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CeSAM is a hub for generating and promoting knowledge to support evidence-based decision-making for the sustainable management of our landscapes and seascapes.

Science to support sustainable management of landscapes and seascapes

CeSAM informs the sustainable management of land and sea to safeguard biodiversity and nature's benefits to people. We do this by catalyzing cross-disciplinary research and education to address challenges related to area-based management of land and sea. In doing so, we address related challenges of the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, and social and economic inequality. To achieve this, we foster collaboration between policymakers, stakeholders, rightsholders and the knowledge sector.

 

Norway's follow-up to the Nature Deal

In December 2022, 196 countries signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (short: the nature deal). In September 2024 Norway presented their plans for nationally implementing the nature deal, in «Stortingsmelding nr 35. Bærekraftig bruk og bevaring av natur». CeSAM has followed the process closely. Here are our most important contributions.

 

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Three Perspectives of working with the GBF

CeSAM researchers Inger Måren and Katja Malmborg present the process of, and preliminary results from, their resilience asessment at The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities' Sustainability Friday on December 13.

News
Forskning.no

Losing nature: The state must take responsibility

In this newly published op-ed, we argue that the Norwegian state must take more responsibility for protecting natural ecosystems by tightening regulations on land use in municipalities.

Call for action
Vigdis Vandvik

Support the scientists' appeal for the nature deal!

These days, Norway's plan following the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (the Norwegian Action Plan for Natural Diversity) is being discussed in the Norwegian Parliament. Our expectation of this plan was that it would not only describe the status of Norwegian nature, but also take this...

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khrono

Call from scientists: Norwegian government must use knowledge-based solutions to stop the loss of nature

25 prominent scientists call for knowledge-based action in this debate article, recently published in Khrono.

CeSAM Seminar series: Nature and politics
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From Nature Crisis to Solutions: Norway's road to the Nature Deal

In CeSAM's interdisciplinary seminar series 2024-2025, we tackle big and small questions at the intersection between nature and politics. We take the Norwegian perspective as our starting point and put an interdisciplinary spotlight on Norway's implementation of the nature agreement. All welcome!

Traditional and modern land use - here from the 1970s in south-western Norway