About this role
Internship To bring nature into decision-making through ecosystem services valuation and help organise international conferences on ecosystem services. The Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) is looking for an intern who will support our work on the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD). This internship is suited for an MSc academic internship. Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD) The ESVD is the largest publicly available database with standardized monetary values for all ecosystem services and all biomes on all continents.
It aims to provide a comprehensive, trustworthy, up-to-date and easily accessible database with state-of-the-art information on the monetary value of all ecosystem services. Ultimately, our goal with the ESVD is to contribute to averting biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation as well as bringing ecosystem services into decision-making, to be used in research and in policy-making.
We do projects with governments from the national to the local, financial institutions such as the ASN Bank and international organisations such as the FAO and The Ocean Cleanup.
For more information, visit esvd.info . Internship tasks ESVD The ESVD has seen major updates in the recent years, showing that there is a demand for a database like the ESVD. With this growth, we must ensure and improve the quality of the database as well as the applicability of the database for possible users. Your main tasks include assisting with a quality check of the database, adding data to the ESVD and assisting in ESVD related projects and stakeholder development. An important current project is the development of regional ecosystem services accounts in collaboration with stakeholders. For this project, Dutch proficiency is highly recommended. Ecosystem Services Partnership FSD currently hosts the Ecosystem Services Partnership secretariat. The secretariat handles communication and outreach and organises conferences and...