Cílem zřizování velkoplošných chráněných území je především ochrana druhů a stanovišť, zároveň ale poskytují lidem a společnosti řadu ekosystémových služeb (přínosů přírody) a umožňují chránit krajinný ráz a kulturní hodnoty. V ČR se nachází celkem 26 chráněných krajinných oblastí (CHKO), které pokrývají 14,42 % rozlohy území státu. V rámci výzkumného projektu TAČR ÉTA se 20 Správ CHKO... Continue Reading →
Odborníci z CzechGlobe se připojují k předním evropským vědcům, aby poskytli praktická a účinná řešení pro řešení globální krize biodiverzity. Nový čtyřletý projekt BIONEXT, financovaný z programu EU pro výzkum a inovace Horizon Europe, přinese nové poznatky demonstrující, jakými způsoby je biologická rozmanitost základem všech aspektů života, včetně vody, kterou pijeme, potravin, které jíme, a... Continue Reading →
Experts from CzechGlobe are joining leading scientists from across Europe to provide practical and effective solutions for addressing the global biodiversity crisis. The new four-year project, BIONEXT, funded by the EU’s research and innovation program Horizon Europe, will produce new evidence to demonstrate how biodiversity underpins every aspect of life, including the water we drink,... Continue Reading →
A new paper has been published in Nature Sustainability in which an international team of authors led by Guido Caniglia of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research explore the use of practical wisdom and virtue ethics in knowledge co-production in sustainability science. Practical wisdom and virtue ethics strengthen the capacity of sustainability... Continue Reading →
On 25th January, we were proud to be part of the official launch of the SSH Centre (Social Science and Humanities for Climate, Energy and Transport Research Excellence) project, led by our colleagues at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. The project engages with actors from across research, business, policy and citizens to contribute to accelerate... Continue Reading →
S rostoucími teplotami planety Země roste také intenzita a četnost extrémních projevů počasí jako jsou vlny veder a sucha, silné bouře či přívalové deště. Výzkumnice z Ústavu pro výzkum globální změny AV ČR ve spolupráci s nevládní organizací Hnutí DUHA v loňském roce zjišťovaly, kde jsou silné stránky a slabiny české společnosti v odolnosti (resilienci) vůči katastrofám. Vycházely při... Continue Reading →
Město Veľký Šariš, které se nachází na východním Slovensku, se v roce 2022 zapojilo do projektu MÚSES+, v rámci kterého získalo strategický dokument Místní územní systém ekologické stability (MÚSES) s přidanou sociální dimenzí (+). *Místní územní systém ekologické stability - ÚSES - je základním nástrojem ochrany přírody a krajiny, rozmanitosti podmínek a forem života, jakož... Continue Reading →
Just before Christmas, Julia Leventon and Lenka Sucha were excited to be in Pretoria, South Africa for the launch of the FoSTA Health project (Food Systems Transformation in Southern Africa for One Health). The project is exploring food systems transformations in Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, and works closely with academic and practice partners from... Continue Reading →
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) is an internationally accepted framework for the collection of data linking environmental and economic statistics. The same definitions, guidelines and approaches are applied in the SEEA and the System of National Accounts (SNA), which is an internationally agreed framework for the measurement of economic activity. Therefore, the SEEA is compatible... Continue Reading →
In November, the second series of our participatory workshops (continuing from the first series as part of the One Nature project) took place in the Slavkov Forest, Třeboň and Křivoklát regions. Once again, we invited representatives from a wide range of disciplines that have impact on the shaping of local nature and landscape. The content... Continue Reading →
It has long been known that higher levels of biodiversity underpin good ecosystem health and functions and, conversely, continued biodiversity loss threatens both the biosphere and human life. Research provides evidence supporitng these facts and identifies the main cause - humans. The world’s ecosystem may undergo drastic changes and even alter to new states thanks... Continue Reading →
Water purification is amongst one of the most cited benefits provided by nature to humans, referred to as ecosystem services. Due to natural groundwater purification, groundwater is usually cleaner than surface water, which is why the drinking water treatment costs of groundwater are lower than surface water. Hence, natural purification of groundwater cuts the treatment... Continue Reading →
Water is commonly treated and discussed as a provisioning service, possibly because water is generally perceived as the product of a basin. However, ecosystems do not create water; they move and modify water flows. An ecosystem's ability to retain water coming from precipitation or melting snow through vegetation canopy storage, infiltration to soil or recharge... Continue Reading →
October 21, 2022: Earth System Governance Project 2022 conference in Toronto. Photo by Dave Chan. ESG 2022 took place from 20-24 October at Toronto University, CA. The central theme linking all the presented contributions was "Governing Accelerated Transitions". ESG 2022 hosted over a hundred sections, covering a wide range of topics connected to acceleration and... Continue Reading →
Climate change and its impacts, such as extreme heat, represent an unprecedented challenge for cities, causing overheating and threatening the future prosperity, health and well-being of urban residents. Climate adaptation is one of the central topics for sustainable cities and societies. Yet, we have limited knowledge about the magnitude of climate change that we will... Continue Reading →
Last summer I started my research on conservation-development conflicts in the process of returning large carnivores in Europe (namely wolves in the Czech Republic) to the wild. A year later I returned to the field and spent two weeks among farmers in the cultural landscape of the Beskid Mountains area. Preliminary results show social injustices... Continue Reading →
Written by the Global Food and Environment Institute A new €6.5 million project, funded by Horizon Europe and Innovate UK, will see colleagues from the Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI) collaborate with partners across Africa and Europe (one of them us, CzechGlobe) over the next three and half years. The Food Systems Transformation in... Continue Reading →
What is a social-ecological system and how do we study it? Why is it good to think about linkages between humans and nature in relation to development projects? Projects of Czech Development Cooperation (CDC) take place in a complex social-ecological system (SES), which represents the relations between society and nature. In this sense society is...
Uncertainties arising from the climate crisis and socioeconomic challenges are a key issue for urban planners in terms of future sustainability and wellbeing. Climate change adaptation planning and practice have gained more attention in the past decade, and many cities around the world, including the cities in the Czech Republic, have adopted climate change adaptation... Continue Reading →
Co je to sociálně-ekologický systém a jak se dá zkoumat? K čemu je dobré se zamýšlet nad vazbami mezi člověkem a přírodou v souvislosti s rozvojovými projekty? Projekty české rozvojové spolupráce (ZRS ČR) se odehrávají v komplexním sociálně-ekologickém systému, který představuje vzájemné propojení společnosti a přírody. V tomto pojetí je společnost neoddělitelnou součástí přírody, a proto je nutné... Continue Reading →
Říční niva neboli rovinné údolní dno, které vzniklo usazením sedimentů během povodní přestupujících hranice svého koryta, představuje specifický krajinný typ – říční krajinu – s nesmírným ekologickým a kulturním významem pro společnost. Říční krajina poskytuje lidem řadu ekosystémových služeb a funkcí, zejména zásobovacích (jakožto ložisko přírodních zdrojů včetně vody a dřeva), regulačních (jako např. zadržování a... Continue Reading →
Recently, a group of us from the department put our different ideas together to write this paper “Participation as a pathway to pluralism: A critical view over diverse disciplines”. The paper was published in a special collection of the journal Advances in Ecological Research, called “Pluralism in Ecosystem Governance”. This blog post explains why we... Continue Reading →
Authors: Kateřina Mácová, Jitka Kozubková We introduced the topic of ecosystem services to almost sixty people working in nature conservation at two seminars held in Prague and Brno in May (as part of the One Nature project). This was a step forward to greater availability of the concept of assessment of nature’s services and contributions... Continue Reading →
The one-day weekend workshop taught participants new creative writing and creative visual methods. It focused on works and ideas connected to nature, the landscape, and the environment. This workshop took place as part of the Just Scapes project, which deals with the just transformation of society and the landscape in the European countryside. We collaborated... Continue Reading →
So far, ecosystem service research in grasslands has mainly focused on provisioning services and their economic values; however, calls for plural valuation have become more prominent in recent times. In fact, the inclusion of instrumental, relational and intrinsic values in an assessment of ecosystem services can reveal further reasons by which people express the importance of nature and their ecosystem services. In their paper, Schmitt et al. (2022) analyze the spatial distribution of these values in grasslands.
While instrumental values reflect direct and indirect benefits people can obtain from ecosystem services, intrinsic values represent the ethical rights of nature. In this study, the authors chose to examine ‘subjective’ intrinsic value, which accounts for the idea that humans can express regard for nature regardless of any potential human interest. Moreover, they explored relational values that represent the manifold relationship humans have with nature or human relations fostered by nature. To account…
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3.–9. července 2022 proběhne v Bonnu 9. plenární zasedání Mezivládní vědecko-politické platformy pro biodiverzitu a ekosystémové služby (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES). IPBES představuje “rozhraní mezi vědou a politikou” (science-policy interface), tedy platformu, která sdružuje politické zástupce jednotlivých zemí a odborníky na otázky biologické rozmanitosti (biodiverzity), ekosystémových služeb a udržitelnosti. IPBES... Continue Reading →
Příroda a ekosystémy poskytují lidem širokou škálu přínosů, které umožňují samotnou existenci lidské společnosti a jsou podstatné pro dobrou kvalitu života. Ať už jde o poskytování potravin, regulaci kvality vody, rekreační zážitky v přírodě a mnohé další. Abychom všechny přínosy přírody představili a zviditelnili, vytvořili jsme informační leták, který pojednává o různých skupinách přínosů, materiálních,... Continue Reading →
In the second half of April and at the beginning of May, participatory workshops were held in Slavkovský les, Křivoklát and Třeboň for invited stakeholders who have the potential to influence the local landscape and nature through their activities in the regions. Representatives of the forestry, fishing, mining and agricultural industries, representatives of...
What are the key sustainability issues and problems in CAS, its departments and institutes? What are some of the good sustainability practices? What solutions are in the power of individual CAS institutes and departments alongside with other academic institutions in the...
Urban agriculture is widely supported across developing countries as it has proven to be a vital livelihood strategy among the urban poor, resulting in various benefits, including enhanced food security and socioeconomic empowerment. Many researchers and policymakers stress that legal land tenure is one of the key assets that help to enhance the potential of... Continue Reading →
LIFE Tree Check (“So the city doesn’t burn”) is a project led by Nadace Partnerství in which we are partners. It aims to help Central European cities to effectively tackle climate change. The intention is to strengthen green-blue infrastructure and the knowledge of city councillors and residents about its importance in a variety of ways... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year, the IPBES (Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Transformative Change Assessment was launched, and I am excited to be involved as a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 1: Transformative Change and a Sustainable World. This is my first time working on an IPBES assessment, and the past couple of months has... Continue Reading →
Fokusní skupina s farmářkami ve vesnici Mabumbu v Západní provincii Zambie V rámci projektu Coop4Wellbeing se výzkumnice z našeho oddělení, Lenka Suchá a Zuzana Harmáčková, spolu s kolegy z Katedry rozvojových a environmentálních studií Univerzity Palackého a z organizace Člověk v tísni vydaly na cestu do Zambie, kde shromažďovaly výzkumná data a mapovaly vazby mezi společenským... Continue Reading →
Začíná příprava hodnotící zprávy IPBES zaměřené na faktory ohrožující čtyři oblasti, které mají zásadní vliv na kvalitu života lidí: ochrana biodiverzity, produkce potravin, dostupnost vody a lidské zdraví (IPBES Nexus Assessment). Politické reprezentace všech států se v současném složitém a globalizovaném světě potýkají s otázkou, jak co nejefektivněji zohlednit vědecká poznání v připravovaných politických rozhodnutích.... Continue Reading →
In our recent blog post we argued that engaging in climate adaptation does not undermine the willingness of individuals to engage in climate mitigation and vice versa. In another study that is currently under review in a peer-reviewed journal (preprint of this study is linked here) we studied what values are typically associated with individual... Continue Reading →
What changes do we see in local landscape and society, and what would we like to happen in the future? How do we ensure that the effects of these changes are just for everyone? The European countryside is undergoing great social and natural changes, including climate change. However, the impacts of these changes affect various... Continue Reading →
V letech 2018–2022 Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR ve spolupráci s Ústavem informatiky AV ČR realizoval projekt „Adaptační výzvy měst: podpora udržitelného plánování s využitím integrované analýzy zranitelnosti“, který byl podpořen Technologickou agenturou ČR (TAČR) v rámci programu ÉTA. Cílem projektu bylo na příkladu Prahy, Brna a Ostravy vyvinout jednotnou metodiku pro hodnocení budoucí zranitelnosti měst vůči teplotním... Continue Reading →
Our project Coop4Wellbeing has entered its second phase, which is dedicated to field research in Zambia. Together with colleagues from People in Need and the Department of Development and Environmental Studies at Palacky University, we took off to Zambia in February 2022. During our month-long fieldwork we mapped the links and dynamics between nature and... Continue Reading →
V rámci projektu Coop4Wellbeing jsme v únoru 2022 vyrazili spolu s kolegy a kolegyněmi z organizace Člověk v tísni a Katedry rozvojových a environmentálních studií Univerzity Palackého na terénní sběr dat do Zambie. Během měsíčního pobytu v oblasti kolem města Mongu, regionálního centra Západní provincie, jsme mapovali vazby mezi společností a přírodou. Zaměřili jsme se také na to, jak... Continue Reading →
We have just published a preprint of a new study together with colleagues from the Department of remote sensing. The preprint reports the results of three studies conducted on residents of Czech cities of Brno and České Budějovice (N = 1,877) in which we explored heat perception in cities during summer heatwaves. Using street view... Continue Reading →
We have recently launched a new project to prompt sustainability within the Czech Academy of Sciences. Here, we introduce our project: Mainstreaming Eco-Sustainability through CAS Activities (MESCAS). What is MESCAS? MESCAS is working to mainstream sustainability through our research and operational activities in departments and institutes of the Academy. Over this first year, we are... Continue Reading →
Kladská nature trail in PLA Slavkovský les In January 2022 we visited three case study sites where we met with representatives of the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (NCA CR) and thus established key cooperation leading to the smooth running of future activities of the One Nature project in the areas (more broadly... Continue Reading →
You may be wondering how the COVID-19 crisis has affected people’s pro-environmental motivation and pro-environmental behavior. At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, some scholars hoped that the crisis might help the society to better grasp the existential threat posed not only by the COVID-19 but by other risks, including the climate change and adopt... Continue Reading →
Naše případová studie, která v rámci projektu Just Scapes v současnosti probíhá na Slovácku a Valašsku, se zaměřuje na průzkum vazeb mezi ochotou lidí přijmout a realizovat transformativní změny v krajině kolem nich a tím, jak vnímají environmentální spravedlnost...
In collaboration with colleagues in Finland and Australia, we have started putting together an Innovative Session Proposal for the Earth Systems Governance Conference, 2022. We have called the session ‘The Garden of Budding (Potentially Great) Ideas, and we are currently seeking expressions of interest from those who want to join to present (online or in... Continue Reading →
In November of last year, The United Kingdom hosted 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). The Climate talks brought together over 30 000 delegates, among them Climate experts, politicians and activists to discuss actions in order to address climate change. In the fringe of COP26, UKRI and Science Europe convened the Science... Continue Reading →
Would you like to read our highlights of 2021? We have prepared a little newsletter to show you what we have done over the last year. We wish you a wonderful winter holiday, and look forward to seeing you again in 2022. highlights2021_finalDownload
This blog post is based around a research article ‘Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: A trans-disciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona’ (de Luca C., Langemeyer J., Vaňo S., Baró F., Andersson E., in press, Ecology and Society, 2021) which emerged from the collaborations during the Biodiversa project ‘ENABLE - Enabling Green and... Continue Reading →
Kulturní ekosystémové služby (KES) představují přínosy, které příroda poskytuje lidem a společnosti. Dle některých klasifikačních rámců (např. “Přínosy přírody lidem” dle Díaz a kol. 2018) se jim také říká nemateriální přínosy, které často vznikají spolupůsobením člověka. Snahy o objektivní měření KES komplikuje značná míra subjektivity jejich vnímání a také jejich nemateriální povaha úzce provázaná s... Continue Reading →
Project LIFE LOCAL ADAPT aims to integrate climate change adaptation into the work of urban authorities on a local level. Six partners from four countries (figure 1) came together in 2016 to start a five-year project that addressed: Improvement of data and information base on climate change impactsEnhancing the knowledge of municipalities on climate change... Continue Reading →
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