Embedded Files
Understand and Communicate the Importance of conservation for biodiversity, climate and people
My research has been focusing on the interactions between people and nature. Earlier in my career my research focused on the impacts of people on nature by assessing the impacts of defaunation on plant animal interactions and ecosystem services, and more recently on the impacts of nature on people by assessing the importance of nature for climate adaptation of people.
Negative impacts of people on nature
Negative impacts of people on nature
How the loss of animals can negatively impact ecological processes and leading to other cascading effects?
Positive impacts of nature on people
Positive impacts of nature on people
How ecosystems can positively impact the adaptation of people to climate change?
Nature-based actions to address multiple societal challenges
Nature-based actions to address multiple societal 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:
Biodiversity loss
Climate change
Human development
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?
Find actions that are proven or more likely to address more than one of those challenges
Implement those actions in areas where those challenges are critical
Co-design those actions with those that will benefit from them, such as local communities and Indegenous Peoples
Monitor the benefits of those actions so we understand outcomes and adaptive management of those actions can take place
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse