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To mark its 50th anniversary, NERC has developed a new scheme of awards which will recognise and reward NERC-funded researchers, as individuals or teams, whose work has had substantial impact on the economy and society.
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Two Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)-funded research projects have contributed to a top award for Principal Investigator John Dearing, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Southampton. The...
Over the last month I have had a number of opportunities to reflect on the way that ESPA is delivering impact, helping to improve the lives of poor people in low-income countries. For those of you who attended the first ESPA...
There is an explicit assumption in international policy statements that conserving biodiversity can help in efforts to tackle global poverty. For example Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity agreed in 2001 “to...
Written by Ina Porras, IIED
Payments for ecosystem services have the potential to promote healthier ecosystems and fairer deals for smallholders. This is all very good, but where will the money for such schemes come from?
Sensible...
Scientists at Bangor University are researching how carbon offset payments can be used to alleviate poverty in Madagascar. The p4ges project is funded by ESPA.
The three-year project also aims to help some of the poorest...
This survey is part of a research project (EU - 7th framework OPERAs project - www.operas-project.eu) at the Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems - PLUS at ETH Zurich.
It aims at recording the demands and requirements...
Over the last two months I have been able to meet ESPA researchers, some of their local partners and a range of policy makers with an interest in ESPA. During that period I have travelled to Bangladesh and Zambia to meet ESPA...
UKCDS is a group of UK government departments and research funders with interests in international development. UKCDS has long been interested in the application of complexity science to development, having previously worked on...
When the ESPA P4GES project was launched, the event was closely followed by the Malagasy press - here is a story which went out on Malagasy TV evening news: News clip
(The broadcast is in Malagasy, the language of Madagascar.)
