In this study, I explored how a large organisation, the University of Oxford, could design a strategy for its supply chains. I examined knowledge about the raw materials and origins of Oxford’s top spend products from across 131 suppliers, before focusing on the University’s coffee supply chain as an example of how region-specific biodiversity impacts could be estimated. I then considered different mitigation strategies, including the potential to harness Oxford conservation researchers’ existing collaborations, and proposed interventions for the coffee supply chain.
Output association: LCNR associated
This fantastic film presents the North East Cotswold Farmer Cluster’s approach to nature–based solutions for farmland management and climate resilience.
Built Infrastructure Protection in the Cotswolds, with Tim Field and the NEIRF3 projects with Ecosystem Knowledge Network, Defra and the Environment Agency
The Built infrastructure protection in the Cotswolds project is supported by HM Government’s Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund (NEIRF). Filmed in March 2025. Produced by the Ecosystems Knowledge Network in support of the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund.
This report, produced by the British Ecological Society brings together 40 academics, including LCNR’s Jed Soleiman, practitioners and farmers across the UK to explore the evidence for Regenerative Agriculture as a solution to delivering for both food and nature.
Finance Theme Lead Alex Teytelboym, recently took part in a webinar analyzing approaches to scaling investment in nature recovery. At a time of urgent need for private finance to pick up the heavy lifting in nature recovery, Alex discussed why existing market designs such as carbon and Biodiversity Net Gain are not sufficient to scale investment in nature, and use an innovative case study to demonstrate how a different, auction based approach, could scale and enable investment.
Rewilding has become established as a new mode of nature conservation. Until recently, cities and the urban were neglected by rewilding discourse; the idea of urban rewilding seen as oxymoronic. Of late, however, there has been a shift, with growing enthusiasm amongst metropolitan authorities, civil society, and citizens in major cities. Noting a dearth of research on urban rewilding, this paper proffers an agenda for future geographical research into this emerging mode of urban nature conservation.
Carbon sources and sinks in recovering logged forests
Are recovering logged forests a carbon sink due to increased tree growth rates or a carbon source due to carbon losses from soil organic matter and deadwood? Our research shows that sources outweigh sinks for at least the first decade after logging.
Metabolic approach to forest ecosystem health
Do metabolic ecology approaches offer a useful new approach to assessing ecosystem health and nature recovery? Our research uses areas of old growth and selectively logged forest to assess this approach.
Active restoration of selectively logged forest
The dipterocarp trees that dominate the lowland forests of Southeast Asia have traits that mean they may be slow to naturally recover from selective-logging and other disturbances. Can active restoration techniques accelerate forest recovery? Our research uses the experimental treatments of Sabah Biodiversity Experiment to assess the effectiveness of replanting with different species and of ‘climber cutting’ – the removal of climbing liana species.
Equity of access to, and planning of, Urban Green Spaces (UGS) is an area of growing interest in a period in which urban greening is intertwined with equity issues in socially diverse urban centres. While efforts to widen communities’ spatial access to UGS and procedural representation in their planning through more inclusive place-based governance arrangements have been made, little attention has been paid to the recognitional dimension of equity, here understood as recognition of communities’ lived experience of deprivation and historic relations with institutions. This thesis takes an intra- and inter-community comparative approach between three areas of Oxford with low, mid-high and high deprivation levels, and varying types of neighbourhood or regeneration plans.