The web section of the Special Issue on ‘ Certifying Environmental Social Responsibility ’ is finally online. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the emerging science on how to maintain and rehabilitate biodiversity and ecosystem services effectively in the tropics where agricultural expansion has shaped the landscapes. This Special Issue is a result of a research program by CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. [Read more…] about IJBESM Special Issue: Certifying Environmental Social Responsibility
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Registration for ESP conferences in 2018 now open
Registration is open for the Ecosystem Services Partnership 2018 regional conferences.
ESP is organising three conferences in October 2018 focusing on the use of the ecosystem services concept in science, policy and practice to find ‘nature based solutions’ for conservation, restoration and sustainable development issues in Asia (India 9-12 October, including a keynote by Pavan Sukhdev), Europe (Spain, 14-19 Oct, for which almost 500 abstracts have been submitted!), and Latin America (Brazil, 22-25 October).
Together with ACES ESP is organising a conference in N.America, Washington, USA, 3-7 December.
For more information and to register, check out the events’ official websites:
- ESP Asia 2018, Communicating and Engaging Ecosystem Services in Policy and Practice in Asia
- ESP Europe 2018, Ecosystem services in a changing world: moving from theory to practice
- ESP Latin America 2018, Global changes, ecosystem services and multilateral agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean
- ACES 2018 (North America), Natural resources benefitting people
Vacancy: Senior Researcher in ecosystem Services and nature-based solutions
The MCAST is seeking to recruit a Senior Researcher for the project ReNature, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. The appointee will provide research support for activities relating to ecosystem services and nature-based solutions, and which are carried out by the Applied Environmental Sciences Research Group. [Read more…] about Vacancy: Senior Researcher in ecosystem Services and nature-based solutions
Updates from ESP Greek national network (HESP)
Our colleagues from the Hellenic ESP national network in Greece organised two workshops on ES implementation as an environmental management tool since the beginning of 2018. Next to this, members of HESP have authored a number of relevant publications. Keep reading for more information on the workshops and publications.
During the final conference of the ESMERALDA project last week in Brussels, Panayotis Dimopoulos as Greek MAES coordinator presented the progress in Greece regarding MAES which was well received. There is interest in the way Greece has progressed regarding ES and MAES, rising from a modest position on the ESMERALDA ES barometer into the top three of countries where there is progress. Regarding MAES in Greece, that is a component of a LIFE Integrated Project.
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University of Twente: Call for a PhD position
PhD candidate understanding and mapping social-ecological system flows
The department of Geo-information Processing (GIP) of the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), part of the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands is looking for a PhD candidate for understanding and mapping social-ecological system flows. You can submit your application (detailed Curriculum Vitae and a letter elaborating the motivation for the application) before 25 June 2018. [Read more…] about University of Twente: Call for a PhD position