It's day 6 of the #AlterNetSummerSchool in beautiful and sunny Peyresq and we kick-off with Bruno Locatelli talking about "Social-Ecological transformations: Power and justice in the co-production of ecosystem services in Peru"

#SocialEcologicalSystems
#TransformativeChange
#EnvironmentalJustice
#EcosystemServices

Negotiating multifunctional landscapes - where values and needs clash? Francis Turkelboom INBO and Mario Torralba VU Amsterdam Day 4 #AlternetSummerSchool #biodiversity #ecosystemservices

A new study says that soil holds more biodiversity than any other Earth habitat. The researchers estimated that 59 per cent of all known species live in or on soil, roughly double earlier estimates. This means that soil conservation is crucial for protecting the diversity of life and the ecosystem services it provides. #SoilBiodiversity #EcosystemServices #LifeBelowGround https://themessenger.com/tech/soil-holds-more-biodiversity-than-any-other-habitat-on-earth-study-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=kon4444%2Fmagazine%2FThe+Environment%2C+We+Live+Here+

Just published in @Nature with @unaipasku et al: paper based on @ipbes #ValuesAssessment where we underline the need to shift social & institutional values away from emphasis on GDP growth & material accumulation to community-based, sustainability aligned values. Plus check out the fab new IPBES values typology!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06406-9

#Sustainability
#SustainabilityScience
#Biodiversity
#NatureEmergency
#GlobalBiodiversityFramework
#EcosystemServices
#ecologicalcrises
#ecologicaleconomics

#restoring #CattleWreckedLandscape: Garcia relies on #ecotourism – he guides biologists and ecologists around the plot for a small fee – and payments for #ecosystemservices (#PES), a scheme run by the Costa Rican government that rewards #farmers who carry out #sustainableforestry and #environmentalprotection.

From: @GrrlScientist
https://mstdn.science/@GrrlScientist/110803711300600509

"Rather than hurting farming and fishing, protecting nature pays for itself"–Enric Sala #NatGeo

"Nature provides $125 trillion in goods and services to the global economy annually – for free."

"Every euro spent on nature restoration produces 8 to 38 euros in economic value"

"In the sea, restoration of marine life in HPMAs produces economic returns of 10:1 via fisheries enhancement, ecotourism and other ecosystem benefits."

https://www.context.news/nature/opinion/rejecting-nature-restoration-in-europe-is-a-shot-in-the-foot

#EcosystemServices #EcosystemCollapse

World Bee Day … save the bees! https://theapiarist.org/world-bee-day-save-the-bees/ #pollinatorcompetition #ecosystemservices #Responsibility #solitarybees #savethebees #Beekeeping #Science

Kelp forests are beautiful and biodiverse and very valuable for humanity. A new study has estimated that they provide services worth more than $1 trillion annually. These include food, oxygen, carbon capture, nutrient cycling, and coastal protection.

#kelpforests #ecosystemservices #blueeconomy

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-underwater-resource-is-worth-way-more-than-expected-study-reveals

Great #BEM2023 talk from @wilkes_lexi shows #ecosystemServices are more vulnerable to species loss than food webs - and we see this best using climate vulnerability than traditional explorations of #foodweb robustness.

"How a new 'nature economy' is transforming the fight for B.C.'s ancient forests"

Features @UBCForestry's Big Tree Registery and grad student Ira Sutherland (@ira_sutherland).

Not sure though whether valuing ecosystem services and "monetizing" nature is all that new.

#Forests #OldGrowth #EcosystemServices

https://globalnews.ca/news/9633655/new-nature-economy-bc-forests/

🇨🇦 Nice! City of Kitchener is looking to undo decades-old design of a concrete creek in favour of nature. As more and more cities begin to recognize the value of #EcosystemServices, nature becomes an obvious choice to support #Infrastructure — especially with the added co-benefits of #biodiversity, climate mitigation and a beautiful community. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/schneider-shoemaker-creeks-filsinger-1.6808342

RT @sesync
$Putting a price tag on nature$ This lesson on #ecosystemservices-part of a NEW 3-part series-explores the concept & why its popularity is growing among policymakers #OpenAccess @IPBES @carlyziter @petemumby @LindsayStringer @LauraEllenDee @MGEMitchell
https://www.sesync.org/resources/ecosystem-services-part-1-defining-and-valuing-nature

Loving this visualization of our 2021 work on urban ecosystem accounting in the U.S.! #makenaturecount #Datavisualization #ecosystemservices https://t.co/ZFvTY1lVBw @MehdiHeris https://t.co/X4TeoqQqCy

RT @ESPartnership
Proud of the Bulgarian ESP network, their involvement in @ipbes activities, huge role in @SELINAHorizonEU, and all the amazing work they do for #ecosystemservices science and application in #Bulgaria https://twitter.com/SELINAHorizonEU/status/1640727512291463172

RT @richamelin
Multifunctional landscape #restoration planning considering #climatechange #ecosystemservices Gabriela Barragan Rhemtulla lab @ubcforestry

New review paper out with Simone Martino, on Economic Valuation of Wildlife Conservation, in European Journal of Wildlife Research, covering both conventional and deliberative approaches to valuation.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-023-01658-2

#ecologicaleconomics
#biodiversityeconomics
#environmentaleconomics
#natureconservation
#biodiversity
#wildlife
#nature
#valuesofnature
#ecosystems
#ecosystemservices
#naturalcapital

From @alison_bowden RT by @MassSierraClub: Taunton River ~ 3' down from last week's noreaster & "minor flood". Without these floodplain wetlands, same storm would do a lot more damage #EcosystemServices #NatureBasedSolutions @NWSNERFC

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"Knowledge of the full #timeline casts a very different light, in particular on the difficulties currently encountered in the practice of #MES; far from being the expected growing pains of a young discipline, these difficulties turn out to be long-standing problems that have eluded solution over the last half-century and appear intrinsically unresolvable." [4]

#EcosystemServices #Uncertainty #ControversialMonetarisation #NonMarketValuation #PostNormalScience

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The commentaries by @AndreaSaltelli @Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs @blair_fix may also recall the problematic timeline discussed in [4]

The "#MonetaryValuation, or monetization, of #EcosystemServices (MES)" is often said as "emerged in 1997. In fact, there is a long history, starting in the late fifties but largely ignored, of sustained attempts to assign monetary values to nature's services. These early efforts encountered many conceptual and methodological roadblocks, which could not be resolved"

Have you heard about "Quality Agricultural Lands" from @USDA?

⁦@SarahHalperin⁩ from @BoiseState examined this concept through the #EcosystemServices lens using a rapidly urbanizing agricultural region in the western #UnitedStates https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880923000944