Presentation made by Dr. Thomas Pugh (KIT) – Contact : thomas.pugh@kit.edu Content: An overview of the structure and processes underlying state-of-the-art terrestrial carbon cycle models

Ecosystems, climate, society

An overview to the terrestrial carbon-cycle from a global modelling perspective

Presentation made by Dr. Thomas Pugh (KIT) – Contact : thomas.pugh@kit.edu Content: An introduction to some of the interactions of land-use change with, Short Lived Climate Pollutants and air quality.

Interactions of SLCPs and air pollutants with land-use change

Presentation made by PD Dr. Ralf Kiese (KIT) – Contact : ralf.kiese@kit.edu. The presentation gives an introduction into the nitrogen cycle and deals about, components, reservoirs and turnover processes, human perturbation and consequences and, provides and discusses results from field and biogeochemical modelling studies in terrestrial ecosystems

Introduction to the Nitrogen Cycle

Presentation made by Dr. Benjamin Quesada (KIT) – Contact : benjamin.quesada@kit.edu. Content: Surface energy balance, Biophysical impacts of land cover change, Radiative and non-radiative aspects : Observations

Biophysical effects of land-use and land cover changes. Part I

Presentation made by Dr. Benjamin Quesada (KIT) – Contact : benjamin.quesada@kit.edu. Content: Radiative and non-radiative aspects : Models, Biophysical impacts of historical LULCC, Biophysical impacts of future LULCC, Applications of land use for climate mitigation

Biophysical effects of land-use and land cover changes. Part II

Presentation made by Dr. Anita Bayer (KIT) – Contact : anita.bayer@kit.edu. Content: Common trade-offs, Examples for methods to identify ES trade-offs

Examples for Ecosystems Service Trade-offs

Presentation made by Dr. Anita Bayer (KIT) – Contact : anita.bayer@kit.edu. Content: Definition, classification and examples for Ecosystem Services (ES), Quantification of ES, Monetary Valuation, Introduction to trade-offs between ES

The wider implications of land-use changes - ecosystem services, part I

Dr Jo House from the University of Bristol gives an overview of greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change, and describes land-based ways of mitigating climate change. Contact: jo.house@bristol.ac.uk

Land-Based Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation

Dr Jo House from the University of Bristol gives an introduction to international climate policy, with a focus on land-use change. | Contact: jo.house@bristol.ac.uk

International Climate Policy

Professor Mark Rounsevell from the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh describes an exercise to develop future socio-economic scenarios using an online Integrated Assessment Model. | Contact : mark.rounsevell@ed.ac.uk

Making projections of LUC as part of the Earth system

Professor Mark Rounsevell from the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh gives an introduction to land use change in the past, present and future. | Contact : mark.rounsevell@ed.ac.uk

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