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Conference: Nature-based solutions for improvement of water quality and river basin management

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The LIFE GoodWater IP project is organising an international conference on “Nature-based solutions for improvement of water quality and river basin management” to be held on 26-27 October 2022 in Riga, Latvia. The conference will aim to present the role of nature-based solutions and ecosystem services approaches in improving the ecological quality of water bodies, as well as to share experiences and lessons learned in applying these measures in rural areas.

Find out more about the event and how to register here.

ESP Asia RO organises Training on Integrated Ecosystem Services Assessment

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The ESP Asia Regional Office is preparing a training on Integrated Ecosystem Services Assessment to value and capture the benefits of landscape restoration, nature conservation and sustainable land management. Lead by ESP chair Rudolf de Groot and ESP Asia executive committee member Namue Lee, the training will take place on 15-17 May 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan, and will be hosted by the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology/ LTSER Pinglin, Taiwan.

Download the draft program here and keep an eye on the ESP Asia RO page for further updates.

Summer school on Ecosystem Services in the context of decision making in public administration

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Between 5-14 September 2022 the summer school “Innovative potential of ecosystem services for decision-making in public administration” will take place. The program focuses on the possibilities offered by the concept of ecosystem services in spatial and urban planning and landscape management.

The summer school will take place in a combined in-person and online format. The in-person program will take place during the week 5-9 September at MENDELU campus in Lednice, Czech Republic. The distance/online part will take place on 12-14 September. [Read more…] about Summer school on Ecosystem Services in the context of decision making in public administration

ESP Webinar Series: Ecosystem Services, Water Security and Sustainability Agenda’s

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Tools, Policies, and Promising Pathways – Spotlight on UN Decade on Restoration

17 June 2022

This ESP Webinar brings together editors/authors/experts/ ESP members to launch the ‘Special Issue’ “Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resource Management – Tools, Policies, and Promising Pathways“ published in Journal Environmental Management (Springer). The webinar will facilitate discussion as to how emerging scholarship on ecosystem services and water resources management can best support the mandate outlined by UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and related sustainability agenda’s like SDG’s. [Read more…] about ESP Webinar Series: Ecosystem Services, Water Security and Sustainability Agenda’s

Transformative Changes for Biodiversity and Health

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Alternet conference in Ghent, Belgium, 14-17 June 2022

Where and why do the benefits of biodiversity for ecological and human health arise and how can they be achieved? How and where can transformative change enable these benefits, including ensuring justice and equity?  How can human-nature health solutions be developed? How can the adoption of these transformative biodiversity and human health solutions by society and communities be achieved, for example by transforming food systems?

The Alternet 2022 conference aims to address these questions by focusing on what interdisciplinary biodiversity research can contribute to the transformative change agenda in biodiversity and health. [Read more…] about Transformative Changes for Biodiversity and Health