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ESP Update 5/2019
May 16, 2019 Nr. of recipients: 3206
Dear subscriber,
The ESP May Update is here! Read on for the latest developments from the community.
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ESP Africa conference
17-20 June 2019, Kpalimé, Togo
Management of Ecosystem Services for Nature Conservation and Human Wellbeing in Africa
The ESP Africa conference is drawing close - only a few days left to take advantage of the Early Bird fee, register before 20 May. Registration with regular fee will still be possible until 10 June.
Four experts with diverse backgorunds will tackle the conference theme with a keynote from their respective field:
- Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, African Model Forest Network (AMFN): 'The Africa IPBES Assessment and Africa Model Forest Network'
- Mark Schauer, Global Initiative Economics of Land Degradation (ELD): 'Valuation of ecosystem services: costs and benefits of sustainable land management'
- Jan Philipp Schägner, Joint Research Centre (JRC) with the European Commission:
'Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Africa: State, Trends and Policies'
- Davnah Payne, Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment, University of Bern, Switzerland: 'Global Mountain Assessment: changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services'
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Oceania Ecosystem Services Forum
2-6 September 2019, Ōtautahi (Christchurch), Aotearoa New Zealand
Creating healthy communities and ecosystems for a resilient future
Registration for this event is open now. Register before 10 June for the Early Bird discount. Find out more at the official website.
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ESP 10th World Conference
21-25 October 2019, Hannover, Germany
10 years advancing ecosystem services science, policy and practice for a sustainable future
Submit your abstract before 10 June 2019. On the website you can find the full descriptions of all accepted conference sessions to which you can submit an abstract.
To stimulate the application of the ecosystem services concept in business activity, the ESP is organising a business-focused day on Thursday that will run in parallel to the rest of the ESP10 program.
Have a look at the preliminary conference program here.
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For up-to-date information on the ESP conference schedule, you can always check our conference page.
We appreciate it if you spread the message of our upcoming conferences within your networks.
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IPBES Global Assessment
This month IPBES released the summary of their landmark global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The ducument compiled over the past three years reports on a dangerous decline of nature and unprecedented loss of species, and calls for transformative changes needed to restore and protect nature. Read more.
The release of these findings was widely reported across popular media outlets and helped spark conversations on the importance of ecosystems, the threats they face and the ways forward. One example is the panel of experts discussing "Can nature be saved?" on the BBC program The Real Story. The panel included IPBES report co-author Unai Pascual and ESP executive committee member Benjamin Burkhard, among others. Listen to the full program here.
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News from our Working Groups
BWG 5 – Mediterranean systems
New paper: Improving ecosystem assessments in Mediterranean socio-ecological systems.
Members of the ESP Mediterranean working group have just published an article in Ecosystems and People. The paper presents a Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) methodology that seeks to provide guidance for better ecosystem assessments encompassing the Mediterranean region. Read more.
BWG 8 – Polar regions & High mountains
New paper: A transnational perspective of global and regional ecosystem service flows from and to mountain regions.
The spatial relationships of ecosystem services are complex and poorly understood due to spatial mismatches between areas of provision and the areas that benefit. In this study, we assess the spatial flows of six key ecosystem services from and to mountain regions at the regional and global level. Read more.
TWG 10 – ES in Trade-off analysis & Project evaluation
Does modelling trade-offs gives the full picture, or can stakeholders tell it all? The complementarity of models and participative methods.
At the ESP 10 World conference in Hannover we are organizing a session on the complementarity of different methods (modelling/social/economic) to assess trade-offs and their impact on decision making. We welcome abstracts that either combine models and participatory trade-off research, or abstracts that focus on one approach (e.g. models) and reflect upon shortcomings that can be addressed by another method (e.g. social research) or vice versa. Please send your abstract for session T10.
TWG 17– ES Accounting & Greening the economy
This latest technical report published by The Knowledge Innovation Project on an Integrated system of Natural Capital and ecosystem services Accounting (KIP INCA) with JRC, assesses and accounts for four ecosystem services (ES): crop provision, timber provision, global climate regulation, and flood control. Read more.
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News from our Regional Chapters and National Networks
ESP Asia Regional Office
Gyeonggi-Liaoning Afforestation Project in Northern China supported by ESP Asia and ESP China
This year, ESP Asia office in collaboration with ESP China started working together to support successful implementation of the afforestation project of these two provinces. The size of the artificial forest to be created is 36.8ha this year and 5 tree species were planted. Read more.
Costa Rica National Network
New publication on the value of ecosystem services from mangroves in the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica. Read here (in Spanish).
Jordan National Network
Launching of the Jordan Clearing House Mechanism of Biodiversity (“JO-CHM”)
The Jordan Clearing House Mechanism (JO-CHM) is the country’s contribution to the global CHM and was developed from 2015-2018 with the support of the Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services (EKF-ESS) project in Jordan in the frame of its results area “National Policy’”. Read more.
Get involved!
Become active in our community by joining one of our working groups and/or national networks! Just follow the link on the group page of your preference or request for group membership on the ESP member portal. Contact the ESP secretariat if you have any questions.
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Young Ecosystem Services Specialists (YESS)
- The YESS Delegation in IPBES7 was very successful. Check our Twitter channel @YESS_Network or check out the hashtags #YESSDelegation and #YESSatIPBES7 to re-visit the live coverage that our delegation members did.
- YESS has a new blog Nature Words. You can already find the first contributions directly from our YESS Delegation at IPBES7!
- YESS is very happy that about a third of the sessions during ESP10 will be (co)-hosted by YESSers! In particular check out Session G7a - YESS: placing early career research on the ecosystem services landscape
- We are also planning a pre-conference workshop for ESP10 targeted at Early Career Researchers, focusing on the topics of networking, science communication and scientific publishing (ethics, open-access, reviewing papers). More info coming soon!
- YESS is a partner in a series of webinars on science diplomacy organized by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Future Earth Partners
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News from our partners
Webinars on IPBES assessments
The IPBES Webinar Series is hosted by the task force and technical support unit on capacity-building. The series covers the IPBES regional assessments, methodological assessment on scenarios and models, the IPBES pollinator report, and more. You can find all the webinars here.
Vacancy: PhD position at Hasselt University
Hasselt University, Faculty of Business Economics, research group Environmental Economics is looking for a PhD student in Environmental Economics for the Valuation of Ecosystem Services. Apply before 31 May. Read more.
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For an up-to-date list of news items, vacancies, collaboration calls and upcoming events visit the ESP website. Please send any news items you would like to share with the Partnership to ESP Support team.
As always, we look forward to hearing from you!
The ESP secretariat
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