Valuing ecosystem services

Wednesday 21 October 2009

How can we put a value on all the benefits of land and ecosystem services? It’s a problem that government and researchers struggle with every day. Nine Relu projects took part in a wide-ranging joint Relu/Foresight workshop on Land Valuation and Decision Making, organised by Joe Morris and the Integrated Management of Floodplains project team in July. A report about this work "Valuation and Decision-making" is available - [source RELU - UK]

Final Conference

IWRM-net would like to invite European and National Water Research Managers to Scotland Europa Office at Schumann Roundabout, Brussels

The final conference for IWRM-net is postponed until 1-2nd December.

Final Conference webpage...

Research Programmes

Search the listings for past and present research programmes related to water management

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Community Pages

A pilot interactive site to discuss various issues and allow voting on priorities for water research in Europe.

European Water Community

Topic of the Month

A Changing Climate : Regarding climate projections prepared by the IPCC 2008, it has been demonstrated that changes in precipitations and temperatures are expected in Europe, with likely significant regional differences. Climate change will affect average temperatures and the precipitations patterns, as well as the magnitude and the frequency of extreme events

Article on ’A changing climate’ ...