Conference Presentations and Posters

The presentations and posters described on this page are either hosted on the conference websites, or are available for direct download (files are in pdf format).

• A Digital Soil Mapping neural network approach for peat depth mapping in Scotland [1] (PDF File: 487 KB)
  Presentation given at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) annual conference in Vienna 2014

• Jargon-busting: Understanding Ecosystem Approaches, Ecosystem Service Assessments and their mutual interdependence [2]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Bayesian Belief Networks using spatial data [3]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Using ecosystem services valuation to inform disproportionality analysis in the Water Framework Directive [4]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Mapping Scotland’s carbon stocks: a multi-model approach [5]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Green accounting as an alternative measure to GDP – international experiences and challenges [6]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Exploring climate regulatory forest services from a social science perspective [7]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Prioritising peatland restoration for spatially targeted ecosystem service delivery [8]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Understanding pressures on the water supply-demand balance for Scotland [9]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Scale and uncertainty in the evaluation of natural capital and ecosystem services: case studies within the Cairngorm National Park, Scotland [10]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Generating land use maps for scenario exploration of ecosystem services. [11]
  Presentation given at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Valuation of ecosystem services: Panacea or Pandora’s box for decision-makers? [12] (PDF File: 344 KB)
  Poster presented at Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) conference in 2014.

• Mapping the functionality of soils in Scotland using a neural network-based digital soil mapping approach [13] (PDF File: 883 KB)
  Presentation given at the 2014 World Congress of Soil Science in South Korea

• Could we focus more on the “policy” part of science policy interfaces? [14] (PDF File: 1,900 KB)
  Presentation given at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society conference.

• Valuing what we measure or measuring what we value?: Local and scientific understandings of ecosystem services in two Scottish catchments [15] (PDF File: 1,596 KB)
  Presentation given at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society conference.

• Trying to Measure an Octopus: Formative Evaluation of Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces [16] (PDF File: 848 KB)
  Presentation given at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society conference.

• Can scenario-planning tools aid co-production of knowledge for natural resource management? [17] (PDF File: 1479 KB)
  Presentation given at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society conference.

• Can local knowledges be included in policies in a meaningful way? [18] (PDF File: 882 KB)
  Presentation given at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society conference.

• What insights are offered by experiences of the Ecosystem Approach? [19] (PDF file: 595KB)
  Presentation given at the Resilience Alliance conference, Montpellier 2014

• Scenario planning and futures thinking: a useful tool for community-based management of tradeoffs? [20] (PDF file: 591KB)
  Presentation given at the Resilience Alliance conference, Montpellier 2014

• GDP vs. ‘beyond GDP': Green accounting as an alternative measure (progress, wealth & wellbeing of nations) – international experiences & challenges [21] (PDF File: 761 KB)
  Presentation given at the ISEE2014 Conference in Iceland.

• Phosphate fertiliser requirements of Scottish Soils [22] (PDF File: 667 KB)
  Poster presented at the 2014 Royal Highland Show.
• Can changing land management help deliver biodiversity benefits? [23] (PDF File: 1,464 KB)
  Poster presented at the 2014 SRUC-SEPA Conference on Delivering Multiple Benefits from our Land: Sustainable Development in Practice in Edinburgh

• Green and Blue Health and Place [24] (PDF file: 1,302 KB)
  Keynote presentation from Places and Spaces for Health and Wellbeing conference, Edinburgh 2013.

• Stocks of phosphorus in Scottish soils [25] (PDF file: 162 KB)
  Poster presented at British Society of Soil Science event.

• Supporting an ecosystem services approach at a catchment level [26] (PDF file: 3,388 KB)
  Poster presented at Lunan catchment group annual meeting.

• Green accounting as a measure of sustainability: international experiences and challenges [27] (PDF File: 213 KB)
  Poster presented at the 2013 Canadian Society of Ecological Economics (CANSEE) Conference on Sustaining the Commons: Ideas and Actions for a Green Economy

• Valuing the impacts of ecosystem service interactions [28] (PDF File: 655 KB)
  Poster presented at the Valuing Nature Network end of award conference.

• E-SMART: Environmental Sensing for Monitoring and Advising in Real Time [29] (PDF file: 1,093 KB)
  Presentation given at the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems in Austria in 2013

• Spatio-temporal characterisation of ecosystem functions based on macro habitats [30] (PDF file: 2,040 KB)
  The use of MODIS remote sensing data to assess distribution and dynamics of ecosystems functions.

• Benefits of soil carbon [31] (PDF file: 4,713 KB)
  Poster presented at the Planet Under Pressure conference, London 2012

• Payments for Water Ecosystem Services in Latin America: A quantitative review [32] (PDF File: 1,582 KB)
  Poster presented at the 2012 SRUC-SEPA Conference on Valuing Ecosystems: Policy, Economic and Management Interactions in Edinburgh

• Scenario modelling of ecosystem service provision with a new soil model (MOSES) [33] (PDF File: 785 KB)
  Presentation given at EUROSOIL 2012, Italy