Our colleagues from the Working Group on Indigenous peoples and local communities would like to bring to the attention of those interested in the topic, two recent articles of relevance to the topic. [Read more…] about New publications on indigenous people and local communities
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Call for Research Proposals: Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA are pleased to announce the 2017-2018 international call for research proposals on “Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”.
The Call will address the two following major (non-exclusive) priorities:
- Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions
- Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios
Valuing Nature Business Impact School (BIS3), 2017
The Valuing Nature Programme is running the 3rd fully funded three-day Business Impact School (BIS3), in Edinburgh,29 November – 2 December, to provide early career researchers with an opportunity to gain insight into producing research with business impact.
New OPPLA webinar on how ES can/should be included in policy
Last 18th of September, Ilse Geijzendorffer (Tour du Valat, and one of the lead team members of the ESP Mediterranean Working Group) together with a Marianne Kettunen (Institute for European Environmental Policy) gave an OPPLA webinar on How ecosystem services can/should be included in policy?. The session was organized within the framework of the webinar series of the OPERAS project. [Read more…] about New OPPLA webinar on how ES can/should be included in policy
Ecosystem Services and National Forest Policy (webinar)
In response to growing interest in ecosystem services, the U.S. Forest Service is identifying needs and opportunities to incorporate an ecosystem services approach into its programs and activities.
In a webinar sponsored by the National Ecosystem Services Partnership Tuesday, October 17 from 1:30-2:45 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone, UTC-05:00), Robert Deal and Nikola Smith of the U.S. Forest Service discuss their report “Integrating Ecosystem Services into National Forest Service Policy and Operations”. [Read more…] about Ecosystem Services and National Forest Policy (webinar)