What ecosystem services does nature provide? What is the monetary value of these services? How to compare different values? The Ecosystem Services Valuation Database, ESVD, gives the answers. Via ESVD.net you can gain free access to over 4500 standardized values in dollar per hectare per year providing information on all ecosystem services all over the world. Sign-up for the official online launch of the ESVD on 14 October to learn more about the ESVD. [Read more…] about Use the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database to assess the monetary value of nature anywhere on earth
Upcoming events
Webinar 16 September 2021 HOW TO INCENTIVISE NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS?
PROGRAMME 16 SEPTEMBER 2021
Within the Interreg 2 Seas project PROWATER we use nature and its ecosystems to tackle the environmental challenges that climate change presents, such as regular and prolonged drought and flood periods. This approach to climate adaptation is known as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). While a lot of these measures need to be taken on private land, there is a lack of incentives and instruments to facilitate their implementation. EbA measures also have the potential to deliver many other ecosystem services beside climate adaptation. We consider Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) as a viable option to provide such incentives at a larger scale. We have explored PES examples and identified their strengths and weaknesses. [Read more…] about Webinar 16 September 2021 HOW TO INCENTIVISE NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS?
Mobile phone and social media data for human-nature research
This session will take place on 22 July 2021, 14:00, online and it aims to provide a venue for studies that use social media and mobile phone data for the assessment of human-nature interactions and preferences towards the natural environment.
Find out more and register here.
For more on this topic, check out the ESP working group on Big Data and Digital Communication.
Two webinars on ecosystem services in the context of the US
Two webinars were held by the National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP – United States) in May and June, on ES valuation and on forest-based ES. Read more below and follow the links to watch the recordings.
Different methods, different values: How the choice of ecosystem service valuation method can affect cost-benefit analysis and prioritization decisions. Hear a presentation that synthesizes the results of over a decade of ecosystem services valuation work in the U.S. state of Minnesota and compares and contrasts results from “traditional” non-market approaches (stated preference surveys, hedonic analyses, avoided cost approaches, and travel cost models) with “alternative” valuation methods based on ecosystem service metrics, surveys, semi-structured interviews, and Q sort assessments. Read more.
Payment for forest-based ecosystem services from private lands in the United States. Hear a presentation on an effort to account, estimate, and document the full extent of direct payments for ecosystem services to private forest landowners in the United States. Read more.
Call for contributions: ‘Economic Aspects of Nature Restoration’ international experts workshop
Call for Contributions is open for the International Expert Workshop on „Economic Aspects of Nature Restoration“, organized by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN).
The workshop will take place on 13-16 October 2021 at the International Academy for Nature Conservation (INA) on the island of Vilm, Germany. The event will provide a platform for exchange between experts from science, administration and civil society on (socio-)economic issues of restoration of degraded ecosystems. Hereby we would like to call for the submission of abstracts. The deadline for submission is 28 May 2021 (18.00 CET).
For more information, please see the attached document. You are also welcome to forward it to interested parties.