ESRC Climate Change Calls & Town Hall Meeting
9 Apr 2018
News
Pre-announcement: NERC Innovation placements
9 Apr 2018
Pre-announcement:
NERC will shortly be inviting applications from existing researchers to apply for 3 to 12 month placements based in non-academic organisations. Projects must fall within the NERC remit and must identify clear examples of where environmental research, data and skills can be used to make a difference. Link to Full Information
Call for participants: Social innovation for maintaining and restoring natural capital in Latin America
19 Mar 2018
Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund and the British Council, Middlesex University in partnership with Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios in Colombia will be holding a three-day workshop to explore opportunities to develop research on social innovation for restoring natural capital. This will take place in Pereira (Colombia) from the 26-29 June 2018.
Funding Opportunity: Research capacity for sustainable ecosystem-based management of estuaries and coasts
23 Feb 2018
Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council, in partnership with the South African National Research Foundation, will be holding a three day workshop on the above theme in the premises of the Oceanographic Research Institute, uShaka Marine World in Durban South Africa, on 19-21 June 2018.
Online Course - Valuing Nature: Should We Put a Price on Ecosystems?
23 Feb 2018
The University of Exeter has launched an online course to help everyone to discover the many ways that we benefit from the natural world through ecosystem services.
Explore how we value the natural world. The first course starts on the 19 March 2018 with further dates to be announced later in the year.
Topics Covered:
Putting a monetary value on nature
New Report: Bringing health and the environment into decision making: the Natural Capital Approach
14 Feb 2018
A new report by Ian Bateman - Director; Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter Business School, and Ben Wheeler - Senior Research Fellow, European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH), University of Exeter Medical School, has just been published.
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Call for Papers for a Special Feature of Sustainability Science “Theoretical traditions in social values for sustainability”
14 Feb 2018
To further explore themes associated with the diverse concepts of value, the Valuing Nature Programme is pleased to support this Call for Papers inviting abstracts on Theoretical traditions in social values for sustainability which will form a Special Feature of Sustainability Science edited by Chris Raymond, Jasper Kenter, Carena van Riper, Andrea Rawluk and Dave Kendal.
envecon 2018: Applied Environmental Economics Conference
6 Feb 2018
Date and Time: Friday 9th March 2018, 8:45am – 19:30pm
Venue: The Royal Society, London
The UK Network of Environmental Economists (UKNEE) has announced that registration is open for envecon 2018: Applied Environmental Economics Conference.
Keynote Lecture Series: Understanding linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem services for exploring the impacts of environmental change
24 Jan 2018
This Valuing Nature Keynote Lecture will be given by Professor Paula Harrison, from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). This 45 minute lecture will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Dr Rob Fish with Professor Michael Winter and Professor Rosie Hails.
Lecture Title: Understanding linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem services for exploring the impacts of environmental change
Date: 20 February 2018, 18:30 to 20:30
Workshop - Arts and the Artist in Landscape and Environmental Research Today (AALERT)
13 Jan 2018
15 February 2018, Central London
AALERT is an interdisciplinary meeting aiming to foster debate and dialogue about the role of arts and the artist in landscape and environmental research today by cutting across disciplinary perspectives and professional practices.