'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

     

     
      

    SELS (co)finances a number of projects
    that can be viewed here.

    Case study: Lankheet
    Waterpark ‘Het Lankheet’ is a unique project located on a rural estate on the border of the provinces of Overijssel and Gelderland where the estate management and researchers together with local stakeholders are realizing new and restoring traditional forms of land use. They are trying to find a balance between social and ecological sustainable land use types which are economically sound as well. These include surface water purification, water storage and energy production from non-food crops.
    On the estate land use is situated in a historical landscape where besides art and education social projects also play an role.

    After six years of research by Wageningen University and Plant Research International it has been shown that specially constructed reed filters can absorb nitrogen and phosphate from large quantities of surface water very efficiently.

    For more information see the SELS project page Lankheet

     

     

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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 20 May 2010

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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