Worldwide network to enhance the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services for conservation and sustainable development


ESP connects over 3000 ecosystem services scientists, policy makers and practitioners who work together in more than 40 Working Groups and a growing number of National Networks on all continents. ESP regularly organises World and Regional conferences and provides many Services to further enhance the application of ecosystem services for nature conservation, ecosystem restoration and sustainable management. Partner up with ESP and join in the global effort for the future of our Natural Capital!

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Building the investment case for business-driven landscape restoration

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In this recent publication Rudolf de Groot, Associate Professor, Environmental Systems Analysis (ESA-WUR) and Chair Ecosystem Services Partnership, and Simon Moolenaar (PhD) Head of Science & Education at Commonland lay out the case for business-driven landscape restoration and introduce the “Guidelines for Integrated Assessment to value and capture the benefits of landscape restoration, nature conservation and sustainable ecosystem management”.

The Guidelines are a practical methodology developed to analyze, quantify, and where possible, monetize the benefits of large-scale landscape restoration. [Read more…] about Building the investment case for business-driven landscape restoration

ES conference: Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services

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The ES conference „Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services: Challenges in a global environmental context“ will take place on 1-3 July 2020 in Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius. The conference is organized within the frame of the LINESAM project.

Conference organizers plan to publish a special issue in a high ranked (Q1) scientific journal. The conference is free of charge, however, the number of places is limited.

Click here for more information.

Updates from ESP Brazil national network

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Our colleagues from the Brazil national network have several insights to share with the network:

New book edited by the Brazilian Soil Society: Fundamentos de Micromorfologia de Solos – Authors: Selma Simão de Castro and  Miguel Coope. More information available here.

Brazil and Portugal together developing indicators of forest degradation: [Read more…] about Updates from ESP Brazil national network

IPBES: Call for nominations of experts to assist with the scoping of a thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health

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The call for nominations of experts to prepare the scoping document of the IPBES “Assessment of Transformative Change” and the “Thematic Assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessment)” are now open! Interested experts wishing to be nominated are requested to fill out their application form by 15 October 2019 while nominators (governments or organizations) should approve these applications and submit their nominations by 29 October 2019.

Professorship in Digital Geography at Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg

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The Institute for Geosciences and Geography of the Faculty of Natural Sciences III, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg invites applications for a W2 Professorship in “Digital Geography”, beginning at the earliest possible date.

The successful candidate will work at the interface between the application-oriented collection, evaluation and processing of geostatistical data as well as the critical analysis and interpretation of digitisation processes, and will design teaching programmes in this field.

Download the full vacancy here.