The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is drafting an updated guidance for federal agencies around cost-benefit analysis of environmental and ecosystem services. OMB is looking for peer reviewers of the guidance and is accepting nominations for reviewers until June 15. See more details about the request.
Collaboration calls
A special issue of Forests
The journal Forest is calling for contributions for a Special Issue (ISSN 1999-4907). The focus of this Special Issue will be on innovative frameworks supporting decision-making processes through integrated ecosystem services assessments and sustainable finance principles. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 October 2023.
Background:
The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) was held in Montreal in December 2022 to discuss and prepare technical/operational guidelines and directives against biodiversity loss globally, with particular attention to urban environments. Particularly, it emerged clearly how the alignment of financial flows with nature could drive finances toward sustainable investments and away from environmentally harmful ones. Therefore, there is a need to support decision-making processes with accessible frameworks integrating economic-environmental aspects able to encourage nature-positive investments. [Read more…] about A special issue of Forests
Ecosystem Services symposium at Ecological Society of Australia 2023
Members of ESP Australia national network are hosting a symposum on ES during the ESA 2023 national conference (3-7 July) in Darwin. We would like to invite members of the ESP community based in Australia to submit their abstracts.
The symposium is titled Ecosystem Services: concepts, valuation, and applications and aims to discuss and enhance the participants’ understanding of ecosystem services (ES). [Read more…] about Ecosystem Services symposium at Ecological Society of Australia 2023
Call for participants in Communities of Practice
Within the Horizon Europe project SELINA (2022-2027) we want to establish a community of practice on biodiversity and ecosystem services (or nature’s contributions to people’s wellbeing in a broader sense) in every European member state. A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals. CoP´s focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. Interaction on an ongoing basis is an important part of this. Off course we want to start from existing networks.
Our goal is to find projects that are the seeds of change in mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services approaches into all kind of policy processes in different fields. [Read more…] about Call for participants in Communities of Practice
Save the date: Ecosystem services in transdisciplinary approach (ECOSERV 2023)
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Poland ESP National Network are pleased to invite you to attend the 7th Scientific Symposium “Ecosystem services in transdisciplinary approach” – ECOSERV 2023.
The Symposium, under the patronage of ESP, is open to diverse audiences, including academics, experts, policymakers, and businesses. ECOSERV 2023 aims to bring together research, ideas, concepts, and experiences and provide a welcoming forum for discussing research and presenting different points of view on mapping, assessing, and implementing ecosystem services.
The conference will take place from 14-16 September 2023 in Poznań, Poland. [Read more…] about Save the date: Ecosystem services in transdisciplinary approach (ECOSERV 2023)