Global Strategies for Restoring Natural Capital: A Symposium, Saint Louis, Missouri, Oct 30 - Nov 2, 2005

自然资本恢复的全球战略：专题讨论会：Peter Raven（密苏里州植物园），James Aronson（法国蒙彼利埃CEFE/CNRS），James Blignaut（南非比勒陀利亚大学）在过去的三十年里，生态恢复已经成为一个广受欢迎的跨文化倡议，促进已经退化、受损或破坏的生态系统的恢复。 因此，生态恢复是补充或增加现有自然资本存量以及生态系统货物和服务流动的一种切实可行的方式，同时也以创造就业机会和各种非物质利益的形式为人类福祉提供直接惠益（例如，社会、文化和精神）。 到目前为止，许多经济学家已经认识到生态工程，而不是生态恢复，其目标是恢复自生（自我维持）系统，需要很少的管理和维护投入。此外，尽管它们有明显的互补性，迄今为止，经济学和恢复生态学之间几乎没有相互作用，更不用说交叉施肥了。这笔赠款将支持一个国际研讨会，该研讨会将从一系列不同的知识和文化角度汇集考虑过这些问题的很大一部分人。其目标是制定一个明确的理由a）在自然资本的概念基础上进行恢复生态学，和B）在实际补充自然资本的财政和人力资本的实际投资，与合理的生态系统管理和自然保护更加紧密地配合。 研讨会将1）确定知识的差距，2）找到解决有争议问题的新方法，3）确定未来研究的优先事项：即，寻求洞察力而不是共识。设想的结果是促进我们对生态经济学和可持续性科学的新兴“后正常”领域的理解的巨大飞跃，这将被整理成一本书-这是根据2004年在南非举行的一个讨论南方发展中国家生态恢复经济学的讲习班编写的前一本书的续集。专题讨论会网站将在专题讨论会之前部分向公众开放，之后完全开放。至少三分之一的研讨会参与者将是女性，六名研究生（四名来自美国，两名来自澳大利亚）将参加。专题讨论会将在北方、南方和国际上促进联网和制定合作战略和政策。

Abstract0515645Title: Global Strategies for Restoring Natural Capital: A SymposiumPIs: Peter Raven (Missouri Botanical Garden), James Aronson (CEFE/CNRS, Montpellier,France), James Blignaut (University of Pretoria, South Africa)Over the past three decades, ecological restoration has emerged as a widely popular, transcultural initiative that fosters the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. Ecological restoration thus represents a practical way to replenish or augment current stocks of natural capital and flows of ecosystem goods and services, while also providing direct benefit for human wellbeing in the form of job creation and various immaterial benefits (e.g., social, cultural, and spiritual). Until now, many economists have taken cognizance of ecological engineering but not of ecological restoration, whose goal is to recover autogenic (self-sustaining) systems requiring few management and maintenance inputs. Moreover, despite their obvious complementarities, there has been little interaction-let alone cross-fertilization-between economics and restoration ecology to date. This grant will support an international Symposium that will bring together a large portion of the people who have considered these issues, from a range of different intellectual and cultural perspectives. The goal is to develop a clear rationale a) for doing restoration ecology on the conceptual basis of natural capital, and b) for actual investments of financial and human capital in the hands-on replenishment of natural capital, in ever-closer concert with rational ecosystem management and nature conservation. The symposium will 1) identify gaps in knowledge, 2) find new ways of approaching controversial issues, and 3) define priorities for future research: i.e., seek insight rather than consensus. The envisaged outcome is to catalyze a quantum leap in our understanding of the emerging "post-normal" fields of ecological economics and sustainability science that will be collated into a book-a sequel to an earlier book based on a workshop held in 2004 in South Africa to discuss the economics of ecological restoration in developing countries of the South. A Symposium website will be partially open to the public prior to the Symposium and entirely open thereafter. At least one third of Symposium participants will be women, and six graduate students, four from the U.S. and two from Australia, will participate. The Symposium will promote networking and development of collaborative strategies and policies in countries of the North, the South, and internationally.