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This folder provides links to the most relevant websites on the topics of interest to this Network. To make this a truly useful tool, we would like to ask you to add missing websites and/or inform us in case you find old or less-relevant websites in the below list.
If you would to add a website, please send an email to mishka.stuip@fsd.nl.
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Ecosystem Services
- Biodiversity and Health Homepage, a noncommercial, educational venue for the distribution of current scientific evidence, medically relevant information, and related topics that address the impacts of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation on human health and quality of life.
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Communicating Ecosystem Services - Tools for scientists to engage the public. A website of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
- Ecosystem Services, topic website of the World Resource Institute.
- Ecosystem Services Project, a Defra (UK) research project to establish the basis for an ecosystems approach and how it may be used to make effective assessments of the benefits that the natural environment provides.
- Ecosystems services and biodiversity in Europe, a report of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC).
- Ecosystem Services Homepage of the Forest Service of the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA).
- Ecosystem Services Research Topic Overview of Resources for the Future (RFF).
- International Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) - a platform of UNEP to strengthen the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
- IUCN Ecosystem Services page
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management - thematic group on Ecosystem Services.
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - webportal for the MA reports, databases and other resources.
- Spearhead Ecosystem and Landscape Services (SELS), a long-term research program aimed at improving the understanding of the capacity of ecosystems and landscapes to provide services.
- The Ecosystem services Blog - Analyses and comments on the science and practice of ecosystem services and biodiversity
- The Stern review, on the economics of climate change (Homepage).
Economic Valuation
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Ecological Valuation
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Cultural Valuation
- Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) works in partnership with indigenous people in conserving biodiversity, health, and culture.
- ARC Alliance of Religions and Conservation
- Association for Conflict Resolution
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Conflict Resolution Information Source
- Convention on Biological Diversity - Article 8(j): Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices
- Cultural Survival
- Delos Initiative
- Forest Peoples Programme
- Forum on religion and Ecology, Yale University (US)
- Governance, Communities, Equity, and Livelihood Rights in Relation to Protected Areas (TILCEPA) - Working group of the IUCN
- Indigenous Knowledge Pages
- Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- International Institute for Rural Reconstruction
- International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) - a collection of representatives from indigenous governments, indigenous non-governmental organizations and indigenous scholars
- International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
- IUCN WCPA Task Force on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas (CSVPA)
- People and Wildlife Innitiative
- Sacred Lands Film Project
- Terralingua
- The Mountain Institute - Mountain Peoples
- UNESCO MAB - People, Biodiversity and Ecology - news stream
- United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
- United Nations permanent forum on Indigenous People
- Wetlands International - Wetlands and Poverty Reduction Project (WPRP)
- Worldwide Indigenous Science Network (WISN)
- World Bank & Indigenous Peoples Practices
- World Water Day - Facts and figures about water religions and beliefs
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Application of Valuation in Decision Making
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Financing Mechanisms
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Related Organisations
- Asia-Europe Environment Forum
- CE Delft - (Consultancy)
- Conservation Commons (Alternative link) - Initiative to share formation and data on biodiversity and conservation.
- CSERGE - The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
- Defra - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK)
- Earth3000, an international non-profit organization supporting innovations in governance for environment and development.
- Earth Economics - advancing and applying the science of ecological economics.
- Earthmind - Synergies for Sustainability. A not-for-profit sustainability network estabished in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Ecosystem Valuation - Very informative website on economic valuation of ecosystems, developed by the University of Maryland (US)
- Earth Trends : The Environmental Information Portal of the World Resources Institute (WRI)
- Economics for the Environment Consultancy (eftec)
- Environmental Valuation and Cost-Benefit News Blog
- Environmental Impact Assessment - website of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
- EU Funding Opportunities for the Environment - Funding programmes available from the Directorate General for the Environment of the European Commission
- Forest Trends
- Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD)
- Global Development Network
- International Association for Impact Assessment - forum for advancing innovation, development, and communication of best practice in impact assessment
- Institute for Environmental Security
- Institute for Environmental Studies
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- IUCN Water & Nature Initiative
- Iwokrama
- Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment (MLA) - Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
- Natural Capital Project : Aligning economic forces with conservation. A multi-casestudy ecosystem services project.
- Netherlands Biodiversity Platform
- Netherlands Commission for Environmental Impact Assessment (MER)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM)
- Rationalising Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Ecosystems (RUBICODE)
- Regenboog Advies
- Regional Environmental Assessment Center for Central and Eastern Europe
- Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES) program
- RNC Alliance : Restoration of Natural Capital - international network of not-for-profit, non-governmental organisations
- The Nature Conservancy
- Triple E - Economy, Ecology and Experience
- UN Millennium Project
- Water Footprint Network
- Wetlands International
- Wetland Professionals Platform
- World Resource Institute (WRI)
- World Ocean Network
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