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The International Peat Society (IPS) is a non-governmental, non-profit multidisciplinary organisation of scientific, industrial and regulatory members.

Currently it has 1,450 individual and instutional members from 36 countries.

The vision of the IPS is to be the authoritative international organisation on all aspects of peatlands and peat.

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Latest news

  • New address of IPS Secretariat
  • Contents of Peatlands International 1/2012
  • Just 7 weeks left – International Peat Congress 2012!
  • Annual Report 2011 Lithuania
  • Balneology Commission Report 2011
  • Annual Report Ireland 2011
  • Claes Rülcker new Secretary of Swedish National Committee
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Online shop

  • Peatlands International 2/2008
  • Remote Sensing in Peat and Terrain Resource Surveys, Aberdeen 1983
  • Peatlands International 1/2003
  • Peatlands International 2/2004
  • Peat in Horticulture - Peat in the Stranglehold of Interest Groups,...
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Document database

  • Resolving peatland management and conservation dilemmas through...
  • Nutrient enrichment changes the nature of invertebrate food webs in...
  • Natural and anthropogenic causes of peat instability and landslides
  • Peat News 10/2011
  • IPC 2008: Contents
  • The way that I went: reminiscences of a Peatnik
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Open positions

  • Communications Officer Wetlands International
  • Senior Research Associate for publication of annual CO2 budget
  • Postdoctoral research fellow in peatland science
  • Graduate Research Opportunity in Ecosystem Ecology
  • PhD in Plant Biology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada. Modelling...
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Peatland News

  • Obama's Biggest Climate Decision Of The Year May Be ... Palm Oil? - ThinkProgress
  • Asia Pulp & Paper to temporarily suspend rainforest clearing in Indonesia - Mongabay.com
  • Officials: Highway 12 improvement project will make the dangerous Delta road safer - Lodi News-Sentinel
  • Regulations, building links can help stop haze: Forum - AsiaOne
  • Law Enforcement Concludes Foul Play in Tripa Peat Swamp Case - Tempo Interaktif
  • Side event Bonn climate change conference: launch of the global 'organic soils ... - Environmental Expert (press release...
  • Indonesia Investigating Palm Oil Companies Over Forest Fires - Jakarta Globe
  • $30m Sumatra forest deal in doubt after concerns over funding - Sydney Morning Herald
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Scholar

  • Kaplan 2011: Instability in newly-established wetlands? Trajectories of floristic change in the re-flooded Hula peatland...
  • V. Chinan 2011: Macrofungi from Gradinita Peat Bog, Romania
  • Kimmo Virtanen & Samu Valpola 2011: Energy potential of Finnish peatlands
  • Xianyu Huang et al Dec 2011: Effect of different wetness conditions on Sphagnum lipid composition in the Erxianyan peatl...
  • Peter F. Newton Jan 2012: A silvicultural decision-support algorithm for density regulation within peatland black spruce...
  • P.G. Langdon et al Nov 2011: Regional climate change from peat stratigraphy for the mid- to late Holocene in Central Ire...
  • M. Long & N. Boylan Nov 2011: Discussion on ‘Peat slope failures and other mass movements in western Ireland, August...
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International Peat Society Vapaudenkatu 12 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland
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+358 14 3385 440
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+358 14 3385 410
E-mail:
ips@peatsociety.org

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