Presentation Sessions (1-6) on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th March provided an opportunity for researchers, practitioners and decision makers from all sector communities and disciplines to orally and visually present their high quality academic, traditional, theoretical and practical knowledge on ecosystem services. Each Presentation Session contained 4 parallel streams. Streams are based on broad topics. Participants were encouraged to move between rooms to ensure they attend the presentations of their choice. Presentation Guidelines can be found here.

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Wednesday 29th March – Presentation Sessions 1, 2 and 3

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Presentation Session 1 

Wednesday

 8:30 – 10:00

Gilmore

Natural Capital & Business (Risk Management and Tools)

Paterson 1

Coastal Communities and Livelihoods

Paterson 2

Payments for Ecosystem Services  

Mackellar

Decision Making Processes and Institutional Arrangements
Moderator Tia Stevens Helen Ross Frank Casey Steve Cork
8:30 – 8:35 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro
8:35 – 8:55 Marnie Lassen (Trust for Nature) – Beyond ecology to the economy: valuing private land conservation

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 Fred Patison – Ecosystem services critical to community livelihoods, Wagna Island Yonariza – Knowledge gap in payments for environmental service, research challenges; Case of Koto Panjang Hydropower Plant Catchment area in Sumatra, Indonesia

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 Jon Day – The relative importance of social, economic and political aspects of decision-making compared to the ecological aspects during environmental planning
8:55 – 9:15 Sue Ogilvy (My Farm Shop) – Natural capital accounting for the rangelands Melanie King -Understanding food insecurity across fisheries and agricultural systems in coastal communities within south east Asia  Anita Wreford – Payments for forest ecosystem services – insights from forests in Oceania Simon Reeves – Mapping Australia’s Ocean Wealth: integrating ecosystem services into coastal decision-making 
9:15 – 9:35 Alan Key (Earth Trade) – Investing Monies on the Ground: Risk mitigation, legal and financial considerations to achieve quadruple bottom line impact

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 Akiko Lida – A scenario-based approach to sustainable land management: case of Republic of Palau Kiran Paudyal –Design considerations for payment for ecosystem services from the community-managed forested landscape in Nepal Himlal Baral – Trade-offs and synergies among multiple ecosystem services
9:35 – 9:55 Joshua Bishop (WWF Australia) – Managing natural capital risk in supply chains: John West Australia and tuna fish from the West Central Pacific Ocean  Anya Phelan – Ecosystem based sustainable business development for coastal communities in the Coral Triangle Luke Preece – Experience in a decade of developing ecosystem services markets on indigenous lands in northern Australia John Tisdell – Institutional and legal arrangements for the protect and provision of ecosystem services in Tasmania
9:55 – 10:00 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up

Presentation Session 2

Wednesday

10:30 am – 12:00

Gilmore 

Natural Capital & Business (Investing in Nature) 

Paterson 1

Coastal Communities and Livelihoods

Paterson 2

Indigenous Peoples and Ecosystem Services  

Mackellar

Methods, Frameworks and Classifications
Moderator Joshua Bishop Anya Phelan Luke Preece Madhav Karki
10:30 – 10:35 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro
10:35 – 10:55 Rich Gilmore (The Nature Conservancy) – Prosperity in time of scarcity – making markets work for people and nature Helen Ross – How do communities organise to protect coral reef, mangrove and seagrass related ecosystem services? Judy Fisher – An holistic approach connecting Intergovernmental Platform On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to international conventions with indigenous peoples and invasive species as the connectors Tanya Doody – Advancing methods and tools for water management in the Murray-Darling Basin
10:55 – 11:15 Violeta Jovanoska (HSBC) – Mobilising finance to deliver a low carbon economy Erik Simmons – The importance of psychological well-being in functioning ecosystem services Kamaljit Sangha – Ecosystem services and indigenous well-being – recognising the links Simone Maynard – global perspectives of national policy implementation
11:15 – 11:35 James Bentley/Justin Foster (National Australia Bank/ Earthwatch) –  Banking on Natural Capital Abu Kibria – Potentials of ecosystem services for improving human wellbeing around Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh Tui Warmenhoven – The restoration of ecosystem services and their contribution to cultural identity and sustainability Mark Eigenraam – A transaction-based approach for defining and measuring ecosystem services
11:35 – 11:55 Cheyne McKee (Bank Australia) – Bank Australia Conservation Reserve: 120,000 owners and counting Nils Krueck – Marine reserve network design for coral reef fisheries Sunita Chaudhary – Holy ponds and missed opportunities: A cross-scale analysis of cultural ecosystem services at the Mai Pokhari Ramsar site of Nepal Roger Sayre – Standardized terrestrial and marine ecosystems of Oceania
11:55 – 12:00 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up

Presentation Session 3

Wednesday

1:15 – 2:45

Gilmore

Natural Capital & Business (Innovation and On-ground Action)

Paterson 1

Marine Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services

Paterson 2

Addressing Threats to Ecosystem Services

Mackellar

Built and Urban Ecosystems and Land-Use Planning
Moderator Marnie Lassen  Jan-Olaf Meynecke Pete Smith Rebecca Runting
1:15 – 1:20 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro
1:20 – 1:40 James Wright (Future Business Council) – The Next Boom: the burgeoning opportunity for innovative sustainable business Catherine Lovelock – Blue carbon in Australia  Toni Hay – The effects of ocean acidification David Loubser – Ecosystem services use by urban communities in Port Villa, Vanuatu 
1:40 – 2:00 Camillo Coladonato (Dow Chemical Company) – Including nature at the business decision table  Nancy Haddaden –Computing ecosystem services in the Peel-Harvey Estuary: from coneptualisation to implementation

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 Victoria Greentree – Development of a New South Wales Tilapia incursion response plan: failure to plan is a plan to fail Amrita Kambo – The built environment as a provider of ecosystem services in urban landscapes 

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2:00 – 2:20 Dianne Sciacca (Eco Bananas) – Ecoganic: sustainability from farm to market Carol Martin – Mapping the intangibles: cultural ecosystem services obtained from Lake Macquarie estuary Imogen Ingram – Implementation of oceans Sustainable Development Goal 14 in Pacific small developing states Darryl Low Choy – Catchment management through the lens of water sensitive urbanism
2:20 – 2:40 Cheyne Wilkie – Woorabinda Aboriginal Council, BHP Billiton, Baralaba Coal and Biodiversity Zaida Contreras – Port-Phillip Bay ecosystem accounts and seagrass values Sandra Velarde – Capturing the full suite of natures values in decision making: the case of wilding conifers in New Zealand Sunita Chaudhary – Paristhiki sewa: A critical analysis of ecosystem services discourse in Nepal
2:40 – 2:45 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up

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Thursday 30th March – Presentation Sessions 4, 5 and 6

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Presentation Session 4

Thursday

11:00 – 12:30

Gilmore

Natural Capital & Business (Impact Assessment and Ecosystem Services Valuation)

Paterson 1

Climate Change

Paterson 2

Australian Applications of Ecosystem Accounting

Mackellar

Sustainable Management of Terrestrial Ecosystems
Moderator Carl Shapiro Brendan Mackey Carl Obst John Dymond
11:00 -11:05 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro
11:05 – 11:25 Paul Goldsworthy (Ramboll Environ) – The application of ecosystem service valuation to offshore decommissioning decision-making Helene Jacot Des Combes –  The Pacific Regional Federation for Resilience Professionals a model for resilience: a model for resilience and sustainable energy ecosystem services Heather Keith – Ecosystem accounts define trade-offs in natural resource management both explicitly and spatially Fraser Morgan -Ecosystem service approaches to sustainably manage terrestrial landscapes 
11:25 – 11:45 Paul Goldsworthy  (Ramboll Environ) – Net Environmental Benefit Analysis (NEBA) and ecosystem services valuation for the integrated assessment of environmental management options Mohamed Walid – PRFRP: A model for resilience and sustainable energy ecosystem services leading provider in the pacific community with highest standards Tony Varcoe – Valuing Victoria’s Parks: Accounting for ecosystems and valuing their benefits Richard Yao – New Zealand’s forest ecosystem services and their contribution to community resilience
11:45 – 12:05 David Marsh (Fauna and Flora International) – Assessing ecosystem services impacts and dependencies in the extractive sector – African and Latin American examples Cass Hunter – Adapting to a changing environment: learning with the Torres Strait communities to understand future impacts on well-being and livelihoods Michael Vardon – Measurement, valuation and recording in accounts of the water provisioning services in the central highland of Victoria David Watson – Facilitating recovery: how bottom-up processes can minimise further insectivore declines
12:05 – 12:25 Mervyn Mason (Golder Associates) –  From ecosystem science, to service knowledge – lessons over the last five years Rebecca Runting – How to outsmart climate change: reducing risk in planning for coastal ecosystem services under sea level rise Simon Cook – Ecosystem Accounting for Forico’s Forest Assests Catherine Leigh – Ecosystem services of ‘terrestrial’ rivers of the Anthropocene 
12:25 – 12:30 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up

Presentation Session 5

Thursday

1:45 – 3:15

Gilmore

Valuing Ecosystem Services

Paterson 1    

Climate Change

Paterson 2

Setting the Scene for Ecosystem Accounting

Mackellar

Watershed and Catchment Management
Moderator  Jeremy De Valck Cass Hunter John Pontillas Himlal Baral
1:45 – 1:50 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro
1:50 – 2:10 Samantha Capon – The thin greenline: the growing value of riparian ecosystem services under a changing climate Patrick Nunn – Through the lens of peripherality: climate-driven changes to ecosystem services for communities in Bua, western Vanua Levu Island (Fiji)

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 Sue Ogilvy – Enumeration, valuation, and evaluation – an ecosystem by any other number …. Lisa Tanika – Collaborative watershed management for better watershed function and enhanced local livelihood: a case from Buol watershed, central Sulawesi, Indonesia
2:10 – 2:30 Leanne Fernades – The value of our oceans Jan-Olaf Meynecke – Developing a sustainable whale watch industry Nicholas Conner – Connecting natural capital, ecosystem services and environmental policy in New South Wales, Australia John Dymond – Can ecosystem services navigate the balance between agriculture and environment in the Hikurangi Catchment?                 
2:30 – 2:50 Pedro Flores – A choice modelling experiment to explore the opportunities to maintain critical ecosystem services by young Australians Wade Hadwen – Developing climate-resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Pacific Island Countires Becky Smith – Environmental economic accounting for State of the Environment Paul Groves – Ecosystem services and the Great Barrier Reef
2:50 – 3:10 Raphaël Billé –  A demand-driven approach to ecosystem services economic valuation: pacific case studies from the RESCCUE Project  Geoff Dews – Evidence for persuasion as part of the ecosystem-based approach Michael Vardon – WAVES and the development and application of ecosystem accounting Fleur Maseyk – Managing riparian margins to influence the provision of multiple ecosystem services
3:10 – 3:15 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up

Presentation Session 6 

Thursday 

3:45 – 5:15

Gilmore

Prioritising, Financing and Investing in Ecosystem Services

Paterson 1

Case Studies in Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Paterson 2

International Work on Ecosystem Accounting

Mackellar

Thought Pieces and Experiences
Moderator  Sarah Hemstock  Jon Day Michael Vardon John Tisdell
3:45 – 3:50 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro 5 min intro
3:50 – 4:10 Jeremy De Valck – Water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef: Can ecosystem services valuation help? Peter Smith – Ecosystem-based adaptation in Small Island Developing States: two examples from Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands Alvin Faraon – Valuation of ecosystem services of Laguna de Bay Basin as affected by changes in land cover Philippa Rowland – Ecosystem services – how can we turn words into action on climate?
4:10 – 4:30 Sierra Ison – A sustainable financing model for a marine protected area network in Fiji Jilda Shem – Ecosystem-based adaptation planning on the garden island of Taveuni, Fiji Brando Angeles – Water asset account of Laguana de Bay Basin, Philippines Anne-Gaelle Ausseil – Can co-innovation lead to high impact land and water indicators? A think piece for future research in New Zealand
4:30 – 4:50 Raphaël Billé – Economic and financial mechanisms for ecosystem services management: Pacific insights from the RESCCUE Project Daniel Ware – Designing ecosystem-based adaptation projects: a case study of Tanna Island Vanuatu John Francisco Pontillas – Ecosystem accounting as input to informed development decision in Southern Palawan, Philippines Steve Cork -Breaking through: acknowledging and addressing constraints on mainstreaming ecosystem services thinking
4:50 – 5:10 Melissa Walsh – Marine Conservation Finance: Solutions for Ocean Communities Madhav Karki  – Building Resilient Asia Pacific: Ridge-to-Reef Ecosystem Partnership Pierre Bertrand – A research action program for natural capital accounting implementation in Madagascar Simone Maynard – Recommendations on a methodology for multi-scale ecosystem services assessments
5:10 – 5:15 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up 5 min wrap-up