As I had promised earlier, I am sharing with you some impressions and presentations from our biodiversity offsets session at the recent EcoSummit in Montpellier. After the general session description and line-up of speakers, find below the abstract and presentation … Continue reading
Author(s): (Editors:) Penelope Figgis, Brendan Mackey, James Fitzsimons, Jason Irving and Pepe Clarke Title: Valuing Nature: Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services Year: 2015 In: IUCN Australia SCIENCE INFORMING POLICY SYMPOSIUM SERIES Pages: 140. Publication type: report Language: English Source: http://aciucn.org.au/index.php/publications/2015-valuing-nature/ … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Joël Houdet who holds Senior Research Fellowships at the African Centre for Technology Studies (Nairobi, Kenya) and the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (University of Pretoria, South Africa). This guest post is the … Continue reading
The last few days I was attending the first Dresden Nexus Conference. The event, co-organized by Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (my institute), United Nations University and Technische Universität Dresden (our local university), unified the catch words … Continue reading
I have recently stumbled across the works of “Cynical conservation”, a cartoonist who shares his cynical drawings on twitter. Most likely to be based in the UK, he (?) describes himself as a “Cynical conservationist, illustrating my frustrations to remain … Continue reading
Dario Kenner (Why Green Economy?) has published a new report entitled “Who should value nature? Sustainable business initiative — outside insights”. You can access the report online and find a pdf following: Kenner_2014_Who-should-value-nature. For more information please see the related … Continue reading
About the Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek If you are interested in environmental compensation and biodiversity offsets, there are certainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of information from different sources, locations and viewpoints publicly available (something which wasn’t this … Continue reading
Josianne Claudia Sales Rosa and Luis E. Sánchez have published a new paper on “Is the ecosystem service concept improving impact assessment? Evidence from recent international practice” in Environmental Impact Assessment Review (Volume 50, January 2015, Pages 134–142). You can … Continue reading
This report introduces the Ecosystem Services Review for Impact Assessment (ESR for IA), a six step method to address project impacts and dependencies on ecosystem services as part of the environmental and social impact assessment process. The steps build on … Continue reading
A vast collection of cartoons illustrating biodiversity loss — very entertaining and alarming at the same time. Pictures often say much more and much easier than words can do. Have a look and get carried away at: http://conservationbytes.com/toothless/cartoons/ Here are some … Continue reading