NEW article collection brings together peer-reviewed outcomes from the SELINA project
Having started in 2022 and set to run until 2027 with the participation of 50 international partnering organisations, the Horizon Europe-funded project SELINA (abbreviated for Science for Evidence-based and Sustainable Decisions about Natural Capital) has already come to a lot of valuable scientific results worthy of sharing with the world in an evidence-backed push towards the uptake of nature-based knowledge in environmental management, spatial planning, and socio-economic development.
Two of those can now be found in a newly launched topical article collection meant to bring together scientific results from the SELINA project that focus on innovative methods, practical case studies, and policy-relevant insights. Additional contributions will be added over the course of the project and beyond as the collaborative work within the consortium progresses and the outcomes get ready for public dissemination.
The first contribution listed in the collection is a review paper that offers best practice check-lists meant to boost ecosystem service assessments in Europe, and aid practitioners in increasing uptake and policy impact.
The second is a data paper that showcases the development of the comprehensive "SELINA Super-Query": a systematic literature search on ecosystem condition, ecosystem services and ecosystem accounting, which is accompanied by an open-access database containing 108,064 potentially relevant literature items.
By choosing the open-access peer-reviewed journal One Ecosystem for the collection, the SELINA consortium provides to its project members the opportunity to open up a diverse and extensive selection of valuable research outcomes not limited to the publication format of a standard research and review papers.
The journal, also referred to as “the Ecology and Sustainability Data Journal” is designed to also provide optimised access, discoverability and recognition for research publications, such as data papers, software descriptions, case studies, monitoring schema, as well as field-specific ones like ecosystem inventories, ecosystem services mappings and ecosystem service models (see all article types welcome at One Ecosystem). All those publications are indexed at over 60 major scientific literature databases used globally, including Scopus and Web of Science.
To stay up-to-date with the progress of SELINA and the peer-reviewed publications coming from the project, we invite you to follow SELINA (BlueSky, X, Facebook and Linkedin) and One Ecosystem (BlueSky and Facebook) on social media.
About SELINA:
Having received EUR 13 million in funding, SELINA is seen as an unprecedented opportunity for smart, cost-effective, and nature-based solutions to historic societal challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security. One of the project’s main objectives is to identify biodiversity, ecosystem condition, and ecosystem service factors that can be successfully integrated into decision-making processes in both the public and private sectors.
To achieve this objective, SELINA will develop, test, and integrate new and existing knowledge, including methodological approaches to improve biodiversity, ecosystem condition, and ecosystem service information uptake by decision-makers. In addition, the project will utilise EU-wide workshops and multi-disciplinary Communities of Practice involving a wide range of stakeholders, including scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organisations.
The project comprises a Pan-European and transdisciplinary network of 50 partnering organisations across all European Union member states, Norway, Switzerland, Israel, and the United Kingdom. As such, SELINA brings together professionals from the academic and non-academic sectors with various (inter)disciplinary backgrounds – including ecologists, economists, social scientists.