At January 16th, 2006 at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland a one-day conference will take place with the title

"Supply and Demand for Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forestry. Market Actors, Marketing and Institutions."

The idea that ecosystems offer services to society is gaining momentum. The most important ones identified by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment are supporting services, provisioning services, regulating services and cultural services. In this conference we focus on microeconomic aspects (demand, supply, market actors preferences and marketing aspects etc. ) and institutional settings which help to coordinate the demand and supply for such ecosystem services. The
international speakers will highlight these issues using theoretical perspectives and case studies. A panel discussion on emerging issues will close the conference.

Confirmed speakers:
* Prof. Jeff Sayer, WWF International “Conserving ecosystem services - when are payments the solution?”
* Dr. Stefanie Engel PD, University Bonn, Germany “Designing payments for environmental services in the context of weak property rights and commercial interests.”
* Wendy Proctor, Ph. D., CSIRO, Australia “Design of incentives and institutions for ecosystem services markets in Australia.”
* Dr. Enrique Ibarra, CIFOR, Indonesia “Are the payments for forest protection in Vietnam Payments for Environmental Services?”
* Hans-Peter Egler, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (seco) “The approach of SECO to environmental services.”
* Prof. David Zilberman, UC Berkeley, USA "Targeting and marketing environmental services programs. “
* Dr. Thomas Koellner, HES-ETH, Switzerland "Marketing for ecosystem services. “
* Guillermo Navarro, Ph.D., CATIE, Costa Rica “Market driven schemes for implementing payment of environmental services in Costa Rica.”
* Joachim Sell, HES-ETH, Switzerland "Market actors’ decision making on ecosystem services. Empirical evidence from an international survey. “
* NN, Forest trends “The ecosystem market place.”

You can register until January 5th, 2005 with the form attached. When you have allready registered, do not resend.

More infos at http://www.uns.ethz.ch/res/ssedm/eco/events/conference06 and in the program attached.