The 5th ESP Europe Conference was held in Wageningen, Netherlands, from 18-22 November 2024. Centered around the theme "Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health," the event brought together over 500 participants from 49 European countries, as well as attendees from Russia, Canada, and the USA. The event was organised by the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) and Wageningen university &a...

The 5th ESP Europe Conference will take place between 18-22 November 2024 in Wageningen, Netherlands under the theme Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health. This year, the conference will emphasise two key thematic streams: “Ecosystem services and health” and “Ecosystem services and conditions for transformative change. ” These themes aim to explore the role of ecosystem services in fostering health and driving essential changes within...

The recently published SELINA article “Mapping and assessing marine ecosystem services supply in the Baltic Sea” introduces three methodological frameworks that were applied to quantitatively map and assess marine ecosystem services (ES) supply across the Baltic Sea in a spatio-temporal perspective. Published in the multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal Science of the Total Environment, the study reveals that ecosystem services are respon...

Published in One Ecosystem (an innovative Open Access scholarly journal which provides a forum for studies in the field of ecology and sustainability), the SELINA-supported article “Increasing uptake of ecosystem service assessments: best practice check-lists for practitioners in Europe” reviews 111 guidance documents on ecosystem service assessments across Europe, developing best practice checklists to improve the design and implementation of th...

Published in MethodsX (a multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal), the SELINA-supported article “A simple method for mapping winter recreational fishing ecosystem services supply in lakes. A contribution to mapping freshwater ecosystem services” introduces a novel method for mapping winter recreational fishery ecosystem services (ES) in urban lakes using high-resolution images from an unmanned aerial vehicle. This approach helps ide...

A recent publication in the Nature journal, based on the IPBES Values Assessment, studies concepts that are referred to in SELINA’s work. The paper argues that there is an urgent need to understand how and why nature is (under)valued, to reconsider the prioritisation of a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and to ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature. Derived from over 50,000 scientific studies...

In June 2023, the first SELINA-supported research paper “Accounting for forest condition in Europe based on an international statistical standard” was published in the Nature Communications journal. It examines the condition of forest ecosystems, their crucial role in safeguarding biodiversity and mitigating climate change, and the threat forest degradation poses to key ecosystems and society. The paper provides a spatially explicit assessment...