EBDW03
7 September 2020 to 10 September 2020
In July 2019 the Isaac Newton Institute (INI) Programme Mathematical and statistical challenges in landscape decision-making brought together environmental and mathematical scientists to discuss the issues facing landscape decision-makers and how mathematical and statistical approaches could help. The programme identified key research priorities within four areas: Decision-making under uncertainty, Spatial/temporal scaling, Coupling models to represent interactions within landscape systems and Representing processes in landscape models. It also led to a number of research proposals funded under the UKRI Strategic Priority Fund (SPF) “Landscape Decisions: Toward a new framework for using land assets” mathematical and statistical challenges call.
The aim of this follow-on workshop is to build on this work by exploring how to integrate state-of-the-art social modelling approaches with environmental and mathematical approaches in landscape decision-making. This is vital, as landscapes are complex systems, involving interactions between both natural and human processes. The workshop will also, provide an opportunity to feedback on methodological advances made since the INI programme and match these to the changing needs of stakeholders.
Given the current restrictions on movement, due to the ongoing pandemic, the INI intends to run this workshop virtually across 5 days. All talks and discussion sessions will be available virtually. This will include talks from both academics and stakeholders as well as breakout discussion sessions to identify research gaps and priorities. While the initial INI programme focused on bringing together the environmental and mathematical sciences research communities, the primary goal of this follow-on workshop is to further extend these interdisciplinary links to the social sciences community. This is crucial in order to advance a holistic understanding of landscape decision-making.
This workshop will include:
Participants in the workshop will include a highly interdisciplinary mix of both academic and non-academic researchers as well as stakeholders working on land-related research and policy questions. These will include (but not be limited to) participants interested in ecological modelling, social modelling, as well as mathematicians, statisticians and computer and data scientists with expertise in system modelling, uncertainty quantification and decision-making who are also interested in these wide ranging applied questions.
Monday 7th September 2020 | |||
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13:30 to 13:40 | Room 1 | ||
13:40 to 14:40 |
Session 1 - Outputs from 2019 Research Programme - CHAIR - Viktoria Spaiser |
Room 1 | |
13:40 to 14:00 |
Peter Challenor University of Exeter |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 14:20 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton |
Room 1 | |
14:20 to 14:40 |
Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 8th September 2020 | |||
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09:30 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
09:30 to 09:55 |
James Skates Welsh Government |
Room 1 | |
09:55 to 10:20 |
Daniel McGonigle Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ; Pam Berry Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; University of Oxford |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:45 |
Sue Pritchard Food, Farming and Countryside Commission |
Room 1 | |
10:45 to 11:00 |
Heiko Balzter University of Leicester |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
13:30 to 13:50 |
Mark Brewer Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS) |
Room 1 | |
13:30 to 14:50 |
Session 3: Landscape and Decisions Large Maths Call Project Presentations - CHAIR Peter Challenor |
Room 1 | |
13:50 to 14:10 |
Richard Everitt University of Warwick; University of Reading |
Room 1 | |
14:10 to 14:30 |
David Large University of Nottingham |
Room 1 | |
14:30 to 14:50 |
Eleni Matechou University of Kent |
Room 1 | |
14:50 to 16:00 | No Room Required | ||
16:00 to 17:30 | Discussion Room |
Thursday 10th September 2020 | |||
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09:30 to 09:45 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton ; Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 1 | |
09:30 to 15:15 |
Session 6: Integrating social, mathematical and enviro-ecological modelling - Group Discussions |
Discussion Room | |
09:45 to 12:00 | Room 1 | ||
12:00 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
13:30 to 14:30 |
Reporting back from breakout groups on gaps and priorities for future research |
Room 1 | |
14:30 to 14:45 |
Viktoria Spaiser University of Leeds |
Room 1 | |
14:45 to 15:15 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton ; Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology ; Peter Challenor University of Exeter ; Viktoria Spaiser University of Leeds |
Room 1 |
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