Informes 2015 y presupuesto 2016.

Ya fueron presentados los informes técnicos y financieros del año 3 (2015) (puenden consultarse en https://sites.google.com/site/vesplancyted/informes-tecnicos-y-financieros).

A fin de elaborar el presupuesto 2016, sería oportuno que hagan llegar a Pedro y/o Lina sus requerimientos particulares en el rubro intercambios (solicitud de apoyo para viajes y estadías entre los grupos miembros de la red).

Información de Interés - Tercera Reunión de Coordinación

Tercera Reunión de Coordinación 

(Septiembre 30 a Octubre 03 de 2015, Mar del Plata, Argentina)

En el marco de la tercera reunión se establecieron algunos compromisos y tareas, en los próximos días estaremos compartiendo la agenda completa y las tareas programadas. En esta entrega nos permitimos compartirles algunos enlaces, información y documentos de interés para su conocimiento (Información enviada por Berta Martín).

1. Special issue sobre ‘Putting ecosystem services into practice’ – ver pdf (Special2015)
2. Curso de mapeo de servicios que organiza el International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies. – ver (Curso2015)
3. Invitación para enviar articulos al International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management (IJBESM), del cual Patty y yo somos editoras asociadas. Tenemos el compromiso de apoyar las publicaciones que vengan de Latino-américa, así que animo a que distribuyáis este mail a la red. Para la invitación, seguir el link http://tandf.msgfocus.com/q/16vsPLUVY8i/wv

Igualmente durante la reunión se exploro la posibilidad de contar con nuevas herramientas web y enfoques para abordar las discusiones del último año de trabajo, compartimos esta información.

1. Sitio Facebook, gracias a la colaboración de María Vallejos, contamos desde la semana pasada con el sitio oficial de Facebook, los invitamos a que nos sigan y que publiquen sus notas de interés, recordemos que este sitio es de todos y entre todos lo construimos. (www.facebook.com/vesplan)
2. El blog http://www.futureearth.org/blog/pop-webinars, que orienta sobre la elaboración de comunicaciones cortas (colaboración de Berta).

Se ha lanzado el sitio web de ECOSER

(Protocolo colaborativo de evaluación y mapeo de servicios ecosistémicos y vulnerabilidad socio-ecológica para el ordenamiento territorial) 

 

ECOSER es una herramienta que ha sido desarrollada tanto para el soporte de la toma de decisiones sobre uso de la tierra, como de la investigación e integración disciplinaria y de la colaboración científica en torno a los flujos de servicios ecosistémicos (SE), su interacción y su captura por la sociedad. Básicamente, se trata de protocolo o conjunto de procedimientos que permiten evaluar y mapear SE y estimar la vulnerabilidad socio-ecológica frente a la pérdida de los mismos. 

El conocimiento y modelamiento de los procesos biofísicos subyacentes al flujo de servicios ecosistémicos se encuentra en permanente cambio, por lo que la utilidad de una herramienta como ECOSER depende de su capacidad de actualización. En ese sentido, ECOSER no es un producto acabado, sino que aspira a constituir un protocolo colaborativo, a través del cual los distintos tipos de usuarios comenten, corrijan, adecuen e integren los distintos modelos, índices y funciones que lo componen, y compartan nuevos modelos complementarios u alternativos para actualizar y expandir su utilidad.

En este sitio web (www.eco-ser.com.ar), los Usuarios Registrados pueden canalizar sus contribuciones a través de dos secciones. Los comentarios y modificaciones a modelos, índices y funciones ya disponibles pueden sugerirse a través del Foro, en tanto que la propuesta de modelos, índices y funciones alternativos puede ser remitida al Contacto de este sitio web para su integración a la Caja de Herramientas del protocolo, una vez verificados los requisitos mínimos allí descriptos.

Próximamente anunciaremos un curso-taller centrado en la utilización de esta herramienta. Hasta entonces, esperamos que los interesados podrán explorar su aplicabilidad en base a la documentación que provee este sitio y quedamos a la espera de sus consultas y/o aportes.

El equipo de ECOSER.

Nuevas publicaciones desde el Lab. de Socio-Ecosistemas (UNAM)

Berta Martín López nos hace llegar "varias publicaciones recientes que pueden ser interesantes para la red VESPLAN sobre servicios y bienestar humano (en este caso en Guatemala)". 

López-Santiago, C. A., E. Oteros-Rozas, B. Martín-López, T. Plieninger, E. González Martín, and J. A. González. 2014. Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: the case of transhumance in Mediterranean Spain. Ecology and Society 19(2): 27.  

 

Mingorría, Sara, Gonzalo Gamboa, Berta Martín-López y Esteve Corbera. In press. The oil palm boom: socio-economic implications for Q’eqchi’ households in the Polochic valley, Guatemala. Environ Dev Sustain DOI 10.1007/s10668-014-9530-0.

Palomo, Ignacio,  Berta Martín-López, Paloma Alcorlo, and Carlos Montes. In press. Limitations of Protected Areas Zoning in Mediterranean Cultural Landscapes Under the Ecosystem Services Approach. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9788-y.

Rodríguez-Ortega, T., E. Oteros-Rozas, R. Ripoll- Bosch, M. Tichit, B. Martín-López and A. BernuésApplying the ecosystem services framework to pasture-based livestock farming systems in Europe T. . Animal, page 1 of 12 © The Animal Consortium 2014.doi:10.1017/S1751731114000421.

Ver enlaces en la Biblioteca de VESPLAN

ESP Update No.2014/03

ESP Update No.2014/03

March 27, 2014 

1.     7th ESP Conference in Costa Rica: 8 – 12 September 2014

Sessions

The final list of accepted sessions is online now.  In total there are 53 sessions, look at the conference site for details.

Abstracts for oral presentations and posters

We are now preparing the website for abstract-submissions. In case you are planning to submit an abstract for an oral presentation or poster, it should fit in one of these 53 sessions. Please note that not all sessions accept voluntary contributions. Look at the Abstract Submission page for more information.

Registration and further information

We will place more detailed information about the registration fee and procedure on the website soon. If you have questions about organisational aspects please contact conference@es-partnership.org, which is now managed by Martine van Weelden who has been hired as of March 15 to help with the conference organisation.

Please regularly check the ESP 2014 conference site for the latest updates and continue to announce the conference in your network(s). The promotion flyer is also available as download from the ESP2014 website. 

2.     ESP Governance and membership issues

Steering Committee

The list of ESP Steering Committee members is now online. Joachim Maes and Sander Jacobs have been elected as interim co-chairs of the Steering Committee. Together with the other members of the Steering Committee they will prepare a proposal for adjusting the bylaws and manage other governance issues. There will probably be a separate Steering Committee-meeting preceding the 7th ESP conference on Sunday-afternoon 7 September. More news from the SC will follow soon.

Reduced ECOSER subscription for ESP Members

One of the many benefits of an ESP membership is a reduced subscription fee to the Ecosystem Services Journal. As of 2014, paying ESP members can sign up for 30€/year (25 GBP, 4400 YEN or 41 USD).  See our ECOSER subscription page for more information.

Ecosystem Services Journal in 2013 and 2014

The Elsevier journal Ecosystem Services associated with ESP has done very well in 2013. It has really matured and in total 7 volumes have already been published since the launch in 2012. In 2013, ECOSER published 4 excellent issues, including 2 special issues: one on “Mapping and Modelling Payments for Ecosystem Services” and the other on “Payments for Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions”.  Currently there are three Calls for papers for special issues. You find more information on the 2013 statistics in the ESP News item on this.

3.     News from Working Groups, Regional Chapters, and National Networks

New ESP Guidelines and Toolkits SERVICE-team lead

Dr. Alejandro von Bertrab has offered to lead the ESP Guidelines and Toolkits Service team with the Department of Biodiversity, Forests and Natural Resources of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). This GIZ research team is leading the project “ValuES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into policy, planning, and practice”. This project, and this ESP SERVICE-team, aims to bridge the gap felt by practitioners: there is an array of methods, techniques and models to identify, measure and value ecosystem services but there is insufficient know-how regarding the specific application of findings, their impact and integration into policies.

Calls for cooperation

Several ESP Working Groups and members have recently posted Calls for Cooperation. For instance:

• Call for grey literature on contribution of forest ecosystem services to food production.
• The Marine Ecosystem Services Partnership is looking for up-to-date valuations for marine and coastal ecosystems.

Request for Online course material on Ecosystem Service themes:

• Alexander Hellquist (co-lead of the ESP Education & Training Service) plans to organize a session on Education and Training at the ESP 2014 Conference in Costa Rica with the aim to develop guidelines for ES assessments on this topic. To this end he wants to develop a repository of existing online material from ES-related courses. If you know of good ES-related course material, please send it to Alexander Hellquist.

4.     Other news

• Deadline for submission of session abstracts for ACES 2014: 31 March 2014! The ACES 2014 conference "Linking Science, Practice and Decision Making", will be held at December 8-11 in Washington D.C, USA. The deadline for session, workshop, and town hall proposals is March 31. Click here for more information on submissions. Be sure to read the submission instructions thoroughly for each proposal type to ensure you're choosing the right format for your presenters.
• Call for papers: Special Issue ESS Policies Landscape dynamics.
• New book: Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices.
• New publication: Envisioning Ways Forward for the Ecosystem Services Debate.  
• Free Online Course on Natural Capital Project  Approach.

See the growing list of News-items, Vacancies, Calls for cooperation and Upcoming events

on the ESP-website for new and previous messages, and interesting links.

As always, we look forward to hear from you!

The ESP Support Team

Reunión de septiembre en Costa Rica

Como ya lo adelantáramos a fines del año pasado, este año realizaremos nuestra segunda reunión de coordinación en Costa Rica, en el marco de la 7ma. Conferencia Anual del Ecosystem Services Parnership (ESP), entre el  8 y 12 de septiembre del corriente. 

En esa oportunidad VESPLAN estará directamente involucrado en la organización de un simposio, titulado: Vulnerability, conservation and restoration of ecosystem services, and their mainstreaming in public policies of Latin America and the Caribe countries (ver descripción abajo¹). Este simposio incluirá unas 7 presentaciones orales de unos 10 minutos cada una.

Además, en el sitio web de la conferencia, podrán encontrar detalles sobre la posibilidad de hacer presentaciones en el marco de otros simposios, o como posters libres.

 El título y el perfil de este simposio fueron seleccionados en función de los intereses particulares de nuestra red, por lo que esperaríamos que los aportes desde VESPLAN representen una proporción importante de las 7 presentaciones previstas. Como ya se anuncia en el sitio web de la conferencia, el deadline para el envío de resúmenes es el 1ro. de mayo.

Les agradeceremos que agenden estas fechas, y nos transmitan: a) el nombre del representante de su grupo que concurrirá a la reunión de Costa Rica, y b) el interés en presentar una comunicación en el marco del simposio descripto.

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The Ecosystem Services Partnership organises the 7th annual ESP conference from 8-12 September 2014, in Costa Rica.  The program consists of a mix of plenary sessions, workshops and open-topic sessions, and special sessions organised by the ESP main partners and sponsors.

Deadlines:

• 1 March 2014: Submission of abstracts for workshop (for ESP members), special sessions and open topic ideas (for all participants)
• 1 May 2014: Submission of presentation and poster abstracts
• 1 July 2014: Early Bird registration (15% discount)

See the ESP Conference website for the most recent information!

¹Simposio: Vulnerability, conservation and restoration of ecosystem services, and their mainstreaming in public policies of Latin America and the Caribe countries. Sustainable development of Latin American countries depends on their ability to internalize the relevance of ecosystem services (ES) into land use policies.  Important steps have been achieved within the region for adapting and developing techniques of ES evaluation and mapping, but limitations to ES mainstreaming into public policies still persist (Balvanera et al. 2013). Usual approaches to ES mapping of the current distribution of ES fluxes generally fail to provide what long term decisions require, like their vulnerability under different scenarios and their influence on society well-being. For example, hotspots of current ES provision are not necessarily coupled to hotspots of socioecological vulnerability, and they do not necessarily have the same relevance for those decision makers which are concerned with sustainable human well-being. On the other hand, technical solutions are frequently developed disregarding their suitability within the context of local (usually rural) communities and their particular governance systems. Therefore, this session is open to contributions on (1) different approaches aimed to the evaluation and mapping of ES provided by socioecological systems, with focus on policy-relevant products (e.g. hotspots of socioecological vulnerability, as well as on conservation and restoration needs), and (2) the mainstreaming of the ES approach to land use policies and territorial planning in Latin American and the Caribe regions, with focus on local (rural) communities.

Invitation to present in a session on Cultural Ecosystem Services

Enviado por Berta Martin López:

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Asunto:	Invitation to present in a session on Cultural Ecosystem Services
Fecha:	Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:38:28 +0100
De:	Christian Albert <christian.albert@ufz.de>
CC:	Christine Fürst <cfuerst@uni-bonn.de>, Johannes Hermes <hermes@umwelt.uni-hannover.de>

Dear colleagues,

we would like to coordinally invite you to participate in a session 
entitled "Cultural Ecosystem Services: Bridging Natural, Social and 
Planning Sciences", to be held at the 20th ISSRM Conference in Hannover, 
Germany, June 9-13 of this year. For your information, please find the 
session outline attached.

We greatly appreciate your work on Cultural Ecosystem Services and would 
be delighted if you would accept our invitation. In case you are 
interested in participating, please send me an e-mail with the proposed 
title of your talk or poster until the end of this week. Please accept 
our apologies for the short notice and let us know if you have any 
questions.

Thanks in advance for your consideration!

With best regards
Christine, Johannes and Christian

-- 
Dr. Christian Albert
Institut für Umweltplanung / Institute of Environmental Planning
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Phone +49 511 762 17949

Department Umweltpolitik / Department of Environmental Politics
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ
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Phone +49 341 235 1042 / Fax +49 341 235 1836
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