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Seminar: Conceptualising and Assessing the Diverse Values of Nature
The University of Adelaide’s School of Social Sciences, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources and the Environment Institute are delighted to jointly host international guest speaker Professor Christopher Raymond. Seminar Title: “Conceptualising and Assessing the Diverse Values of Nature: Main Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment, Summary for Policy Makers” Date/Time: 10 am, Tuesday […]
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Bandicoots key in researcher’s Airbnb success
Our team is investigating new ways to tackle the challenge of mass extinction. Research Fellow, Dr Jasmin Packer, is using innovation and design thinking to nurture people’s connection to nature – to help them help nature. Just 18 months ago, Jasmin and her family launched Hideyhole (as featured on Adelady), an ethical enterprise dedicated to […]
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Dr Phill Cassey selected as Lead Author on next IPBES Report
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has selected Dr Phill Cassey, director of Centre for Applied Conservation Science to be Lead Author for Chapter 4 of the IPBES thematic assessment named “the assessment of invasive alien species”. The Plenary of IPBES decided to begin this assessment following its 7th session (May 2019), based […]
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SEMINAR: Unprecedented global biodiversity decline with Dr Michelle Lim
Dr Michelle Lim has been invited to speak to the Centre for Global Food and Resources and the SA branch of the Australasian Agricultural Resource Economics Society. She will present the following seminar. Title: Unprecedented global biodiversity decline – What does this mean for the economy, agriculture and human well-being? Date: Monday 8 July 2019 […]
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EVENT: Saving Biodiversity through Transformative Change
The May 2019 Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report highlighted the critical importance of biodiversity to human well-being. The report, so far the world’s largest biodiversity assessment, also concluded, however, that biodiversity is facing unprecedented threat from human activities with a million species facing extinction if we […]
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