Mathematical and statistical challenges in landscape decision making
EBD
3 July 2019 to 2 August 2019
Programme theme
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.
Click here to download the programme's final scientific report
EBD programme: interview with organisers Peter Challenor and Peter Cox
Workshops
Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
3 July 2019 to 5 July 2019
Progress on novel mathematics and statistics for Landscape Decisions, including priorities for further research
31 July 2019 to 2 August 2019
Integrating quantitative social, ecological and mathematical sciences into landscape decision-making
7 September 2020 to 10 September 2020
Seminars
| Tuesday 9th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 12:00 |
Stephen Cornell University of Liverpool |
Room 2 | 
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| Thursday 11th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 12:00 |
Victoria Volodina The Alan Turing Institute |
Room 2 |
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| Friday 12th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Michael Goldstein Durham University |
Room 2 |
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Michael Goldstein Durham University |
Room 2 |
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| Monday 15th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 13:00 |
Oluwole Oyebamiji Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept. |
Room 2 |
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| Tuesday 16th July 2019 | |||
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| 09:00 to 10:00 |
Louise Kimpton University of Exeter |
Room 2 |
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| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Evan Baker University of Exeter |
Room 2 |
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Peter Alexander University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 |
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| Wednesday 17th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Brett Day University of Exeter |
Room 2 |
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Daniel Williamson University of Exeter |
Room 2 |
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| Thursday 18th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Brett Day University of Exeter |
Room 2 |
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Laura Graham University of Southampton |
Room 2 |
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| Friday 19th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Marcel Van Oijen Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 2 |
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Food Sustainability: Data and Conceptual Challenges in Indicator Development |
Room 2 |
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| Monday 22nd July 2019 | |||
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Jenny Hodgson University of Liverpool |
Room 2 |
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| Tuesday 23rd July 2019 | |||
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Qingying Shu Lancaster University |
Room 2 |
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| Wednesday 24th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Elaine Spiller Marquette University |
Room 1 |
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| Thursday 25th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 10:15 |
Andrew Mead Rothamsted Research |
Room 1 |
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| 10:15 to 11:15 |
James Bullock Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 1 |
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| 11:30 to 12:00 |
Chris Dent University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute |
Room 1 |
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| 12:00 to 12:15 |
Andrew Mead Rothamsted Research |
Room 1 |
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| Friday 26th July 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton |
Room 1 | |
Organisers
- Peter Challenor University of Exeter
- Peter Cox University of Exeter
- Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
- Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Simon Kerley Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Jane Leeks Newton Gateway to Mathematics
Speakers
- Peter Alexander University of Edinburgh
- Evan Baker University of Exeter
- James Bullock Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Stephen Cornell University of Liverpool
- Brett Day University of Exeter
- Chris Dent University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute
- Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
- Michael Goldstein Durham University
- Laura Graham University of Southampton
- Jenny Hodgson University of Liverpool
- Louise Kimpton University of Exeter
- Andrew Mead Rothamsted Research
- Oluwole Oyebamiji Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept.
- Qingying Shu Lancaster University
- Elaine Spiller Marquette University
- Marcel Van Oijen Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Victoria Volodina The Alan Turing Institute
- Daniel Williamson University of Exeter
Participants
- Peter Alexander University of Edinburgh
- Pete Atkinson Lancaster University; University of Southampton
- Evan Baker University of Exeter
- Martine Barons University of Warwick
- Onno Bokhove University of Leeds
- Maribel Borrajo Garcia Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept.
- Mark Brewer Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
- James Bullock Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Peter Challenor University of Exeter
- Alexis Comber University of Leeds
- Stephen Cornell University of Liverpool
- Ron Corstanje Cranfield University
- Peter Cox University of Exeter
- Simon Dadson Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; University of Oxford
- Carole Dalin University College London
- Brett Day University of Exeter
- Chris Dent University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute
- Roderick Dewar Australian National University
- Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
- Michael Goldstein Durham University
- Laura Graham University of Southampton
- Alex Hagen-zanker University of Surrey
- Anna Harper University of Exeter
- Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Jenny Hodgson University of Liverpool
- Ian Holman Cranfield University
- Chris Huntingford Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Simon Kerley Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Louise Kimpton University of Exeter
- Bill Kunin University of Leeds
- Jane Leeks Newton Gateway to Mathematics
- Andrew Lovett University of East Anglia
- Andrew Mead Rothamsted Research
- Ronaldo Menezes University of Exeter
- Alice Milne Rothamsted Research
- Tom Oliver University of Reading
- Oluwole Oyebamiji Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept.
- Nick Schurch Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
- Marian Scott University of Glasgow
- Qingying Shu Lancaster University
- Richard Sibly University of Reading
- Elaine Spiller Marquette University
- Gavin Stewart University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Amy Thomas Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Julia Touza Montero University of York
- Marcel Van Oijen Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Victoria Volodina The Alan Turing Institute
- Simon Willcock Bangor University
- Daniel Williamson University of Exeter
- Jianguo (Jingle) Wu Arizona State University
- Henry Wynn London School of Economics
- Stan Zachary Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
- Ce Zhang Lancaster University; Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Weihao Zhong Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Guy Ziv University of Leeds
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