strengthen the chain from monitoring and assessment to environmental policies, regulation and management.
• Strengthen an interdisciplinary, joint international and integrated approach.
Some of the main questions were: How to best evolve environmental monitoring, in order to make use of new and smart technologies for improved and cost-effective monitoring? How do we assess and document the value of data and knowledge of environmental ecosystems?
• Emerging contaminants
• Marine monitoring
• Wildlife management
• Monitoring and regulation of impacts of agriculture
• Environmental exposure and human health effects
• Biodiversity monitoring and nature indices
• High resolution water monitoring
• Monitoring and assessment of air pollution
• Forest monitoring
• Water and resources
• Soil biodiversity and microbiology
• Citizen Science
The project LIFE Natura2000 Value Crete participated at the 3rd Science for the Environment Conference 2015, with a poster presentation on “Ecological, social and economic values of ecosystem services in Natura 2000 sites in Crete”.
More information and all presentations of the conference on: http://dce-conference.au.dk