2nd Baltic Earth Workshop on "Multiple Drivers in Earth system changes in the Baltic Sea region"
Workshop
- LocationHelsinki, Finland
- Time4 Dec noon to 5 Dec noon
- HostUniversity of Helsinki
- ContributorVarious Speakers
Background
The industrial revolution and the subsequent developments have dramatically changed the world, with massive benefits for humans and concomitant detrimental effects like anthropogenic climate change, eutrophication, overfishing, pollution, and others. It is now widely accepted that the connections between these intertwined factors must be addressed. Many publications have dealt with this complex issue on a general scale (differently termed multiple or cumulative effects, stressors, pressures, drivers), mostly using statistical analysis or modelling approaches to better describe the problem, or management procedures to cope with it.
The Baltic Earth Working Group on “Multiple drivers for Earth system changes in the Baltic Sea” has intended to provide an overview over the different human drivers and interrelations between then in the Baltic Sea region. The first Baltic Earth Workshop on this topic in Tallinn in 2018 set the stage and established a group of interested scientists which culminated in a writing team for the comprehensive Baltic Earth Assessment Report (BEAR) paper in Earth System Dynamics: “Human impacts and their interactions in the Baltic Sea region.”
Scope of the Workshop
After the completion of the first phase of Baltic Earth and with the onset of a new phase, we are now revisiting the Baltic Earth Working Group on “Multiple drivers for Earth system changes in the Baltic Sea”. The outcome of the above-mentioned paper was the description of a number of human drivers for environmental changes and how they potentially interact with each other. We would now like take this to a new, more concrete level, and we are inviting interested scientists and managers to come together for the second Workshop to discuss how Baltic Earth can contribute to improving the scientific backup to the necessary management solutions. We would like to initiate an open discussion with the interested scientific and management community on how Baltic Earth can help to find the scientific foundation for best management practices to manage the different, often intertwined human pressures on the environment, while acknowledging human needs. The goal would be to provide knowledge as far as possible to help establish management options for policy makers. The workshop should discuss how we as Baltic Earth scientific community can contribute to reaching this goal. A concrete outcome of this workshop should be the establishment of a group of interested and dedicated scientists to develop concrete and feasible plans for this updated Baltic Earth Research Topic (RT) for the next 3 years.
The workshop will be free of fees but participation will be limited to the available capacity of the venue. An open call for presentations will be published in autumn; presentations will be selected by the Workshop Committee, based on scientific quality and relevance for the scope of the workshop.
Mark the dates in your calendar, registration will be open in October.