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Survey of the relationships between costs, precision, and impacts of Ecosystem Services Valuation (ESV) Studies

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Participate in this survey to help create a roadmap to help policy makers to balance their available resources and required level of precision to achieve maximum impact from ESV studies. To do this, a database is being created of existing studies that includes their approximate cost, precision, and impact. Authors of ESV studies can answer a questionnaire to help flesh out this database.

If you are the author of an ESV study, we are hoping that you will take the time to answer a few questions about your study. [Read more…] about Survey of the relationships between costs, precision, and impacts of Ecosystem Services Valuation (ESV) Studies

Call for Contributions: Special Issue in Environmental Management

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The lead team of the ESP Sectoral Working Group 5 on ES in Water Management (SWG 5) invites high quality contributions from researchers and scholars from around the world for a Special Issue in Environmental Management (Springer) titled: Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resource Management—Tools, Policies, and Promising Pathways. This special issue calls for papers on recent multi- and interdisciplinary efforts to measure, plan for, incentivize, and implement projects aimed at enhancing water-related ES in basins around the world. [Read more…] about Call for Contributions: Special Issue in Environmental Management

Call for abstracts open for ACES-ESP Conference

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The ACES 2020 conference central theme is “Focusing on the Future of Ecosystem Services” with emphasis placed on accelerating the use of ecosystem services for land and resource management and fostering the next generation of ecosystem service researchers and practitioners.

Submission Deadline: June 22, 2020

The Program Committee is seeking input from the community and invites you to assist with program development via the abstract submission process. [Read more…] about Call for abstracts open for ACES-ESP Conference

Call for abstracts open for 3rd ESP Europe Conference 2020

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ESP’s third European regional conference has the theme “Ecosystem Services Science, Policy and Practice in the face of Global Changes” and will be held in Tartu, Estonia.

Interested in presenting your work in one of the thirty conference sessions? The call for abstract is now open.

Go now to the Call for Abstracts section on the official web page of our Europe Regional Conference 2020, follow the guidelines and submit your abstract!

The online abstract submission system is open until 22 June 2020. [Read more…] about Call for abstracts open for 3rd ESP Europe Conference 2020

Help us update the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD)

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To make better informed decisions about trade-offs involved in land use change, or any activity affecting ecosystems and biodiversity, we need better information about the full importance of ecosystems to our wellbeing. In addition to intrinsic/ethical and other non-monetary values, economic considerations still dominate cost-benefit analysis.

To provide information on the economic benefits of ecosystems and biodiversity, and on the costs of their loss, a database was developed for the TEEB study, published in 2010.

We are now updating this database which now contains over 600 studies and more than 4000 value records distributed across all biomes, services and geographic regions (3x as much as the original TEEB database). We are currently setting up a review-process to double-check the current data, and welcome new studies for our repository.

Are you interested in developing the ESVD? Find more information on how you can contribute in the full invitation letter:

Invitation letter to review the ESVD

Sign-up form for ESVD Review Teams

More information about ESVD