The presentations given at the OT-Med conference "What kind of environmental transition for the Mediterranean?" in October 2019 are now available online.

Session 1 : Biodiversity, ecosystem services, adaptation

Chaired by Didier AURELLE(Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille)
& Bruno FADY (INRA: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France)

Guillermo GEA-IZQUIERDO (CIFOR-INIA, Forest Research Centre, Madrid, Spain)	Vulnerability to global change of Mediterranean forests: towards an interdisciplinary approach in functional ecology
Rutger DE WIT (MARBEC : Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation, Sète, France)	Mediterranean coastal lagoon ecosystems: ecological restoration and assessment of ecosystem services
Luis-Miguel CHEVIN (CEFE : Centre of Functional and Evolutive Ecology, Montpellier, France)	Population responses to randomly fluctuating environments
Abdelhamid KHALDI (INRGREF, Tunisia)	Mediterranean forest ecosystems: better value NWFPs for conserving resources
Keynote speaker FADY et al. (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France)	Ecological gradients as an evolutionary opportunity for Mediterranean biodiversity

Short Focus: AMU 2018 PhD prize winner: Environmental and Biodiversity Management

Nathalie BOUTIN
(IMBE: Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and marine & continental Ecology, Aix-en-Provence, France)

Territory Management and Environmental Industrial Conflicts: In Search of Biodiversity

Session 2: Water Resources, risks and adaptation

Chaired by Laurence VIDAL (CEREGE)

Keynote speaker Khatim KHERRAZ (Sahel and Sahara Observatory)	Comparison of water challenges in Maghreb and Sahel
Julio GONCALVES (CEREGE: European Research and Training Centre in Environmental Geophysics, Aix-en-Provence, France)	Revisiting recharge and sustainability of the North-Western Sahara aquifers
Piero LIONELLO (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy)	The future climate of the Mediterranean region
Yves TRAMBLAY (HSM, Hydro Sciences Montpellier, France)	Hydrological impacts of climate change in North African countries
Valenti RODELLAS (UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)	The role of groundwater processes as a conveyor of nutrients to coastal Mediterranean lagoons: fluxes and driving forces

Short Focus: MISTRALS projects (co)financed by OT-Med

Virginie BALDY (IMBE: Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and marine & continental Ecology, Aix-en-Provence, France)	BioDivMex
François CARLOTTI (Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille)	MerMex

Session 3: Natural hazards, associated risks and adaptation

Chaired by Lucilla BENEDETTI (CEREGE, European Center for Research and Teaching in environmental geosciences)
& Eric MARTIN (IRSTEA National Institute of Research in environmental and agricultural Science and Technology)

Matteo VACCHI (Pisa University, Pisa, Italy)	Holocene sea-levels and isostatic adjustment along the Mediterranean coasts. Where are we now?
Laura PERUZZA (INOG : National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, Sconigo, Italy)	Earthquakes, memory loss and predictability
Fantina TEDIM (University of Porto, Portugal)	Wildfire management adaptation to climate change: the challenges, the needs, and the barriers
Goneri LE GOZANNET (BRGM : French Geological Survey)	Sea-level rise in the Mediterranean: examples of impacts for flooding and shoreline changes
Keynote speaker Freddy VINET (Montpellier University)	The impacts of floods in the Mediterranean basin: drivers, trends and adaptation

Session 4: Prospects

Chaired by Joël GUIOT (Labex OT-Med)

Jeroen VAN DEN BERGH (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)	Sustainability transitions from local to global scales
Jean-Paul MOATTI (president of IRD, Member of the Independent Group of Experts drafting the UN 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR))	Environmental transition and the sustainable development objectives

Followed by a round table discussion (no presentation).

Oct 2019 - Conference presentations on line