Welcome to the electronic conference “Economic dimension of biodiversity” which will run from the 6th – 24th October 2008. The results of this electronic conference will be presented at the EPBRS delegates meeting in Paris, France on the 17th-21st November 2008. This meeting aims to bring biodiversity experts and policy-makers together to identify the key knowledge required to deal with Biodiversity and Industry. The meeting will identify and discuss the strategic research needed when considering the economic dimension of biodiversity.

The E-conference preceding the French EPBRS meeting will focus on the following issues:

Session I: Impact assessment, damages evaluation, and compensation

Session II: Ecological engineering needed to cope with assessment, compensation and mitigation

Session III: Experiences from Industrial and Infrastructure private companies, and best practices

Further information on the e-conference will soon be made available on the following websites:
- BIOTA Cluster: http://www.nbu.ac.uk/biota/e-conference.htm
- EPBRS: http://www.epbrs.org/
- BioStrat: http://www.biostrat.org/

As a participant of this e-conference you will automatically receive all posted contributions via your e-mail, which you will also be able to respond to via e-mail. There is also the option to post contributions on the web-board at http://forums.ceh.ac.uk:8080/~biostrat.

If you would like to opt out of receiving e-mail notifications of posted contributions but would still like access to the web-board, or be un-subscribed from this e-conference altogether please notify Fiona Grant on fian@ceh.ac.uk as soon as possible.

We would greatly appreciate your help in forwarding this announcement to anyone who might be interested.

Kind regards,

E-conference organizers.