My research interests

My passion is nature and I am particularly interested in the interactions between people and nature, and how the outcomes of those interactions, which can be positive or negative for one or both, can help us making better conservation decisions. Those interactions can be of different types. For example, people can negatively impact nature through deforestation, hunting and burning of fossil fuels that, independently or combined, negatively affect species, and ecological processes.  But nature, on the other hand, almost always impact people in a positive way. For example nature provides us with many ecosystem services, such as fresh water, costal protection and pollination of crops making a positive contribution to human well being.

Negative impacts of people on nature

How the loss of animals can negatively impact the  process  of seed dispersal?

 Positive impacts of nature on people

How ecosystems can positively impact the adaptation of people to climate change?

Nature-based actions to address multiple challenges

Nature-based solutions are actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural ecosystems that address societal challenges and simultaneously provide human well-being and biodiversity benefits. Critical challenges that can be addressed by Nature-based solutions:

It is very tempting to focus on one of those challenges depending on expertise of those involved, our organizational agendas and funding opportunities. However, given that those challenges are intertwined and that the window of opportunity to address them is closing, we must find ways do so simultaneously. But how?  







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