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It is Open Access Week! Open Access Week is a global event and is now in its eighth year. It’s a week-long celebration of Open Access, offering the opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access, and to inspire wider participation in it. Open Access Week 2016 takes place from 24 to 30 October. Click here to find out more about how you can get involved.
The second masterclass of the Green Finance Academy – an initiative of IUCN NL, Nyenrode Business University and Alterra Wageningen UR – takes place from 14 to 18 November. By offering a five-day course, GFA helps environmental and development professionals to successfully access private sector finance for their projects.
• Discover the business model of your nature conservation project at the Green Finance Academy
• Increase financial resilience of your NGO
• Move beyond donor funding toward an investor-driven approach
• Looking for funding for your environmental project [Read more…] about 2nd Masterclass of the Green Finance Academy
On the week between the 19th to the 23rd September, many members of the Mediterranean Ecosystem services working group met at European Ecosystem Services 2016 conference celebrated in Antwerpen, Belgium. In addition from presentations in other sessions and symposia, the working group had its own working session on Tuesday afternoon. During this session, we worked on identifying the unique ecosystem services linked to Mediterranean systems and discussed about the challenges of quantifying these services using various applied methods. We particularly looked at the unique Mediterranean characteristics of food production, of soil erosion regulation and of cultural services. In addition, we´ve got an overview of the different case studies, disciplines, systems and methods represented by partners.
[Read more…] about BWG 5 members joined the European Ecosystem Services 2016 conference
E&SEFT Project: “Ecosystem & Socio-Ecosystem Functional Types: integrating biophysical and social functions to characterize and map the ecosystems of the Anthropocene”. Please, feel free to click on the link to know about project goals, scientists involved, and other partners.
The E&SEFT Project is led by the University of Granada (Spain) and aims to develop a new approach for characterizing and mapping social-ecological systems using functional characteristics and attributes.
Firstly, the project aims to identify the key processes that define the functioning of social-ecological systems, both from the ecological and social dimension. To do so, they are working on creating a list of the Essential Social-Ecological Functional Variables (ESEFVs). [Read more…] about Online survey: Essential Variables describing the functioning of social-ecological systems
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) invites its member states and observers to the fifth session of the IPBES Plenary, which will take place from 6 to 10 March 2017, in Bonn, Germany. On Monday, 6 March, regional consultations and the stakeholder day will be held. The opening of the fifth session of the IPBES Plenary will take place on Tuesday, 7 March, at 10 am. The session is scheduled to close on Friday, 10 March 2017. [Read more…] about Invitation to fifth session of IPBES Plenary
