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	<title>British Ecological Society &#187; Natural Capital</title>
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		<title>Soil, an essential natural resource often not recognised</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ecosystem Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soils provide several services to humans (e.g. food, feed, carbon storage, decomposing waste) yet their significance is rarely recognised. A recent study in Vadose Zone Journal points at this problem and suggests a framework that could help integrating soils in &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/06/19/soil-an-essential-natural-resource-often-not-recognised/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>UK&#8217;s Natural Capital Committee beginning to take shape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman last week announced the appointment of five members to the recently formed independent Natural Capital Committee. The members are experts in the fields of natural science and economics, with a considerable range of specialist knowledge and &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/05/18/uks-natural-capital-committee-beginning-to-take-shape/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>GLOBE: an international platform helping legislators to get prepared for Rio + 20</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/04/17/globe-an-international-platform-helping-legislators-to-get-prepared-for-rio-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/04/17/globe-an-international-platform-helping-legislators-to-get-prepared-for-rio-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Natural Capital Initiative Steering Group meeting this morning we received a very interesting talk about GLOBE International&#8217;s work. GLOBE International was founded in 1989 with the aim to tackle pressing environmental challenges through legislation by creating an international &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/04/17/globe-an-international-platform-helping-legislators-to-get-prepared-for-rio-20/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ecosystem service valuation to involve local communities in Scotland</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/02/01/ecosystem-service-valuation-to-involve-local-communities-in-scotland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/02/01/ecosystem-service-valuation-to-involve-local-communities-in-scotland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecosystem Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Capital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communities in Scotland could be encouraged to use a newly developed &#8216;toolkit&#8217; to assign values to the local ecosystem services they depend on. A summary report published by the Highland Council reveals plans for two initial pilot studies in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/02/01/ecosystem-service-valuation-to-involve-local-communities-in-scotland/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathon Porritt discusses “The Growth Fetish and the Death of Environmentalism”</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2010/12/14/jonathon-porritt-discusses-the-growth-fetish-and-the-death-of-environmentalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2010/12/14/jonathon-porritt-discusses-the-growth-fetish-and-the-death-of-environmentalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening, Jonathon Porritt, founder of Forum for the Future and chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, spoke at the annual Burntwood lecture, hosted by Institution of Environmental Science. In a dynamic talk, Porritt described the so-called “growth fetish” of &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2010/12/14/jonathon-porritt-discusses-the-growth-fetish-and-the-death-of-environmentalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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