Friends,
Please share the following announcement with your colleagues.
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Dean Urban
The Nicholas School
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708 USA
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The Duke Environmental Leadership Program is offering an Ecosystem
Service Markets short-course that will meet from July 29-31, 2009.
Taught by expert practitioners working in the various ecosystem service
markets, this course aims to bring the most current and practical
information on ecosystem service markets to environmental professionals,
specifically in the land trust and restoration fields. As states,
regional authorities, land trusts, and others evaluate what lands should
be set aside or restored, quantifying the ecosystem services provided by
these lands or potentially provided by these lands is a new way to
prioritize. Existing and emerging markets in ecosystem services may
also become an additional source of revenue to help enhance conservation
dollars. These new ecosystem service markets can become an important
part of the business structure for land trusts and restoration businesses.
The course will discuss the newest developments in four ecosystem
service markets: wetland and stream mitigation banking; conservation
banking, also referred to as species banking; greenhouse gas mitigation
markets for agriculture and forestry; and water quality trading. For
each of these markets, the course will provide an overview of the market
today, including the regulatory framework of the market; discuss
fundamentals of the market, including the limitations and opportunities
in establishing a mitigation bank or project; and give detailed examples
of how trades work within the market.
For more information about the course and course speakers or to register
for the course, visit
http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/del/continuinged/courses.html
