{"id":2005,"date":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-782\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:02:07","slug":"innovation-anthology-782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/05\/17\/innovation-anthology-782\/","title":{"rendered":"#782: Dr. Marian Weber:  Ecosystem Services Clearinghouse and Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 782.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marian Weber is an environmental economist and a senior researcher with Alberta Innovates.<\/p>\n<p>Marian plays a key role in Alberta&#8217;s effort to create a green economy, in particular, a market system for ecosystem services.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DR.  MARIAN WEBER: <\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">So we&#8217;ve been working on something called &quot;clearinghouse  and exchange&quot; where we want to see if we can develop metrics for all of  the different ecological impacts that could occur from different land  management decisions. &nbsp;And then within a computerized platform send  signals back to all the land users about the collective impact of all of  their decisions on all of these different functions. &nbsp; &nbsp;And so this is  the main thing that we&#8217;ve been working on, is can we develop this kind  of a clearinghouse for ecological information that then sends scarcity  signals back to individual companies or land users. &nbsp;And then link that  to what we call an exchange. &nbsp;But the exchange would then be a place  where companies can trade environmental risks. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marian Weber says one advantage of this clearinghouse is that it will help reduce the costs of environmental mitigation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ALBERTA INNOVATES<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at Innovation Anthology.com<br \/><\/span><br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\">Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberta Innovates launched its consolidation on November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_5 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tech_futures_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>780-450-5111<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\/\">albertatechfutures.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>250 Karl Clark Road,<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T6N 1E4<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI_Tech_RGB_smallForWeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-05-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AITF environmental economist and senior researcher Dr Marian Weber outlines her work in developing a platform to track ecosystem services<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&nbsp; (Alberta Innovates)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,46,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-innovates-technology-futures","category-reclamation","category-water","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}