2018 DMZ International Forum was held on 6-7 September in the Uijeongbu Arts Center with the topic of “Connecting People and Nature for Peace: Ecosystem Conservation and Sustainable Development in DMZ areas”. This Forum was jointly organized by Gyeonggi Province and ESP Asia RO. Dr. Rudolf de Groot, the chair of ESP gave a welcoming speech. [Read more…] about 2018 DMZ International Forum
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ES Training Workshop “Valuing and Capturing the Benefits of Ecosystem Restoration”
The ES Training Workshop “Valuing and Capturing the Benefits of Ecosystem Restoration” took place on 3 September in Seoul. This training was jointly organized by National Institute of Ecology and ESP Asia RO. Dr. Rudolf de Groot, the chair of ESP led this workshop and gave a special lecture about the ecosystem conservation and restoration. [Read more…] about ES Training Workshop “Valuing and Capturing the Benefits of Ecosystem Restoration”
InnoForESt – A project on new policy and business models for forest ecosystem service provision
InnoForESt is a newly launched Horizon 2020 Innovation Action on “Smart Information, Governance and Business Innovations for Sustainable Supply and Payment Mechanisms for Forest Ecosystem Services”. The project analyses and advances six promising governance innovations for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision. [Read more…] about InnoForESt – A project on new policy and business models for forest ecosystem service provision
New publication on personal and collective values in biodiversity conservation
Caught Between Personal and Collective Values: Biodiversity conservation in European decision‐making
Individual decision‐makers at different governance levels operate in social contexts, which means that they sometimes need to compromise their personal values. This dissonance is rarely the direct target of empirical analyses of environmental decision‐making. A recent paper by ESP researchers reports a Q‐analysis of decision‐makers’ personal perspectives and the perspectives they perceive to dominate in their decision‐making contexts. [Read more…] about New publication on personal and collective values in biodiversity conservation
New Paper Series from the National Ecosystem Services Partnership
The National Ecosystem Services Partnership (US) has published the Ecosystem Services Conceptual Model Series. The Series provides a collection of resources explaining why ecosystem services conceptual models (ESCMs) are useful for decision making, providing guidance for building ESCMs, and describing NESP’s initial efforts to standardize and apply these models with federal agency partners. [Read more…] about New Paper Series from the National Ecosystem Services Partnership