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Series of events on Ecological economics approach to development organised in Costa Rica

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The Blue Challenge, a project on blue economy coordinated by ESP member and Costa Rica NN lead Marcello Hernández-Blanco in 16 countries in Latin America, in partnership with the Forever Costa Rica Association and the Center for Marine Research of the University of Costa Rica, organized a series of events with Robert Costanza in Costa Rica to talk about the ecological economics approach to development, especially in a country like Costa Rica which has shown significant achievements on sustainable development, but that also has important challenges.

Read on for Marcello Hernández-Blanco’s summary of last months events organised in Costa Rica: [Read more…] about Series of events on Ecological economics approach to development organised in Costa Rica

Call for ES valuation studies

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Do you have a study on ecosystem service(s) valuation? Or did you participate in a project in which economic valuation was conducted? Then you can be part of our initiative and help us bring the information where it is needed!

The Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD) was initially developed as part of the The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative. It aimed to capture a broad global representation of the valuation evidence across all biomes and ecosystem services. The ESVD is now hosted by the Ecosystem Services Partnership and is one of the largest available database of valuation estimates.

Recognising the usefulness of information on ecosystem service values to decision making and the need for more comprehensive and up-to-date data, ESP is currently in the process of updating and upgrading the existing database. This will be a long-term, on-going process and we will keep collecting monetary estimates indefinitely. In addition, we are planning to create a user friendly digital interface through which users will be able to view, submit and collect valuation data. [Read more…] about Call for ES valuation studies

ESP10 Proceedings available online!

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Proceedings from the ESP 10th World Conference are now available online.

The conference which took place 21-25 October in Hannover, Germany had a diverse program including more than 700 presentations in over 50 sessions. The majority of presentations are now available online in PDF format.

During the Friday plenary we had a short session looking back and reflecting on the week’s main messages, using the results from a survey taken by participants during the conference week. [Read more…] about ESP10 Proceedings available online!

Updates from Bulgarian national network

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Several members of the Bulgarian NN presented at the ESP 10 conference in Hannover. Early career researchers, PhD students, professionals and scientists took part in the conference and had the opportunity to present oral and poster presentations of their work. On Tuesday October 22, assoc. prof. Stoyan Nedkov co-hosted the session T5 – Integrated ecosystem services models – advancing modeling science and application (R. Remme, F. Villa, et al.). The conference also favored the occasion to organize RC South-Eastern Europe meeting (Jeroen Arends, Stoyan Nedkov et al.) and deliver updates and discuss future activities within the regional chapter. [Read more…] about Updates from Bulgarian national network

Ecosystem-based adaptations for a Sustainable Development in Amazon

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Using the ecosystem services (ES) approach as the bridge between sustainable development and ecosystem-based adaptations (EbA), our Brazilian member, Maíra Padgurschi, started a post-doctoral at the AmazonFACE Program. In task 5, the program aims to propose feasible and effective alternatives of adaptation to the impacts of climate change. In that context, Padgurschi’s study will investigate the EbA alternatives that could maintain a set of ES essential to sustainable development goals in a climate change scenario at the Amazon forest. The best EbAs identified will be modeled using a land-use model to provide alternatives for decision-makers to cope with climate adversities in the forest.