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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.

 

Rector elections 2025
Rektordebatt

Rector candidate debate on sustainabilty

UiB's election campaigns are in full swing. But what do the two teams think about sustainability? How do we address big global and local challenges through our research, education and outreach? What are UiB's strengths and what can be improved? ...

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Figure showing the interactions across spatial scales and governance levels.

Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research

The CULTIVATE project recently had its first paper published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In this paper, the authors present a novel...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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