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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.

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

Call for Expression of Interest: membership of the advisory board for “Scenarios for Integrated Land Use Planning”

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ELD is partnering with WOCAT, UNCCD, GEO-LDN and FAO in the preparation of the workshop series “Scenarios for Integrated Land Use Planning” (S4ILUP) – for more information, please take a look at this trailer.

To lay the foundation for a workshop design which most adequately addresses current gaps and needs for actors in the land use planning field across the globe, an Advisory Board (See attached ToR) shall be established.

Following the workshop series (end 2022), a global network of land use planning experts will be maintained and moderated for at least 4 more years, supporting exchange in this field that is high on political agendas. [Read more…] about Call for Expression of Interest: membership of the advisory board for “Scenarios for Integrated Land Use Planning”