The symposium is designed to attract a mix of policy-makers, regulators and scientists with a common interest in the use of summary tools for the effective expression and wider communication of environmental status and trends.It anticipates the translation of a number of current initiatives on indicator development into pilot or operational use within a regulatory framework, for example, under HELCOM, OSPAR and EU (‘Water Framework’ Directive) auspices.
Coverage ranges across many activities and spatial scales and includes the cross-disciplinary challenge posed by the implementation of an ecosystem approach to environmental management. As such it offers an unusually wide opportunity for the exchange of ideas, and publication of the proceedings in the ICES Journal of Marine Science (Guest Editor: Professor Niels Daan) will ensure that the outcome will have lasting benefit for all the relevant ‘stakeholder’ interests.
Symposium Themes
Theme 1: Policy/regulatory frameworks for indicator applications
Theme 2: Satisfying the need: case studies of the operational use of environmental indicators
Theme 3: Promising new indicator developments
Theme 4: Overview and forward look (including workshop session)
Social Event
A special evening event has been organised for Thursday, 22nd November. This includes a trip on the London Eye (we have private capsules booked) followed by dinner on The Naticia, a well-appointed River Thames leisure cruiser. We encourage attendance to promote social interaction as well as to celebrate all the hard work that is being done in the environmental indicator area.
Date: 20 - 23 November
Location: Brunei Gallery, SOAS (University of London), London, U.K.
Programme: ICES Symposium Event Programme (pdf,1.63Mb)
Subject: Environmental Indictators; Utility in Meeting Regulatory Needs
Closing date for registration: 16 November 2007
For Further details and registration information visit the ICES Symposium Event Webpage.
Please contact Sonia Kirby for further enquiries (01621 787384)