The VW-summer school series intends to train participants on the knowledge and skills of how landscape ecology can contribute to improving the status of achieving the SDGs and the AU Agenda 2063 objectives. The first summers school in 2021 will relatively be more generic focusing on conceptual issues of landscape ecology and its nexus with SDGs and the overall development agenda in Africa. Applications to participate in the first summer school should be submitted online. The application deadline is 30th October 2020. [Read more…] about Landscape Ecology Summer School Series funded by VW Foundation
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Protect-Streams-4-Sea: New project utilizing nature based solutions in the Black Sea
The project “Protecting streams for a clean Black Sea by reducing sediment and litter pollution with joint innovative monitoring and control tools and nature-based practices (BSB963)” with the acronym “Protect-Streams-4-Sea” started on July 20th 2020. The total duration of the project will be 24 months. It aims to the protection of the Black Sea from litter and sedimentation using innovative monitoring and control tools, such as fingerprint method, drone mapping, etc.
The project includes partners from Greece, Turkey, Romania, Moldova, and Armenia.
You can find more information here.
Equity and Ecosystem Services Webinar series: recordings available online
The National Ecosystem Services Partnership did two webinars on equity and ecosystem services, and the recordings are available online.
Equity and Ecosystem Services Part 1:
Panelists
Jacqueline Loos (Leuphana University at Lüneburg): How ES ties into the environmental justice framework
Benis Egoh (University of California Irvine): Commodity trade, ES, and equity
Leah Bremer (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa): Connections between ES and place-based biocultural restoration and the importance of relationships, showing up to community work days, taking a long-term view, and respecting the people, culture, and history of place [Read more…] about Equity and Ecosystem Services Webinar series: recordings available online
Special Issue: Ecosystem Services from Natural Resources Managed by the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
This special issue in the journal Sustainabliy targets to highlight the contributions that indigenous peoples and local communities make to the wider global community for better recognition and support for their efforts. The editors invite articles addressing:
1. IPLCs land/water/sea management and related ecosystem services (ES)
2. Case studies on Payments for ES (PES) of IPLCs’ managed natural resources
3. Stewardship mechanisms (reviews/comments)
4. ES from agricultural lands managed by the small-scale farmers, applying traditional practices [Read more…] about Special Issue: Ecosystem Services from Natural Resources Managed by the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Join our ranks! Why and how to become an ESP member organisation?
Help shape a sustainable future – join the world´s leading network on ecosystem services
Ecosystems and biodiversity are still being lost and degraded at an unprecedent rate and scale causing great economic, societal and environmental damage. To stop the loss of our ‘natural capital’ the importance of its services and benefits should be reflected structurally in decision making at all levels.
To make this happen we hope your institution will join the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) and give your vision for a sustainable future a stronger voice. [Read more…] about Join our ranks! Why and how to become an ESP member organisation?