Worldwide network to enhance the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services for conservation and sustainable development
This session will take place on 22 July 2021, 14:00, online and it aims to provide a venue for studies that use social media and mobile phone data for the assessment of human-nature interactions and preferences towards the natural environment.
Find out more and register here.
For more on this topic, check out the ESP working group on Big Data and Digital Communication.
Two webinars were held by the National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP – United States) in May and June, on ES valuation and on forest-based ES. Read more below and follow the links to watch the recordings.
Different methods, different values: How the choice of ecosystem service valuation method can affect cost-benefit analysis and prioritization decisions. Hear a presentation that synthesizes the results of over a decade of ecosystem services valuation work in the U.S. state of Minnesota and compares and contrasts results from “traditional” non-market approaches (stated preference surveys, hedonic analyses, avoided cost approaches, and travel cost models) with “alternative” valuation methods based on ecosystem service metrics, surveys, semi-structured interviews, and Q sort assessments. Read more.
Payment for forest-based ecosystem services from private lands in the United States. Hear a presentation on an effort to account, estimate, and document the full extent of direct payments for ecosystem services to private forest landowners in the United States. Read more.
Call for Contributions is open for the International Expert Workshop on „Economic Aspects of Nature Restoration“, organized by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN).
The workshop will take place on 13-16 October 2021 at the International Academy for Nature Conservation (INA) on the island of Vilm, Germany. The event will provide a platform for exchange between experts from science, administration and civil society on (socio-)economic issues of restoration of degraded ecosystems. Hereby we would like to call for the submission of abstracts. The deadline for submission is 28 May 2021 (18.00 CET).
For more information, please see the attached document. You are also welcome to forward it to interested parties.
With less than three weeks to go, we bring you an update with all you need to know about the 3rd ESP Europe Conference, 7-10 June 2021, Tartu, Estonia. Our latest special newsletter outlines the program elements, esteemed keynote speakers, the digital platform, registration details and more! Read here.
Menaqua Land Restoration is a start-up social enterprise who recently became member of ESP. Menaqua initiates and implements projects in the field of land restoration and sustainable land management in the Middle East and Northern Africa. They focus on re-/afforestation, agroforestry, water conservation and the development of land restoration revenue models.
To promote the development and exchange of knowledge and experience Menaqua is organising a series of webinars. [Read more…] about Menaqua Webinars: Tree planitng in the Middle East
