Ecosystem services
BC3 Seminar: Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, and the Environmentalists’ Paradox
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country,Leioa,Bizkaia,SpainThe latest IPBES report warns us of ongoing biodiversity collapse. The Ecosystem Services framework suggests that this will seriously affect human well-being. But policy-makers do not seem to respond with any great alacrity to these warnings. Some skeptics even point to rising human well-being as an indication that the claims linking nature and well-being are exaggerated.
ESP10 Word Conference – Aries Pre-Release
Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) nstitute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Schneiderberg Str. 50 30167,Hannover,GermanyThe training session ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services) will illustrate how the ARIES modelling framework implements integration and interoperability approaches through semantic web modelling and how this approach can overcome some of the common challenges of data and model integration, providing a broad range of collaborative models from simple to complex, while efficiently reusing scientific and stakeholder knowledge and sharing it with the larger ecosystem services community.Alivedemowill show how its web interface k.Explorerworks.
IPBES 2nd author meeting for the values assessment
Vitoria-GasteizInternational specialists in biodiversity and ecosystems will meet next week in Vitoria-Gasteiz to address the multiple values and benefits offered by nature, its ecosystems and its biological diversity. This is the panel of experts of IPBES, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, an independent intergovernmental body sponsored by the United Nations.
