'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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SELS Project themes


SELS Projects


Events + News

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
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  • New funds for Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation research (First call: 3 March 2010)
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  • 7th Research Framework Programme
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  • 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

     

     

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  • 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.

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  • Special edition of ESA's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on Ecosystem Services (February 2009 issue)

      Past events
       
       
      Publications/Presentations
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  • View all SELS project presentations of the SELS Symposium on 29 October 2009

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  • 17 October 2008 - SELS project in special issue of IUCN magazine 'Sixty: is time running out?'

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  • View all SELS workshop presentations here