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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

  • 13th International Peat Congress, Tullamore 2007 - PDFs at document...
  • Book of Abstracts of the 14th International Peat Congress, Peatlands...
  • Peat in Horticulture - Additives in Growing Media, Amsterdam 2003
  • Peatlands International 2/2011
  • Peatlands International 2/2011
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Document database

  • Proceedings of the 14th International Peat Congress - Contents
  • Peatlands International 1/2012
  • Quantifying and Understranding Tropical Peatland Spatial Distribution...
  • Vegetation Succession in Prepared Microsites in Drained Peatland...
  • Tropical peatland conservation and rehabilitation as a sustainable...
  • The Rise and Fall of Peat in UK Horticulture
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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

  • Cloud-seeding bid to tackle Singapore haze - The Age
  • Smog Worsens in Singapore and Malaysia - Wall Street Journal (blog)
  • Singapore Smog Worst on Record - Wall Street Journal
  • Indonesia To 'Make Rain' To End Sumatra Fires - Sky News
  • 'Emergency conditions' in Riau as PSI hit 341 on Tuesday - Straits Times
  • Biodiversity strategy launched - Hamilton Advertiser news
  • Riau trying to block peatland fires - ANTARA
  • Re: EU biofuels policy comes at an unacceptably high economic, social - European Environmental Bureau (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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International Peat Society Kauppakatu 19 D 31 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland
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+358 40 418 4075
E-mail:
ips@peatsociety.org

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