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Webinar: Interpreting the IPBES global assessment

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Have you been seeing all the headlines related to the recent International Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment? In the next National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) webinar, report coauthors Alex Pfaff from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Stephen Polasky from the Department of Applied Economics at University of Minnesota will present an interpretation of the report contents and its implications. You can register here.

When: August 1, 2 p.m. ET

Bulgaria NN: Update July 2019

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On June 12, 2019 at the main campus of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in Sofia, the First National Workshop on Mapping and Assessment for Integrated Ecosystem Accounting within the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 MAIA project was held. A total of 38 stakeholders attended the Workshop. There were local participants from the MAIA partners and representatives from the Executive Environmental Agency (Ministry of Environment and Waters, National Statistical institute, Executive Forest Agency (Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Forests), NGO, researchers, and other experts. [Read more…] about Bulgaria NN: Update July 2019

Paper “Estimating and valuing the carbon release in scenarios of land-use and climate changes in a Brazilian coastal area”

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Members of the network published the paper “Estimating and valuing the carbon release in scenarios of land-use and climate changes in a Brazilian coastal area” in the Journal of Environmental Management. The research shows that the carbon losses can be greater in scenarios of new ventures , such as infrastructure logistics, oil-gas exploration and pressure in natural environments. With the global warming, the monetary losses could amount to US$ 90 million in 20 years. Besides carbon release, results also highlight the large amount of carbon still stored in protected areas that are threatened by regional economics and special attention from the public sector, management bodies and regulators. Find the paper here.

Training course: Agent-based modeling for geographical applications at University of Trento

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Trento (Italy) 16 – 18 September, 2019

This course (20 hours) provides an introduction to the concepts of agent-based modeling, a space for discussion about using this technique to investigate geographical problems and an opportunity to learn how to build and test agent-based models with the NetLogo programming language.

Registration deadline: 25 August 2019

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