Earlier this year Science published a paper by Diaz et al. titled Assessing nature’s contributions to people which sparked an ongoing debate among the ecosystem services global community. Below we have listed some of the responses from the science community. If you would like to discuss this topic with your fellow ESP members, we have provided the space in our online community portal – click here to join the discussion. [Read more…] about Ongoing discussion on the Science publication “Assessing nature’s contributions to people” (Diaz et al. 2018)
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Call for Abstracts is open for IUFRO 2018
Call for abstracts is open for to the next IUFRO Conference “Adaptive Management for Forested Landscapes in Transformation“ October 1-5 Posadas, Misiones, Argentina. Deadline April 30th. For more information visit the Conference site. [Read more…] about Call for Abstracts is open for IUFRO 2018
Urban Nature Atlas
The EU Horizon 2020 project Naturvation has recently launched an Urban Nature Atlas with almost 1000 examples of nature-based solutions from across 100 European cities. You can find it here .
ALTER-Net summer school on biodiversity and ES: registration open
The registration to this year’s ALTER-Net summer school on “Biodiversity, ecosystem services: science and its impact on policy and society” has been launched. This 13th ALTER-Net Summer School will be held August 22nd – September 1st 2018, again in the beautiful village of Peyresq in France. The deadline to apply is April 20st.
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Nature for People: a new regional initiative for South-East Europe
WWF Adria has launched a new regional initiative under the title Nature for People, with an aim to provide information and share examples of good practice in order to help improve management of natural resources and living conditions of communities in South-East Europe (SEE). [Read more…] about Nature for People: a new regional initiative for South-East Europe