A call for applications for a Research Fellowship is open at Nova School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE) within the research project “BlueForests Seaforests for blue carbon - natural capital from nature-based solutions.” project reference EEA.BG.CALL4.012.2020/PT-INNOVATION-0081 funded by Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu (MFEEE 2014-2021) within Área Programática Desenvolvimento de Negócios, Inovação e PME’s do Programa Crescimento Azul 

BlueForests seek to advance science and test technological innovations to rebuild Portuguese marine forests and to value their ecosystem services, to contribute to build a sustainable blue economy based on resilient and abundant marine natural capitals. New technologies to restore Portuguese marine forests, including the models to reveal the best locations for seaforestation and novel techniques of planting will be developed, tested and optimized. The contribution of Portuguese marine forests to blue carbon sequestration and thus climate mitigation, will also be quantified as well as the economic value of the ecosystem services delivered by them. The main task of the Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center is to estimate the economic value of ecosystem services provided by seaforests to inform cost-benefit analysis for policy purposes.

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