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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ecosystem Services in Asia in the journal Ecosystem Services

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Title: Ecosystem Services Science, Policy and Practice in Asia: examples of applications in planning, management and decision making

Responding to calls from Asian researchers and practitioners during various ESP-conferences on ecosystem services (a.o. the ESP-Asia Forum during the 10th ESP World Conference, Oct. 2019), this special issue aims to provide examples of relevant contributions to ecosystem-based policy-making, to find innovative solutions from case studies, and to stimulate future research activities on actualization of ES approaches in Asia. [Read more…] about Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ecosystem Services in Asia in the journal Ecosystem Services

Evaluating and communicating cultural ecosystem services

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Integrating cultural ecosystem services into decision-making has been under-considered due to a number of key methodological gaps. The multidisciplinary demand of effective cultural ecosystem services research is one reason for this situation. This paper provides and tests a framework of complementary methods and presents an integrated evaluation and communication strategy for cultural ecosystem services.

News from ESP Marine Systems Working Group

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Two new publications and a call for papers from ESP’s Biome Working Group 2 – Marine Systems.

  • New publication on the relationship between ocean and human health. Open access, read more here.
  • New publication on integrating ecosystem services with biodiversity in spatial planning, applied to the Belgian coastal zone. It is  based on a combination of expert-based ecosystem functioning approaches and stakeholder involvement. Read more here.
  • Call for papers for a special issue of Ecosystem Services on blue-green finance: Bridging the Biodiversity Finance Gap. Read more here.

Call for contributions: Governance Mixes for Sustainable Peri-Urbanization

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We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue on “Governance Mixes for Sustainable Peri-Urbanization” in the journal Sustainability. Peri-urban landscapes are transition territories connecting cities with their surrounding environment, where urban, rural, and natural or semi-natural characteristics are mixed. Peri-urban landscapes often result from unsustainable and partially un-regulated processes threatening the functionality of ecosystems and the provision of related services. However, such complex landscapes can also be seen as an opportunity for governance experimentation and thus for new governance mixes to emerge.

With this Special Issue, we aim to investigate governance mixes oriented towards a more sustainable development of peri-urban landscapes, i.e. mixes of multiple governance approaches combining top-down and bottom-up processes and involving a wide range of actors at different administrative levels. [Read more…] about Call for contributions: Governance Mixes for Sustainable Peri-Urbanization

Measuring ecosystem multifunctionality across scales

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This new paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters deals with measuring ecosystem multifunctionality across scales.

Multifunctionality refers to the capacity of an area to supply multiple ecosystem functions or services. While many conceptual and methodological advances have focused on defining and quantifying multifunctionality, the challenge of dealing with cross-scale dynamics of multifunctionality remains open. This study proposes a new way of measuring multifunctionality across spatial scales, illustrated with a European-wide dataset of 18 ecosystem services. [Read more…] about Measuring ecosystem multifunctionality across scales