An opportunity for a coordinator for the Food System Resilience programme is now out.
The ‘Food System Resilience’ is a Global Food Security (GFS)-led five year programme, supported by BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, and the Scottish Government aiming to address the major challenge: ‘Resilience of the UK food system in a global context’.
The call is open for Expressions of Interest to attend and contribute to a conference on Valuing Nature and Participatory Decision Making, to be held on 19 and 20 July 2016 at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
New video available: hear about the thinking behind the current funding call on Understanding Ecosystem Stocks and Tipping Points from Rosie Hails, lead of the Valuing Nature Programme Coordination Team.
The video includes:
You can see the video on our Tipping Point Call page here.
This funding opportunity has the potential to link to the Valuing Nature Research Goal on Human Health and Wellbeing.
Closing date: 12 July 2016
This blog was first published on 14 March 2016 at https://prueaddison.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/valuing-nature-business-imp...
Ece Ozdemiroglu tells us what economists will be saying on Valuing Nature Programme priority topics at envecon 2016.
A number of weeks ago I attended a meeting with mainly social scientists and economists, presenting on my project about valuing coastal ecosystems and how they’re affected bydifferent stressors. This event was the “Valuing Nature Placements” start-up meeting in London, and when I began my presentation I described myself as a field ecologist with very little knowledge of environmental economics.
From 2 March, the Valuing Nature Programme is running a three-day Business Impact School to provide early career researchers with an opportunity to gain insight into producing research with business impact. The Natural Environment Research Council is funding this School to help develop a Valuing Nature research community with a broader understanding of how to translate research into private sector decision making and innovation.