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The IPS is an organisation of corporate and individual members dedicated to the responsible management and Wise Use of peatlands and peat.

It promotes the gathering, exchange and communication of knowledge and experience.

The Society serves all those interested in peat and peatlands, including the scientific, industrial and commercial, and regulatory communities.

It respects the economic, social and environmental values of the peatland resource.

Currently the IPS has 1,412 individual and institutional members from 42 countries.

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Latest news

  • Proceedings from 14th International Peat Congress now uploaded (...
  • Registration for the IPS Annual Meetings in Leiden
  • Peat News 5/2013 published and Twitter
  • Commission and National Reports 2012 published!
  • Annual Report 2012
  • Interns at the IPS Secretariat
  • David Bellamy IPS Honorary Member
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Online shop

  • Peatlands and Climate Change
  • Peatlands Below Sea Level, Wageningen 1981
  • International Peat Journal No. 4 - 1992
  • Peatlands International 2/2007
  • Peatlands International 2/2011
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Document database

  • Monitoring Landscape-Scale Restoration of Peatland Habitats in the...
  • Towards More Diversity in Paludiculture – A Literature Review of...
  • Sphagnum Farming on Bog Grassland in Germany – First Results
  • Coillte and the EU LIFE Programme: 10 Years of Restoration Works on...
  • The UV-B Protective Effect of Humic Substances Provide the Basis for...
  • Emissions of greenhouse gasses from peat soils under different...
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Open positions

  • Internship IPS Secretariat: International Business Management /...
  • 36-month PostDoc on measurement and modeling of soil carbon stocks...
  • Peatland Restoration Natural Talent Apprenticeship
  • Research Technician - WC1051
  • Communications Officer Wetlands International
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Peatland News

  • Re: EU biofuels policy comes at an unacceptably high economic, social - European Environmental Bureau (press release)
  • S'pore, M'sia share some blame for haze: Indonesian official - Channel News Asia
  • Permission denied for large windfarm in Glenties - Highland Radio
  • RI, US talk deforestation, environment and trade - Jakarta Post
  • Haze from forest, peatland fires disrupts flights - Jakarta Post
  • Air pollution triggers health alert - eNCA
  • US, Indonesia committed to increasing carbon trade cooperation - ANTARA
  • June 2013 story tips - EurekAlert (press release)
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Scholar

  • Klein et al 2013: Hydrology-mediated differential response of carbon accumulation to late Holocene climate change at two...
  • Moore et al 2013: Deep instability of deforested tropical peatlands revealed by fluvial organic carbon fluxes
  • Elsgaard 2013: Reductive transformation and inhibitory effect of ethylene under methanogenic conditions in peat-soil
  • Saarinen et al 2013: Impact of peatland forestry on runoff water quality in areas with sulphide-bearing sediments; how t...
  • Guo et al 2013: Degradation and structure change of humic acids corresponding to water decline in Zoige peatland, Qingha...
  • Loisel et al 2013: Quantifying landscape morphology influence on peatland lateral expansion using ground penetrating rad...
  • Ruthsatz 2012: Vegetation and ecology of the high Andean peatlands of Bolivia
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+358 40 418 4075
E-mail:
ips@peatsociety.org

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