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News from Slovenia national network

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On 8 November, we organised the final event of the NatGuidES project in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where we presented the manual for the identification, assessment and mapping of ecosystem services (ES).

The manual for the identification, assessment and mapping of ES, which was created within the framework of the NatGuidES project, defines practical steps for the implementation of the concept of ES in protected areas (PA), with the aim of supporting managers in the management of PA by means of a protocol for the identification, assessment and mapping of ES. [Read more…] about News from Slovenia national network

Measuring socio-economic and environmental impacts of nature-based solutions

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The overall aim of the LIFE LOGOS 4 WATERS project is to improve climate adaptation and coordination capacity of local municipalities by mitigating the negative water-balance situation through the demonstration of integrated ecosystem-based water management solutions in Hungary. Within the project, we assess the impacts of project activities both on local economies and ecosystem services in the two concerned water catchments in Hungary. In 2023 we delivered the project baseline socio-economic as well as ecosystem services assessment. In 2025 we will deliver the final assessment to reveal changes induced by the project. [Read more…] about Measuring socio-economic and environmental impacts of nature-based solutions

Infrastructure Equity Faculty Cluster Hire – Assistant or Associate Professor of Earth System Science

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The Department of Earth System Science (ESS) within the School of Physical Sciences at The University of California, Irvine, is seeking candidates for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) or Associate Professor (tenured) position as part of UCI’s Black Thriving Initiative (BTI) Infrastructure Equity cluster hiring program.

The department seeks a faculty member with a clear vision to expand scientific knowledge that can facilitate equitable mitigation/adaptation measures, address environmental injustice, and increase resilience within low income communities and communities of color. Their research should be directed at quantitative understanding of human-driven environmental challenges over local to global scales and the disproportionate impacts they may have on historically marginalized communities. [Read more…] about Infrastructure Equity Faculty Cluster Hire – Assistant or Associate Professor of Earth System Science

BIOTRAILS Learning Platform

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The BIOTRAILS Learning Platform has been developed as part of the BIOTRAILS Horizon Europe project which explores pathways towards transformative change for biodiversity. The learning platform acts as an online community and social learning space aiming to help support the fruitful collaboration and learning on challenges and opportunities for transformative change and the climate-biodiversity-society nexus within four value chains (for cocoa, aquaculture, gold and handicrafts) and beyond, through the project’s “Learning and Action Alliances” or LAAs. By joining the trans-project LAA, you will have the chance to: [Read more…] about BIOTRAILS Learning Platform

Call for input: Identifying seeds of change

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Are you passionate about your work to integrate biodiversity and lessons from nature into all layers of society? Do you have a project using nature to change your living environment? Or are you using biodiversity and ecosystem indicators in your business process? Let us know! We are looking for initiatives that challenge the status quo. E.g. by altering decision-making processes in the public or private sector, changing market dynamics or conditions, redefining our understanding of human-nature interactions. In other words; initiatives that are (potential) ‘seeds’ of transformative change.

Help us in this challenging quest for seeds of change by filling out this survey. [Read more…] about Call for input: Identifying seeds of change