Worldwide network to enhance the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services for conservation and sustainable development
Södertörn University, Stockholm is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher for the project Planning with Youth, which aims to contribute to sustainable spatial planning by focusing on meaningful engagement and participatory tools and methods, and on current challenges planners face when engaging youth in participatory spatial planning processes.
Application deadline is 10 April 2020. Find the full vacancy on the official website.
This online training program on ecosystems and environmental services restoration will be taught in Spanish from 1 June to 23 October 2020. A total of 223 students from 17 countries have participated in the five previous editions (2014-2019). For more information, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
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We Value Nature is currently carrying out together with Ecoacsa a pilot project to strengthen collaboration between the public and private sector through assessing the options, benefits and best practices of restoring degraded land in a specific ecosystem in the Mediterranean area, Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Andalusia, Spain), by reinforcing the integration of natural capital in decision-making processes.
The project is currently calling for case studies for ecotourism, eco-agriculture, agroforestry and ecosystem restoration projects that have implemented natural capital and ecosystem services approaches. A selection of projects will be profiled as best practices of the different natural capital approaches that can benefit local stakeholders from public and private sectors and society. [Read more…] about Call for Case Studies: WeValueNature
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The first meeting of Slovene group to deal with ES – SOES (representatives from Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenian Forestry Institute, and Slovenian Forest Service) with the representative from the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning who is also the new MAES representative for Slovenia, was held on March 6 2020. We have discussed future steps and activities which will be taken on ecosystem services study and governance in Slovenia.
On February 27 2020 we held an expert workshop »Insights into Slovenian environmental protection policies from the perspective of ecosystem services (EC) governance in the Karst area«. [Read more…] about Updates from ESP Slovenia national network
