Teamcounterfactual ECCB 2022 venues now confirmed

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Eklund, Johanna F

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Aug 23, 2022, 6:00:05 AM8/23/22

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Dear all,

Some more details for those attending ECCB in Prague and interested in impact evaluation. For more details, see email below.

We now have the venues confirmed for today.

Our symposium will be in AULA at 16:30-18:30. Really happy we got such a big room, it is the same where all the plenaries are!

The networking event, together with the Social Science Working Group, will be in a brewery called Únětický pivovar – welcome! https://www.unetickypivovar.cz/en/

The brewery is located here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zmyo63MALwzGjNtS6

It is only a 15-20 minutes bus ride from the conference venue, but it seems the free public transport card we got from the conference will not apply. So be prepared to pay the bus or take an Uber/Bolt. I think many of us will go straight from the symposium, so there might be a possibility to share a ride.

Really looking forward to connecting with you all!

Johanna

Johanna Eklund, PhD

Digital Geography Lab

Department of Geosciences and Geography

PO Box 64 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2)

FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

phone: +358 (0)50 4484428

email: johanna....@helsinki.fi

http://www.helsinki.fi/digital-geography

twitter: @eklund_jo

From: Eklund, Johanna F
Sent: sunnuntai 14. elokuuta 2022 22.22
To: impac...@conbio.org
Subject: teamcounterfactual at ECCB 2022 in a week!

Dear all,

We are looking forward to the upcoming ECCB conference in Prague 22-26.8.2022 and happy to announce that the Impact Evaluation Working Group will be well represented. We will host a symposium, and together with the Social Science Working Group, a networking event. Both will take place on Tue 23 August, with the symposium at 16:30-18:30, followed by networking in some nearby bar/restaurant (both venues TBD). Below more information:

SYMPOSIUM:

Impact evaluation for nature conservation in a changing world

Organized by: Caterina Cosmopolis del Carpio, University of Sheffield, UK; Tanya O’Garra, Middlesex University, UK; Johanna Eklund, University of Helsinki, Finland

The current biodiversity crisis requires effective policies and interventions that lead to positive impacts on biodiversity. Counterfactual approaches (e.g., propensity score matching, instrumental variables, randomised controlled trials, etc.) can generate robust and causal information about the environmental and social impacts of conservation interventions, providing crucial insights into what works (or does not work). These methods are well established and used in other disciplines such as economics and medicine; however, they are still rarely applied in nature conservation. This symposium aims to present the most recent advances concerning impact evaluations of different conservation interventions (e.g., ranging from terrestrial and marine protected areas to biodiversity offsets, and community-based species conservation programs). This will be achieved by (1) providing insights into different approaches to evaluating environmental and social impacts, (2) discussing the strengths and limitations of these different approaches, and (3) exploring the factors that influence conservation outcomes and how they vary between different conservation interventions. The symposium will bring together seven researchers from diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for discussion on methods and best practices, future research needs and priorities, and how they can be used to achieve biodiversity conservation goals.

Presentations

A counterfactual approach to evaluating the effectiveness of biodiversity offsets – Case study of the Ambatovy mine in Madagascar

- Katie Devenish (Bangor University, United Kingdom)

Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps

- Julia P. G. Jones (Bangor University, United Kingdom)

Impacts of community forest managed areas on deforestation and forest fragmentation during a political crisis in Madagascar

- Rachel Neugarten (Cornell University, United States)

Assessing the impact of protected areas on biodiversity and the role of experimental design

- Jonas Geldmann (Center of Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Does protected area establishment result in pre-emptive forest clearing? Exploring the case of Madagascar’s protected area system expansion

- Jorge Llopis (Bangor University, UK)

Effects of protected areas on biodiversity occurrence trends – a country-wise multi taxon evaluation

- Andrea Santangeli (Helsinki University, Finland)

Forest and poverty: Hidden contributions of forest to multidimensional poverty

- Caterina Cosmopolis-del-Carpio (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

General discussion

NETWORKING EVENT:

Join us for some informal networking at #ECCB2022_Prague with #teamcounterfactual & the Social Science Working Group!

Time and place:

When: Tuesday 23^rd August 19:00

Where: At a bar close to the conference venue (TBD)

Hope to see many of you in Prague!