Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15)
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C now available at http://ipcc.ch/report/sr15/
Blog Archives
Collection of examples of social innovation in mountain areas
SIMRA’s fourth brochure collecting examples of social innovation in marginalised rural areas has just been published. This collection of brochures aims at concretely illustrating social innovation through the presentation of local on-going initiatives throughout Europe and the Mediterranean basin, taking turns addressing different marginalized rural areas. This brochure addresses mountain …
The Landing is on Friday. Event of speculative ecology in Transcarpathia
The 48-hour happening will take place between trees and ruins. It will develop a non-linear narrative on ‘speculative ecology’ – a field trial on an ecology with the active participation of fictional aliens, socio-techno-epistemological aliens, corrupted aliens, political, bureaucratic, endangered aliens. Together with the participation of humans the question is …
(Hi)story of Traditional Agricultural Landscapes in Slovakia – S4C on MRI blog
An interesting blogpost on Traditional Agricultural Landscape is now available online on MRI blog platform.
Invitation to the CLIMATE Special Issue “Social Ecological Systems, Climate and Global Change”
This Special Issue was inspired by the IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) 8.01.02 Landscape Ecology conference “The Green–Blue Nexus”. The topic addresses the conflict between provisioning services (biomass, food, fodder, etc. = the “Green”) and regulating services (e.g., drinking water provisioning, irrigation water, flood and erosion control = …
The first MOOC on Landscape Ecology
First MOOC focused on Landscape Ecology was prepared by ETH Zurich & WSL. Participants learn theory, methods and tools to understand the landscapes we live in and to solve landscape-related environmental problems. the course is available online.
Inventorying and mapping of Carpathian Green Infrastructure – feedback needed!
Coordinator of a LIFE project focused on green infrastructure in Polish Carpathians would like to kindly request your assistance in identifying and providing basic information on undertakings implemented in other Carpathian countries in connection with green infrastructure. Assessment of the current state of green infrastructure development in whole Carpathians is …
Forest-Cover Increase Does Not Trigger Forest-Fragmentation Decrease – Carpathian study shows
The research conducted in the Polish Carpathians showed that forest cover increase is not directly related to forest fragmentation decrease. The research was prepared on a comparison of four datasets covering more than 150 years. The results are available online on the Sustainability website.
GMBA Mountain Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing survey
GMBA is carrying out a first coarse assessment of the state of, trends in, and relations between biodiversity, ecosystem services, human wellbeing, and direct drivers in the world’s mountains. Please click here to take the survey and share your knowledge about the mountain social-ecological system(s) you are working on! It …
SCCS – Student Conference on Conservation Science, 4-8 September 2018, Tihany, Hungary
SCCS Europe 2018 The 4th Student Conference on Conservation Science will be held in Tihany between 4-8 September 2018 More