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In memoriam Leon Braat 25 March 2021
It is with great sadness that we share the news that on March 25 Leon Braat, the founding Editor-in-Chief of ‘Ecosystem Services’, passed away after a short but unstoppable illness. ‘We’ in this case are his fellow-editors and involved staff at Elsevier. Many were not only colleagues but also close friends with Leon for many years.
Leon was one of the few economists who recognized early that if we are to save the incredible diversity of life on this planet, we need fundamental changes in our economic system. Sentiments and ethics alone are, clearly and unfortunately, not enough to stop the ongoing destruction of ecosystems and loss of biodiversity. [Read more…] about In memoriam Leon Braat 25 March 2021
SDGs: what’s wrong and what do we need to change
ESP member Dr. Bulat K.Yessekin, a senior expert on water, environment and climate change and also The National Coordinator on sustainable development of Kazakhstan for UN from 1998 to 2012 has recently written the following report titled “SDGs: What’s wrong and what do we need to change”. [Read more…] about SDGs: what’s wrong and what do we need to change
Updates from ESP Brazil
The ESP Brazil network is pleased to announce the following updates:
- Resilience of Community Food Systems (CFS): Co-Design as a Long-Term Viable Pathway to Face Crises in Neglected Territories?
A publication on how COVID-19 affected the food systems and what can be done to overcome the challenges. This publication is a result of a collaborative study between Brazil and Germany. You can access it from here. - Brazils Highway BR-319: The road to the collapse of the Amazon and the violation of indigenous rights
A scientific publication that impacted a public call in the Amazon region. You can access it from here. - The ESP Brazilian network is on Instagram! You can follow them now @brasil.esp.
Ecosystem Services Valuation Database Latest Version
We are pleased to share with you the latest version of the Ecosystem Service Valuation Database.
For this update, we teamed-up with Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) of the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO). ESVD data are linked to the Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computation Tool (B-INTACT) for evaluating the ‘social cost of biodiversity’ indicator (one out of a set of indicators employed in the tool). Our focus was on increasing the coverage of the database for natural terrestrial biomes in order to improve the current indicator robustness. We also expanded data towards Mangroves (Coastal systems biome) as part of a meta-analytic application of ESVD, commissioned by the World Bank. [Read more…] about Ecosystem Services Valuation Database Latest Version