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CALL FOR PAPER: REDD+ Session (C2) at iEMSs 2012

Session title: Modelling the effectiveness and efficiency of REDD+

http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_C.html


Session Description:
Projects aimed at reducing emission from deforestation and forest 
degradation or the enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) are 
promising and cost-effective pathways to mitigate greenhouse gas 
emissions in developing countries. REDD+ activities provide incentive 
payments that aim to reduce the pressure on forest resources and related 
carbon stocks. But to date it is unclear how REDD+ mechanisms can best 
deliver beneficial outcomes with regard to understanding and monitoring 
the impact on climate effectiveness, cost efficiency, equity and 
co-benefits. Knowledge of the decision-making processes that lead to 
changes in land use is prerequisite to understand the likely impacts of 
REDD+ payments on the drivers of forest carbon emissions and to provide 
reasonable estimates of future emission levels. Modelling approaches can 
generate a better understanding of land-use decision making and provide 
crucial insights into the setting of historic and future baselines, the 
monitoring of leakage, the verification of additionality, and the 
assessment of likely co-benefits of REDD+.

We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from a variety of modelling 
disciplines including, but not limited to, agent-based modelling, 
machine learning approaches, statistical analysis, and participatory 
simulations. All applications are supposed to target existing or 
prospective REDD+ schemes and to investigate forest and land use 
transitions with integrated human-environment data. We expect 
participants to include assessments of past developments and the likely 
future trajectories in light of the incentive payments. The session will 
thus bring together a number of state-of-the-art applications from 
diverse geographic settings that help better understanding the likely 
impacts of REDD+ payments on the drivers of forest carbon emissions and 
to provide reasonable estimates of future emission levels.


Paper submission:
The first step is submitting an abstract (300 words max.) before the 1st 
of November 2011 in case of approval you will be invited to prepare a 
six page long full paper, which has to be submitted until 15 February, 
2012.

Please follow the Instructions at:
http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/page18.html

http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/images/iemss2012_how_to_submit_abstract.pdf 


Important Dates:
28 November, 2011       Abstract submission deadline
15 February, 2012       Full paper submission deadline
1-5 July, 2012          iEMSs 2012

Organizers:
Dr. Daniel Müller, [log in to unmask]
Dr. Zhanli Sun, [log in to unmask]


-- 
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development
  in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)
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  and
Geomatics Lab | Geography Department
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
-> www.hu-geomatics.de

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