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Public green spaces provide essential benefits for people' health and well-being while triggering environmental attachment and stewardship, eventually resulting in a positive impact on the ecosystem as a whole. However, public green spaces benefits are usually unequally distributed across society. This study aims to understand the perceived benefits people obtain from public green spaces and assess their distribution, including spatial and temporal patterns of use.
We argue that the Covid-19 pandemic can become an opportunity to foster a culture of care and make academic practice more respectful and sustainable.
Extractive industries, industrial agriculture, toxic waste dumping, urban growth, and infrastructure and energy development are polluting even some of the most remote and isolated areas of the world. Indigenous Peoples (IPs) can be active allies to fight the impacts of pollution.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives often aim to incentivize the joint adoption of forest protection and sustainable management practices. This research in Chiapas, Mexico, shows the limits of PES when parachuted into a context of uneven land tenure, weak collective action and contested leaderships.
Transdisciplinary projects that bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, industry and citizens, provide one avenue for holistically addressing complex real-world problems. This post presents my experience running three workshops aimed at fostering such interdisciplinarity.
Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Esteve Corbera from ICTA-UAB have been awarded with a research grant from La Caixa Foundation to study processes of socio-vulnerability vulnerability in rural Spain.
Public green spaces provide essential benefits for people' health and well-being while triggering environmental attachment and stewardship, eventually resulting in a positive impact on the ecosystem as a whole. However, public green spaces benefits are usually unequally distributed across society. This study aims to understand the perceived benefits people obtain from public green spaces and assess their distribution, including spatial and temporal patterns of use.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives often aim to incentivize the joint adoption of forest protection and sustainable management practices. This research in Chiapas, Mexico, shows the limits of PES when parachuted into a context of uneven land tenure, weak collective action and contested leaderships.
We argue that the Covid-19 pandemic can become an opportunity to foster a culture of care and make academic practice more respectful and sustainable.
Transdisciplinary projects that bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, industry and citizens, provide one avenue for holistically addressing complex real-world problems. This post presents my experience running three workshops aimed at fostering such interdisciplinarity.
Extractive industries, industrial agriculture, toxic waste dumping, urban growth, and infrastructure and energy development are polluting even some of the most remote and isolated areas of the world. Indigenous Peoples (IPs) can be active allies to fight the impacts of pollution.
Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Esteve Corbera from ICTA-UAB have been awarded with a research grant from La Caixa Foundation to study processes of socio-vulnerability vulnerability in rural Spain.