"Sentinel landscapes: a major research opportunity" by Prof Steven Newman

Past Event

Date
07 June 2013, 5:15pm - 6:45pm

Location
Herbertson Room, OUCE
Herbertson Room, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

This seminar is hosted by the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, an Oxford Martin School Centre

Speaker: Professor Steven Newman, Managing Director, Biodiversity International Ltd

Summary: A sentinel landscape is essentially a site or a network of sites, geographically (eg watershed) or issue (profitable bio-diverse approaches) bounded, in which a broad range of biophysical, social, economic and governance data are monitored, collected with consistent methods and interpreted over the long term. It is used to look at upward effects on planetary boundaries and downward effects of policy/practice on systems within the delineated landscape. The following topics will be covered; The tree linked continuum, Scale, empirical economics, innovative funding models, institutional memory and learning for aid effectiveness.

The aim of the talk is to stimulate high impact interdisciplinary research within OCTF.

All welcome - to book a place please go to https://bookwhen.com/octf