Winter 2011 Newsletter

A reminder to all that the Call For Papers for this year's ialeUK conference is now open.This international conference will be very much of the moment. There is growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services...

The Irish Programme for Government (2007) includes a commitment to deliver a National Landscape Strategy (NLS). The process is now in a draft stage and the final NLS will be published in 2011 and its duration will extend to 2020. Finally landscape has made its way to the political agenda...

Landscapes provide a broad range of services to society. To date, however, only few regional to continental scale studies assess the capacity of landscapes to provide...

Forest Research has launched a website to promote the importance of green infrastructure. It was launched on behalf of the Urban Regeneration & Greenspace Partnership, which promotes greenspace initiatives and best practice. Users can...

A new Future Brief focussing on the complex relationship between biodiversity and human health has been published and is free to download.

There is to be a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology note on 'Landscapes of the Future'...

The last decade has been the best for rivers since the industrial revolution, the Environment Agency said today.The Environment Agency has highlighted dramatic environmental and water quality improvements and the resulting recovery in species...

'Myview' - an online tool launched by the Woodland Trust gives local people the chance not just to tell their politicians what they would like to see but to show them.

This project represents the continuation and the capitalisation of the results and of the experiences achieved in the INTERREG IIIB MEDOC project.

Regions are spatial key units for the sustainable management of natural and human resources. Major challenges in regional resource management (RRM) will be (i) globalization, (ii) demographic change and migration, (iii) climate change, (iv) sustainable provision of energy from various sources and (v) conservation of natural resources and ecosystem services as cross-cutting issue...

Researchers for the Forestry Commission Wales say flood risk could be reduced using the nation's forests. The climate change project FUTUREforest, run by Forestry Commission Wales, is experimenting with new ways in which the nation's forests can help reduce downstream flooding, as well as locking away millions of tons of carbon dioxide...

The CJS Focus on Wildlife in association with The Wildlife Trusts is now onlineIt carries details of products, services and projects with a link to wildlife. Article topics include...

Contents for:Vol 26 (1) Jan 2011 and Vol 26 (2) Feb 2011