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Call for Special Issue on Ecosystem Services in Sustainability

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The journal Sustainability is calling for contributions for the Special Issue: Ecosystem Services – from Conceptual Frameworks to Policy Implementation.

This Special Issue aims to gather contributions addressing the link between science and policy in the operationalization of the ecosystem services concept. Possible topics to be addressed include the following:

  • How can we integrate ES and biodiversity science in policy formulation processes? What models, indicators, and tools should we use?
  • How can we use ES to support environmental planning and assessment processes?
  • How can we navigate the ES concept in the water–ecosystems–food nexus?
  • How can we scale up locally derived experience onpolicy instruments for ES and biodiversity conservation to national and transnational level
    policies?
  • How can we integrate diverse sources of knowledge and multiple values to improve participation in ES assessment processes?

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IUCN motion supports natural capital accounting for biodiversity

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The motion  Accounting for biodiversity: encompassing ecosystems, species and genetic diversity led by Conservation International and many partners seeks to support and facilitate further development and implementation of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA). It encourages  IUCN member countries to implement and further develop SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting and to further investigate how statistical and accounting approaches can more fully incorporate existing knowledge, and advances in biodiversity measurement. A blog about the motion has been posted at the Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) website – see this link

We encourage our ESP colleagues who are IUCN members to comment and express support to the motion during online discussion. [Read more…] about IUCN motion supports natural capital accounting for biodiversity

ESP January Update is out!

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Our first Update for 2020 is out. The ESP community has kicked off 2020 with a lot of activity and exciting plans for the year ahead.

Read all about it here.

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Survey: Supporting implementation of the CBD through national ecosystem assessments

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As part of the project ‘Supporting implementation of the CBD through national ecosystem assessments’, funded by the Japan Biodiversity Fund, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) are developing guidance around how national ecosystem assessments can support implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

The following survey is a part of the development of this guidance. It should only take ten minutes to complete and can be accessed here.