EBD
3 July 2019 to 2 August 2019
Land is a key limiting resource in many regions of the world, including the UK. Society depends on land resources for many purposes, including urban settlement, employment and transportation, as well as a host of benefits we get from nature (ecosystem services) - food, timber, energy, recreation, and aesthetic benefits. We require these land resources to be resilient to environmental change, and to meet increasing demands for not only housing, but also renewable energy, recreation and climate change mitigation. Land-use therefore connects many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In the UK, EU exit will require the introduction of many new policies connected to land-use (e.g. replacing the Common Agricultural Policy, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, etc) – implying an urgent need to develop better landscape decision tools. This INI programme will explore the mathematical and statistical challenges associated with making use of the latest observations to understand and project land-use changes.
Questions to be addressed will include: what is the minimal useful representation of the landscape system? How do we robustly model the coupled human-environment system without assuming that people act as perfectly rational economic agents? Where are the non-linearities and sensitivities of the system, and how could these be used to produce transformative changes in land-use? How do we reconcile scale disconnects between different elements of human-environment systems? The one-month programme will be interdisciplinary by design, bringing together those interested in agriculture, forestry, water resources and biodiversity, with mathematicians, statisticians and computer scientists expert in system modelling, uncertainty quantification and decision making.
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3 July 2019 to 5 July 2019
31 July 2019 to 2 August 2019
7 September 2020 to 10 September 2020
Tuesday 9th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 |
Stephen Cornell University of Liverpool |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 11th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 |
Victoria Volodina The Alan Turing Institute |
Room 2 | |
Friday 12th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Michael Goldstein Durham University |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Michael Goldstein Durham University |
Room 2 | |
Monday 15th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 13:00 |
Oluwole Oyebamiji Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept. |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 16th July 2019 | |||
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09:00 to 10:00 |
Louise Kimpton University of Exeter |
Room 2 | |
10:00 to 11:00 |
Evan Baker University of Exeter |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Peter Alexander University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 17th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Brett Day University of Exeter |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Daniel Williamson University of Exeter |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 18th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Brett Day University of Exeter |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Laura Graham University of Southampton |
Room 2 | |
Friday 19th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Marcel Van Oijen Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Food Sustainability: Data and Conceptual Challenges in Indicator Development |
Room 2 | |
Monday 22nd July 2019 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Jenny Hodgson University of Liverpool |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 23rd July 2019 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Qingying Shu Lancaster University |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 24th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Elaine Spiller Marquette University |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 25th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 10:15 |
Andrew Mead Rothamsted Research |
Room 1 | |
10:15 to 11:15 |
James Bullock Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Chris Dent University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute |
Room 1 | |
12:00 to 12:15 |
Andrew Mead Rothamsted Research |
Room 1 | |
Friday 26th July 2019 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton |
Room 1 |
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