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From: nordmane@gvsu.edu<BR>To: staceyb@cals.arizona.edu, cdelphia2@gmail.com,
koneill@montana.edu, prajzner@msu.edu, gardiner.29@osu.edu,
phillips.1030@osu.edu, jt@pollinator.org, lda@pollinator.org<BR>Sent:
2/28/2011 2:47:07 P.M. Pacific Standard Time<BR>Subj: National Ecosystem
Service Partnership Digest - Winter 2011<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dear pollinator project colleagues,<BR><BR>You might be
interested in the National Ecosystem Service Partnership<BR>Digest. See
below.<BR><BR>-Erik<BR><BR>Erik Nordman, Ph.D.<BR>Assistant
Professor<BR>Natural Resources Management Program<BR>223 Henry Hall<BR>Grand
Valley State University<BR>1 Campus Drive<BR>Allendale, MI
49401<BR>616-331-8705<BR>nordmane@gvsu.edu<BR><BR><BR><BR>>>> David
Cooley <david.cooley@duke.edu> 2/28/2011 3:48 PM >>><BR>NESP
Digest<BR> The Newsletter of the National Ecosystem Services
Partnership<BR> Winter 2011<BR><BR><BR>Welcome to the first
edition of the NESP Digest!<BR><BR>We are starting these regular
communications to give you periodic<BR>updates on activities of the National
Ecosystem Services Partnership<BR>(NESP), as well as some other information on
ecosystem services that we<BR>hope you'll find useful. These include news
stories, papers and reports,<BR>events and meetings, grants, and job
opportunities. We hope this<BR>information will help us fulfill NESP's goal of
engaging public and<BR>private individuals and organizations to enhance
collaboration within<BR>the ecosystem services community and to strengthen
coordination of<BR>policy and market implementation and research at the
national level.<BR><BR>If you have items that you'd like to include in the
next edition of the<BR>NESP Digest, please send them to
us<mailto:david.cooley@duke.edu>. For<BR>now we plan on releasing new
editions each quarter, but if we get lots<BR>of new material, we could move to
monthly editions.<BR><BR> In this edition<BR>Ongoing NESP
activities<BR>Ecosystem services in the news<BR>Selected recent papers and
reports on ecosystem services<BR>Upcoming meetings and events<BR>Ecosystem
service grants and job opportunities<BR><BR> Ongoing NESP
activities<BR>Collecting Ecosystem Success Stories<BR><BR>Many of us in the
ecosystem service community are familiar with the<BR>Catskills Mountains/New
York City
watershed<BR>example<http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/article.page.php?page_id=4130&section=home><BR>of
payments for ecosystem services. But in order to strengthen the case<BR>for
protecting and enhancing ecosystem services, we need to find and<BR>highlight
more examples of success. NESP is working with Tara O'Shea, a<BR>Master's
student from Duke University's Nicholas School to collect<BR>information on
case studies involving governments, businesses, or other<BR>entities changing
their actions or policies in order to protect or<BR>enhance the ecosystem
services that benefit them. We will be posting<BR>these examples to the
NESP<BR>website<http://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/ecosystem/nesp/examples-of-success>,<BR>and
we are working with the Institute for Natural Resources at Oregon<BR>State
University to build this information into the ACES web portal they<BR>are
developing. If you have examples of ecosystem services success<BR>stories that
we should include, please let
us<BR>know<mailto:david.cooley@duke.edu>.<BR><BR><BR>The Marine
Ecosystem Services Partnership<BR><BR>The Marine Ecosystem
Services<BR>Partnership<http://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/oceans/mesp>
(MESP) is<BR>a new collaborative effort of NESP, the Nicholas Institute at
Duke<BR>University, NOAA, Conservation International, and many others to
develop<BR>and maintain a "virtual center" to better integrate our
expanding<BR>library of economic valuations of marine ecosystems with marine
policy<BR>needs. The virtual center will also host an active,
facilitated<BR>community of practice to 1) link users and producers of
economic<BR>valuation data, 2) help better interpret and use the data, and
3)<BR>communicate with researchers, helping to ensure that new
valuation<BR>efforts better meet the needs of data users. We are working with
MESP to<BR>connect their data collection efforts with the ACES web portal
being<BR>constructed by the Institute for Natural Resources at Oregon
State<BR>University.<BR><BR> Ecosystem services in the news<BR>Does
Placing a Price Tag on Natural Resources Make Them
More<BR>Valuable?<http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/does_placing_price_tag_on_natural_resources_make_them_more_valuable/C41/L41/><BR>New
West. Feb. 22, 2011.<BR><BR>Dow Asks, What's the Business Case for
Protecting<BR>Nature?<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-winston/dow-asks-whats-the-busine_b_819916.html><BR>The
Huffington Post. Feb. 8, 2011.<BR><BR>Using land wisely is crucial for
protecting
ecosystem<BR>services<http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/land-use-economics-ecosystem-services>.<BR>The
Guardian. Feb. 3, 2011.<BR><BR>'EcoCommerce' - to pay farmers for their
environmental
good<BR>works<http://www.agri-pulse.com/Gieseke_EcoCommerce_20110202H.asp>.<BR>Agri-Pulse.
Feb. 3, 2011.<BR><BR> Selected recent papers and reports on ecosystem
services<BR>Todd BenDor & J. Adam Riggsbee. In press. A survey of
entrepreneurial<BR>risk in U.S. wetland and stream compensatory
mitigation<BR>markets.<http://bit.ly/fse5Ih> Environmental Science &
Policy.<BR><BR>Dan van der Horst. 2011. Adoption of payments for ecosystem
services:<BR>An application of the Hägerstrand
model.<http://bit.ly/fVqliM> Applied<BR>Geography 31,
668-676.<BR><BR>Carolyn Kousky. 2010. Using Natural Capital to Reduce
Disaster<BR>Risk.<http://www.rff.org/Documents/Publications/Non-RFF_Pubs/Kousky_2010_Using_Nat_Cap.pdf><BR>Journal
of Natural Resources Policy Research 2, 343 - 356.<BR><BR>Evan Mercer, David
Cooley, and Katherine Hamilton. 2011. Taking Stock:<BR>Payments for Forest
Ecosystem Services in the
United<BR>States.<http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_2673.pdf><BR>Ecosystem
Marketplace and the USDA Forest Service.<BR><BR>Oregon Sustainability Board.
2010. Senate Bill 513 Ecosystem Services<BR>and Markets: Report from the
Oregon Sustainability Board to the
2011<BR>Legislative<BR>Assembly.<http://www.oregon.gov/OWEB/docs/SB513_final_report.pdf><BR><BR>Giulia
Wegner & Unai Pascual. In press. Cost-benefit analysis in the<BR>context
of ecosystem services for human well-being: A
multidisciplinary<BR>critique<http://bit.ly/fZ7ntm>. Global
Environmental Change.<BR><BR> Upcoming meetings and events<BR>May 23-25,
2011. American Ecological Engineering Society, 11th Annual<BR>Meeting:
Engineering for
Ecosystem<BR>Services.<http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/workshops/aees/index.html><BR>Asheville,
NC. Abstract submittal deadline is February 28.<BR>June 28-July 1, 2011. World
Resources Institute and American Forest<BR>Foundation, 4th Annual Ecosystem
Markets<BR>Conference.<http://www.ecomarketconference.com/> Madison,
Wisconsin.<BR>July 15-16, 2011. Sendzimir Foundation, Synthesizing
different<BR>perspectives on the value of urban ecosystem services: Seminar
and<BR>workshop.<http://www.sendzimir.org.pl/en/node/281>
University of Lodz,<BR>Poland.<BR>July 17-20, 2011. Soil and Water
Conservation Society
Annual<BR>Conference.<http://www.swcs.org/index.cfm?nodeID=27786&audienceID=1><BR><BR>August
1-5, 2011. 4th National Conference on
Ecosystem<BR>Restoration.<http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/NCER2011/>
Baltimore,<BR>MD.<BR>August 7-12, 2011. Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Annual<BR>Meeting.<http://esa.org/austin/> Austin, TX.<BR>August 21-25,
2011. Society for Ecological Restoration, 4th World<BR>Conference on
Ecological Restoration.<http://www.ser2011.org/en/> <BR>Mérida,
Mexico.<BR><BR>October 4-7, 2011. Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP),
Ecosystem<BR>Services: Integrating Science
and<BR>Practice.<http://www.fsd.nl/esp/77938/5/0/30>
Wageningen, The<BR>Netherlands.<BR><BR>Ecosystem service grants and job
opportunities<BR>Defenders
of<BR>Wildlife<http://www.defenders.org/about_us/jobs/director_of_conservation_economics_and_finance.php><BR>-
Director of Conservation Economics and Finance<BR><BR>Environmental
Protection<BR>Agency<http://cfpub.epa.gov/nheerl/index.cfm?fuseaction=postdocs.Detail&PostDocProjectID=881><BR>-
Postdoctoral position on Ecosystem Services and Sustainability<BR><BR>Natural
Capital<BR>Project<http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/joinourteam.html#DoDEcon><BR>-
Research Assistant (Economics)<BR><BR>Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental<BR>Research<http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=11426> in
Leipzig (Germany) -<BR>Two postdoctoral positions and one PhD position in
ecosystem services<BR>modeling and valuation<BR><BR><BR>Visit the NESP Digest
on the web at:<BR>http://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/ecosystem/nesp/nesp-digest
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