Bridging the gap between forest management and water conservation
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new publication entitled "Advancing the forest and water nexus...
Global perspectives and mutual learning for forest ecosystem services
The first SINCERE Learning Lab has brought experts together from across the globe to brainstorm on issues pertaining to forest ecosystem services....
When ashes stain forest rivers: post-fire effects on soil and water ecosystems
Uncontrolled, extreme forest fires can have a devastating impact on the ecosystems where they occur: one of the most visible of these...
Five important facts about urban forests
Paris made headlines this week for a new project to build the largest urban farm in Europe, right in the heart of...
Forest and its Potential for Health
How can
forests provide human societies with health and wellbeing? This international
event will update and advance applied research and best-practice
implementation, organised by the...
Retro-innovation working for wildfire prevention: Shepherds’ contracts to reduce biomass and maintain fuelbreaks
Innovative contracts are providing extra income and social recognition for shepherds working to reduce forest fire risk. These indicator-based contracts, as well...
Cool, wet, and few people: where Catalan forest ecosystem services abound
If we want to manage forests for maximum welfare
outcomes, we need to boost the provision of bundled forest ecosystem services.
But to get...
Call for papers: Governing and managing forests for multiple ecosystem services across the globe
Researchers from several scientific disciplines are invited to submit their contribution to this interdisciplinary conference "Governing and managing forests for multiple ecosystem...
Mapping forest innovation across Europe
A map of innovative ways in which forests are being employed and managed to provide benefits to people has been launched by...
Payments for ecosystem services: Piecing together the puzzle to stop ‘Nature’s Dangerous Decline’
The key conclusions of the recent IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Global Assessment provoked urgent newspaper headlines: "nature's...
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Effects of climate change on Greek forests: a review
A new study by the Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems (IMFE) in Greece focuses on climate change and extreme weather outcomes in...
