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Aquatic Ecosystem Health
Management objectives depend on the scale of the environmental
problem. At the local and national levels, the
concept of sustainable development needs to be integrated
with the reality of environmental management, legislation,
and policy making. At the global level, other aspects,
like socio-economic and political factors dominate the
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Our challenge there
is to convince authorities that aquatic ecosystem health
is a key element in the endeavour towards for sustainability,
since water quality is an important prerequisite for
both human health and development as well as healthy
ecological status of aquatic ecosystems.
Depending on the questions raised and their relevant
management objectives, “ecosystem health”
assessments are designed at a range of scales, from
the smallest (micro-habitat, or even particle) to the
largest (catchment, region, or even larger).
Global / climate changes will better be
addressed at continental / decades scales, while the
impact of chemicals would rather be scrutinised at local
/ short term level. However, there is also a need for
extrapolating from the spatial and temporal contexts
at which the observations or experiments are done to
larger or narrower “windows”. In other words,
there is a need for approaches to address multiple scales,
like:
- Biological
indicators: from genes to communities
- Chemicals:
from single substance to mixtures
- Ecosystems:
from local perturbations to global changes
- Policy and
management: from local and national issues to international
conventions
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It seems probable
that the accuracy of comprehension of occurring processes
decreases increasing with the scale.
Therefore, this “scale issue” raises, among
others, two types of questions related (a) to the appropriateness
of investigative methods to the stakes, and (b) to the
relevance of either the quality criteria or the remediation
objectives. |
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Iterations between
these levels, and then integration, are a necessity
and we need to assume their consistency (complementarily)
in order to produce relevant managerial approaches and
to promote efficient remediation and preservation of
aquatic ecosystems.
The Conference plans to focus on the main
theme "Scaling from local to global perspectives",
through different sessions, as follows:
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- Physical and
chemical determinants of biological functioning
- Advanced (bioassay)
techniques and their management application
- Scientific
inputs to environmental policies and management
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Each session invites
oral or poster presentations dealing with the various
scales discussed above. The conference language will
be English only.
Poster size will be A0, title in upper-case
letters (about 1 cm high or more)" |
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