IPBES is calling for expert reviewers with relevant knowledge and/or experience to participate in the first external review for the IPBES global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The deadline to submit your comments is 15 August 2017. [Read more…] about IPBES: Call for Experts Review of Global Assessment
A new study on ecosystem sustainability management available online
A new study with topic Sustainability Whack-a-mole is available online now. It looks at how ecosystem assessments often overlook “distant, diffuse and delayed” impacts. One example is how improved regulations of Chinese and European forests have led to deforestation in the tropics due to increased Chinese and European biomass imports. [Read more…] about A new study on ecosystem sustainability management available online
Webinar on Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Farms and Forests
In this webinar, Lisa Wainger of the University of Maryland and David Ervin of Portland State University will discuss findings of a recent Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics report, The Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Farms and Forests, which resulted from an interdisciplinary project that they co-chaired. [Read more…] about Webinar on Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Farms and Forests
Call for Abstract of International Conference on Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Climate Change
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, West & Central Asia is organizing International Conference on Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Climate Change in collaboration with Department of Zoology, University of Karachi from July 25-27, 2017 at the University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Session descriptions for ESP 9 World Conference
All session descriptions for the ESP 9 Conference are now available online!
Thirty sessions, covering a wide range of ecosystem services topics, will be organised during the conference. The sessions at the are clustered according to the ESP Working Groups, Regional Chapters, and General sessions.
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