International survey of coastal residents
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is impacting increasingly on global health with significant social and economic consequences. Our research aims to collect information from residents aged 18 or older living in or near coastal areas around the world who are affected by COVID-19. The findings will increase understanding about how interacting with the natural environment in coastal areas may influence human health and wellbeing and help us identify solutions to help people cope with pandemics. We invite you to complete this anonymous survey and to forward it to others living in or near coastal areas. [Read more…] about Survey: Impacts of COVID-19 on human wellbeing and interactions with coastal nature
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Survey: The value of public green spaces in times of Covid-19
Public green spaces provide essential benefits supporting people’s health and well-being as well as triggering environmental attachment and stewardship, eventually resulting in a positive impact on the ecosystem as a whole. For these reasons, a research developed within URBAG, a larger research project at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), which investigates how green infrastructures contribute to urban sustainability, aims to understand the perceived benefits people obtain from public green spaces. [Read more…] about Survey: The value of public green spaces in times of Covid-19
Call for papers: Assessing cultural ecosystem services through crowdsourced data from social media
The special issue in Ecosystem Services will (1) explore conceptual frameworks for using social media data in the assessment of ecosystem services; (2) highlight the current methodological research frontiers and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches, (3) tackle data related biases; and (4) discuss ethical and procedural standards for crowdsourced data use. Guest editors: J. Langemeyer, B. Keeler, A. Ghermandi, & D. Van Berkel. Submission deadline: 31st August 2020.
(Please get in touch if your are interested in contributing: [email protected])
ESP-SEE is a Co-organiser of the IGC “Geo Decade 2020-2030”
The South-East Europe regional chapter of Ecosystem Services Partnership lately joined as a co-organiser of the International Geographic Conference “Geo Decade 2020-2030”. That news was published in the beginning of June with the second invitation for the conference.
The conference will be conducted at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” on 24-26th November 2020 in a combined format: “face-to-face” and on-line. [Read more…] about ESP-SEE is a Co-organiser of the IGC “Geo Decade 2020-2030”
TWG10: Tips and tricks to combine multiple methods to assess ES and their trade-offs
Ecosystems or landscapes provide multiple ecosystems services. Sometimes the simultaneous delivery of several desired/demanded ES is not possible, strongly inhibit each other, or initiate conflict: we talk about “ES trade-offs”. On the other hand, the delivery of some ecosystem services enhance the delivery of other ecosystem services: in that case, we talk about “synergies”. A trade-off can potentially result in a conflict between users, depending on who bears the burden and who benefits from the ES supply (TEEB, 2010; Turkelboom et al., 2017). [Read more…] about TWG10: Tips and tricks to combine multiple methods to assess ES and their trade-offs