Posters

SESSION POSTERS

Tous les posters seront présentés dans une même salle. Nous recommandons aux auteurs de se tenir à proximité pour faciliter les échanges. Les sessions posters auront lieu durant les pause-café.

Les résumés des posters sont présentés ci-dessous par ordre alphabétique de nom du premier auteur.

Gaps in policy and practice for assessing the environmental risks of contaminated sediments, in the Baltic Sea.
Peter Bruce, Anna Sobek

 It is unclear how to assess the risks from contaminated sediments in the Baltic Sea region. Due to shortcomings in policies and a lack of standards, stakeholders has no common guidance in order to conduct or assess management of contaminated sediments. This causes a risk of insufficient management for our societal aims such as the sustainable development goals. To promote more efficient policies for sustainable management of the common resource that sediment constitutes, the management and  knowledge gaps regarding risk assessment of contaminated sediments in the Baltic Sea region must be identified. In the project “Contaminated sediments in the Baltic Sea: assessment and management revisited” (CONTAR) we are mapping strategies and guidelines for contaminated sediments in the region. In the void of standardized guidelines, we are also investigating how contaminated sediments are assessed in practice, beginning by comparing Swedish assessments to guidelines made for other countries.

The ecotoxicological impacts of lead and non-lead pellets on wildlife: learnings on methodological development of a systematic review.
Olivier Cardoso, Elisane Tessier, Barbara Livoreil, Ludivine Boursier, Nirmala Séon-Massin

 Metal (especially lead) poisoning among wildlife species caused by scattered and accidentally ingested ammunitions or fishing tackles has been a recurrent and worldwide problem. Nowadays, a partial consensus exists about the scale of the phenomenon (impacted species, prevalences, risk factors …) or the effectiveness/applicability of adopted and future regulatory solutions. Yet, the controversy is still supported by several sociocultural, political and economic issues. To anticipate a ministery’s request, ONCFS is using the methodology of systematic review to allow a comprehensive, repeatable and unbiased assessment of these ecotoxicological impacts, determining knowledge gaps and further scientific challenges. The work team presents the methodological development (PICO, scoping/screening/sorting process, study typology and quality assessment) and the difficulties experienced: large geographic and taxonomic spectrum, important variability of sub-questions addressed, strong heterogeneity of studies/field reports in order to benefit from the audience’s feedback before the submission of the Protocol. These parameters have caused an important work to define a priori inclusion criteria to be used in the eligibility screening stage of the review and reach a good operator’s agreement and design the elements of the systematic map essential to describe the available knowledge, before any further assessment is conducted.

Towards a healthier blue community: exploring interactions between marine management and human health and well-being
Jacqualyn Eales, Ruth Garside

Coastal communities around the world depend on healthy and diverse marine ecosystems for food, livelihoods, health and well-being. A full understanding of how marine management interacts with the latter two aspects is currently lacking. We will address this by building on an existing systematic map of the effects of environmental conservation and management on human well-being, published in the EEJ in 2015. We will update the systematic map and identify knowledge clusters and gaps particularly in the area of marine and mangrove management. Prioritisation of topics suitable for systematic review will involve researchers and stakeholders, particularly focused on marine management in SE Asia. Our evidence synthesis will feed into the other projects of a 4-year UK-funded research programme, “GCRF Blue Communities”. This interdisciplinary programme will link universities and research institutions in the UK and SE Asia to build long-term research capability supporting sustainable planning for marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

Producing Actionable Evidence: Examples from the United States Agency for International Development's Forestry and Biodiversity Office
Andres Gomez, Natalie Dubois, Sara Carlson, Diane Russell

 A widely recognized challenge in conservation practice is the gap between the knowledge generated by researchers and the information that donors and managers use to inform their decisions. One of the world’s largest conservation donors, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is committed to using and generating evidence to maximize the impact of its investments in biodiversity conservation. The USAID Office of Forestry and Biodiversity has engaged in efforts to increase the relevance and uptake of the evidence base available to the Agency’s staff. These efforts start by engaging staff from across the Agency’s operating units in the design and production process, and include tailoring outputs with specific end users in mind. Here we describe the process that lead to the production of USAID’s Biodiversity and Development Research Agenda and highlight two examples of evidence products linking biodiversity conservation with food security. We suggest that this collaborative, user-focused process can increase the relevance and the accessibility of evidence products and likely contribute to improved evidence-based practice.

Waste away: How research ethics reinforces the case for systematic reviews and meta-analysis in environmental science
Joe Gray

 Establishing scientifically how to lessen large-scale environmental problems such as biodiversity loss often necessitates first causing small-scale ecological harm (e.g. forest clearcutting). When “research waste” occurs (i.e. when results are unusable in isolation, for reasons such as under-powering), it is thus not just a problem in terms of depleting research resources but a deeper ethical issue. Accordingly, evidence synthesis has an important role, from a research ethics perspective, in environmental science. This poster first details the various small-scale initial ecological harms that occur in research. Next, drawing parallels with medical research (e.g. the “clinical equipoise” concept), the ethical case for evidence synthesis in this field is presented, along with the practical implications. The reasons why research waste is likely to be more common in environmental than medical research are also explored. Finally, ethically grounded recommendations are made for support tools that are needed, including a richer array of research registries.

The Implementation of a Circular Economy in the Coffee Sector of Cameroon. Case Study: The North West Cooperative Association
Chia Olivette Ndum, Prudencia Akum, Franklin Fai Yengo

  Contemporary African societies neglect agricultural practices and techniques that ensure maximum production with the least possible negative environmental effects due to lack of evidence for practice. As a low income country, Cameroon faces the problem of lack of accessible, good quality evidence to inform decision making in environmental management. Consequently, decision makers derive policies from available empirical studies or on personal experience and expertise probably due to longevity in the field or input from peers and collaborators. Data collection was carried out by overview of existing literature, interviews and focus group discussions with stakeholders The reality shows a trend of old practices that need to be improved to meet international standards and improve the wellbeing of all the actors in the entire production/supply chain. There is equally a great gap in the generation, synthesis and implementation of evidence in the agricultural sector that needs to be addressed.

Environmental externalities of water bodies on housing market: A systematic review

Wendy Chen, Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong

 Hedonic pricing method is a widely adopted approach to estimate how environmental externalities are capitalized into house values, thereby information on the environmental externalities can be derived. Generally, bundled positive environmental amenity and negative environmental dis-amenity impacts might be generated by diverse waterbodies (and associated landscape). While existing literature has commonly agreed that proximity to and views of waterbodies could generate environmental amenities and add premiums to property values located in surrounding areas, environmental dis-amenities associated with water pollution and waterside environment have received much less attention. This systematic review would provide an overview of the types and quantification of environmental externalities associated with diverse waterbodies.