An American study has shown that wood pellet fuel reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than half over fossil fuels. The Northern Forest Center commissioned a study of the greenhouse gas impacts of heating buidings with state-of-the-art wood pellet boilers. [Read more…] about Wood Pellet and Carbon Emissions Reduction
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FPS COST Action FP1207: Orchestrating forest-related policy analysis in Europe
Nature&Society has contributed to COST Action FP1207 and the action is titled “Orchestrating forest-related policy analysis in Europe”. The Action is aimed at integrating qualitative and quantitative scientific research to improve coherency of forest policy in the EU.
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BWG 5 members participated in the International Conference of Ecological Sciences
Several members of the Mediterranean Biome working group participated in the different sessions of the International Conference of Ecological Sciences celebrated in Marseille on the 25th – 28th of October. The conference also gave us the opportunity to meet Virginie Baldy, one of the chairs of the BIODIVMEX network project.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue “Mapping the Environment”
The international journal Science of the Total Environment is accepting submissions for a special issue on mapping the environment. The aim of this special issue is to publish works that improve our capacity to map all aspects of the environment and find the interdependences and causes of the spatial distribution of the modeled variables. As a novel approach it tries to link all the environmental aspects, for a better understanding of natural and human dimensions of the landscape.
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ESMERALDA Newsletter issue 3 is out
The Horizon 2020 project ESMERALDA released its third newsletter. In this issue you can read about the project activities of the last six months. During this period the project worked towards developing a common understanding within the project of methods for mapping and assessing ecosystems and their services. [Read more…] about ESMERALDA Newsletter issue 3 is out