News
October 18, 2018
This anniversary website explores BC3 through the years since its inception in 2008. It consists of a series of interviews with current and previous members, academic highlights and outreach activities. It sheds a light on our achievements, eventful years, successful projects and the people who have made, and who continue to make, BC3 what it is today. While we publish an activity report each year covering our scientific outcomes, this website instead hopes to celebrate our accomplishments and successes from both an academic and human perspective.
October 17, 2018
Dr. Anil Markandya’s new column at the Globaldev about the coastal cities, proposes new measures of the potential damages from coastal flooding, and argues for action based on the idea of ‘acceptable risk’: the maximum amount of damage a society is willing to accept from a flood event.
October 15, 2018
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October 15, 2018
The Ministry of Science, Innovation and University has awarded a network of excellence to the Red Ecosoil, led by Jorge Curiel, Ikerbasque research professor at BC3. The project, “Biodiversity, trophic levels and ecological interactions in the soil system and its relationship to ecosystem functioning and services” is the only project given to an ecology group.
October 10, 2018
BC3 initiative The International Spring University new edition take place between 8-12 of October. Some national media has spread the news of The International Spring University is taking part this days, such as Europa press, La vanguardia and El diario. Also, the radio stations “Radio Popular” of the Basque Country interviewed the BC3 guest researcher Marta Pascual.
October 10, 2018
Elisa Sainz de Murieta, Geologian doktoratua, eta egun BC3ko ikertzailea, Unibertsitatea.net webgunean elkarrizketatua izan da. Sainz de Murietak, BC3an burutzen hari den ikerketataren inguruan aritu da, baita, klima aldaketaren orainaz eta geroaz.
October 8, 2018
Between 8 and 12 October, the International Spring University (ISU) will be held in Bilbao, the annual international meeting organised by BC3 to explore ecosystem modelling in greater depth. During the five-day event, participants from all over the world will analyse scientific models that will enable them to understand the relationship between human activity and the sustainability of ecosystems.
October 2, 2018
BC3 lidera el proyecto PROCESA, con el apoyo de la Fundación Biodiversidad, del Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica, enfocado en la evaluación del progreso y efectividad de las políticas de adaptación en las principales ciudades del Estado.
September 27, 2018
"Eñaut Izagirre, Guest Researcher de BC3, ha sido parte de la exploración científica a la Cordillera Pariacaca Cordillera Central (Perú). Izagirre, junto a sus compañeros, ha analizado la variabilidad climática y como ésta afecta a la evolución de los glaciares y los caudales que allí se generan."
September 26, 2018
Most land use (change) decisions are still based on incomplete information about the real welfare effects (costs and benefits) because many so-called externalities (positive and negative) associated with the change in land use and management are neglected. This leads to loss and degradation of ecosystems and their services affecting human well-being. Worldwide more than 25% of the land surface is now more or less degraded (UNCCD Global Land Outlook, 2017), costing between 4 and 20 trillion US$/year in terms of damage, repair or replacement costs (Costanza et al., 2014).
