News and blogs
Professor Shamsul Alam, Senior Secretary of the General Economics Division (GED), Government of Bangladesh visited the University of Southampton in late August to continue our collaboration on several large delta-focused projects...
As the ESPA programme comes to a close, we have embarked on an effort to reflect on all that was learned during this journey, and to capture these lessons so that can be useful to current and future programmes, funders,...
Stephen Sironka Sankeni was a research assistant for the ESPA-funded Poverty and ecosystem service impacts of Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (PIMA) project. Now he’s been awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a...
This week, Mahesh Poudyal, an environmental social scientist and interdisciplinary researcher, joins the ESPA team as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His task: to support ESPA’s Director Kate Schreckenberg and Science Advisor,...
The winning project, Mikoko Pamoja – which means ‘mangroves together – is an initiative of two communities in Gazi Bay, Southern Kenya. Since 2013, they have been running the world’s first community-based mangrove conservation...
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows how a policy aimed at ensuring the world’s protected areas are equitably managed has potential to improve nature conservation and outcomes for local people, although...
Managing ecosystem services more wisely – to alleviate poverty and promote human wellbeing – is becoming part of the fabric of sustainable development, reports Dr Daniela Diz, Research Fellow in International Environmental Law,...
Attempts to deliver safe water to people living in some of the world’s poorest slums are falling at the final hurdle, according to research led by Lancaster University.
Sewage-contaminated drinking water causes serious illness...
Spaces research informs a call to consider fisheries benefits to wellbeing beyond income. An income focus can miss non-monetary dimensions of poverty, unequal distributions and whether it is spent and saved to improve people’s...
The first United Nations report on biodiversity, ecosystems and human rights has been published. It can be a game-changer for ESPA research.
In March 2017, the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment,...
