Past Events

ESPA invited those that are "helping nature to help us" to join their Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services (ACES) project team at the European Ecosystems Conference that was held in Belgium later that year. They had until the 15th...

ESPA organised a Summer School which took place 10-16 April 2016 and was held at the New Lanark Mill Hotel which is located at the New Lanark World Heritage Site. The Summer School was open to non-ESPA researchers and users of...

Event Description: The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Directorate responded to a strong demand among the ESPA community for a unified strategy around impact, and opportunities to share lessons and build...

Event Description: The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Directorate responded to a strong demand among the ESPA community for a unified strategy around impact, and opportunities to share lessons and build...

This town meeting provided an opportunity for the ESPA community to hear about ESPA’s call for research synthesis projects.   The call will fund a set of projects that build upon the scientific advances and evidence...

  The science of sustainability for people and planet   It has been 15 years since the UN’s Millennium Declaration and the resulting Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It has also been 10 years of progress since the...

ESPA’s Annual Science Meeting in 2014 was held in South Asia, in New Delhi, India on the 26th-27th November.  This was the first major event that ESPA has held outside the UK and the choice of South Asia was in recognition of the...

ESPA’s research is truly interdisciplinary combining the natural and social sciences.  It is also often data intensive with many projects requiring substantive new field campaigns.  The new data for much of ESPA’s social research...

The ESPA Fellowships Inception Workshop was designed to provide the Fellows with an opportunity to familiarise themselves with ESPA and promote discussions between Fellows.  The workshop provided the ideal opportunity to look for...

The links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation, are by their very nature complex.  ESPA’s research considers the links between multiple ecosystem services and multiple dimensions of poverty, their interactions,...