27 JUNE 2017


 

TUESDAY (27.06.2017)
SCIENCE

8:00 - 18:00

Registration - Foyer

 

The Nexus of Biodiversity, Health and Climate Change

9:00

Introduction and Opening
Beate Jessel
(President, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation - BfN, Germany)

 

Chair: Horst Korn (Head of Division International Nature Conservation, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation - BfN, Germany)

9:20

Welcome and update from ENCA
Ruth Waters
 (Natural England / Climate change interest group European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies - ENCA, UK)

9:25

Welcome address from WHO
Elizabet Paunovic
(Head of Office, European Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Germany)

9:30

Enhancing Europe’s natural capital benefit to human health and climate change

Ronan Uhel (Head of Programme “Natural Systems and Sustainability”, European Environment Agency - EEA, Denmark)

10:00

Nature and health – A psychological perspective

Terry Hartig (Upsala University, Sweden)

10:30

Coffee & Tea

 

Chair: Aletta Bonn (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ and German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research - iDiv, Germany)

11:00

Biodiversity and health – Implications for conservation
Kevin Gaston (University of Exeter, UK)

11:30

Linking landscape planning and health – Green space and quality of life
Catharine Ward Thompson
(University of Edinburgh, UK)

12:00

Discussion

12:30

Lunch / Press Conference (Poster Exhibition, without presenters)

 

Physical and psychological effects

14:00

 

Mosquito borne diseases and global changes
Ruth Müller (Chief Manager of the GM mosquitoes confined release facilities PoloGGB, Italy, and Head of the Department Environmental Toxicology and Medical Entomology University of Frankfurt, Germany)

14:20

Environmental immunology – Allergies and chronic diseases
Stephanie Gilles-Stein
(University clinic, Augsburg, Germany)

14:40

Urban nature, health and climate change

Sarah Lindley (The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)

15:00

Phenotype: Positive health effects on the natural outdoor environment

in typical populations of different regions in Europe
Roderick Lawrence (Director of the Global Environmental Policy Program University Geneva; visiting professor at the United Nations University's International Institute for Global Health)

15:20

Discussion

15:30

Coffee & Tea

16:00

Effects of green spaces on children
Payam Dadvand
(IS Global, Spain)

16:20

Happiness in Green Environments
Sjerp de Vries
(Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), The Netherlands)

 

Social effects and implications for planning

16:40

Nature and Health inequalities in the face of climate change
Richard Mitchell
(Institute for Health and Wellbeing / CRESH, Glasgow University)

17:00

Resilience Management for Healthy Cities in a Changing Climate
Thomas Elmqvist (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden)

17:20

Synergies and Trade-offs of Conservation and Health: Implications for sustainable (urban) Health Planning
Thomas Claßen
(NRW Centre for Health (Germany), Section “Health assessments and forecasting”)

17:40

Discussion

18:00

Break

18:15

Open Event / Welcome
Thomas Graner
(Deputy of the President of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany)

 

Public evening lecture: Public perceptions and engagement with climate change

Wouter Poortinga (Cardiff University, UK)

19:00

Conference buffet, evening reception          hosted by BfN

Programme may still be subject to changes