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Rudolf de Groot ESP Summer School 2025: Application deadline 25 May

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Topic: Value Transfer for Ecosystem Service Valuation and Mapping
📅 1–5 September 2025 📍 University of Aveiro, Portugal

The first edition of the Rudolf de Groot ESP Summer School 2025, will provide early-career researchers with theoretical and practical training on value transfer methods for ecosystem service valuation and mapping. With the growing need to integrate nature into economic decision-making, understanding and experience on how to quantify, transfer, and map ecosystem service values is essential for both research and policy applications. Participants will learn to master, use and implement different value transfer methods and strengthen related skills during the Summer School. The work will consist of a combination of seminars, value transfer applications, ecosystem service value mapping, presentations, discussions with peers and several excursions.

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ESP 11th World Conference

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From global to local ecosystem services: pathways to Nature-based Solutions inspired from Down Under

23-27 June 2025 | Darwin, Australia

As we confront the critical challenges of climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, land degradation and sustainability, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) offer a powerful approach to address these interconnected crises. The 11th ESP World Conference in Darwin will explore pathways to NbS, with a special focus on the insights that local and Indigenous peoples and their value systems can offer.

Registration is currently open, Early Bird fees are available until 1 May. You can find out more and register at www.espconference.org.

Key topics include:

  • Local and Indigenous values and ecosystem services: Understanding the role of Indigenous and local community knowledge and value systems in shaping sustainable pathways.
  • Pathways to Nature-based Solutions (NbS): Exploring successful models from local to global scales, and how they can be applied elsewhere and/or adapted.
  • From research to practice: Connecting ecosystem services science with policymakers, practitioners, and diverse sectors to accelerate NbS implementation.
  • Nature-positive Solutions for a global future: How local insights can contribute to global environmental goals, such as the SDGs and biodiversity targets.

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Meet the IPBES Nature Futures Framework for scenarios and planning | ESP World Conference webinar

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Organised jointly by the Young ES Specialists (YESS), the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), and the IPBES Task Force on Scenarios and Models.

Webinar: Future scenario analysis and planning of biodiversity and ecosystem services by using the Nature Futures Framework from local to national scales

Poster for the event described on this pageDate: 21 March 2025, 10:00 CET / 18:00 JST

The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a flexible tool designed to support the development of scenarios and models of desirable futures for people, nature and Mother Earth. Following the 2016 Scenarios and models assessment, the IPBES scenarios and models expert group developed this framework. The NFF has since been applied to diverse research questions in equally diverse locations. This webinar is a preview of the session T6 a ESP 11 World Conference and part of the project “Development of an Integrated Assessment Model linking Biodiversity and Socio-Economic Drivers, and its Social Application” (IAM-B). [Read more…] about Meet the IPBES Nature Futures Framework for scenarios and planning | ESP World Conference webinar

2nd Transformative Change seminar: Methodologies for mapping systems interactions

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The Transformative Change Seminars, a webinar series by 7 Horizon Europe projects (part of the Transformative Change cluster of projects) working on transformative change for biodiversity conservation, aims to foster collaborative learning, enhance synergies on concepts and methodologies, co-create adaptive solutions and tools and showcase shared experiences.

This 2nd webinar in the series is focused on “Methodologies for mapping systems interactions” and will feature insightful presentations from the BIOTRAILS, BIONEXT, CircHive and MOSAIC Horizon Europe projects. Hosted within the Ecosystem Services Partnership education & training webinar series, this particular webinar will be touching upon methodologies such as Life-Cycle Assessment, Participatory System Dynamics Modelling, Structural Equation Modelling etc., which researchers are using in biodiversity-driven transformative change research efforts. [Read more…] about 2nd Transformative Change seminar: Methodologies for mapping systems interactions