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#AriesChat: Discussing the natural capital accounting benefits for the ecosystem services
What does natural capital accounting (NCA) stand for? Why is it important for the sustainability of our ecosystem services? Nature must be at heart of decision-making. Since natural resources are scarce, NCA helps to translate ecological results into environmental and...
ARIES launches the video series #ARIESAtHome
In March 2020, different governments across the world implemented wide ranging control measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. Fortunately, the lockdown restrictions did not affect the ARIES group members based at the Basque Centre for climate Change (BC3) and the...
#WorldOceansDay: Integrating knowledge from ocean data
Picture by Jaymantri Pressures on ocean systems and the communities that rely on them will increase along with those impacts from the multiple stressors of climate change and human activities. At the same time, more ocean data has been collected in the last two...
ALICE Project: Developing nature-based strategies to prevent natural disasters
Picture by Ignacio Pérez Silos In celebration of the 46th anniversary of the World Environment Day, on June 5th, 2020, the Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the University of Cantabria ‘IHCantabria’, coordinator of the European Project ALICE, and the Basque...
What is the semantic web, and why could it be a game changer for ecosystem services?
Toward faster, better, cheaper ecosystem service assessments “It’s just semantics” – Easy way to end a minor disagreement about what to call something “Data collection and preparation takes up 60% of the time needed for environmental modeling” – apocryphal Big data...
The International Spring University rescheduled to May 2021
The ARIES team regrets to announce that due to the global crisis deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) International Spring University (ISU) on Ecosystem Services Modelling will not be able to take place...
