This course challenges forest and nature management professionals to adopt an integrative perspective, to look beyond the forest, and build bridges between the public and the private sector. It focuses on the development of institutional development at landscape level including multistakeholder platforms and networks, and financial support mechanisms to guide landscape dynamics on the ground. [Read more…] about WCDI Landscape Governance Course, 2-13 April 2018
ESP February Update is out
Our February update is packed with news!
- Catch up on recent activities of ESP’s working groups and national networks
- Keep an eye on the regional conferences’ deadlines
- Find out where ESP10 will be held!
- Vacancies, upcoming events & more
Webinar: Networking for the landscape
The potential of collaborative governance in addressing institutional misfit in the provision of ecosystem services
This webinar aims to provide insights regarding the specific features through which the collaborative governance approaches could successfully address and mitigate issues of institutional misfit in landscape management. Additionally it aims to introduce aspects of the importance of Science-Policy-Society interface regarding biodiversity and ecosystems services. [Read more…] about Webinar: Networking for the landscape
Young ES Specialists (YESS): Recent activities
An update on the activities of the YESS network – past and upcoming events, meet-the-author and YESS Journal Club news. [Read more…] about Young ES Specialists (YESS): Recent activities
Wetlands Ecosystem Services and/as Nature-based Solutions
Nidhi Nagabhatla, a senior researcher with United Nations University- Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH – The UN Think Tank on Water), Canada and co-lead SWG 5 – ES in Water management – would like to share her work- Multi-functional Wetlands; Pollution Abatement and Other Ecological Services from Natural and Constructed Wetlands -published by Springer as the inaugural book in their new Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management Series. The book presents a comprehensive synthesis to sustainable and wisely utilize Wetlands Ecosystem Services and/as Nature-based Solutions. [Read more…] about Wetlands Ecosystem Services and/as Nature-based Solutions