Instructions for submitting an abstract for talks and posters

Topics, approaches and formats

Proposals must relate to the environment and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems (e.g. in agriculture, forestry, fisheries…), and may encompass multidisciplinary topics particularly related to human wellbeing, international development and the sustainable development goals (e.g. biodiversity and health, green tourism, impact of life-cycles of products, ecotoxicology, impact of biotechnologies, etc.)

 Approaches of interest may encompass various goals and challenges to evidence synthesis such as (but not exclusively):

• Communicating findings of existing evidence synthesis to decision makers and practitioners
• Engaging with decision-makers and practitioners
• Identifying the need for evidence-synthesis
• Comparing methods for evidence synthesis
• Commissioning CEE reviews
• Developing consortia and networks for collaborative evidence-synthesis
• Lessons learnt from conducting CEE reviews
• Case studies on impact of CEE reviews
• Advancing evidence synthesis methodology
• Developing funding streams for evidence synthesis

Instructions

You are invited to submit an abstract before January 5th. Acknowledgment of receipt will be sent automatically. If you do not receive any acknowledgment, please contact us at (cee2018@fondationbiodiversite.fr)

For talks, a maximum of two abstracts will be accepted for each speaker. All authors of accepted abstracts must register and be paid in full by the early registration deadline (currently February 2018). Authors failing to comply with this rule will not be included in the Conference Programme.

Oral (spoken) presentations will be limited to 20 minutes: 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions.  Contributed oral presentations will be grouped by topic.  If your abstract is accepted but cannot be accommodated as an oral presentation, we may offer you the opportunity to present a poster.  All oral presentation rooms will be equipped with a computer and a data projector.

Poster presenters will receive general instructions on poster format once the abstract is accepted.

Proposals must contain the following information : (you can download the template here )

Criteria for Selection of Abstracts

We are particularly looking for presentations that fit with the conference theme and show clear promise to contribute to the development of CEE and its mission. Abstracts that show promise to produce papers for publication in Environmental Evidence will also be of interest.

Reviewing of abstract submissions

 Proposals will be reviewed by at least two individuals. To increase the probability that your abstract will be selected for presentation, please consider the following criteria carefully:

• Relevance to the overall theme of the congress
• Relevance to mission of CEE
• Clear connection to environmental science, policy, management or practice
• Quality of the proposal
• Novelty of the topic

Scientific Committee

Claes Bernes, Mistra EviEM, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

Steven Cooke, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Sif Johansson, Mistra EviEM, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

Magnus Land, Mistra EviEM, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

Barbara Livoreil, Fundation for Research on Biodiversity, France

Andrew Pullin, Bangor University, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, UK

Natalie Tannous, CEE Johannesburg, hosted by the Africa Centre for Evidence at the University of Johannesburg

Carina Van Rooyen, CEE Johannesburg, hosted by the Africa Centre for Evidence at the University of Johannesburg