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It’s about time: Advancing spatial analyses of ecosystem services and their application

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In October 2019 the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) held its 10th World Conference in Hannover, Germany. An event attended by around 800 participants, quite a difference from the first ESP meeting in 2008, when a small group of ecosystem services experts gathered. This tenth ESP anniversary was good moment to take stock of what the international ecosystem services community has achieved during these years. The author of this commentary has made many, and written a lot about, ecosystem service maps.

The author of this commentary, Louise Willemen, has worked on ecosystem services and rural development issues since 2003. [Read more…] about It’s about time: Advancing spatial analyses of ecosystem services and their application

NESP Webinar: Piloting Ecosystem Accounts for the Southeastern U.S.

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The National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) will host a webinar on Piloting Ecosystem Accounts for the Southeastern U.S., on Thursday, 21 May 2020, 2pm-3pm Eastern Time.

Hear from Ken Bagstad (USGS), Katie Warnell (Duke University), Charles Rhodes (TBD Economics), and Marc Russell (US EPA) about a new publication that details the first effort to develop Ecosystem Accounts for the U.S. at a broad scale. The team will describe the potential for U.S. ecosystem accounting and explain their pilot accounts for a 10-state region in the Southeast. The pilot accounts address air quality, water quality, biodiversity, carbon storage, recreation, and pollination for selected years from 2001 to 2015. [Read more…] about NESP Webinar: Piloting Ecosystem Accounts for the Southeastern U.S.

Call for Contributions: Special Issue in Environmental Management

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The lead team of the ESP Sectoral Working Group 5 on ES in Water Management (SWG 5) invites high quality contributions from researchers and scholars from around the world for a Special Issue in Environmental Management (Springer) titled: Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resource Management—Tools, Policies, and Promising Pathways. This special issue calls for papers on recent multi- and interdisciplinary efforts to measure, plan for, incentivize, and implement projects aimed at enhancing water-related ES in basins around the world. [Read more…] about Call for Contributions: Special Issue in Environmental Management

EU Project MOVE-ON celebrates virtual Kick-Off Meeting

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Setting the ground to advance MAES in Europe´s overseas

Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES), as part of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, is entering a new phase in the Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union. With the Kick-off of the MOVE-ON Project, the European Commission funded another initiative to enhance work on ecosystems, their services, biodiversity and condition in the EU Overseas. [Read more…] about EU Project MOVE-ON celebrates virtual Kick-Off Meeting

Call for abstracts open for ACES-ESP Conference

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The ACES 2020 conference central theme is “Focusing on the Future of Ecosystem Services” with emphasis placed on accelerating the use of ecosystem services for land and resource management and fostering the next generation of ecosystem service researchers and practitioners.

Submission Deadline: June 22, 2020

The Program Committee is seeking input from the community and invites you to assist with program development via the abstract submission process. [Read more…] about Call for abstracts open for ACES-ESP Conference