Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being
9-12 November 2005, Hotel Mision de Los Angeles, Oaxaca, Mexico.
More than 700 leading natural and social scientists from 60 countries will attend the first open science conference, convened Paris-based DIVERSITAS to integrate knowledge about the relationship between humans and the world’s biological resources. Goals of the conference:
• develop ways to determine the true value of biodiversity (economic, social and cultural); and
• provide the scientific basis for decision-making (at policy and personal levels) that reflects these values in the effort to conserve vital resources.
Key questions to be addressed include:
• How biodiversity is changing and why;
• The consequences of change for ecosystems and for the delivery of ecosystem goods and services;
• How to promote more sustainable use of biodiversity and improve human well-being
More than 450 presentations will reveal recent findings across virtually all ecosystems, explain the development and application of new technologies, and challenge current thinking about human activities that are having the greatest impact on biodiversity change.