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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.

 

Actionable project
Janne Thomsen at conference

ISEE Degrowth conference 2025

In late June 2025, Janne Thomsen, PhD Candidate with the ACTIONABLE project, participated in the ISEE Summer School on Justice within Planetary Boundaries and presented her ongoing research at the ISEE Degrowth Conference in Oslo, which focused on Building socially just postgrowth futures - linking...

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Drømmehage

Norwegian gardens have become sterile lawnscapes

Norwegian gardens have gone from being full of fruits and berries to becoming flat lawns with trampolines and gas grills. “We have gardens that demand more, but give less back to nature,” says Professor Kyrre Kverndokk.

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Applying the ecosystem services framework in UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves

PhD candidate Janne Thomsen and researchers Jarrod Cusens and Inger E. Måren from UiB's UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management recently had their review paper published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. The paper reviews recent ecosystem services...

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agriculture

New grant for Strengthening Agricultural Landscape Multifunctionality

Peter Manning was awarded an NFR grant as part of the transnational Agroecology Partnership program.

Climate Council 2025
Klimaråd 2025

Recommendations for better climate policy in Norway

The Norwegian green think tank Klimastiftelsen recently presented their report with recommendations for better green policy to the minister of research and higher education Sigrun G. Aasland. The report was written by the Climate Council 2025 (Klimaråd 2025), which included Vigdis Vandvik (CeSAM)...

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