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Ecological and economic evaluation approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in EIA

Ecological and economic evaluation approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in EIA. A pre-meeting training course – IAIA ’08 4 th -5 th May 2008 Perth, Australia. Course presenters. Asha Rajvanshi Vinod Mathur. Course objectives.

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Ecological and economic evaluation approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in EIA

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  1. Ecological and economic evaluation approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in EIA A pre-meeting training course – IAIA ’08 4th-5th May 2008 Perth, Australia Course presenters Asha Rajvanshi Vinod Mathur

  2. Course objectives The course is intended for conservation community, EIA professionals, business groups, planners, and decision-makers with the following objectives: • Provide a theoretical rationale for recognising the importance of biodiversity in impact assessment. • Promote understanding of how humans value the functions and services that flow from biodiversity conservation and how decline in benefits from these services is reflected in economic terms. • Stimulate the importance of integrating economic valuation principles in EA framework for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment. • Build capacity of participants to use economic techniques for valuing biodiversity and incorporating those values into the decision-making process. • Introduce regulatory and market-based mechanisms for integrating biodiversity into mitigation planning for biodiversity.

  3. Contents and focus of the course Dayone – 4th May 2008 • Millennium Development Goals: The links with biodiversity. • Causes of decline of the biodiversity: The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. • Why value biodiversity in impact assessment. • Importance of integrating economic valuation approach in biodiversity inclusive impact assessment. • A walk-through the different stages of EIA framework for initiating a more focused discussion on how to mainstream biodiversity in the impact assessment framework. • ‘How to’ approaches for integrating economic valuation in different stages of EIA.

  4. Day two- 5th May 2008 • Introduction to a range of economic tools and techniques for valuing biodiversity. • Applications of various economic instruments for valuing biodiversity in impact assessment. • Introduction to the concepts of biodiversity offsets and review of the prospects and challenges of using offsets for benefiting biodiversity and business plans. • Case examples of biodiversity offsets. • Exercise – negotiating a biodiversity offset.

  5. Course presenters Asha Rajvanshi ar@wii.gov.in • Holds a doctorate degree in the field of Environmental Science. • Currently, Professor and Head EIA Cell of the Wildlife Institute of India. • Actively involved in coordinating and conducting training in EIA. • Partnered several collaborative projects with international agencies (The World Bank, CEC, UNEP, NCEIA, IAIA-CBBIA, Wetlands International, EU, University of Trento, Italy) for promoting best practices in EIA. • Member of advisory committees of Government of India to provide support in review of EIAs and follow ups. • Member of national technical committee for registration of EIA consultants. • Co Chair, Biodiversity and Ecology Section of IAIA. • Presented the IAIA pre-conference training courses in Boston (USA), Stavanger (Norway) and Seoul (Korea).

  6. Vinod Mathur vbm@wii.gov.in • Holds a professional degree in Forestry and a doctorate in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Oxford. • Currently, the Dean, Faculty of Wildlife Sciences in WII. • Has worked as an FAO International Training and Protected Area Planning Consultant in Sri Lanka. • Partnered several collaborative projects with international agencies (The World Bank, CEC, UNEP, NCEIA, IAIA) for professionalizing EIA. • An active member of IAIA and CBBIA Project team and a key partner in CBBIA (South Asia) Project implementation. • Member of the advisory committee of Government of India and several international bodies (IUFRO, IUCN, UNESCO, UNEP). • Presented the IAIA pre-conference training courses in Boston (USA), Stavanger (Norway) and Seoul (Korea).

  7. Geographic spread of participants

  8. Africa

  9. Asia

  10. Australasia http://www.map-of-australia.us

  11. South America

  12. Europe England

  13. Geographic spread of participants

  14. Course delivery • Interactive lecture sessions • Case study presentations • Group work • Role games

  15. Learning resources • A CD containing power point presentations from the course instructors. • Copy of the “Best practice guidance for biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment: A manual for practitioners and reviewers”. • IAIA’s best practice principles for integrating biodiversity and impact assessment. • Voluntary guidelines on biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment. The Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment. • Ramsar handbook on Impact Assessment. • Resources on economic valuation from IUCN.

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