Beyond ‘technical fixes’: Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference provokes debate at the interface between theory and application

5th February 2025

Noemi Duroux, Lotti Jones, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference,

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Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference explores the potential, pitfalls, and diverse futures of technological innovation

5th February 2025

Noemi Duroux, Lotti Jones, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing and debate across science, policy, and practice.

Join us for Nature, Farming & Food, our symposium in collaboration with TABLE & the British Ecological Society

29th January 2025

Evidence and data about what we eat, where and how it’s grown are some of the most contested scientific debates in the public sphere. All along the food chain, ecological and environmental data about farming are produced by different actors at different scales. How do we ensure scientists, farmers, policymakers and the public are making […]

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OPEN Fellowship awarded to investigate how risk impacts high-integrity carbon and nature markets

15th January 2025

Caitlin Hafferty, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, has recently been awarded an Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Fellowship to explore the role of risk and uncertainty in shaping high-integrity nature markets in the UK. The project – conducted in partnership with the Green Finance and Capability Team at the Department for Energy Security […]

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Oxford Researcher Wins Prestigious Award for Work on Nature-Based Climate Solutions

14th January 2025

We are delighted to announce that Dr Youngho (Young) Kim, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics, has been awarded the Wallace E. Oates Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2024 by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). This prestigious award recognises Dr Kim’s outstanding contribution to the field through his doctoral research at […]

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Nature benefits when logged tropical forests are left to recover – here’s how

10th January 2025

In parts of the tropics like the island of Borneo, the pace of environmental change has been dramatic. Not long ago, the forests that covered most of the island were largely intact. But in recent decades, the scale of logging has intensified, and more areas of harvested forest have been converted to farmland. In Borneo, […]

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