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4 August, 2015
The LRI team involved in the work package on carbon for the p4ges project is participating in the #Forest2015 blog competition. The team would like to ask for your support.  If you would like to lend your support, please visit...
Blogs
4 August, 2015
One of the main objectives of the ESPA programme is to provide “evidence [of] how ecosystem services could reduce poverty and enhance well-being of the world’s poor”. This is something that most participants in ESPA have heard me...
News
31 July, 2015
Ethical issues have become an increasingly important issue in the 21st century, the increasing public interest in science and greater awareness of international human rights issues and economic inequalities have all contributed...
News
31 July, 2015
Critics within big industries such as agriculture and energy have long argued that environmental regulation kills jobs. Yet this economic argument may be over simplistic. A new study has found that although regulation may get...
News
29 July, 2015
Principal Investigator John Dearing, Professor of Physical Geography as the University of Southampton, ESPA funded projects have been featured in a new RCUK brochure "Shaping the Future". This new publication has been produced...
News
29 July, 2015
Across the world it is estimated that around 25% of the world’s urban population or 863 million people live in slums with little or no access to basic infrastructure such as tap water or sewerage systems. In Dar es Salaam,...
News
28 July, 2015
What is the real cost of our love for prawns? The ever expanding appetite for prawns and shrimp, particularly in America, Europe and Japan, has created an industry worth $10 billion annually. For countries like Sri Lanka the...
News
27 July, 2015
A new report by Tanzania Forest Services in collaboration with the United Nations Environment programme (UNEP) and the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy In Africa has found that protecting forests can be as much...
Blogs
14 July, 2015
Recent heavy rains in Nainital, Northern India, have focused attention on issues that are being addressed by two ESPA projects. The ESPA project “The Political Economy of Water Security, Ecosystem Services and Livelihoods in the...
News
7 July, 2015
A report published in the journal Science has highlighted that too many Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are built on incomplete scientific foundations and has proposed a new set of natural science principles to...

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