In this new study, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, José V. Roces-Díaz, Lluís Brotons (members of the ESP Mediterranean working group) and colleagues, reviewed the available literature on the use of ecological models to predict global change environmental impacts, to answer the following questions: (1) what are the modelling approaches most commonly used to predict the condition and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services under future scenarios of global change? (2) what are the drivers of change considered in future scenarios and at what scales? (3) what are the biodiversity/nature and ecosystem services indicators most commonly evaluated? [Read more…] about How are we assessing the future of Mediterranean forests? New publication by members of the ESP Mediterranean working group
Publications
New publication on personal and collective values in biodiversity conservation
Caught Between Personal and Collective Values: Biodiversity conservation in European decision‐making
Individual decision‐makers at different governance levels operate in social contexts, which means that they sometimes need to compromise their personal values. This dissonance is rarely the direct target of empirical analyses of environmental decision‐making. A recent paper by ESP researchers reports a Q‐analysis of decision‐makers’ personal perspectives and the perspectives they perceive to dominate in their decision‐making contexts. [Read more…] about New publication on personal and collective values in biodiversity conservation
New Paper Series from the National Ecosystem Services Partnership
The National Ecosystem Services Partnership (US) has published the Ecosystem Services Conceptual Model Series. The Series provides a collection of resources explaining why ecosystem services conceptual models (ESCMs) are useful for decision making, providing guidance for building ESCMs, and describing NESP’s initial efforts to standardize and apply these models with federal agency partners. [Read more…] about New Paper Series from the National Ecosystem Services Partnership
ESP Greek National Network (HESP) Update
Hereby some news from the Greek ESP -HESP: sessions at upcoming conferences, new publications, projects and more:
HESP member Kostas Kormas, Professor of Aquatic microbial ecology from Thessaly University, is a member of the scientific committee of the 3rd Hydromedit conference of 8-11 November in Volos, Greece. [Read more…] about ESP Greek National Network (HESP) Update
News from the ESP German National Network
New publications, sessions at the ESP Europe Conference 2018 and guest presentations! Here are the latest news from the National Network of Germany:
The colleagues from the German NN, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Dept. Sustainable Landscape Development, have published two interesting papers to improve the ecosystem services concept in regional and urban planning. [Read more…] about News from the ESP German National Network