New knowledge can help society to avoid undesirable, unacceptable, or unintended consequences, and to create or seize opportunities to sustain valuable ecosystem services in balance with the benefits of sustaining human-built assets and desirable marketable products. NAREA’s 18 th Annual Workshop intends to identify the frontier and stimulate the creation of new knowledge essential to assisting society. Decisions made in the near term can establish resilience and protect vulnerable human-built infrastructure, while also impacting, positively or negatively, the extra-market ecosystem services critical to attracting, retaining, and sustaining residents, and natural resource-based tourist business and managed agroecosystems. These changes can have profound impacts on the quality of rural, coastal, or riverine communities, as well as on urban centers. Decision makers seek to change policies and land use practices in agriculture, forest management and community development, with the intention to provide a sustainable, resilient foundation for current residents and future generations. Losses of valuable ecosystem services have likely been increasing in recent decades as, nationally and globally, we witness an increasing frequency of severe storms, fire, and flooding. The non-excludable character of some ecosystem services (as public goods) or the failure of social institutions to internalize their values challenges society to avoid untended degradation of ecosystems affecting the quality of life of individuals and families, from rich to poor, or across diverse backgrounds.
Unfortunately, the value of ecosystem services is often left outside the consideration of market (commercial economy) participants and is, often, incompletely considered in government decisions, particularly at the state and local levels. In addition, we will have a finite budget to subsidize travel for early career faculty or graduate students to attend we will announce guidelines to apply after we have finalized the program toward end of spring semester we will encourage attendance from HBCUs, 18 Land Grant University faculty and students as well.Įcosystem services – the benefits that nature provides in support of human well-being – are impacted by decisions made in markets and in government deliberation and action. To incentivize high-quality contributions, we offer an honorarium (below) for selected speakers. Initial deadline is extended to Ma(see below). This workshop welcomes scholars from any background we seek diverse perspectives.
Senior, early-career, and creative scholars are sought, and student attendance is also encouraged. NAREA’s 2022 Workshop Committee from the University of Connecticut seeks creative, scholarly analysis and contributions for our June 14-15, 2022 (postponed from 2020) workshop following the NAREA’s annual meeting in Mystic, CT. Workshop coordinators: Stephen Swallow, Charles Towe, and Sandro Steinbach, University of Connecticut Ecosystem Services Foundations for Resilient Communities:Īgriculture, Land Use, Coasts and Energy for Human Well-Being