Worldwide network to enhance the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services for conservation and sustainable development
ESP connects over 3000 ecosystem services scientists, policy makers and practitioners who work together in more than 40 Working Groups and a growing number of National Networks on all continents. ESP regularly organises World and Regional conferences and provides many Services to further enhance the application of ecosystem services for nature conservation, ecosystem restoration and sustainable management. Partner up with ESP and join in the global effort for the future of our Natural Capital!
In the morning of 17 october 2019 at ULB in Brussels, BEES organises a projection/debate on the theme of citizen engagement and science. You can discuss in a friendly athmosphere how to tackle today’s challenges regarding climate and biodiversity.
When: 17 October 2019 from 9AM until 2 PM.
Where: at ULB, auditoire Bourgeois, Brussels
Click here for program and registration.
The 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE2020), 6-8 July 2020, Poznań, Poland
The conference programme covers a wide range of topics related to urban ecological aspects and social components interdependencies in cities. The leading concept of the SURE2020 conference in Poznań is to provide the welcoming forum for scholars, experts and business and administration professionals to present their research and discuss the ideas, concepts, experiences and different points of view. [Read more…] about Conference: Cities as social-ecological Systems
As part of the scoping processes for the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (“nexus assessment”) and the thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity (“transformative change assessment”) of IPBES, two online conferences will be held. They are tentatively scheduled as follows:
This conference, organised by INFORMAR and POLYFORES, will take place on 26-28 February 2020 in Bonn, Germany.
The conference objective is to compile and synthesise the scientific evidence related to the current state of integrated forest management approaches. This can be understood as approaches where both policy and forest management provide a multitude of services at the same time, either at the forest stand or at the forest landscape level. [Read more…] about Conference: Governing and managing forests for multiple ecosystem services across the globe
A workshop on “Pro-active management of forests to combat climate change driven risks: Policies and measures for increasing forest resilience and climate change adaptation” was organized by Forest Europe and Turkish General Directorate of Forest in Istanbul (Turkey) on 3-4 September 2019. The main topics were: Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in terms of climate change, Policies and governance needed to implement adaptation, risk prevention and disturbance management, Countries´ experience in implementation of adaptation measures to prevent and mitigate natural hazards. [Read more…] about A workshop on pro-active management of forests to combat climate change driven risks
