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Linking biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services (CONNECT)
Biodiversity policy is increasingly influenced by evidence about the role of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem services. However, the current state of scientific knowledge and empirical evidence is inconclusive and does not provide a sufficiently robust basis to make definite statements about whether securing the provision of specific ecosystem services will also guarantee biodiversity…
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International cooperation to restore and connect urban environments in Latin America and Europe (INTERLACE)
The INTERLACE project aims to empower and equip European and CELAC cities to effectively restore and rehabilitate (peri)urban ecosystems towards more liveable, resilient and inclusive cities. The project applies an integrative, city-driven approach to address urban challenges through restorative nature-based solutions. A three-tiered mechanism for city and wider stakeholder exchange and learning will strengthen cooperation…
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Integrating Valuations, Markets and Policies for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (INVALUABLE)
The project’s main objective was to clarify the potential of market-based instruments (MBIs) to better integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services into public policies, based on appropriate institutional arrangements. It developed: INVALUABLE results allowed researchers, decision-makers as well as practitioners to better grasp and clarify the MBI concept and its potential advantages and limits for biodiversity…
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Inspiring rural heritage: sustainable practices to protect and conserve upland landscapes and memories (IRIS)
Europe’s upland landscapes are a rich and complex socio-ecological heritage, born of the interaction of nature and culture over millennia. Local communities play an active and essential role in conserving and protecting this heritage, while benefiting wider society. However, current conservation measures and land use decisions consistently fail to consider the historic dimension of mountain…
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Framing Debates about Poverty Reduction and Ecosystem Services
In an important paper in Science ten years ago Adams and colleagues offered an analysis that clarified the confused debate that had arisen about the relationship between conservation policy and poverty reduction. The value of that paper was to hold up a mirror to a divided intellectual and policy-making constituency. It became a heuristic device…
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Environmental conflicts through the lens of artwork and multimedia in waterscape transformations (CLAMOR)
How do artistic and multimedia creations in water-related conflicts represent and support transformative or restorative initiatives? CLAMOR will answer this question by cataloguing and analyzing cultural artefacts used in environmental conflicts: films, plastic arts (including banners), music and songs, and associated multimedia. To narrow down the action without disregarding societal and gender significance, the project…
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Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure Potential in Complex Social-Ecological Regions (ENABLE)
In an increasingly urbanized world, Green-Based Infrastructure (GBI) has the potential to tackle multiple environmental and social challenges, such as human wellbeing, social inequality, biodiversity loss and climate change impacts such as flooding. However, the successful design and implementation of GBI requires careful consideration of a number of key aspects, including people’s perceptions of the…
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Ecosystem Services and Urban Environmental Justice: connections and implications
Cities have tended to show an unequal distribution of access to social services, infrastructures and livelihoods, as well as of environmental hazards and resources to respond to them. Socio-economic characteristics of the urban population can undermine the local capacity to adapt and respond to the increasing challenges and risks of climate change and urbanization. Urban…
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Construction ahead
Advocates argue that road building in low-income nations facilitates market access, promotes economic development, and improves canonical indicators of well-being in the orthodox approach to development. Detractors argue that road building has many ecological and social consequences. This project studied local attitudes towards the construction of a controversial road that would cross the Isiboro-Sécure National…
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Conflict and Cooperation over REDD+ in Mexico, Nepal and Vietnam
The Conflict and cooperation over REDD+ in Mexico, Nepal and Vietnam project, funded by The Netherlands Scientific Organisation NWO, and the UK’s Department for International Development was an interdisciplinary cross-country project with a focus on analysis of conflicts and co-operation. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, and the enhancement and sustainable use of forest…
