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Newsletter Winter 2011

Editorial

As winter draws to a close we can look forward to not only more daylight and warmer temperatures, but also the excitement of the ialeUK annual conference...

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Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Services ialeUK Conference 2011

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...

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Landscape ecology in New Zealand

When deciding to leave the UK rather suddenly a year ago to start work on invasive species in New Zealand, without the time to do some proper background research, I left with the assumption that there would be a plethora of landscape ecologists in New Zealand with which to engage...

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National Landscape Strategy (NLS) for Ireland

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...

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Call for Natural Capital to be mainstreamed into finance ministries

Although the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services has been recognised, it is still not fully integrated into policy-making. A new report has developed an action plan that recommends that...

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Transformation of rural-urban cultural landscapes in Europe: Integrating approaches from ecological, socio-economic and planning perspectives

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...

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Natural England - Winter farmland bird plots a success, study finds

The paper, published in the avian science journal IBIS, reports on work looking at the number of wintering birds feeding on fields planted with plots of wild bird seed mix. In East Anglia, the research found that there were a significantly greater number and range of ...

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Forest Research website promotes importance of greenspace

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...

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Biodiversity and Human Health

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

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/future_br...

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England’s controversial forest sale could attract biofuel energy companies

As the goverment plans to sell England's publicly owned forests attract increasing publicity, industry analysts predict much of the forest could be snapped up by energy companies looking to burn wood as a biofuel...

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