Category Archives: BES
Registration now open for NCI Ecologists and Economists Workshop
Applications can now be made to attend the ‘Workshop for Economists and Ecologists’ run by the Natural Capital Initiative. The workshop is aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation and knowledge exchange between economists and ecologists, with the goal of informing public … Continue reading
Challenges for Scotland’s Biodiversity: From the Soils to the Skies
Interested in discussing the challenges facing Scotland’s biodiversity to 2020 and helping to inform the development of Scotland’s draft Biodiversity Strategy? Come along to a meeting in Edinburgh on 8th – 9th March 2012. BES members can attend for FREE … Continue reading
BES POST Fellowship Now Open for Applications
Applications are now invited for the 2012 BES Fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). All second and third year PhD students of an ecological subject, based in a UK institution, are invited to apply. The deadline … Continue reading
Greening the Common Agricultural Policy
Professor Charles Godfray, immediate past President of the BES, is to give evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday 14th December as part of the Committee’s inquiry into ‘Greening the Common Agricultural Policy‘. Professor Godfray … Continue reading
Natural Flood Management – POSTnote Launch
Oliver Pescott, current BES Fellow at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, has published a POSTnote on ‘Natural Flood Management’. This will be available shortly on the BES website. Flood risk management today uses a range of approaches to … Continue reading
Launch of BES – POSTNote on ‘Natural Flood Management’ – 17th January
The launch of the next POSTNote authored by a BES POST Fellow will take place on Tuesday 17th January. The topic of the POSTNote is ‘Natural Flood Management’. The launch will be held at the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, from … Continue reading
What next for the UK NEA and IPBES? Report now available
The report of the joint British Ecologcial Society – UK Biodiversity Research Advisory Group (BRAG) meeting on the future of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment and Intergovernmental Science – Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is now available. … Continue reading
Come and volunteer in the BES Policy Team
We’re now recruiting an intern, to join us for three months from January 2012, working for two days each week with the BES Policy Manager. We will cover travel expenses within London and lunch costs of up to £5 per … Continue reading
Latest BES Policy Digest Available
The latest BES Policy Digest is now available, outlining policy developments across the four UK Governments, parliament, the Research Councils and Europe since we published the last e-newsletter in July.
IPBES meeting gets underway in Nairobi
Today is the first day of a plenary meeting to discuss and decide upon the formation of the Integovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), convened by the UN Environment Programme. Representatives from the United Nations, and observers … Continue reading