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>> events
XX Annual BIOECON Conference on Land-use, Agriculture and Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Issues
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 12 - 14 September 2018
This year our conference focuses on agriculture, the conservation of biodiversity and crop genetic diversity, and the use of spatial data to study these issues.
Submission deadline is 28 May 2018
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Frontiers of research on carbon markets: theory and evidence for policy
Gothenburg, Sweden, 25 June 2018
A WCERE pre-congress event, organised by the Grantham Research Institute, which will bring together top academics and policymakers to map and explore the frontiers of research on carbon markets and their implications for policy
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>> projects
From NRERC
> Israel National Ecosystem Assessment (I-NEA)
I-NEA is a national project to assess and quantify the value of the services that Israeli society receives from open landscapes > more
> Economic valuation of marine ecosystem services in the Mediterranean
An economic valuation and spatial mapping of coastal and marine ecosystem services within the Israeli Mediterranean >> more
From BTU
Economics of climate adaptation for biodiversity conservation (Ecoclimb)
This new project will develop exemplarily novel dynamic ecological-economic models to analyse three key conservation policy instruments – incentive payments, offsets and land purchase – in terms of ecological effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in a changing climate taking into account the options enabling migration of species to new climate space and providing climate refugia. >> more
From CMCC
CO-designing the Assessment of Climate CHange costs (COACCH)
The project aims to develop and enhance climate services by drawing upon the projections and projections developed under the Copernicus Climate Change Services >> more
Blue Growth
Within this European long term strategy to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors as a whole , CMCC has developed several related services in the framework of its Ocean Lab activities and projects >> more
From LSE
The Palm Oil Concession Moratorium and its Spatial Impact on Deforestation
This project aims to analyse the effectiveness of the 2011 Moratorium on Palm Oil, Timber and Logging concessions, issued by then Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in compliance to the REDD+ agreement reached by Norway and Indonesia in May 2010
From University of Southern Denmark
Mereconomics - a blog on on Environmental and Resource Economics
The MERE research group, which is part of Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics of University of Southern Denmark, invites you to follow its blog >> more
>> selected publications
The nature of natural capital and ecosystem income, Eli P.Fenichel, Joshua K.Abbott, Seong DoYun, Elsevier Handbook of Environmental Economics, 2018
Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Development, eds. N. Vestergaard, B.A. Kaiser, L. Fernandez, and J. Nymand-Larsen, Springer 2018
From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services, Wunder, S., Brouwer, R., Engel, S., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Muradian, R., Pascual, U., Pinto, R. 2018. . Nature Sustainability, March 2018
Healing Brazil’s Blue Amazon: The role of knowledge networks in nurturing cross-scale transformations at the frontlines of ocean sustainability, Gerhardinger, L. C.; Gorris, P.; Gonçalves, L. R.; Herbst, D. F.; Vila-Nova, D. A.; Carvalho, F. G. de; Glaser, M.; Zondervan, R.; Glavovic, B. (2018). Frontiers in Marine Science 4:395. doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00395.
A Case for the Commons: The Snow Crab in the Barents, Kaiser, B.A.; Kourantidou, M; and Fernandez, L. 2018. Journal of Environmental Management 210: 338-348
>> jobs
PhD Candidate in Economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Deadline: 25 May
Thinking forward through the past: Linking science, social science and the humanities to inform the sustainable reduction of endemic disease in British livestock farming
Deadline: 20 May
