The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef shows populations of its small, medium and large corals have all declined in the past three decades. Lead author Dr Andy Dietzel, from the ARC Centre of Excell
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
Abstract: In this presentation I examine whether ecosystem services concepts are helpful or useful for conservation and development. By looking at recent research I answer three inter-related questions:
I discuss the key research challenges and opportunities, and potential applications for ecosystem services, particularly for international development and poverty alleviation, and for conservation and environmental change.
Biography: Katrina Brown is Professor of Social Sciences at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at University of Exeter, based in beautiful Cornwall in UK. Kate has a long-standing commitment to interdisciplinary analysis of environmental change and international development. Her research focuses on vulnerability, adaptation and resilience, and ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. She is interested in how people understand, perceive and respond to environmental and other changes, and her work takes a broadly defined political ecology approach. She works in different regions of the world and in different contexts, but with a focus on coastal and marine social ecological systems. Current projects include international collaborations on SPACES (Sustainable Poverty Alleviation and Coastal Ecosystem Services); MAGIC (Multi-scale Adaptations to Global Change in Coastlines); and an AXA Outlook award project, ‘You me and our Resilience: Cross-cultural insights into sources of resilience and vulnerability in coastal communities’.
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef shows populations of its small, medium and large corals have all declined in the past three decades. Lead author Dr Andy Dietzel, from the ARC Centre of Excell
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au