Services provided by main types of ecosystems in Poland – an applied approach
The main objectives of the project were:
- Transferring of general and specific scientific knowledge on ecosystem services which exists in Europe to the process of mapping and assessment of ecosystem services in Poland;
- Increasing the scientific potential to mapp and assess of ecosystem services;
- Increasing the scientific potential and the ability of administration and interested social groups to implement this approach in environmental management.
The following groups were expected to benefit from the project:
- Scientists – by increasing the capacity of the Polish researchers dealing with main ecosystems to develop ecosystem services (ES) approach;
- Administration on the regional and local levels and experts-practitioners – by developing officials’ awareness of the potential of ES approach from the political, social and ecological point of view, as well as will building their skills for including ES assessment into process of environmental management;
- Interested social groups, including activists – by increasing their awareness of the benefits obtained through the proper management of ecosystems.
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The ESMERALDA Project
Enhancing ecoSysteM sERvices mApping for poLicy and Decision mAking
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan participated, with other 24 partners from Europe, in the ESMERALDA Project – Enhancing ecoSysteM sERvices mApping for poLicy and Decision mAking, which was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. This Project aimed to deliver a ‘flexible methodology’ that could simultaneously provide innovative building blocks for pan-European, national and regional ES mapping and assessment. ESMERALDA started in February 2015 and ran for 42 months, until the end of July 2018.
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan contributed to several tasks:
- Determined of stakeholders expectation from MAES process;
- Identiffied of usefulness of existing maps and other datasets for ES analysis;
- Analyzed ES assessment for Poland regarding to the role of scaling, synergies or trade-offs, their shifting in time and space and as well reversibility;
- Tested of possibility to include a new data, indicators and processing methods for next generations of ES maps.
More information about this project could be found at www.esmeralda-project.eu.
The CONNECTING Nature Project
COproductioN with NaturE for City Transitioning, INnovation and Governance
In June 2017 the CONNECTING Nature Project – COproductioN with NaturE for City Transitioning, INnovation and Governance was launched. The overarching objective of this action was to position Europe as a global leader in the innovation and implementation of nature-based solutions. Two of the 29 partners were Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and City of Poznan. The project partners formed a community of cities fostering peer-to-peer, transdisciplinary capacity-building between front-runner, fast-follower and multiplier cities. CONNECTING Nature co-developed the policy and practices necessary to scale up urban resilience, innovation and governance via nature-based solutions. This action was strongly associated with the urban ecosystem services topic. Project was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. CONNECTING Nature ran until th end of May 2022 (read more).
The Project
Ecosystem services in young glacial landscape
– assessment of resources, threats and utilization
In the years 2013-2017 Ecosystem services in young glacial landscape – assessment of resources, threats and utilization was carried out in Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization in Warsaw (Polish Academy of Sciences) and funded by National Science Centre in Krakow under grant agreement No. 2012/07/B/ST10/04344. The most important specific research goals were (see Degórski et al. 2016):
- assessment of relations between social preferences and actual use of ecosystem services;
- identification of indirect indicators (surrogate measures) for evaluating ecosystem service stocks;
- selection of an optimum set of ecosystem services provided by studied ecosystem types and a corresponding set of direct and indirect indicators;
- service valuation (using the indicators) and ranking (by importance, by advantage) for individual ecosystems;
- ecosystem valuation and ranking with regard to individual categories of services provided.
The LINKAGE Project
LINKing systems, perspectives and disciplines for Active biodiversity GovernancE
In the years 2013-2016 the LINKAGE Project – LINKing systems, perspectives and disciplines for Active biodiversity GovernancE was carried out. The project was coordinated by Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Kraków and was realized in cooperation with Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (Białowieża), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and University of Tromsø (Norwegian partner). The ultimate aim of this action was to improve biodiversity governance in Poland and Norway by developing innovative protocols and technologies for biodiversity governance. Identification of ecosystem services and landscape values acknowledged by various interest groups was one of the detailed project objectives (read more).