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MAIA Webinar VI: Accounting for Biodiversity in the SEEA

9 March 2021

MAIA is announcing the project's 6th webinar, which will be held on 30 March 2021 and is going to dive into an insightful discussion on the Accounting for Biodiversity in the SEEA. MAIA's team of leading experts is to elaborate on biodiversity accounting-related issues, such as its links to the economy. The Norwegian Nature Index is going to be used as an example of a biodiversity account. Additionally, a species approach within the Netherlands is to be presented as an example of a biod...

MAIA Coordinator discusses ways out of the COVID-19 recession

9 March 2021

Project Coordinator Lars Hein participated in a radio interview with the Austrian radio station ORF, discussing how Europe will ramp up the economy post COVID-19's economic fallout. The focus of the interview is the economic value of ecosystems, especially in relation with the pandemic. Read the English translation of the interview below: Scientists argue that the economic value of ecosystems should be calculated so that another argument is available for protecting it, including by the...

MAIA Webinar V: Monetary Accounts in the SEEA

18 February 2021

On 23 February 2021, MAIA's fifth webinar is going to take place. This time around, our team of leading experts is going to deliberate on the Monetary Accounts in the SEEA. During the online discussion, MAIA's professionals will overview the Monetary ecosystem accounts and their valuation in the SEEA - EA. Additionally, the participants will be engaged in a deliberation of how the Value Transfer can be applied to the Ecosystem Accounting. Download agenda here. Register for the webinar...

MAIA at the ESP Europe Regional Conference

9 February 2021

MAIA is participating in the 3rd Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) Europe Regional Conference in Tartu, Estonia from 7-10 June 2021. The theme of this year’s event is “Ecosystem Services Science, Policy and Practice in the face of Global Changes”. The conference is part of the bi-annual cycle of ESP regional conferences held around the world. The three-day hybrid event is going to be divided in a number of thematic sessions, one of which will be led by MAIA partners, titled “From ass...

2020's most significant achievements

2 February 2021

MAIA wishes everyone a healthy and prosperous 2021! The emergence of Covid-19 resulted in a great deal of challenges and limitations. Regardless, MAIA's team maintained united and managed to accomplish a significant number of achievements. We have gathered our most impactful updates from 2020 in a short video, which you can watch below.

MAIA Webinar: Ecosystem Extent Accounting

14 January 2021

During the course of the past few months, MAIA successfully held the first three project organised webinars, which have been deemed a great achievement, as a big number of people joined our online sessions. Along these lines, MAIA is glad to announce that the project's fourth webinar is going to be held already on 25 January 2021. This time around, our team of leading experts is going to discuss the Ecosystem Extent Accounting. The focus is going to be placed on the European ecosystem type ma...

MAIA Webinar: Spatial modelling for compiling Ecosystem Services biophysical accounts

10 December 2020

MAIA is eager to announce that the project is to begin the new year with another MAIA-organised webinar. The learning session is going to take place in an online environment on 11 January 2021 and will look into the topic of “Spatial modelling for compiling Ecosystem Services biophysical accounts.” Throughout the webinar, the project’s excellent team of scientists will introduce the spacial aspects of ecosystem services supply and use, while at the same time applying different methods for com...

MAIA announces the projects' second webinar

24 November 2020

MAIA is eager to announce that the project second webinar is going to be held on 14 December 2020, and will tackle upon the topic of Ecosystem Condition. The session is part of a series of planned online discussions. During the event, MAIA’s leading experts will be investigating the SEEA EA framework on ecosystem condition accounts. Furthermore, the international team working on the project is going to present three different case studies on how to develop ecosystem condition accounts....

UK Natural Capital accounts 2020: Financial and societal value of natural resources to people

20 November 2020

The UK Natural Capital has published a statistical bulletin on the estimations for financial and societal value of natural resources to people in the United Kingdom. The natural capital accounts are experimental statistics, which, however, provide impactful data on the relation between natural world, people and economy. The bulletin presents thirteen service accounts, accommodating assessments of the supplied quality and value services in the UK. The estimations together with the outcomes are di...

MAIA-supported research on the linkage of biodiversity to national economic accounts

16 November 2020

A new MAIA-supported research paper is now available in the Environmental Science & Policy Journal. The article looks into linking biodiversity into national economic accounting with a specific focus on the implementation of biodiversity indicators to the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA). Biodiversity is proven to have crucial impact to human well-being and the maintenance of ecosystem services flows, especially in times of disturbance. Howeve...