Alt-Shift – a Degrowth Festival
Alt-Shift – a Degrowth Festival at August 27th – September 3rd (Arrival August 26th).
Energy poverty and energy efficiency in CEE
For more than a decade, Habitat for Humanity International – Europe and the Middle East (HFHI/EME) has been addressing the issue of energy poverty and energy efficiency in the residential sector in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and Western Balkans.
Assessing sustainability in global education
Within Teachers as change agents – continued project, HAND Association, with the active participation of students and lecturers from two famous Hungarian universities (ELTE, PTE), examined how and to what extent the aspects and contents of global education appear and prevail in teacher training.
Assessing Operative Programmes from sustainable and just energy use perspectives
Our experts assessed national Operative Programmes under the next Multiannual Financial Framework of the European Union.
Communicating biodiversity
Ecosystem Evaluation founder, Agnes Zolyomi published a book chapter, “How to Make Policy-Makers Care about “Wicked Problems” such as Biodiversity Loss?—The Case of a Policy Campaign”. Here, she provides an overview of current biodiversity communication methods (including ecosystem services, flagship species, emotions). Based on experiences drawn from a conservation and advocacy NGO’s work, the chapter also divulges various…
LIFE LOGOS 4 WATER assessment
The LIFE LOGOS 4 WATER project aims to improve water management practices of Hungarian local governments with natural water retention solutions, thus reducing the negative water balance, increasing the prevalence of water retention solutions and adapting to the adverse effects of a climate crisis. In addition to a number of awareness-raising and capacity-building activities, the…
Assessing socio-economic impacts of a network
The network of Justice and Environment has been operating for around 20 years with the mission to improve EU environmental laws and their implementation for the benefit of the environment and people across Europe. While their two decades of work resulted in many policy outputs and successes, systematic organizational screening of their impact has not yet been carried out…
Stork or birds of prey? Assessing the baseline indicators of the LIFE Danube Free Sky project
The LIFE Danube Free Sky project is a transnational project with the aim to save thousands of birds from electrocution and collisions with power lines. To achieve this, the project involves and collaborates with numerous stakeholders including, for instance, electric companies and nature conservation actors along the Danube. In order to understand the project’s overall socio-economic dimensions and impact…
Assessing the impacts of conserving Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia
The “Conservation arrangements for Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia” (LIFE AQPOM) project has focused on the complex conservation of the bird’s alarmingly declining population.
Assessing Italian forest sites of the LIFE4OakForest project
We carried out the baseline ecosystem services assessment of the Italian forest sites covered by the LIFE4OakForest project. Our assessment aimed to reveal the current conditions of the selected four ecosystem services (biomass, carbon sequestration, microhabitat maintenance and pest control). We found that on one of the two project areas, the volume of biomass – and therefore the…