Introducing Internép, our EMCCINNO partner
Internép has been delivering a placemaking process on Népszínház street, named after the former People’s Theatre, located in the centre of Budapest, until 1965.
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…
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…
Identifying ecosystem services along M3 highway in Hungary
We worked on identifying and quantifying key ecosystem services potentially affected by a planned highway section in Central and Eastern Europe (M3 in Hungary) with the involvement of local experts and residents. To achieve the project goals, we worked out a methodology to collect data both through quantitative and qualitative manners. We compiled a background study on…
Assessing impacts on biodiversity of the Sziget Festival
During this year’s Sziget Festival in August, we presented our work at the Green Sziget section on how the Sziget Festival impacts its environment of the Óbuda island. We analysed aspects of the island’s vegetation, soil and bird species (as indicator species of ecosystems) and collected cases on how other festivals world-wide consider their environment and mitigate…
EcosystemEvaluation compensates CO2 emissions with the help of TreeDependent
Funding members of EcosystemEvaluation both compensated for their flights with planting local and resilient fruit trees. This mission was aided by TreeDependent, Greendependent‘s initiative of carbon compensation. Both of us (one more than the other) travel unfortunately substantially due to work (and shamefully, for pleasure, too). Although flying is (or was before the corona virus) part of everyday…
Assessing socio-economic impacts of LIFE project saving raptor birds
We assessed the socio-economic impacts of a Hungarian conservation project supported by the EU’s LIFE framework, Securing prey sources for endangered Falco cherrug and Aquila heliaca population in the Carpathian basin. Our role was to find out how the main target groups of the project (hunters and farmers) benefited from the project outcomes, namely the increased…