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The Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) is a UiB initiative to support sustainable management of our landscapes and oceans, biodiversity, and nature's benefits to people.
We focus on evidence-based decision making and consolidating cross-disciplinary research and education.

The climate crisis and simultaneous dramatic loss of biodiversity and natural resources present the greatest challenge humanity has faced.

As the human environmental footprint and our appropriation of the earth's resources exceed sustainable limits, yet continue to grow, we need to rethink our view on, and interactions with nature. We must acknowledge that land, area itself, is a basic and limited resource.

At the same time, we must acknowledge and embrace the fact that we cannot separate or isolate nature from people. Nature and people coexist in both natural and human-dominated landscapes, and we must govern the land so as to optimise this coexsistence of biodiversity, and ecosystems, and people.

This requires that we develop multifunctional landscapes, rather than optimising landscapes for a single function or use. Competing land uses will create increasing conflict in years to come.

CeSAM works toward generating and providing knowledge of which trade-offs and synergies exist, and how these can be handled legally, socially and ecologically to the benefit of nature and people. 

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Statement from scientists on the need for a joint work programme between the CBD and the UNFCCC

Researchers have sent a letter to the Parties and Presidents of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD; COP 16) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, COP29) asking them to initiate a much-needed coordination of the work towards...

New research project
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Research on sustainable climate and nature governance funded

The collaborative project ECOBUDGETS will explore ways to integrate climate and nature budgets into administrative and political decisions at the municipal and county levels.

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In the Build-Up of COP16

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (COP16) is taking place in Colombia at the end of October, and CeSAM leaders have been making their opinions heard ahead of the meeting.

Job opportunity
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Postdoc in terrestrial ecosystem modelling

Exciting fully funded postdoctoral position available in the DURIN project – understanding climate impacts on and feedback from dwarf-shrubs, a dominant plant functional group of boreal, arctic, and alpine ecosystems.

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Rock with perioglyphs painted red. Fjord and mountain in the background.

Not Everything Can Be Repaired

Are irreplaceable natural and cultural values ​​in Western Norway in danger of being destroyed by industrial development? For some time, there has been debates about future industrial development in the western Norwegian municipality of Bremanger. UNESCO Chair for sustainable heritage and...

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