'Speerpunt' Ecosystem and Landscape Services (SELS) SELS is a long-term research program aimed at improving the understanding of the capacity of ecosystems and landscapes to provide services and quantifying the related benefits - socio-cultural, ecological and economic - at various scales to assist integrated planning, management and decision-making processes.

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Theme 1 - Identifying and quantifying ecosystem/landscape functions Theme 2 - Values and perceptions of ecosystem/landscape services Theme 3 - Ecosystem and landscape services in trade-off analysis and decision-making Theme 4 - Ecosystem/landscape services in Planning, Management, and Design Theme 5 - Financing Instruments for sustainable use of ecosystem/landscape services For more background information SELS read the SELS brochure       Funding opportunities   New funds for Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation research (First call: 3 March 2010)   7th Research Framework Programme   Eurobiodiversa

SELS (co)finances a number of projects that can be viewed here. Case study: Groene Woud This is a characteristic small-scale landscape between Tilburg, Eindhoven and Den Bosch that comprises of several brook valleys, forests, heathlands and rural estates, as well as historical agricultural land. The main challenge of stakeholders in this area is to combine economic development (recreation, housing and industries) with preservation of the landscape.  Researchers participating in SELS are encouraged to involve this National Landscape in (part of) their research to develop applicable knowledge for stakeholders and to provide added value to the individual projects within SELS. For more information see the SELS project page Groene Woud

December2009 - SELS Autumn symposium - Quantification, Valuation and Financing of Ecosystem Services: the role of scientific knowledge in policy and decision-making. Here you find the presentations and project updates of the 1st SELS symposium held on 29th October 2009.   Special edition of ESA's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on Ecosystem Services (February 2009 issue)   Past events           Publications/Presentations   View all SELS project presentations of the SELS Symposium on 29 October 2009   17 October 2008 - SELS project in special issue of IUCN magazine 'Sixty: is time running out?'   View all SELS workshop presentations here