The concept of ecosystem services is increasingly used in research, land use management and policy making. For the concept to be both a successful application within research and a practical implication in decision making, several challenges must be addressed carefully. The IFF-Lecture and Research Seminar will present some results and suggestions developed within an ongoing EU-FP7 research project OpenNESS by two international recognized experts, ROY HAINES-YOUNG and KURT JAX.

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77th Minisymposium / 7th Rachel Carson Center Lecture, 7.11.2016
Presentation: Paul Sutter, Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Abstract:
Between 1904 and 1914, the United States constructed the Panama Canal, an ambitious engineering project undertaken in the shadow of the French failure two decades earlier. The French experience taught American administrators a number of lessons, none more potent than the need to control malaria and yellow fever. The Americans not only responded with a sanitary program that met that threat, but they claimed that they had solved one of the vexing medical – and imperial – problems of the era: settling temperate peoples in tropical environments. The Americans, to use the words of contemporary commentator Albert Edwards, had „pulled the teeth of the tropics“.

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