Session overview

Below you can find the overview of all accepted conference sessions. Please click the titles below to download the book of abstracts.

The sessions are clustered according to the ESP Working Groups structure: Biome (B), Sectoral (S) and Thematic (T) Working Groups. Also, General sessions will be organised.
By clicking on the clusters, you will be directed to that cluster. Each cluster consists of several sessions.

Links to the ESP Working Groups are included to show the linkages between the conference sessions and the ESP community in general.

B. Biome Sessions

G. General Sessions

S. Sectoral Sessions

T. Thematic Sessions

Joint Sessions

Biome Sessions

B3 - Ecosystem services from African tropical forests, A. Cuni-Sanchez, et al.

General Sessions

G1 - Open Topic session: This is an open session for abstracts that do not fit in any of the other sessions

G2 - Gender, ecosystem services and human welfare, N. Tekwa & S. Nyikahadzoi

G3 - Landscape Restoration, Green Spaces, and Ecosystem Services_3 Case Studies, A. Guzha (only open for invited speaker abstract submission).

G4 - Early-career researchers engaging with NGOs and the private sector
to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services in Africa, A. D. Diallo, et al.

Sectoral Sessions

S1 - Enhancing ecosystems services in tree commodity agroecosystems in Africa, P. Wainaina, et al.

S6/T17 - Accounting for Ecosystem Services: (1) Policy support for protected areas and (2) Integrated capitals thinking to promote and support sustainable decision making in Africa, B. Smets, et al. 

S7 - Nature Tourism in Africa: Value for Nature, Livelihoods and Economic Investment, J. P. Schägner, et al.

Thematic Sessions

T8 - Neglected and underutilized plant species and the ecosystem services in the tropics: the role of local knowledge, J. Idassi, et al.

T13a - An ecosystem services approach to community-based landscape restoration and sustainable livelihoods development, T. van der Sluis, et al.

T13b - Forest Landscape Restoration potentials to restore Ecosystem services,  E. Imanirareba, et al.

T18 - Conserving ecosystem services for sustainable recovery and sustainable development: Locking in opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic, F. Donkor, et al.