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Payment for water ecosystem services (Research Page)
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are attracting increasing interest as policy mechanisms to improve conservation and achieve sustainable development outcomes. At the James Hutton Institute we are investigating the use ... Read more
Cost-effectiveness, disproportionality analysis and multiple benefits of the EU Water Framework Directive (Research Page)
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) aims to deliver good ecological status (GES) for Europe’s waters. It includes economic principles, such as the use of cost-effectiveness analysis of measures to achieve GES and of derogati ... Read more
Exploring ways for the application of ecosystem services approaches at the catchment level (Research Page)
Co-construction of a common understanding between scientist, practitioners, land managers and other stakeholders brings knowledge from different disciplines and stakeholders that is crucial for a better understanding of the linkag ... Read more
Water Futures: Towards Equitable Resource Management Strategies (Research Page)
The James Hutton Institute is helping to support effective and equitable water management that will be sustainable in the long-term (and in the face of climate change), through its role in supporting a VSO-led project called &ldqu ... Read more
Woody debris and freshwater invertebrates (Event)
Kerry Mackay of the University of Aberdeen will deliver this seminar "Woody debris and freshwater invertebrates" as part of the Aberdeen Entomological Club series. It will focus on the effects of woody debris in streams ... Read more
First comprehensive study of small regulatory molecules in potato using full genome (News)
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute have used the potato genome to conduct the first genome-wide study describing potato micro RNAs (miRNAs) using a high-throughput method. The James Hutton Institute led the UK effort in dec ... Read more
New environmental research links with China (News)
The James Hutton Institute and the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Agricultural University have jointly announced a new Centre-Centre researc ... Read more
Professor Mark Huxham seminar (Event)
Professor Mark Huxham of Edinburgh Napier University will give a seminar "Mangroves and carbon: turning muck into brass?" at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen. It will be broadcast live to the Dundee site. ... Read more
Sustainable intensification: The pathway to low carbon farming? (Event)
The James Hutton Institute is one of the joint organisers of this international conference by SRUC's Carbon Management Centre which will debate key issues surrounding sustainable intensification. ... Read more
Insects in upland land use research (Event)
Nick Littlewood works as an Ecologist at the James Hutton Institute where his entomological interest focuses especially on Lepidoptera and Hemiptera. He has coordinated a number of research projects on upland grassland, heather m ... Read more
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