From 10 to 14 November 2025, I took part in the Regional Youth Workshop on IPBES for Europe and Central Asia at the International Academy for Nature Conservation on the Isle of Vilm, Germany. Hosted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), the workshop brought together early-career participants working on biodiversity, ecosystem services... Continue Reading →
From 29 September to 1 October 2025, the interdisciplinary research community engaged in archetype analysis convened for the 8th International Workshop on Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research. Hosted at the Thรผnen Institute of Biodiversity in Braunschweig, Germany, the event brought together around 40 researchers, providing a dynamic forum for exchanging and advancing ideas at the... Continue Reading →
The Living Data 2025 conference took place this October in Bogotรก, Colombia โ a fitting location, as the country boasts the second highest biodiversity in the world. For the first time ever, over a thousand people working with biodiversity data gathered in one place: scientists, museum curators, software developers, infrastructure experts, and even private sector... Continue Reading →
The intensive and productive week-long first authorsโ meeting for the IPBES Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment took place at IIASA in Laxenburg from 22โ26 September 2025. The meeting brought together more than 100 experts to launch this fast-track methodological assessment, co-chaired by Peter Verburg, Maria Jose Martinez Harms, and Luis Inostroza. This assessment focuses on... Continue Reading →
On 9โ10 September 2025 in Brussels, more than three dozen stakeholders from across Europe met for a two-day workshop focused on a single goal: creating a sustainable future for both pollinators and agriculture. As part of the AGRI4POL project (๐), the event brought together policymakers, NGOs, agribusiness and farmersโ organisations, and researchers. The collaborative setting... Continue Reading →
On 5-7 June 2025 CzechGlobe, the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences(๐), participated in the Science Fair 2025 (Veletrh vedy) (๐), the largestโฏpopular educational science event in the Czech Republic. Across the exhibition area of over 8,000 mยฒ, more than 58,000 visitors could view nearly 100 exhibitions from more than 90... Continue Reading →
Projekt ENABLElocal sdruลพuje partnerskรฉ instituce z ฤeska (CzechGlobe), Nฤmecka (ISOE) a ล vรฉdska (Lund University) a zamฤลuje se na vรฝzkum vyuลพรญvรกnรญ dat o biodiverzitฤ v praxi ochrany pลรญrody a vyuลพรญvรกnรญ รบzemรญ. Naลกรญm cรญlem je podpoลit tok dat mezi aktรฉry v oblasti ochrany pลรญrody, systรฉmy monitorovรกnรญ biodiverzity a nรกrodnรญmi, evropskรฝmi a globรกlnรญmi datovรฝmi infrastrukturami. Vรฝzkum realizujeme v... Continue Reading →
Threats to pollinators and pollination services that support agriculture and provide benefits to people are a worldwide problem. This is recognised by scientists, national or transnational initiatives, and even policies. A team from our department at CzechGlobe has joined a new project that aims to help agriculture to become a positive force for pollinator biodiversity, crop pollination services and co-benefits to ecosystems and people.ย
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Na konci roku 2024 skonฤil vรฝzkumnรฝ projekt programu Prostลedรญ pro ลพivot Technologickรฉ Agentury ฤR, s nรกzvem Vรฝznam a ochrana รบdolnรญch niv jako prostลedรญ pro plnฤnรญ ekostabilizaฤnรญ funkce krajiny (neboli projekt โNIVAโ). V projektu se kromฤ hodnocenรญ ekosystรฉmovรฝch funkcรญ a sluลพeb ลรญฤnรญch niv uskuteฤnilo takรฉ hodnocenรญ kulturnรญch ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb se zapojenรญm aktรฉrลฏ, kterรฉ pลineslo zajรญmavรก zjiลกtฤnรญ ohlednฤ... Continue Reading →
The PLANET4B 3rd Consortium Meeting took place from October 8th to 10th, 2024, in Budapest. It was an insightful gathering aimed at advancing the project's objectives. Held at the centrally located Impact Hub Budapest, the meeting brought together all project partners to review progress, share findings, and strategize the next steps. Over three days, project... Continue Reading →
Pozadรญ projektu a jeho cรญle Praxe v oblasti ochrany pลรญrody a vyuลพitรญ รบzemรญ mรก zรกsadnรญ vliv na biodiverzitu. Data o biodiverzitฤ vลกak nejsou v rozhodovacรญch procesech ฤi managementu v ochranฤ pลรญrody na mรญstnรญ รบrovni vลพdy zohledลovรกna. Vyuลพรญvรกnรญ dat brรกnรญ napลรญklad omezenรฝ taxonomickรฝ a ekologickรฝ rozsah stรกvajรญcรญch dat, jejich ฤasoprostorovรฉ pokrytรญ, kterรฉ je pro mรญstnรญ kontext... Continue Reading →
Sustainable land use strategies in both urban and rural areas in Europe must be planned to meet biodiversity, climate and human wellbeing in a changing world. The PLUS Change project aims to help achieve this through a series of research activities and participatory workshops in 12 case studies from 11 EU countries. One of these... Continue Reading →
SELINA (Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decIsions about NAtural capital) is a Horizon Europe project with the mission to provide robust practical information and recommendations on ecosystem services to stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. SELINA will develop guidance for evidence-based decision-making that supports the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of ecosystems. Through... Continue Reading →
This blog post summarises a recently published article Understanding the role of biodiversity in the climate, food, water, energy, transport and health nexus in Europe by Kim et al. 2024, also co-authored by the Czech Globe team represented by Romana Jungwirth Bลezovskรก, Simeon Vaลo and Alejandrina Viesca-Ramirez. This work is part of the wider activities... Continue Reading →
The Golf Vinoล Citizen Science Project is slowly approaching its end. This blog summarises what has happened in the project over the past year and what tasks still lie ahead. First, a reminder: the Golf Vinoล project seeks possible solutions to land use in suburban areas through Citizen Science approaches. In 2022, we used the... Continue Reading →
Projekt Golf Vinoล Citizen Science se pomalu nachyluje ke svรฉmu konci a proto bychom vรกm rรกdi pลinesli informace o tom, co se za poslednรญ rok v projektu udรกlo a jakรฉ รบkoly na nรกs jeลกtฤ ฤekajรญ. Jen pro pลipomenutรญ - projekt Golf Vinoล hledรก moลพnรก ลeลกenรญ vyuลพitรญ plochy v pลรญmฤstskรฉ krajinฤ pomocรญ pลรญstupลฏ Citizen science. V... Continue Reading →
With the global climate negotiations progressing, and countries now - for the first time ever! - being called on to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, the role of biodiversity in tackling the climate crisis is becoming more and more apparent. Unprecedentedly, the most awaited final text of COP28, the Outcome of the... Continue Reading →
With the world breaking all the wrong records and the science stressing the need to mitigate the climate crisis and biodiversity loss louder than ever, it is high time to investigate current unique initiatives that are part of the solution rather than the problem. Therefore, within BIONEXT, a research and innovation project that joins the... Continue Reading →
In the week of 23-27 October 2023, the Department of Human Dimensions of Global Change was represented at two events in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as part of the ongoing activities of the PLANET4B project. The 2023 Radboud conference on Earth System Governance brought together different scientific disciplines and stakeholders from different sectors to connect science... Continue Reading →
In the Horizon Europe-funded project BIONEXT, European changemakers are exploring new visions for nature-centered Europe for 2050. In the first out of three BIONEXT workshops, in May 2023 in Greece, changemakers from different backgrounds created visions of what a nature-centred Europe can look like in the year 2050. Who are the changemakers participating in BIONEXT... Continue Reading →
Between 21st and 31st May this year, I was in Costa Rica for the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Second Author Meeting and Summary for Policy Makers first meeting. I already blogged last year about what the assessment is about, how the process works etc., and because of the confidentiality of the report, I cannot write... Continue Reading →
Archetypovรก analรฝza je metodologickรฝ pลรญstup ke studiu sloลพitรฝch sociรกlnฤ-ekologickรฝch systรฉmลฏ a vzรกjemnรฉho pลฏsobenรญ jednotlivรฝch ฤรกstรญ tฤchto systรฉmลฏ. Napลรญklad zemฤdฤlskรฉ systรฉmy pฤstovรกnรญ plodin jsou procesy, kterรฉ vyลพadujรญ lidskou ฤinnost i specifickรฉ prostลedรญ, ale napลรญฤ regiony existuje ลกirokรก ลกkรกla biofyzikรกlnรญch atributลฏ, zemฤdฤlskรฝch postupลฏ nebo spoleฤensko-politickรฝch organizacรญ a dalลกรญch faktorลฏ, kterรฉ tyto systรฉmy utvรกลejรญ a kterรฉ vykazujรญ jedineฤnรฉ,... Continue Reading →
Odbornรญci z CzechGlobe se pลipojujรญ k mezinรกrodnรญmu konsorciu zkoumajรญcรญmu, jakรฉ cesty by nรกm mohly pomoci transformovat ลetฤzce mezi tฤลพbou, vรฝrobou, spotลebou a obchodem tak, abychom dosรกhli pozitivnรญch vรฝsledkลฏ pro klima a biologickou rozmanitost. Novรฝ ฤtyลletรฝ projekt TRANSPATH je financovรกn z programu Evropskรฉ unie pro vรฝzkum a inovace Horizon Europe. Pomลฏลพe identifikovat intervence a body pลฏsobenรญ... Continue Reading →
Experts from CzechGlobe are joining an international consortium to study what pathways could help us transform the chains between extraction, production, consumption and trade, to achieve positive outcomes for climate and biodiversity. The new four-year project, TRANSPATH, is funded by the European Unionโs research and innovation programme Horizon Europe. It will identify leverage points and... Continue Reading →
Research at CzechGlobe does not focus only on the global scale; some of it also deals with local issues that can be tackled using current scientific approaches. One such project is Golf Vinoล Citizen Science, which is looking for possible solutions to land use in suburban landscape using citizen science approaches. The main objectives of... Continue Reading →
Vรฝzkum na pลฏdฤ CzechGlobe se netรฝkรก pouze mฤลรญtek svฤtovรฝch rozmฤrลฏ, ale nฤkterรฉ vรฝzkumy se taktรฉลพ zabรฝvajรญ lokรกlnรญ problematikou, kterรฝ lze ลeลกit souฤasnรฝmi vฤdeckรฝmi pลรญstupy. Jednรญm z takovรฝch projektลฏ je Golf Vinoล Citizen Science, kterรฝ hledรก moลพnรก ลeลกenรญ vyuลพitรญ plochy v pลรญmฤstskรฉ krajinฤ pomocรญ pลรญstupลฏ Citizen science. Hlavnรญ cรญle projektu jsou rozลกรญลit povฤdomรญ o spoleฤenskovฤdnรญm vรฝzkumu,... Continue Reading →
Odbornรญci z CzechGlobe se pลipojujรญ k pลednรญm evropskรฝm vฤdcลฏm, aby poskytli praktickรก a รบฤinnรก ลeลกenรญ pro ลeลกenรญ globรกlnรญ krize biodiverzity. Novรฝ ฤtyลletรฝ projekt BIONEXT, financovanรฝ z programu EU pro vรฝzkum a inovace Horizon Europe, pลinese novรฉ poznatky demonstrujรญcรญ, jakรฝmi zpลฏsoby je biologickรก rozmanitost zรกkladem vลกech aspektลฏ ลพivota, vฤetnฤ vody, kterou pijeme, potravin, kterรฉ jรญme, 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 EUโs 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 →
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 worldโs ecosystem may undergo drastic changes and even alter to new states thanks... 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 →
ลรญฤnรญ niva neboli rovinnรฉ รบdolnรญ dno, kterรฉ vzniklo usazenรญm sedimentลฏ bฤhem povodnรญ pลestupujรญcรญch hranice svรฉho koryta, pลedstavuje specifickรฝ krajinnรฝ typ โ ลรญฤnรญ krajinu โ s nesmรญrnรฝm ekologickรฝm a kulturnรญm vรฝznamem pro spoleฤnost. ลรญฤnรญ krajina poskytuje lidem ลadu ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb a funkcรญ, zejmรฉna zรกsobovacรญch (jakoลพto loลพisko pลรญrodnรญch zdrojลฏ vฤetnฤ vody a dลeva), regulaฤnรญch (jako napล. zadrลพovรกnรญ a... Continue Reading →
Recently, a group of us from the department put our different ideas together to write this paper โParticipation as a pathway to pluralism: A critical view over diverse disciplinesโ. The paper was published in a special collection of the journal Advances in Ecological Research, called โPluralism in Ecosystem Governanceโ. This blog post explains why we... 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 →
3.โ9. ฤervence 2022 probฤhne v Bonnu 9. plenรกrnรญ zasedรกnรญ Mezivlรกdnรญ vฤdecko-politickรฉ platformy pro biodiverzitu a ekosystรฉmovรฉ sluลพby (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES). IPBES pลedstavuje โrozhranรญ mezi vฤdou a politikouโ (science-policy interface), tedy platformu, kterรก sdruลพuje politickรฉ zรกstupce jednotlivรฝch zemรญ a odbornรญky na otรกzky biologickรฉ rozmanitosti (biodiverzity), ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb a udrลพitelnosti. IPBES... 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 →
Ekosystรฉmovรฉ sluลพby lze mapovat odbornรฝmi zpลฏsoby podle objektivnรญch dat, pลรญpadnฤ podle statistickรฝch hodnot z literatury nebo matematickรฝm modelovรกnรญm. Participativnรญ (pลรญp. komunitnรญ) mapovรกnรญ slouลพรญ k zรญskรกnรญ dat o percepci prostorovรฉho vรฝskytu ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb v zรกjmovรฉm รบzemรญ. Tito nejsou pochopitelnฤ vฤtลกinou odbornรญci na vลกechny oblasti jako je zemฤdฤlstvรญ nebo vodnรญ hospodรกลstvรญ apod. Nicmรฉnฤ patลรญ mezi ty, kteลรญ spoluurฤujรญ... Continue Reading →
The impacts of climate change on urban life require response in terms of adaptation planning. We investigated perceptions of and economic preferences for urban climate adaptation through nature-based solutions (NBS) in Prague and found that: (i) increased use of NBS is likely to generate significant economic public value; (ii) people perceive the species diversity of the NBS measures positively; (iii) NBS implemented in...
When it comes to large carnivores in Europe, what are the main issues described by farmers, foresters and herd keepers, and what are the just measures to give both parties (animals and humans) their needed living space? The return of large carnivores to Europe as a means of rewilding nature is gradually becoming one of the burning issues for a variety of... Continue Reading →
When I was doing my PhD, someone at a conference suggested that I check out a book called โTrust in Numbersโ by Theodore M. Porter. I had gone straight from fieldwork to the conference, and was dealing with the reality that the results were not really relevant to what I had proposed talking about when... Continue Reading →
In Autumn 2020, the conservation community was faced with the realization that the world has failed to meet any of the international policy targets set for biodiversity conservation. In 2010, in Nagoya, Japan, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity set 20 goals for protecting biodiversity. Signatory countries (164 of them) committed to adopting and meeting... Continue Reading →
Food security and biodiversity conservation are two key challenges for many countries around the world. The simultaneous provision of food security and biodiversity conservation requires a governance system that can address intra- and intersectoral complexity. However, the two sectors are often treated as separate goals. In their recent study, Jiren et al. (2021) explore challenges encountered by governance systems to deliver integrated biodiversity and food security governance. To this end, they identified food security and biodiversity governance challenges in a multi-level governance context in southwestern Ethiopia. Specifically, this study focused on identifying institutional interplay problems within and between the two sectors at different governance levels.
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