WEDNESDAY (28.06.2017)
PRACTICE / IMPLEMENTATION

8:00 - 8:45

Morning Group Walk (optional)

Led group walk with Melissa Marselle. Please meet in conference venue foyer at 7.55.

8:00 - 18:00

Registration - Foyer

9:00

Introduction and review of day 1
Chair: Horst Korn (Head of Division International Nature Conservation, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation - BfN, Germany)

Nature-based solutions to improve human health in a changing climate –
Practice examples

9:05

Urban green spaces and health – launching a brief for action

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

9:35

The healthy cities network Germany

Karsten Mankowski (Political chair of the German National Healthy Cities Network of healthy cities, Rhein-Kreis Neuss Umwelt- und Gesundheitsamt , Grevenbroich, Germany)

10:05

Interactive session plan
Horst Korn (Head of Division International Nature Conservation, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation - BfN, Germany)

10:10

Coffee & Tea

Biodiversity, Health and Climate Change – Opportunities, challenges and evidence gaps

10:40

Interactive Parallel Sessions - SLOT 1

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·     Session 1 Biodiversity or Green Space? Evidence for contributions to health in a changing climate
Chair: Rebecca Lovell (Defra Research Fellow on the Natural Environment and Human Health, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, UK)

·     Session 2 Health and protected areas in a changing climate
Chair: Veikko Virkkunen (Metsähallitus, Parks & Wildlife Finland (P&WF))

·     Session 3 Linking Initiatives in biodiversity, health, climate change in policy and practice
Chair: Hans Keune (Belgian Biodiversity Platform, The Research Institute for Nature and Forest - INBO, Belgium)
 

·     Session 4 The benefits of green space for enhancing human health – Lessons learned from urban interventions
Chair: Matthias Braubach (World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe) 

12:40

Lunch / Market place (Poster Session with Presenters)

14:30

Interactive Parallel Sessions - SLOT 2

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·     Session 5 Psychological effects of nature and biodiversity on human health and wellbeing

Chair: Dörte Martens (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany)
 

·     Session 6 Allergenic plants and vector borne disease – Relevance to human health in a changing climate
Chair: Regina Treudler (University of Leipzig, Germany)
 

·     Session 7 Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and their role in fostering health and socio-environmental equity  
Chair: Melissa Marselle (German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research – iDiv)
 

·     Session 8 Planning and managing urban green spaces for health and biodiversity in a changing climate – Concepts, experiences, practice
Chair: Stefan Heiland (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

16:30

Coffee & Tea

17:00 - 18:30

Plenum Summary
Main lecture Hall

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

19:00

Conference dinner