Category Archives: Integrated Strategies
2010 – The international year of Biodiversity
The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity and invited the world to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth. Thus, we provide a collection of information worth knowing about biodiversity. Other than that we introduce some SERI projects and publications which deal with biodiversity and [...]
The economic benefits of environmental policy – Final Report
Rayment, M., Pirgmaier, E., De Ceuster, G., Hinterberger, F., Kuik, O., Leveson Gower, H., Polzin, C. & A. Varma (2009)
Executive summary:
The European Union aspires to become the most dynamic and competitive economy in the world. The Lisbon Strategy, launched by EU leaders in 2000 and subsequently revised and simplified in 2005, emphasises the need to [...]
Summer School 2010 on “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”
The ALTER-Net Summer School will be held from 5 – 14 September 2010, in Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France and is now open for applications (deadline 15 April)!
The Summer School shall contribute to durable integration and the spread of excellence within and beyond the network, with a view to promoting interdisciplinary approaches.
The 2010 Summer [...]
Find out if and how people across Europe perceive biodiversity loss!
Environmental problems are often constructed globally and through sophisticated instruments and methods. However, the extent to which these globally constructed problems correspond to ordinary citizens’ perceptions of the environment is often unclear.
The report “Perceiving biodiversity changes in daily life – insights from an exploratory survey across Europe”, published in “ecomont [...]
New report on interlinkages between sustainability indicators (INDI-LINK)
The final report of the INDI-LINK project (Indicator-based evaluation of interlinkages between different sustainable development objectives) has been published by Stefan Giljum and Christine Polzin. The reports shows how the project team developed and improved indicators for sustainable development in the EU and assessed the interlinkages between different priorities [...]
Final report of the petrE project published
The Anglo-German-Foundation published the final report of the petrE project on “Resource productivity, environmental tax reform and sustainable growth in Europe“. The final report was compiled by the project coordinator, Paul Ekins. Christine Polzin and Stefan Giljum from SERI were lead authors of the report chapter dealing with the global [...]
Presentation on Sustainability for Regional Policy in Warsaw
On Monday, November 30th, 2009, Fritz Hinterberger presented a paper co-authored with Elke Pirgmaier, Eva Burger, Lisa Bohunovsky and Stefan Gilum at the Sixth European Conference on Evaluation of Cohesion Policy: “New Methods for cohesion Policy Evaluation: Promoting Accountability and Learning”, organized by the European Commission, DG Regio. Our presentation [...]
EcoChange meeting in Zurich
Lisa Bohunovsky and Sigrid Grünberger attended an EcoChange project meeting in Zurich. The aim of the project is to assess and forecast changes in terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems and in the ability of biodiversity and ecosystems to supply goods and services and to buffer against climate and land use change.
Amongst other issues, the [...]
Successful completion of the INDI-LINK project
The research project Indicator-based evaluation of interlinkages between different sustainable development objectives (INDI-LINK), in which SERI served as scientific coordinator, was successfully completed in October 2009.
The project improved EU sustainable development indicators, assessed the interlinkages between the different priorities of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) and derived conclusions for future SD policy [...]
Jill Jäger prepared background paper for Workshop on Sustainability Science in Brussels
Around 16 people from diverse backgrounds were invited by the Unit of Sustainable Development of DG Research for a one-day meeting in Brussels, 28 October 2009. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the needs and potential of “sustainability science”, around the three following questions:
What is the state of play of sustainability [...]
