Ecosystems

Ecosystems clean water and air, regenerate soils, provide us with food and materials, and more. SEI works at the intersection between human needs and healthy ecosystems to protect human well-being over the long term.

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The Ocean and Biodiversity

Our Strategy for the Ocean and Biodiversity focuses on bridging science and policy within sources of marine pollution, coastal resilience and biodiversity loss.

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Water
Land
Climate
Economy
Governance
28 September 2020
Africa
Asia
EU
Europe

Tackling the extinction crisis is everyone’s responsibility — and time is running short

The BBC documentary 'Extinction: The Facts' by Sir David Attenborough, makes the need for action very clear. Read op-ed by Toby Gardner in The Independent.

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Economy
Land
Climate
15 September 2020
Brazil
South America
Africa

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Ecosystems

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Water beyond boundaries

Governing bioeconomy pathways

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Resilience and management of Arctic wetlands

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The Ocean and Biodiversity

Tackling the extinction crisis is everyone’s responsibility — and time is running short

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Impacts of tropospheric ozone exposure on peatland microbial consumers

Hierarchical bioclimate zonation to reference climate change across scales and its implications for nature conservation planning

Better evidence, better decisions, better environment: emergent themes from the first environmental evidence conference

Assessing the adaptive capacity of multi-level water governance: ecosystem services under climate change in Mälardalen region, Sweden

How to build resilience in the Arctic

The importance of socio-ecological system dynamics in understanding adaptation to global change in the forestry sector

Bringing EU policy into line with the planetary boundaries

Electrophoretic separation of humic acids isolated from tropical soils through modified denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and biodiversity

Are we selecting appropriate metrics to assess human impacts on biodiversity?

We need to talk about nitrogen

Key features for more successful place-based sustainability research on social-ecological systems: a programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) perspective

Are adaptations self-organized, autonomous, and harmonious? Assessing the social–ecological resilience literature

The effect of forest owner decision-making, climatic change and societal demands on land-use change and ecosystem service provision in Sweden

Metals from mining and metallurgical industries and their toxicological impacts on plants