Objective
Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where and when the concepts can most effectively be applied to solve problems. To do this, it will work with public and private decision makers and stakeholders to better understand the range of policy and management problems faced in different case study contexts (ranging across locales, sectors, scales and time). OpenNESS will consolidate, refine and develop a range of spatially-explicit methods to identify, quantify and value ecosystem services, and will develop hybrid assessment methods. It will also explore the effectiveness of financial and governance mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services, habitat banking, biodiversity offsetting and land and ecosystem accounting. These types of interventions have potential for sustaining ESS and NC, and for the design of new economic and social investment opportunities. Finally, OpenNESS will assess how current regulatory frameworks and other institutional factors at EU and national levels enable or constrain consideration of ESS and NC, and identify the implications for issues related to well-being, governance and competitiveness. OpenNESS will analyse the knowledge that is needed to define ESS and NC in the legal, administrative and political contexts that are relevant to the EU. The work will deliver a menu of multi-scale solutions to be used in real life situations by stakeholders, practitioners, and decision makers in public and business organizations, by providing new frameworks, data-sets, methods and tools that are fit-for-purpose and sensitive to the plurality of decision-making contexts.
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Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage
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CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS
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€ 1 278 543,00
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LATOKARTANONKAARI 11
00790 Helsinki
Finland
00790 Helsinki
Finland
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Manner-Suomi
Helsinki-Uusimaa
Helsinki-Uusimaa
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Maria Koski (Mrs.)
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HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ
Germany
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€ 404 192,00
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PERMOSERSTRASSE 15
04318 Leipzig
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Sachsen
Leipzig
Leipzig
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Annette Schmidt (Ms.)
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Netherlands
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€ 664 560,00
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DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4
6708 PB Wageningen
6708 PB Wageningen
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Oost-Nederland
Gelderland
Veluwe
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Marta Pérez-Soba (Dr.)
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Netherlands
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€ 177 702,00
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RIJNSTRAAT 8
2500 EX Den Haag
2500 EX Den Haag
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West-Nederland
Zuid-Holland
Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage
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Anita Y. Meier (Mrs.)
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€ 678 710,00
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Polaris House, North Star Avenue
SN2 1EU SWINDON WILTSHIRE
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Jan Dick (Dr.)
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€ 501 798,00
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WELLINGTON SQUARE UNIVERSITY OFFICES
OX1 2JD Oxford
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Linda Pialek (Ms.)
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University Park
NG7 2RD Nottingham
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Margrethe Tingstad (Mrs.)
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AVENUE DU PORT 88
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Christel Fostier (Ms.)
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00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
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REITSEPLEIN 3
5037 AA TILBURG
5037 AA TILBURG
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RUE PIERRE GILLES DE GENNES 1
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Pierrick Givone (Mr.)
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KAROLINA UT 29
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SOSEAUA PANDURI 90
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€ 70 468,00
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PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE GIPUZKOA, PASEO MIKELETEGI 2
20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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CALLE EINSTEIN 3 CIUDAD UNIV CANTOBLANCO RECTORADO
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EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V
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PRAFULLA KANAN - VIP ROAD - KESTOPUR
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Raktima Mukhopdhyay (Dr.)
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HOLLANDSEWEG 7E
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QUIRINO DE ANDRADE 215
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GODOY CRUZ 2290
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Kenya
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MUGUGA OFF NAIROBI-NAKURU HIGHWAY
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