Join the National Ecosystem Services Partnership for a webinar, 1-2:30 p.m. ET, February 11, with speakers Emily Henke of the Oregon Public Health Institute, Katherine Smith of the U.S. Forest Service, Bobby Cochran of the Willamette Partnership, and Steve Kelley of North Carolina State University and the Kelley Family Foundation. Discussion will focus on the goals and objectives of the Oregon Action Framework for Health and the Outdoors. Registration is free but required.

 

March 3 Webinar: Cloud-Based Modeling and Big Data Approaches for Ecosystem Services Assessment

 

*See past webinar recordings online. 

FRMES Guidebook: Newly Revised and Printable

Following the release of new policy guidance directing federal agencies to begin incorporating ecosystem services in federal planning and decision making, the National Ecosystem Services Partnership updated its online Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services Guidebook. The newly revised guidebook , also available soon as a printable book, incorporates recommendations presented in our   Best Practices report as well as two new explorations by the National Park Service of decision making reflecting ecosystem services.

 

Disrupting Biodiversity Markets at the Request of President Obama?  The Huffington Post, December 17, 2015.

 

Nine Steps towards Doubling the Value of US Mitigation Markets. Ecosystem Marketplace, December 21, 2015.
 

Ecosystem Services Research and Stakeholder Involvement: Between Theories and Practice. Science Codex, January 11, 2016.

 

Multi-State Water Program Hopes to Stand on Its Own Two Feet in 2016. Ecosystem Marketplace, January 20, 2016. 

 

The New Phase in the Evolution of Natural Capital Accounting. Green Biz, January 27, 2016.

 

Time to Bring the Value of Nature Back to Earth. People and Oceans , December 2015. 

Herr, D., T. Agardy, D. Benzaken, F. Hicks, J. Howard, E. Landis, A. Soles, and T. Vegh. 2015. Coastal Blue Carbon: A Revised Guide to Supporting Coastal Wetland Programs and Projects Using Climate Finance and Other Financial Mechanisms. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2015.10.en.

 

Munns, W.R., A.W. Rea, M.J. Mazzotta, L.A. Wainger, and K. Saterson. 2015. " Toward a Standard Lexicon for Ecosystem Services. " Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 11: 666-673. doi: 10.1002/ieam.1631.

 

Pendleton, L.H., O. Thebaud, R.C. Mogruel, and H. Levrel. 2016. " Has the Value of Global Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services Changed? " Marine Policy 64: 156-158. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2015.11.018.

 

Posner, S.M., E. McKenzie, and T.H. Ricketts. 2016. " Policy Impacts of Ecosystem Services Knowledge. " Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State of America (PNAS) Early Edition: 1-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1502452113.

 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and

Development, National Exposure Laboratory. 2016.   Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and EnviroAtlas: Integrating Ecosystem Services into the Decision Making Process. EPA/600/RR-15/128.