The objective of this workshop was:

First, it is intended to allow to summarize and review the main achievements of our research project: Methodologies for Integrating Data Across Geographic Scales in a Data-rich Environment: Examples from Honduras. To do this, we have designed the workshop around a topic central to Ecoregional research: Scale effects in decision making for Ecoregional development, where an international panel of experts from diverse disciplines will introduce and link various perspectives of the subject. All participants have one thing in common: they have a systems approach and they deal simultaneously with a range of scales. We believe that the achievements of the Project, which are far from being exhaustive, will be better understood in a broader context that highlights the complexity of the Ecoregional research. The participants will act as speakers as well as reviewers of the Ecoregional process. It will be possible, then, to evaluate properly the contribution of the Project to the understanding of the ecoregional development processes.

Second, the individual contributions as well as the result of the roundtable discussions will be assembled into a book that we hope will represent the state-of-the-art on the subject. We are confident to be able to produce a primer that a major publisher would be interested in producing. The workshop is an opportunity for the various authors to fully interact and contribute to a coherent and well-polished product.

Third, we expect that the workshop will contribute to establish bases for collaborations in Ecoregional research, and to the design of future Ecoregional research funding opportunities.