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Creating a long-term infrastructure for MARine Biodiversity research
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Marine biodiversity research that matters!

The Message from Malahide and the Killarney Declaration set ambitious goals for biodiversity research in support of the 2010 targets. Although there are many examples of constructive and effective cooperation between biodiversity research and biodiversity policy making, experience shows however, that interaction and cooperation between research and policy is not always effective, and maybe a barrier in reaching the 2010 targets.
The Amsterdam EPBRS meeting will explore research–policy interaction in the field of biodiversity, in order to support the implementation of the policies related to the 2010- targets. This means that the meeting will focus on the process of interaction between biodiversity research and policy making, as well as on the elaboration of an agenda of specific research topics relevant to the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the CBD. The reasoning behind this choice is that, however sound the research agenda, the chance of considerable progress in its implementation will be limited unless researchers and policy makers alike have a more thorough understanding of the way science-policy interaction works, and unless concrete steps are taken to make this process more successful.

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Topics

I. Introduction ( new: 3,unmoderated: )
II. Species Invasions: Marine bio-invasions and research policy - Ballast water as vehicle for exotic marine species inv ( new: 21,unmoderated: )
IIIa. Fisheries - Management of fish resources - The Baltic Sea ( new: 4,unmoderated: )
IIIb. Fisheries - Marine Protected Areas in the North Sea: To protect fisheries or biodiversity? - The Plaice Box ( new: 20,unmoderated: )
IV. Marine Protected Areas: Natura 2000 and beyond (OSPAR) - The Azores ( new: 13,unmoderated: )
V. Eutrophication - Nitrogen input in coastal waters (Topic postponed) ( new: 1,unmoderated: )
VI. Exploitation - Exploitation of shellfish in the Wadden Sea, project EVA II ( new: 1,unmoderated: )
Panel discussion - synthesis ( new: 1,unmoderated: )
 
General coordination: Carlo Heip ,Herman Hummel and Pim van Avesaath
Web site and conference hosted by VLIZ