December 12 2013
Program
Chair: William Laurance
9.00‐9.30 Registration
9.30‐9.35 Opening and welcome
9.35‐10.15 Tropical roads: Impacts and mitigation strategies
William Laurance, James Cook University and Utrecht University (Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation)
10.15‐10.45 Impacts of dams and WWF strategies to minimize impact
Bart Geenen, WWF Netherlands Freshwater expert
10.45‐11.15 Break
11.15‐11.45 Social impacts of infrastructure development
Joris van de Sandt, IKV Pax Christi, chair of the Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples
11.45‐12.15 Economic aspects of infrastructure development and IIRSA in Latin America
Pitou van Dijck, CEDLA
12.15‐12.30 Wrap up
12.30‐13.30 Lunch
13.30‐14.00 Modeling road networks in the Amazon
Sadia Ahmed, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
14.00‐14.30 Impact and issues around small scale gold mining in the Guianas
Mark Wright, Conservation Director WWF Guianas
14.30‐15.00 Break
15.00‐15.30 Protecting road free areas globally, a cost efficient policy option to protect biodiversity and the climate
Hon. Kriton Arsenis, Member of the EU Parliament, Greece
15.30‐18.00 Workshop