I am happy to hear that the final meeting of @merlin-project.bsky.social is going well in Ghent today (and sorry not to be there!). A key insight is that responding to the climate & biodiversity emergencies involve partnerships across sectors– people drive #Nature-based Solutions."

For me this reiterates the importance of focusing on supporting #collaboration to work holistically in landscapes, and to not make assumptions about what framings, data and activities will help that for #sustainability .

They were generally valued for co-producing plans and enroling new partners; they all considered nature in terms of assets and the services it can produce, but monetary #valuation wasn't always key.

We explore how taking a 'natural capital approach' played out in 6 landscape-level initiatives. There were varied interpretations of what taking a #naturalcapital approach means.

Natural capital approaches to decision-making for collaborative landscape governance This study explores if and how natural capital approaches can support collaborative landscape governance. We selected six initiatives across the UK th…

Happy to share our new paper "Natural capital approaches to decision-making for collaborative landscape governance" led by @jayneglass.bsky.social also supported by Mark Reed, Leo Peskett & Brady Stevens. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking forward to a super set of speakers and talks related to #transformation for #sustainability at this year's @alterneteurope.bsky.social conference

Ecology & Society: Using monitoring and evaluation to build equity and resilience: lessons from practice The field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is intimately connected with issues of power. Power is exercised in choices regarding what is monitored and evaluated; by, for, and with whom this is done;...

Interesting new paper on how power and equity issues are tied up with #monitoring and evaluation systems - great to see these issues articulated ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a...

I'd particularly like to encourage submissions for our session on #Resilience to #climate extremes - open to submissions from all disciplinary perspectives - deadline 28th Feb.

Alternet Conference 2025 - Alternet The first European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy, an EU-funded project managed by Alternet and its consortium partners.

The @alterneteurope.bsky.social 2025 conference is coming soon in May - a great venue for pan-european networking developments on socio-#ecological science and management. The theme this year is Transformative change for #biodiversity alterneteurope.eu/conference20... #transformation

Both papers aim to support and refine our practice at developing Nature-Based Solutions in line with the IUCN global standard, and reflect our partnerships with diverse academic and practitioner colleagues – best wishes to our nature-based friends for 2025!

A transformations framework for mainstreaming a nature-based solutions approach As the integrity and extent of many natural ecosystems continues to decline, the concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is gaining traction as a mean…

One, led by EstherCarmen provides a “A transformations framework for mainstreaming a nature-based solutions approach”, in the Nature-Based Solutions journal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how Working with people is inherent to Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Standard for Nature-…

One, led by Alhassan Ibrahim is on “Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how” in Environmental Science & Policy journal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To round off 2024, I’m very happy to share 2 papers from our work on #Nature-Based Solutions, linked to the @merlin-project.bsky.social and also supported by the Scottish Government’s RESAS strategic research programme...