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Public green spaces provide essential benefits supporting people’s health and well-being as well as triggering environmental attachment and stewardship, eventually resulting in a positive impact on the ecosystem as a whole. For these reasons, a research developed within URBAG, a larger research project at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), which investigates how green infrastructures contribute to urban sustainability, aims to understand the perceived benefits people obtain from public green spaces. [Read more…] about Survey: The value of public green spaces in times of Covid-19

The special issue in Ecosystem Services will (1) explore  conceptual frameworks for using social media data in the assessment of ecosystem services; (2) highlight the current methodological research frontiers and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches, (3) tackle data related biases; and (4) discuss ethical and procedural standards for crowdsourced data use. Guest editors: J. Langemeyer, B. Keeler, A. Ghermandi, & D. Van Berkel. Submission deadline: 31st August 2020.
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Participate in this survey to help create a roadmap to help policy makers to balance their available resources and required level of precision to achieve maximum impact from ESV studies. To do this, a database is being created of existing studies that includes their approximate cost, precision, and impact. Authors of ESV studies can answer a questionnaire to help flesh out this database.

If you are the author of an ESV study, we are hoping that you will take the time to answer a few questions about your study. [Read more…] about Survey of the relationships between costs, precision, and impacts of Ecosystem Services Valuation (ESV) Studies